books and bodies in my wardrobe

jasmine, xvii, tea-fuelled writer; byron; bronte; botticelli

[avicecaro]

of course i’m professional, how else would i have playlists such as

- im somewhere between cottagecore and dark academia and i want a wife

- the inherent homoeroticism of ships

- can i throw a bacchanal if its a gathering of less than ten people

- this is my emotional support quarantine banana bread

- being into your best friend is actually just a pain in the ass

- “dark academia” is shorter than saying we’re all pretentious fucks

- study vibes for the hypothetical scenerio of me actually studying

- women make everything better: female covers of songs i grew up to

[avicecaro]

new playlist!!

- songs to listen to while i’m burned at the stake for heresy and lesbianism

[nneilperry]

listen my lifelong dream is to have a leather back notebook with thick pages that become yellowed with age and in it i will have sketches and paintings and ideas and quotes and pressed flowers and love letters and mysterious things and i will hide it in the creaky floorboards of my mysterious sea cliff mansion far away from any houses for my grand children to find long after i have passed away and to blow the dust off it and flip through the pages and they will think that it is mysterious and that i was mysterious and it will be very mysterious

[asphodelmeadowss]

dark academia aesthetic

picture source

[wildesappho-deactivated20201031]

so, its about time i get my own friendgroup of obsessive, academic, generally like minded people and we all end up falling in love with each other in various semi-tragic combinations, and maybe someone ends up dead but its ok it was for the aesthetic

[duotheism]

The Gates in June – Fritz Wildhagen / June in the Austrian Tyrol, John MacWhirter / A Month of First Crushes, Schuyler Peck @schuylerpeck / Flaming June, Frederic Leighton / June, Frederick Seidel / Evening, Joseph Brodsky / Romance, Arthur Rimbaud / June, Florence and the Machine / Sonnet XL, Pablo Neruda / Watermelon Sugar, Harry Styles / The Blacksmith, Arthur Rimbaud / Diaries, 1914-1923, Franz Kafka

[saintrouge]

LITERATURE STUDENT MOODBOARD

“We were always surrounded by books and words and poetry, all the fierce passions of the world bound in leather and vellum.”

- M. L. Rio, “If We Were Villains”

[macaulaytwins]

The wind: *blows*

Me: nice wuthering heights reference

[victoriangothicromance]

hi emily’s ghost

[aceademic]

classic lit hits different than modern lit not because modern lit lacks depth but because there’s something so incredible about reading something and knowing that hundreds of years before you people were living, breathing, loving, the same way you do now. like one hundred years ago someone read these same words and felt them and read them just as you do today, and you’re connected despite the times that separates you

[victoriangothicromance]

please please PLEASE reply to me if you’ve read Villette I need to talk to somebody about the ending

[victoriangothicromance]

does anyone just wanna talk about books long into the night?? like finding somebody who reads keats outloud and discussing how you never got over the ending of villette? reply to this if you feel like you’re my soulmate

[cloudcuckoolander527]

Do you ever read a novel that’s over 100 years old and get hella into it and as you’re getting into it, you can feel the ghost of the long-dead author getting excited as you get into their work, like the ghost of Jane Austen or Alexander Dumas or Mary Shelley has sat over me like “Yes child! My purpose in this universe is fulfilled, I may be gone, but my work echoes through the halls of time long after my flesh and blood death… Now cry”. 

[deadpoetwilde]

why do i have to be "productive"? is it not enough to do dramatic readings of hamlet in my room wearing sexy victorian clothes while chopin plays in the background?

[victoriangothicromance]

can i come be ‘productive’ with you?

[hoe4byron]

every day i wonder why i'm not living in a dark castle with secret passageways and rooms filled with books

[the-ghosting-deactivated2022071]

oh to sit on the floor drinking tea while dreaming of my lover playing with my hair

[victoriangothicromance]

jane eyre, 2011

by victoriangothicromance

[athyriumotophorum-deactivated20]

My moss terrarium that I made with my Grandmother’s old tea kettle that she gave to me. In the terrarium are mosses, grasses, rocks, and clovers. One clover decided to sprout through the spout :)

[livesunique]

Sala dell’ Iliad, Pitti Palace, Florence by F. Maestosi