forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit

micol • they/them • xxi

[lucidus-ordo]

dearest fellow dark academics,

since our aesthetic is so whitewashed it’s disgusting, i think we should all take this free yale course. it’s truly inspirational and i’m learning a lot of things i wasn’t aware of. and don’t come at me with your white people shit, this is what dark academia - or academia in general - is meant to be: educating oneself about all culture, learning from others, loving all knowledge and philosophies. so do the world a favour and stop this elitism crap.

yours truly,

a black academic

https://oyc.yale.edu/african-american-studies/afam-162

African American History: From Emancipation to the Present | Open Yale Courses

[girldante]

remember your life doesn't end at 20. dante alighieri got exiled from florence at 36! you still have time <3

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IM EVIL IM UNLOVEABLE IM WRETCHED IM TURNING INTO SOMETHING UNRECOGNIZABLE IM A MONSTER <- sat alone in room for too long

[lucidus-ordo]

raskolnikov:

[optimistic-nihilist]

[hamoodmood-deactivated20250309]

Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?

[jondrettegirls]

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Antigone - Jean Anhouilh (Tr. Lewis Galantière) | Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[chenillecottage]

Source

[theandreaharker]

obsessed with the art of studying

[angel-yeux-x]

slow day ☕️

[flowerytale]

Charlotte Brontë, from Villette

[figues]

A Reading of Homer by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885.

[twilight-systems]

Saw a post on Mary Shelley which referenced her as the first to write science fiction, but, like, there’s the 2nd Century A.D. sci-fi satire parody by Lucian of Samosata which features space travel and aliens.

[thoodleoo]

my allergies are acting up horrendously right now and i have never understood why horace hated trees so much until this moment

[thoodleoo]

tag yourself: ancient greek and latin poetry genres

epic

never shuts up

repeats themself all the time

tells the wildest stories

bucolic

the nature hoe

probably gay

life goal is to own a bunch of goats and make their own cheese

lyric

definitely gay

melodramatic

loves the Aesthetic™

elegiac

kinky af

has actually sent a ‘haha and then what ;)’ text at some point in their life

makes poor relationship choices

dramatic

do i even need to explain

only has two emotions and theyre both always turned up to 11

would kill you in a competition if it meant they’d win

iambic

kinda mean and extremely petty

has never taken responsibility for anything in their life

lives for the discourse

[lucidus-ordo]

#like…all of them apart from bucolic

[lucidus-ordo]

#i actually bucolic poetry T.T

[lifeinpoetry]

“And I think that’s what a father is / —a blade that never stops cutting.”

— Desireé Dallagiacomo, from “Origin Story,” Sink

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[weltenwellen]

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh