Calliope's Scroll

Archive of a Victorian literature nerd, on everything she loves.

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Oof been hearing how people are talking about emerging from this quarantine with a solid product pf a sistained effort/achievement of sorts and haveen feeling nauseous sonce then

[figmas]

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What I aspire to be when I put makeup on

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Cutest car seen in Kanazawa, Japan

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Abstract Gothicisms, acrylic on paper

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Baroque Dissection, collage on spray-painted paper

[bombardment]

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Mood

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Fuck Grad School

Having an existential crisis because somehow maybe what all academics in humanities are doing is shouting and shouting into a void--even our sharpest criticisms of anything would only have the power of a meringue falling on a dirty tile floor, no one reads us no one cares; do I care? Maybe I’ll stay in grad school and just take the stipend and live a life and realize that I’m writing a dissertation and is finishing it and is suddenly done with phd yay, but maybe doing that is not perseverance but being lazy enough not to leave grad school--but what will I do when I leave? Will there be happiness “out there”? Probably not, but maybe I’ll feel less impotent when I do something that actually matters, not be a body that wastes money and coffee to shit out some paper that makes a non-argument about something with no stakes to anyone

P.S. If you know me in real life, I’m fine. I just needed to purge.

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Hamlet

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Saw a friend who passed away a few years ago in my dream last night. Wonder what it means, but most of all I hope he’s doing well.

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Flat Gothic

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Missing my gothic October already.

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Jenny Wren in her Golden Bower

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Batman's got a closet full of nothing but capes and skeletons. Version 1.

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Something about big hair

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Inspired by Vivienne Westwood F/W 1995

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Trying new micron pens in a problematic sketch

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Victorian Prostitute at Break