with love, livia.

XI | tea enthusiast | neuro x philo | currently reading: the sea by john banville

[liviascorner]

is it okay if i’m close?

[liviascorner]

i remember i wrote a post about actually becoming the academic you want to be. i was probably 14 or 15 years old and told the 4k+ people who reblogged to “just live the aesthetic.” someone commented (i deleted it back then) “well maybe try working in an academic institution and see if you like it then lol” almost 20 year old me IS working in an academic institution. and im living my aesthetic. and i love it. joke’s on you, random commenter. joke’s on you.

[liviascorner]

last night in my childhood room revelations: i am growing up and this is what it is: not wanting to move on but still feeling ready. that’s all. it’s time

[etherealacademia]

winter fragrance rotation: thé noir from le labo, and encens feve tonka from fragonard

[liviascorner]

ouch

[liviascorner]

you’re one to touch an iron to test if it’s hot

if it happens to be, understand what your flesh cannot

do not be fooled by anything,

a hot iron can and will melt off your rings.

never have i touched an iron myself

and never have i ever asked for help,

stop touching the iron on your curious whim

unless you’d like to give your fingers another trim.

[hafiflik-deactivated20210124]

eve dönmek,

keith arnatt (1969)

[liviascorner]

january is a fraud. some stone cold obelisk wrapped in stuffy air.

[liviascorner]

ME BC I FOUND THE PAINTING I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THE NAME OF FOR OVER A YEAR, MY FAVORITE PAINTING GOD YES YES YES!

[fairycosmos]

I WISH THINGS HAD TURNED OUT DIFFERENTLY!!!!!!!!! goes to the supermarket

[liviascorner]

ouch

[liviascorner]

so is that all december really is? sitting on the floor wrapping presents and losing a little bit of yourself in them

[aircademia]

i would like …. many books…. some plants….. a couple of candles…….. and some peace and quiet 

[liviascorner]

me

[summer-dreams-ripped]

the dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and to stare at the light in the trees- to learn something by being nothing

[stamp-it-to-me]

a 1983 Pakistani stamp depicting Siberian cranes

[id: a postage stamp with a realistic illustration of three Siberian cranes. they are depicted mid-flight. end id]

[typewriter-worries]

how wonderful yellow is! it stands for the sun.

Wheat Field with a Reaper | Summer Evening | Haystacks in Provence, Arles | Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun | The Yellow House | Sunflowers | The Sower | Starry Night

[da-rk-ac-ad-em-ia]

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[daugterofliterature]

The Enchantress (1878) by Luis Ricardo Falero (Spanish artist, lived 1851-1896).