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dark academia but it’s online school

- waking up early in the morning to watch the sunrise, even though you don’t actually need to

- staying up late to read or paint because you don’t have to get up early

- handwriting assignments that should be typed and submitted digitally

- having a coffee cup with you, rather than a thermos because you don’t have to take it anywhere

- still getting ready and dressed so that you can feel focused on your work in the mornings

- emailing your teachers to see if they have any extra reading related to the topic

- turning in all of the assignments for the week earlier than the rest of your class because you wanted to finish them early

- not doing any assignments for the week because you were too interesting in researching about different planets or the deep sea

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I am all for bookstore dates take me there and let’s wander hand in hand

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reading classic lit for fun: immersed in the book. enjoying myself. transported to another world where i am in fact a greek nymph

reading classic lit for an assignment: i read a page. a minute has passed. i read another page. an hour has passed. i spend the day trying to read one chapter and only once i’ve finished do i realize i understood none of it. 0/10

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Trà My as Johannes Vermeer’s The Girl with a Pearl Earring reimagined by Dzũng Yoko for ELLE Vietnam August 2018.

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I should be allowed into every museum's archives actually

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renaissance ?

I’m not sure if this counts, but the skeletal marble tiles on the floor of the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria. It’s a work of art my mind often fixates on.

If not this, then a particular artist I’ll always adore is Caravaggio, a renowned classical painter from the mid-1500s to the early-1600s.

#OH OH OH #caravaggio is one of my favorites !! #something abt churches #places of worship are so gorgeous im

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— Oscar Wilde, from The Picture Of Dorian Gray

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I forgot how much fun I have with the french language! I'm not fluent by any means but I can't wait to read my books now.

#toady croaks #like ive three ish books in french i think #and ive been meaning ti read them but my french is s o rusty #vv excited

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1. Fallen Angel, by @3rdeyechakra / IG: @bbychakra92 | 2. Fallen Angel, 1868, by Alexandre Cabanel.

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writers in their writing spaces part 1

maya angelou / adrienne rich / clarice lispector / toni morrison / james baldwon / anne sexton / sylvia plath / joan didion / langston hughes / simone de beauvoir

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literature is just so sexy like [incoherent screaming] every-time I read a poem I have to take a second before I go absolutely batshit feral what a life it is to study this for a living my heart is so full with love

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You don't have to be white to be a goth. You don't have to be white to be punk. You don't have to be white to be cottagecore. You don't have to be white to be Dark academia or any other aesthetic.

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when I was younger I didn’t understand why “may you live in interesting times” was considered a curse in ancient greece.

I get it now.

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*shamelessly recites literature wildly incorrectly*

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LISTEN / Let’s get into it … Let’s get into it, let’s talk about the Black musicians that inspired Andrew Hozier-Byrne, and let’s not ever pretend again that he got his flair for jazz and blues from white women, thank you so very much! Y’all have a good time listenin’ to the roots, okay!

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Jul 21, 2020 - In an attempt to motivate myself to study ecclesiastical latin I purchased these old notebooks that belonged to a French Cardinal(?) in 1890s.

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The following pieces of morbid art are by Nicola Samori, a 35 year old Italian artist. He says “My work stems from fear: fear of the body, of death, of men. I think my nature as an artist is something like feeling hopeless. Works are just temporary shelters and painting is a leisure place where you can conceal yourself.”