escapism

j • she/they • an academic obsessed with dark academia • literature, art & film

[deadpoetsinpoetry]

about

grace. she/they. xxii.

This blog is dedicated for my fascination in dark (and sometimes, light) academia and of course, romanticizing my life as an academic. Other than that, welcome.

[deadpoetsinpoetry]

hi hello this is me asking the bootleg gods if there’s one for pretty woman (adam pascal and olivia valli) ????

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

This is a composite of meteor images captured during the Perseid maximum in the morning of the 12th of August 2016. Image credit: Michael Nolle

[blurryfaace-blog]

*jumps over my problems* parkour

[catie-does-things]

if you want your female characters to both have agency in the story and be complex human individuals then sometimes bad things have to be their fault

[threeamserif]

my dark academia playlist directory

depressive episode - sad/angsty tunes to listen to while painting the night away

three am dark academia vibes - less angsty and a bit more chill

twenty something - "wow I've done nothing with my life huh" music

traveler's light - relaxing violin/piano music with some of the destiny & breath of the wild soundtrack thrown in

soulbound - music to listen to while laying in bed and uselessly pining

we'll be ok - similar to soulbound

soft calamity - some softer music with dark meanings

fairytales - songs from fairytales or that should be in fairytales

[ redacted ] - marble hornets vibes

[buttrockerbitches]

i’m watching this documentary about halloween and there’s a part where they’re explaining that ghost stories got really popular around the civil war when no one could really deal with how many people went off and died and

the narrator just said 

“the first ghost stories were really about coming home”

fuck 

[technicallity]

for someone who’s really cold and distant i think about love a lot

[liebesfraulein]

“The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

— Milan Kundera

[moonlightint]

in my overwhelmed era

[sirenesims]

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

Stephen King

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram: autumnslittlesister

[marlbororeds100s-deactivated202]

‪kafka was like no one understands me and today we’re like kafka is the only one that understands me‬

[euripideez-nuts]

glasgow day 2, University of Glasgow

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Still Life of Flowers (detail), c. 1895.

Frieda Menshausen-Labriola (German, 1861-1939)

[baratheonpilled]

so i started uni last week for the first time ever and

[fallbabylon]

Astronomical clock with Memento Mori- Prague, Czech Republic