[ocean-glint]

i love reading, i love thinking about what i am currently reading, i love thinking about what i am going to read next, i love being privileged enough to be able to read, read, read, and read so much that i never tire of it

[etherealacademia]

the rare book room where i worked as an archival assistant <3

[etherealacademia]

an annotated compendium of plants printed in the 1600s

[etherealacademia]

i follow you on tiktok and 2 weeks ago i accidentally sent you a stupid charlixcx video when i was meant to send it to a friend so i panicked and blocked you because it wouldn't let me unsend it. im going to unblock you so i can see your content again so if the message comes up im sorry i promise it was an accident 😭

this is hilarious thank you for the heads up <3 and don't worry, people accidentally send me random videos all the time

[etherealacademia]

library girl | Substack

emerging librarian specializing in bibliographic history

I plan on returning to tumblr in the coming weeks and months to share my photography again, but I'm also really enjoying substack! I'm mostly posting bibliographic history and literary content (i dark academia-d too hard and got into rare book studies), as well as a lot about my journey pursuing librarianship!

[etherealacademia]

2020 dark academia influencer -> rare book librarian pipeline

[etherealacademia]

I'm graduating from my Master's this month. Here's a 400 year old book I looked through recently, with centuries of marginalia in it

[etherealacademia]

photos from work: rare books and vintage calligraphy nibs

[olreid]

oh i'll go NUTS

[antigonick]

Ingrid Geerken, "'The Dead Are Not Annihilated': Mortal Regret in Wuthering Heights"

[mournfulroses]

Mary Oliver, from a piece titled "Comfort," featured in Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose

[8nin]

seeing someone’s handwriting for the 1st time is lowkey so personal and beautiful idk how to explain it

[64mpg]

i think that other people have access to an Energy source that i don’t but that’s okay i’m happy for them i do wish that was me though

[furryprovocateur]

i think not enough of us were paying attention in math class when they tried to imprint the idea that knowing the answer isn't good enough, it's also about how you know you have the answer and why. in other words, a vector of critical thinking

[redstonedust]

the worst part about grief is that it feels like the world should be horrendously earth shatteringly changed, and to an extent it IS but its also the same. to everyone else it's just another tuesday. the world moves on. you have to go grocery shopping.

[gael-garcia]

Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams

[fluentisonus]

musée des beaux arts, w.h. auden

[elwenyere]

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

[oldshrewsburyian]

I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

[lamignonette]

[vnusplanetoflove]

I hate being asked what my goal in life is…. like.. idk…?? I want to have my own kitchen… and I want to know every poem by heart… and uhh.. I want to be kissed in the rain … etc etc .. my heart is very little and I dont want it to break