#dead academic

[esoarcana]

To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

—Virginia Woolf, Flush

[marauder-queen]

I was waiting to

catch you,

but you never fell.

[rustywindows]

"Nostalgia is a paradox of irrecoverability, a desire for not only the place of one's past, but for its memories in real time, for their return to populate the present."

- Elizabeth Kadetsky, from The Memory Eaters (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020)

Today's jam - This City by Sam Fischer

[deadacedemia]

And then he left me to wilt in dreadful rain with all those blooming flowers around me, to see what I would never be.

[muresetivoire]

We are all starlight across dark skies for someone, even if we are indeed the darkness

[muresetivoire]

Me??? Obsessed??? With intelligent, arrogant, sarcastic, fictional men??? Absolutely.

[muresetivoire]

Death, my darling, is a romantic theory I will never overcome

[muresetivoire]

Oh my darling Melancholy, how you ruin me so