a wandering victorian ghost

art♡book♡mythology "𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧. 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛."

[secret-ghost]

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[thecharliedalton-deactivated202]

Crap. Yet again, I forgot to seize the day. 

[achillesreborn]

reasons why achilles & patroclus are better than romeo & juliet

by: a disgruntled dark academia gay

romeo and juliet fall in love in like... 5 days or smth dumb like that. that's not love, that's not even affection. that's just dumb. achilles & patroclus? known each other since they were kids. classic friends to lovers (enemies to lovers works as well, depending on how you interpret the song of achilles)

romeo kills himself because he... thinks juliet is dead. gives her like 5 seconds before he does some dumb shit. patroclus is cold & dead when achilles exacts his revenge, after a long ass mourning period & funeral. & what a revenge it was.

the miscommunication in r&j is just infuriating. if friar laurence & the nurse weren't such utter tits, maybe romeo wouldn't have chugged that bleach. patroclus speaks to his lover from beyond the grave, informs him that he wants their bones together & tells him to hurry tf up with the funeral. communicating king.

r&j's families didn't like eachother, leading to like three deaths. the trojan war lasted ten years. that's angst baby.

gay people are superior (/j)

[la-laborista-republiko]

A lot of people have asked me to explain the whole “stock market” thing to them, and I’ll explain it, and they’ll be like “I still don’t get it,” and I just wanna, like, make it clear:  The problem isn’t you.  The problem is that you’re trying to use your smart rational human brain to understand something which is, on a fundamental level, deeply irrational and incredibly fucking stupid.

[grimeclown]

This is a fucking new one

[pigmenting]

writing as therapy. writing as healing. writing as discovery. writing as self-love. writing as making sense of the dark. writing as rebirth. 

[exhumedmurasaki]

richard siken crush / charles baudelaire les fleurs du mal

[literature-cult]

i wanna have this one night in my life. one night where tomorrow doesn’t have consequences. one night which’ll be a story i’ll tell my kid. one night i’ll remember for all my life. whether it’s with a boy, or with my friends, or with strangers, or even me alone. i just wanna have one night i’ll never forget. carpe noctem

[literature-cult]

i feel like neil perry would like ribs by lord cuz like ;

And I’ve never felt more alone / It feels so scary getting old

You’re the only friend I need

[weltenwellen]

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[shisasan]

Adolph Alexander Weinman, Noche Descendente (1914)

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟿, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[pukicho]

Feeling highly ambiguous tonight

[edgy-ella]

Like in a sexy way?

[pukicho]

like in a

[friendlyneighbourhoodpapergay]

Yet another reminder that faking is a conscious choice that you make.

It is not something you can do accidentally, regards of what you're talking about.

You can't accidentally fake depression, or anxiety, or bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, or any other mental illness.

You can't accidentally fake Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, personality disorders.

You can't accidentally fake ADHD, autism, Tourette's Syndrome, auditory processing disorder, aphasia or any other neurodivergence

You can't accidentally fake being trans or ace-spec or aro-spec or any other LGBTQIA+ identity.

You can't accidentally fake chronic illnesses like CFS, fibromyalgia or any chronic illness.

You also can't accidentally fake being good/intelligent at something. You didn't fool your peers into reaching your position.

You can't accidentally fake trauma, PTSD/cPTSD, DID/OSDD/DDNOS or any other trauma-based disorder.

Tldr:

Faking is a conscious choice.

You cannot do it by accident.

If you are worried that you are faking, that in itself is proof that you are not.

[burnhamandtilly]

BURNING 🔥

to love anyone by victoria chang / demon by brian luong / fragment 38 by sappho / burn it down by brian luong / straw house, straw dog by richard siken / skeleton by brian luong / a burning hill by mitski

[thoodleoo]

academia is 50% crying, 20% research, and 30% coming up with funny titles for every paper that you write

[terpsikeraunos]

also, i was looking for a positive word about the soul, but naturally, since this is ancient greek, i found these:

θυμοφθορέω, to be tormented in soul θυμοφθόρος, destroying the soul, life-destroying  ψυχοδαίκτης, killing the soul (epithet of dionysus) ψυχόλεθρος, the death of the soul ψυχολέτης, soul-destroyer ψυχοπονία, anguish of soul ψυχοφθόρος, soul-destroying

[aristoteliancomplacency]

But why translate the top two as “soul”? Or, on the other hand, if including thumos, why not also phren or even ker?

[terpsikeraunos]

Good point. I usually translate thumos as heart, but I included these since “soul” is how LSJ translated them. iirc, they did have at least one instance of phren translated as soul, but not in the -destroying category.