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Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse
The Three Fates (1910) by Alexander Rothaug.
Virginia Woolf
I hate how elitist and Eurocentric dark academia can be. i love the old university buildings, rich dark attire, and Latin phrases that come with it, but i can’t stand the elements of superiority and exclusivity. as a college student i feel like the draw at the heart of academia is a love of knowledge and passion for sharing it with as many people as possible. so as a poc in university, here’s my take on dark academia:
Filipinx students poring over library books of Baybayin and other pre-colonial alphabets and dialects of Tagalog
students hungrily downloading pdfs of textbooks, biographies, the newest research papers on nuclear fusion and archaeological discoveries
hands the same rich shade of brown as the ancestors who could only dream of being surrounded by hundreds of books searching through dusty tomes for stories of their heritage
thrifting old, oversized blazers to thrown on over a sweater you’ve had since high school before running to your next lecture
printing copies of notes and lectures to send to the family members who gave up their dreams of seeing the stars so that you could study them
dear diary, 2/17
today is confusing. good things are coming up very soon. i feel more worried than ever. i haven't read in a few days and i need to catch up. putting a lot of things off this week.
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100-ish classics and must-reads
solaris girl's list of 100 must-reads :-)
( bold = read. constantly updating!)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper LeeÂ
1984 - George OrwellÂ
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Giver - Lois Lowrey
The Book Thief - Markus Zusack
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Les Miserables -Victor Hugo
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Catch - 22 - Joseph Heller
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Our Town - Thornton Wilder
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Candide - Voltaire
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - Naomi Klein
The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe
Emma - Jane Austen
The Republic - Plato
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Prince - Niccolo MachiavelliÂ
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Tell Tale Heart and Other Readings - Edgar Allan Poe
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Sidhartha - Hermann Hesse
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespear
The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Middlemarch - George Eliot
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
White Fang - Jack London
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
“forgive all the versions of yourself that operated out of fear instead of growth, the ones that viewed comfort zones as safe havens and abandoned boundaries to keep other people happy, forgive all the versions of yourself that didn’t know that love begins with how you treat you.”
— iambrillyant
Fog and Sun, Sea and Stone The Monterey Coast, 1980
february reads + 100 classics :-)
my february reads!
the bell jar - sylvia plath
the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde
hiiii, this month i'm only reading two books. tragic i know. right now i'm focusing on classics since i'm starting college and i want my knowledge, vocab, reading, etc. back up to where it was when i was 14! which is definitely the last time i read all the time like this. so i'm starting at the top of my 100 classics list and skipping ones my library doesn't have for now. i'll post a full list of my classic tbrs and will post a review on each i complete!
love,
solaris girl
“I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I shouldn’t, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.”
sylvia plath, the bell jar
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Chelsea Wolfe, from Birth Of Violence; “The Mother Road,”  rel. c. 2019
dear diary, 2/16
today i feel connected, beautiful and worried as always. my love lights up my forest like sunshine pouring down rocks. i sit on the ground and look up into his golden rain of love. i love spending my life with him. today i feel sensitive and feminine in the most naive way possible. all i want is to sit in the sun and write my poems. to feel the mud and to see the clouds. to feel the wind caress who i was and who i am, creating one. im happy. happiness is fluid and right now im swimming in it. later i will be sorrowful, as is the duality of woman. :-)
feminine
i want to live underwaterÂ
with other women who could not bear to spend another moment on this land
i was, am, and will come back as these sirensÂ
sounding not for allure or lust but with dreams of feminine freedom
i lay with them on the shore
our aquatic halves seductively trailing the still surface
with each swish of our solar bodies there is a ripple and despite how small we try to be
we splash about and one ripple becomes a wave poolÂ
a body of water representing ours, forced by the ancient hand of the moon
lending the magic of life to those who do not understand it
our precious, ancestral glitter
leaking out of our every inch
breaking us open and apart
poisoning ourselves for all else
our one soul for all others
sobbing a terrible, sacral melody with trembling hands claspedÂ
together, in agony
we are feminine
