Stuck in Academia

BA and MA in English literature // MSc in urban studies

[leefryerphoto]

Birling Gap, June 2017.

[bakwaaas]

such a gorgeous sculpture

[foxeia]

Villa la Madonna

[redlipstickresurrected]

John Anster Fitzgerald (British, 1819-1906, b. Lambeth, South London, England, d. London, England) - The Stuff Dreams are Made Of, 1858, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[natequarter]

listen, sometimes it's more powerful for a fictional relationship to be a friendship precisely because friendship is devalued in comparison to romance. anyone can sacrifice themself for the love of their life. but for a friend? if anything, that kind of devotion can be even more moving than if the relationship is romantic. there's a real dramatic power to prioritising friendship in your narratives sometimes.

[scissorsaint]

nice wound. Could use some salt though

[flintyfae]

zine i made about being a boring queer!

nothing more natural than changing and evolving and learning and discovering things about yourself.

happy pride from this fat trans butch

[tesghosterone]

it's been said a thousand times but "male loneliness epidemic" is just our entire generation's loneliness PANdemic. it's just the crisis of capitalism. almost all young people these days are lonely and depressed because of the crisis and decay of the system we live under and tbh the centering of "male loneliness" in this discussion is embarrassing but also a really understandable consequence of sexism & this current stage of culture war . "Oh won't someone think of the young men" oh won't someone think about class consciousness lol

[perriaeyjeve]

[twentyninearchive]

Frederic Leighton, Flaming June, 1895

[thepoeticbook]

— Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

[mortalityplays]

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

[loveridden1999]

the thing about phone in bed is that it's so awesome. almost makes you feel like betraying & destroying yourself for nothing isn't all so bad

[pmamtraveller]

"Beneath The Golden Willow"

Ed Perkins.

[haciaelmar]

eclipse | Leica M6 | Samsung Prime Color 200 | 2025

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell (August 1908)

[machetelanding]

Columbus Ave. and Bay St., San Francisco, CA (1982)