Embrace The Morbid

Dark Academic and Lover of Coffee // Toby, 16, he/him

[illbeartheburdenofyourhatred]

men kiss eachother

[illbeartheburdenofyourhatred]

i saw it on google inages

[ninjakittenarmy]

I thought this was a command.

[illbeartheburdenofyourhatred]

men! kiss each other.

[citizenscreen]

#BBC Sound Effects department, 1927

[philtardis]

Noise Night with the boys

[sistertaxon]

love the guy just straight up holding a gun

[bidoof]

he’s there to kill anyone who tries making any of the forbidden sound effects

[erinlace-deactivated20200503]

[bone-and-brawn]

[official-lucifers-child]

no no that’s a bop, i love it

[bimbogollum]

I bet in the 20s all the weird German emo girls were thirsting after the Somnambulist

[bimbogollum]

German emo girls be like “ich will 😍🥺”

[meltyneon]

Don’t hide this magnificent piece of info in the tags.

[espanolbot2]

The bloke (Conrad Veidt) was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism, and when he refused to divorce his wife (who was Jewish), Joseph Goebbels had him blacklisted.

He also donated tons and tons of money to poor children who had been negatively effected by the Blitz in London after he moved to the US, following his becoming a naturalised-British citizen after leaving Germany in the 1930s.

[hairy-dykes-r-us]

Don’t forget that in 1919, he starred in “Different from the Others”, a German film protesting the anti-homosexuality laws in place. It’s widely regarded as the first pro-gay film. Conrad Veidt was a goddamn hero.

[seconddoubt]

I just feel like this pic is relevant to the discussion

[iconuk01]

He was also the highest paid member of the cast in “Casablanca” (where he played a Nazi officer, again), even if he only got second billing, because he was THAT big a star.

He and his first wife divorced after… well she said it better than I ever could.

“I excused a lot of his failings and whims because I loved him. But one day he did something to me that I couldn’t forgive. I was singing that evening at the cabaret. I left him home and he told me: “I invited a few friends; we’ll dine while we wait for you.” And it just so happened I had received a new dress from Paris. That evening, after work, I arrived home and what do I see? All these gentlemen dressed as women. And Conrad had put on my Paris dress. At this point, I divorced!”

And as  Anita Loos put it

“Any Berlin lady of the night might turn out to be a man; the prettiest girl on the street was Konrad [sic] Veidt.”

[charaah]

Good to see the tumblr sexyman precludes even tumblr

[philosophyisaliarsometimes]

Everyday we stray further from gods light and deeper into platos cave

[ashstfu]

idk but when i discover new books and music i’m just excited to be alive again. yes a bit dramatic but that’s how i feel when i discover them

[gitabria]

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

[angel-derangement]

idk what if angels are just like. really confusing.

[gitabria]

I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

[ashstfu]

if you read, you're hot. i don't make the rules

[darkmacademia]

vaguely academic things to do to keep yourself entertained

go down a wikipedia research hole by clicking the first term you don’t understand

binge a crashcourse series end to end (personal recs: world history, history of science, big history, philosophy)

find free books on project gutenberg

download some western classics for free

borrow books and audiobooks from the libby app or borrowbox

start a commonplace book

take a khan academy course

browse MIT’s free online course materials

teach yourself to code

go on a google scholar essay dive

try the open access button to avoid some paywalls for academic media, or install unpaywall that does a similar thing

research the history of the place you where you live

tempt the wrath of the duolingo owl and learn a language

search for online streams of the local tv in your target language’s country and use as background noise for immersion points

print and scrapbook favourite poetry and literature quotes

improve your handwriting by doing handwriting exercises

learn philosophy with the philosophize this! podcast. actually just check out all the educational spotify podcasts there are many good ones

start a weekly club with friends to share new and interesting things you’ve learnt that week

clean and reorganise your study space, physical or digital

check out online museums

fave educational youtube channels that I adore: vsauce, crashcourse, smarter every day, kurzgesagt, school of life, tom scott, r. c. waldun, vsauce3, primer, mark rober, veritasium, asapSCIENCE, scishow, TED-ed

hopefully you’ll find something to enjoy! happy learning x

[fleurduart]

Bernardino Mei, Ghismonda con il cuore di Giuscardo

[buddhabrot]

[hiest-moved-deactivated20190716]

have y’all seen that nasa pic of the earth with the sun behind it on the night time side it really really fucked me up my own soul became solid and like………….. weeped!

[hiest-moved-deactivated20190716]

who wouldn’t see this and then look deeply into their own emotional playing field to see what improvements could be made purely inspired by the vulnerable earth. this is the face of all literal gods

[greycloudsandlinings]

That’s actually called the Overview Effect- something experienced by some astronauts that makes them see that “from space, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide people become less important, and the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect this “pale blue dot” becomes both obvious and imperative”.

[memecology]

And a 2020 study showed how the overview effect turns observers (astronauts) into environmentalists

[lesbianherstorian]

tallulah bankhead was an american actress who often introduced herself at parties by saying "hello, i’m a lesbian. what do you do?“ photographer unknown, 1925

[lilacwine1966-deactivated202212]

There is nothing more tender than playing with someone’s hands…..it sounds so dumb but stroking each other’s palms & tapping on each other’s wrists & twisting your fingers together & squeezing each other’s hands…..it’s like having a conversation that no one else can hear!

[gitabria]

‘the reader will notice’ no I wont. i’m dumb as shit