Boris, what the mother fuck.

| lucian | any pronoun | xix | classics major | inclusive dark academia my beloved(◍•ᴗ•◍) | -DMs are always open! -

[cottage-vulture]

[wolfvirus]

Gustave Courtois (French, 1852-1923), "Dante and Virgil in Hell ('Ninth Circle for the Traitors to the Country')" 1879, detail.

[artist-manet]

Flying Raven: ex libris, from The Raven (Le Corbeau), Édouard Manet, 1875, Art Institute of Chicago: Prints and Drawings

Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund Size: 63 × 240 mm (image); 254 × 289 mm (sheet) Medium: Transfer lithograph in black on ivory parchment paper

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111363/

[lisaminnci]

Over the Garden Wall (2014)

[menelaiad]

Menelaus vs. Paris illustrated by Alice Rose Provensen & Martin Provensen (1956) 

[musestxt]

Thinking about her

“That's the wonderful thing about books, that's the thing that books can do that no other art form can do: when we read a great book we do internalize it, it becomes part of us; when we read a great book we put it down and we are different people.”

[primulaceas]

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

[dodgefred]

Dead Poets Society has as its central concern the rite of passage from boyhood to (heterosexual) manhood. Neil fails to make this transition. He is unable to achieve identification with either his repressive father or the liberal (an unswervingly heterosexual) Keating. His sacrifice allows Todd to find his ‘voice;’ his barbaric yawp is ‘Neil.’ The forbidden love is given eternal life and remembrance through death.

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[paperstorm]

I found these pictures of women of colour in the 1920s and they made me happy because you see them so rarely in the modern romanticization of this era x

[venererveneris]

Hey there mutual!

Love your blog and hope you have a wonderful day ahead! <3

hi! thank you so much and same goes to you :))

[firstfullmoon]

pictures that fill me with infinite tenderness

[fuckindiva]

Sophocles' Electra (tr. Peter Meineck & Paul Woodruff)

[latewhitenights]

can we please normalize bringing back ancient names??? 'cause I need to name my son Dante and my daughter, Ophelia

[peterparker]

[ofbooksandbread-deactivated2025]

'honey i'm home' but we are flatmates and there is romantic tension

[a-dance-with-the-absurd]

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

— Fyodor Dosteovsky, Crime and Punishment (source)

[marionequade]

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”

The Secret History as a ‘50s film classic