quasi papavere et sesamo sparsa

a sad, wild thing, haunted and picturesque heca ♰ xxi ♰ dark academia  

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Martial IV.4 // Studying with your darling on holiday in Italy

[cithaerons]

just some drabbles! i really hope you guys like it :) 

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Martial IV.4 // Studying with your darling on holiday in Italy

[reznikxvs]

oh to be at boarding school in england with your tightly-knit circle of friends who share your interests and aesthetic preoccupations - to have illicit adventures behind your stern teachers’ backs as you escape into the nearby forest with your lover - to give your friends special nicknames which reflect your love of culture, your aspiration to something beautiful and dark - to sprinkle bits of the languages you learn and love into your conversations, a way of speaking that brings you all closer. everyone else in the school is slightly in awe of you and your cabal, but you brush off their rude stares with your air of confident mystique.

[theythemsam]

Our Lady Of Sorrows // Supernatural 1x05, 4x16, 8x17

[reznikxvs]

can I ask where the quote from your blog description is from? it's so nice :)

It’s from The Secret History, page 571! I’m glad you like it 🤍

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Dinner party/Bacchic initiation at a university secret society

“Flecks of light swam in my eyes. I thought of atoms, molecules, things so small you couldn’t even see them.” - The Secret History, Donna Tartt

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Picnic on Mt. Parnassus

Mellitos verborum globulos et omnia dicta factaque quasi papavere et sesamo sparsa. // Honey-balls of phrases, every word and act besprinkled with poppy-seed and sesame. - Petronius, Satyricon, Tr.  Michael Heseltine

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πάντα γὰρ τἀναντία / νῦν ἐστιν· || All’s upside down / These days.

Menander, False Herakles

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Plutarch, Tr. Bernadotte Perrin // Benjamin West (Antiochus and Strationice) // Herbert Jenkins // Sylvia Plath // Jan Steen (The Lovesick Maiden) // Hozier

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Martial VII.69, anonymous translator

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Charles Baudelaire tr. James McGowan // Sylvia Plath // Hozier // Herbert Jenkins // Donna Tartt // William Shakespeare // Anne Carson

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greco-roman sculpture in painting; cosway / piacenza / zoffany

[reznikxvs]

Dinner party/Bacchic initiation at a university secret society

“Flecks of light swam in my eyes. I thought of atoms, molecules, things so small you couldn’t even see them.” - The Secret History, Donna Tartt

[reznikxvs]

Picnic on Mt. Parnassus

Mellitos verborum globulos et omnia dicta factaque quasi papavere et sesamo sparsa. // Honey-balls of phrases, every word and act besprinkled with poppy-seed and sesame. - Petronius, Satyricon, Tr.  Michael Heseltine

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πάντα γὰρ τἀναντία / νῦν ἐστιν· || All’s upside down / These days.

Menander, False Herakles

[reznikxvs]

Plutarch, Tr. Bernadotte Perrin // Benjamin West (Antiochus and Strationice) // Herbert Jenkins // Sylvia Plath // Jan Steen (The Lovesick Maiden) // Hozier