rage, rage against the dying of the light

[under-a-thousand-stars]

“𝔻𝕠𝕖𝕤 𝕤𝕦𝕔𝕙 𝕒 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕤 '𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕒𝕥𝕒𝕝 𝕗𝕝𝕒𝕨,' 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕨𝕪 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕔𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕣𝕦𝕟𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕕𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕚𝕕𝕕𝕝𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕒 𝕝𝕚𝕗𝕖, 𝕖𝕩𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕠𝕦𝕥𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖? 𝕀 𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕚𝕥 𝕕𝕚𝕕𝕟'𝕥. ℕ𝕠𝕨 𝕀 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕚𝕥 𝕕𝕠𝕖𝕤. 𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤: 𝕒 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕓𝕚𝕕 𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕢𝕦𝕖 𝕒𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕔𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕤.”

welcome this is primarily a study/journal/aesthetic/ general ranting blog fortunately it is also a "whatever my current hyperfixation is" blog so right now it is also a secret history blog, as i'm sure is evident enjoy -e.a.h.

about me: first year university student, concentrating in pre-med and classics. currently reading: the secret history by donna tartt, the sound and the fury by william faulkner

past literature i will yap forever about: east of eden, really anything by steinbeck, the glass menagerie, anything by tennessee williams, 1984, hamlet, fahrenheit 451, save me the waltz, the great gatsby, the crucible, a couple books by agatha christie, we were liars, greenglass house series... a lot more i can't remember right now. dividers by the lovely @somebitchprobably-graphicdump

[blorbo-posting]

[under-a-thousand-stars]

@blad3bunni3

[talkshowboyluvr]

She, I thought, was very beautiful, in an unsettling, almost medieval way which would not be apparent to the casual observer.

[brideofquietness]

“Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and—sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.”

— Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger

[annabelle--cane]

the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

[dumbslutguts]

I do love every member of the Greek class, and I feel a bit guilty about it because they're all such horrible people.

[theythembobdylan]

this is my one wild and precious life fucckkkkkkk fuckkkkkk fucckcckkkkkkk

[classicalcanvas]

The Shipwreck (1894) by Ivan Aivazovsky

[mirrorsinner]

[apostrophes-ampersands]

[brehaaorgana]

for the last time: if there's a sexy naked lady with long flowing hair and MAYBE a diaphanous sheet or flower crown; lots of swirlies and ribbon like curving LUSCIOUS shapes; very lush foliage (acanthus leaves, elegant flowers) and all kinds of fauna — both especially waterside (lily pads, lotuses, reeds, cranes, dragonflies); lots of green; everything is a lot of iron, stone, stained glass, mosaic, and carved wood; the windows or their frames are very Shaped; the lights are soft yellow; or it's a font with lots of line weight variation; feather tips are rounded; everything reminds you of france, vienna, or japan and something vaguely mediterranean; OR it's literally a Parisian metro station

— then it's art nouveau

and if the sexy lady has a bob cut or a hair cap and is wearing a column or flapper dress; there's a lot of geometry like rectangles, arches, rays, and diamonds; angels have super sharp wings and a lot of muscles; everything is steel, concrete, marble, gold, and red velvet seats; everything is VERY angular; and all the foliage is basically papyrus fronds; things feel vaguely Egyptian or Turkish or Mesopotamian; the fonts play with being very skinny or very thick and are sans serif with extra lines; or Gatsby would be found floating dead in that pool

— then it's art deco

[brehaaorgana]

And if looks kinda like art nouveau

— with lots of lush flora, tiny insects (like dragonflies) or graceful birds, stained glass, iron, warm golden lighting, lots of wood and wood carving (but now it's more wood paneling), a stylistic fondness for Japan, line weight variation in the font, and tile (but this time it's carved or sculpted on, not tiny mosaic)

but you're worried it's art deco

— because the forms (especially foliage) are very symmetrical and slightly more angular or blocky and graphic looking, things are more rectangular than circular or curvy in architecture, the patterns repeat more often, and more of the lamps are pyramids or rectangular, and there are nods to Egyptian or Ottoman style, and they used the color red (probably in an accent chair or carpet rug)

BUT there's no steel, concrete, gold plating or gilding, marble, big muscles, spiky or radiating diamond shapes, angular people, or flappers,

AND the vibes are jacobean, gothic, or spanish mission revival; they love some brick and stone; the wallpaper is an explosion of colorful pattern that could give you arsenic poisoning or help depict a descent into postpartum psychosis in a famous short story; but there are NO people to be seen, not even sexy ladies,

— then THAT is the arts & crafts movement.

[winedark]

i do think there is something so exceptional that something as rare and beautiful as an eclipse is something you should not look at directly because it might permanently damage your vision. a partial eclipse is so bright it hurts to look at, a total eclipse breaks and the light overwhelms your vision.... at the risk of sounding trite it does feel like that element of cosmic horror that is too much for a human to behold without losing something of yourself. i luv space

[2productive]

I always loved how back in the day before cellphones, people were unreachable if they weren’t at home. You can call but I won’t be there to answer. You can leave a message but you don’t know how long it’ll be until I hear it. You don’t know if I’m home, but you will have to make the trip to come to my house and knock on the door, hoping I’ll be there. And if I’m not…you can’t reach me!! Now that everyone has a cellphone the expectation of being reachable 24/7 is so disastrous. And let’s not even get into read receipts. I think one of the worst times of my inner peace is when I had an apple watch and suddenly every text and phone call and notification was on my freaking wrist, even if my phone was giving the illusion of distance by being in my pocket or bag or charging in another room. I stopped using it in 2022 and I’d rather eat a jean jacket with no water than ever be so connected again. “oh you can just turn off notifications!” not the point.

[carouselcometh]

Devastating! Art museum gift shop doesn’t sell prints of specific and unpopular painting that struck a cord with you!

[enchantinggentlemenmentality]

Headcanons for Camilla Macauclay 💐

-She chews on her tea bags to get all the tea out of them

-She cuts her own hair because no hairstylist is able to get it the way she likes

-She picks wildflowers/ dandelions and keeps them so long that they decay on her bedside table

-She’s as good at Greek/ learning languages as Henry is

-She and Charles share clothes

-Keeps flowers and coins in her pockets

-Veracious reader of French literature

-She and Charles had a pet lizard as kids that they kept in a shoe box and it promptly died. This traumatized them briefly

-Before puberty Charles and Camilla were able to switch clothes and be mistaken for each other and often terrorized their grandmother by switching clothes

Sorry a lot of these are sort of cutesy and have nothing to do with her character I just love my girl so much but I have serious headcanons too if anyone is interested in those.

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

Telemachus is gonna get his life together eventually trust

[moosemann404]

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