Meditations of a Vintage Hipster

Filmmaker, fashion lover, feminist, feline enthusiast.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

hamlet’s “i did love you once” and ophelia’s “indeed, my lord, you did make me believe so” is such an underrated gut punch. it’s betrayal it’s heartbreak it’s vulnerability it’s so over. truly no one is doing it like shakespeare

[centre-cannot-hold]

Walter Schnackenberg, Russian Ballet 1912 - 1913

[honeyluvsw]

moth pngs ! free to use! credit not needed but appreciated :)

[drops-of-universe]

the hottest thing a man can be is a little afraid of me

[shybreadgarden]

When lizzie bennet said “there are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well” I felt that. She was being a bitch but I felt that.

[thisusernotfoundatthismoment]

i hope every lover girl finds her super calm gentleman who is unashamedly and insanely obsessed with her

[honeyluvsw]

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[slayer-barbie]

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999) dir. Gil Junger

[putting-down-the-roses-deactiva]

Bitch go read a book (me to me)

[thoodleoo]

JSTOR gothic

you open a tab on JSTOR to begin research for a paper. you leave momentarily for a cup of tea; when you return, there are two more tabs that you do not remember opening. you look away to find your notes, and when you look back, there are five more tabs. eventually, there are thirty tags open in your browser. you can no longer access any site other than JSTOR. somehow, this does not seem strange to you.

an article pops up in your search that, while interesting, does not seem to relate much to your research topic. still, you read it anyway out of curiosity. it cites several other articles that are also on JSTOR, and you decide to read them too. each article brings several others with it. suddenly you are an academic theseus, winding your way through the labyrinth of citations, but you have forgotten the thread that should have led you safely back. it is two in the morning and you are reading about foraging behaviors in south american flamingo. you are a shakespearean scholar. your eyes cry out for sleep, but you cannot stop reading.

you are scrolling through the pages of articles to find what you need. eventually you notice that you have seen several of these article titles before. confused, you click to the next page of articles and scroll more slowly. it is exactly the same as the last page. another attempt yields the same result. no matter how far you go, you make no progress and find no new articles. you keep scrolling.

you have been reading so long that you find you can no longer form a sentence without using “nevertheless,” “reminiscent,” or “quintessential.” you also find yourself occasionally slipping between popular academic languages. it has finally happened: you have become academia. your friends and family can no longer understand you, but you can at least read all of the literature in your field. you figure it is a fair trade.

you pull up JSTOR to search for an article, but before you can type in your search, JSTOR pulls up exactly what you need. you are wary, but you try to read the article. JSTOR flips to the page that contains the exact information you needed for your argument. alarmed, you realize with horror what is going on. you are no longer reading on JSTOR. JSTOR is reading you.

[lovesickbrat]

[bebemoon]

seashell throne

[medusadyke]

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

[medusadyke]

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

[medievalcat]

next Robert Eggers movie is set in the 13th century, about werewolves, and the dialogue will be in Middle English ?

[beggars-opera]

grounding techniques, ok 5 things i can see. I see bricks, I see mortar, I see a trowel, I see a cask of wine, I see that asshole Montresor glaring at me over the top of the wall…

[ssfoc]

After 22 years, Diana Ross returns to the Met Gala 2025 in an 18-foot gown embroidered with her family’s names.

[coolthingoftheday]