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Just some thoughts on turning twenty.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (the fact twenty-one is the cut off, the time when women must become self-conscious of their age. It’s a different time, sure, but it’s still strange to be on this precipice...), Mitski, ‘Class of 2013′, extract of a poem I wrote (tormented by how birthdays sometimes seem an endurance test, it is a miracle to still be alive, to have outlived others, the privilege of growing up and growing old, and yet it is all so exhausting to know you still have decades of life to get through, joy and pain, etc.), Unknown seventeenth-century painter from the Veneto, Portrait of Angela Adorni Sbardellini, Prioress of the Zitelle (I like the contrast between her and her costume, the complicated creases and folds vs her still young face, she seems a girl peeking out of an adult body), Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals, Florence + the Machine, ‘Free’, picture of Marilyn Monroe at twenty, Luke Hemmings, ‘Diamonds’ 

#web weaving #parallels #literature #music #dark academia #light academia #books #pride and prejudice #Jane Austen #poetry #florence welch #Sylvia Plath #mitski #luke Hemings #marilyn monroe #twenty #20 #pretending I didn’t turn 21 yesterday and this hasn’t been in my drafts for months

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I can't keep it in anymore... they quoted Taylor swift in my Shakespeare exam 😭

#taylor swift #love story #shakespeare #studyblr #literature #I literally can't

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The right spot for today #pascalcampion

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Alexander Tkachev - Two on the Road  1980.

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“Everyone stands here alone. 

I tell you the gods are still alive 

And they are not consoling”

-May Sarton 

#just obsessed with how haunting old statues look when mottled with age #poetry #dark academia #idk #just thought I'd post for the first time in ages lmao <3 #greek gods #greek mythology #May Sarton #american poetry

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Taylor Swift, All Too Well (Ten Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) / Pascal Campion, Time after time

#lmao I made this for me and me only #but this line hit me in a lovely way #taylor swift #all too well #all too well ten minute version #Pascal Campion #art #lyrics

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Lovely trip to Lacock today.

#architecture #photography #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia #old places #Harry Potter locations #Harry Potter #studyblr #studyspo #Lacock #lacock abbey

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oh, i am finally old enough to know why my parents took so long to grab their coats. why they would ask us to get ready to go only to sit down for another round of coffee. what would i tell myself, at 10 years old? it’s okay. sit down with them too. take in the extra hour with your friend and her family. when you get home, write down every moment in your diary. one day you will be older and you will be waving goodbye to your best friend, and you will turn the key to start your beat up little car engine, and you will look back over your shoulder. her hair will be blowing in the wind and she will be beautiful and you will be, for a moment, struck by all of it. what you will feel is so wide and nameless that it will engulf you. and you will think of being 14 and kicking her under the table in math every time you wanted to whisper something behind the teacher’s back. you will think about how long the days felt, and how you could hold her hand whenever you wished, but you didn’t. and you will think about all of the people you could have lingered with. and you will wish, more than you have ever felt a wish, that the universe just gave you that - more time to linger. more time to say - i love you. i know i need to leave, but i don’t want to leave you. and when i go, i am leaving a piece of my heart that lingers too. 

one more round of coffee. the days are so short, and you are so lovely.

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i love how different the sea looks at certain moments

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Scent bottle (18th century) enamelled decoration with the motto ‘Tout pour vous’ (All for you).

Image and text courtesy MFA Boston.

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Old beams, rainy days, and good books, these are a few of my favourite things x

#studyblr #dark academia #studyspo #english literature #literature #academia #bookblr #english student #study motivation #reading #light academia #books

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I'm so used to giving and now I get to receive 😭

#studyblr #exam results #results #just logging my progress ❤️ #first year #uni #oh also I'm British lmao if anyone's squinting about my happiness #above 70 is a first so the top grade haha

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The distance between us and the stars

Stardust, (2007) / Lady Windermere’s Fan, Oscar Wilde / Starry Night Over the Rhone, Vincent Van Gogh/ War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude/ Great Expectations, Charles Dickens/ Starry Night, Edvard Munch / Stars, Mary Oliver / Never Alone (an Expressionist interpretation of Starry Night), Mas.s 

#web weaving #parallels #connections #quotes #literature #poetry #art #art history #dark academia #light academia #studyblr #english literature #studyspo #academia #bookblr #Stardust #stars #the night #Mary Oliver #(my beloved) #vincentvangogh #Oscar Wilde

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Second hand bookshop haul 📚

#books #bookblr #books and libraries #english literature #studyblr #dark academia #studyspo #literature #obsessed with the reds #book haul #english student #reading #I hate tags lmao

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Reading books all day is all my younger self wanted for me so I hope she's pleased with my adult life

#studyblr #studyspo #english literature #literature #dark academia #academia #english student #bookblr #reading #books #I'm on holiday but I'm so exhausted from exams and what a stressful year this has been that I am just reading

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The point of reading isn't just consume tropes 🙄 it's to log every book you read at your local librarys summer reading program making you eligible for fun prizes and an end of the summer pizza party

#my library's doing an adult one of these but it's a raffle for an iPad #like lads... I don't want an iPad I want a lil medal for reading more than six books over summer

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Ignoring my reading list to indulge my terminal addiction to detective fiction

#studyblr #bookblr #books #dark academia #studying #I'm not but I am a study blog so? lol #reading