Dark Academia

a collection of random posts

[thedarkacademiastuff]

At night there's another life. We don't talk about it but we notice. Time is much kinder at night, there's nothing to wait for, nothing is out of date.

- John Berger

[thedarkacademiastuff]

It's kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart.

- Molly McAdams

[thedarkacademiastuff]

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

[ritikajyala]

He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

[heavenlyyshecomes]

Do you understand? When I am done telling you these stories, when you’re done listening to these stories, I am no longer I, and you are no longer you. In this afternoon we briefly merged into one. After this, you will always carry a bit of me, and I will always carry a bit of you, even if we both forget this conversation.

—Hao Jingfang, ‘Invisible Planets,’ in Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, tr. & ed. Ken Liu

[tourfilm]

oh yeah heres my collection of 2021 headlines that i forgot to post when the year ended

[madeofwhitebone]

Actually, life is beautiful and I have time

[highassi]

find someone you don't have to hide your bad days from

[21svge]

How y'all fuck over people that genuinely care for you with no remorse lol

[amorosi-deactivated20220605]

I never craved peace like I do now. I don’t wanna wake up bothered, angry, bitter, no negative energy or thoughts. I just want to be happy and at peace with everything

[cerceos-deactivated20160308]

[infected]

The Town Hall of Leuven, Belgium, photo by s1amsi

[paper-fairy]

“I love you, and I’m conscious of you all the time.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Katherine Mansfield c. January 1921 

[rahowen]

I realized that life is so much better when people don’t know what you’re up to

[fieldguidetobirds]

[0912408179182]

Romanticizing your own loneliness and turning it into a cool girl thing only works for like a few months and then it just becomes a throbbing black hole i think. Not that ive ever experienced anything like that

[snoopy-dyke]

love is attained through embarrassing yourself by asking for it instead

[mcdonaldschina]

“only karens ask for refunds” is pro-corporation propaganda. if they don’t give me what i want they’re giving me my money back and that doesn’t make me an angry middle-aged karen harpy, you’re just cucked by stupid reddit memes

[lgbtpolitics]

Really though, remember the woman who sued McDonald’s because their coffee was hot and everyone took the piss out of her and a bunch of other people who sued corporations for a “silly” reason and then it turned out most of them were right and entirely harmed by the company and they were just turned into a joke by the company propaganda machine?

Imo the current obsession with mocking anyone who asks for a refund, returns something or god forbid wants to talk to a manager is just the second version of this. Companies will cut corners wherever they can and mock you when you complain.

[ruffboi-mags]

Yesterday my pizza order got to me cold and missing my soda. When I asked about both from the driver he said he couldn’t go back for the 2L because he was technically a door dash driver. I called the store and it turns out when they’re slammed (which they had been), they get door dash drivers to help with delivery to help them catch up.

So I spoke to the manager, assured her that I wasn’t angry, just kind of frustrated - part of why the pizza was cold was that door dash drivers don’t have the heat retaining delivery bags the actual delivery employees of the pizza place get, and because he wasn’t an employee of the pizza place the driver wouldn’t be going back to the pizza place and couldn’t get my soda.

And the manager said she’d get her first driver going in my direction to bring by the soda, and offered to give me a credit for the pizza being cold, and we pleasantly ended the conversation.

Because it’s okay to say “hey, this isn’t what I was told I’d be getting”, you just have to be polite and reasonable about it.

[kyraneko]

This. Vast difference between “having a problem and politely but firmly expecting that they provide what’s been paid for” and “abusing some underpaid customer-facing employee who is neither at fault for the situation or able to fix it.”