carved in silk

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[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West c. October 1928

[annachara]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“In March she was graceful. In March she was broken.”

— Anna de Noailles, tr. by Norman R. Shapiro, from Poems; “Spring Lullaby,”

[untiloblivions]

ON CLOSENESS 

Sally Rooney, Normal People / Edvard Munch / Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina / Holly Warburton / Jenny Slate, Little Weirds / Salman Toor

[shakespereansonnet]

“Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth”

— Percy Shelley, from “To The Moon”

[nicholasbritel]

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright // Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

[lovingsylvia]

“Tuesday night: November 5 Brief note: to self. Time to take myself in hand. I have been staggering about lugubrious, black, bleak, sick. Now to build into myself, to give myself backbone, however much I fail. If I get through this year, no matter how badly, it will be the biggest victory I’ve ever done.”

— The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, APPENDIX 13, Journal Fragment 5 November 1957

[stlowens]

Mary Oliver, October

[bebemoon]

ziad nakad couture spring 2o2o

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry, September 1st 1938.

[cliveguy]

i literally can’t stop thinking abt that richard siken quote where he falls to the floor crying but all he can focus on is the details of the wall in front of him

[cliveguy]

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realise you didn’t paint it very well.”

[mrittikaa-deactivated20220115]

" 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 " - 𝑅𝑢𝑚𝑖

Dark Academia // Hijabi Dark Academia (ii)

[jurassic-snark1889-deactivated2]

emotionally, i’m tearing though corridors in my torn nightgown, a lit candelabra in my hand, chased by the screams of the damned.

[weltenwellen]

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

[shalomamme]

@/cosyfaerie

[barbaricpoetic]

from here on out we’re not doing the “pretentious white male private school” dark academia aesthetic. i don’t have money or time for that racist, ableist, classist bullshit. let’s have a young latino student who loves to study classic mexican poetry. a very poor high school student who has a hundred shitty paperbacks of classic novels, knowing that they may never be able to go to university but finds joy in their own knowledge. a deaf girl who translates shakespeare into sign language and hopes to put on an asl production of hamlet one day. a black kid who researches unknown black heroes throughout history and rants about why they were forgotten. an asexual poet who analyzes the sensuality of walt whitman and how it relates to ideas other than sex. 

dark academia is intrinsically meant to analyze ideals within culture and how our own morality relates to that. if the only people that can relate to the da aesthetic are those who have nothing to lose in society, we have truly messed up. if you read the picture of dorian grey and if we were villains and the secret history simply for the aesthetic, then you have missed the point. aesthetic is worthless if we do not value morality over it.

[weltenwellen]

Ilya Kaminsky, from “Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air”, Deaf Republic