maxima

• your mind, it’s so placid • maxima // any pronouns // minor - linguistics - forensics - niche knowledge - mythology - theology - people and patterns - art and cultural patterns - reading -

[sistertaxon]

i dont know how im supposed to interpret the fact that when pandora opened the box all of the monsters were released unto humanity except for hope, which stayed behind, but every time i think about it i go crazy

[sistertaxon]

is it saying that the biggest monster would be if hope had left us? is it saying that hope was never unleashed on the world? is it saying that hope is actually a monster? is it saying that hope will always be with us? i dont know but all of them make me lose it

[icedcoffeeandmurder]

i’m sorry but if i don’t disappear mysteriously, causing an odd group of people who knew me to get together to solve my disappearance, all the while they find out they all knew wildly different versions of me and didn’t really know me at all, then what has this all been for?

[sesiondemadrugada]

Anne Magill.

[macbcth]

i like to believe that ophelia’s madness gave her a kind of meta knowledge of the plot— that she saw the tragic ending coming, knew that hamlet’s indecision would be his hamartia, that she realised gertrude and claudius were both poisoned with corruption from the beginning and instead of the customary funeral goers laying flowers at a grave, it was Ophelia— mad, at death’s door, about to die in less than 2 scenes— who handed flowers to the king, queen and protagonist as if the dead girl was mourning the living

[missio-dei]

Sometimes, I catch myself right before i contradict myself in an arguement. Right at the point where my opinion and yours blend together, where i no longer see the divide between what we think. Its the peak, standing tall between the valleys of our minds, where i am taken over by facts and swayed by our opinions clashing.

And, as always, i keep talking. I prefer the peak, standing there i am able to view everything. But dont get me wrong, my valley was so important. I needed land to climb up, i needed an opinon so i could push myself forward, i needed to grasp up a mountain so I could reach this plateau of neutrality, viewing everything with as little bias as possible.

I hope one day you will reach this peak too...

[malice-bradbury]

there’s something very special about secondhand books. a ghost of a stranger’s hand lurking, their scrawled thoughts remain, some even leave tears and ink, and coffee stains. the whole experience is seemingly intimate. those dog-eared pages, forgotten bookmarks, the remnants of a reader who dreamed. questions surfacing - who held these pages? such is the power of literature: it connects even the most far-off individuals under ideas that compels them to yearn

[missio-dei]

|| rant ||

its so insane, living right now and doing school online. it seems like there is a consant grey cloud of due dates and busy work hanging over me, and its been difficult to find time to spend time researching or reading or generally having fun with academia. im scared that this is going to ruin academia for a generation...

[missio-dei]

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

[missio-dei]

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

[missio-dei]

Hello! This is my first post to Academia Tumblr, so I suppose I should introduce myself!

My name is Maxima, and I am a minor! I am an artist, a lover of all things macabre, and a general acadmia enthusiast!

My favorite feilds of study are forensics, classic literature (especially gothic literature), modern fiction writing, linguistics, forensic an mortiary studies, theology, and many other things!

My favorite book is Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, favorite television show would be Sherlock, and movie would be Monty Python and the Curse of the Holy Grail!

Feel free to send me asks, message me, or reply to any of my future posts!

Bonus Fortuna, Maxima