December Moods | Dark Academia

My art history teacher is like "there were ZERO women artists during the renaissance well there was Sofonisba but that's it" and I'm STEAMING bc there WERE more female artists during the Renaissance and I KNOW this bc I spent hours researching women artists in the Renaissance so I could figure out what to name my girl ninja turtle oc when I was 11

Armand Point, detail, Portrait de Madame Berthelot, 1895.

i really like being pretentious and all but what i actually like even more is that i'm genuinely so invested in this hunt for knowledge that i'm on. like,,,, i do wanna know every work of shakespeare by heart and i do wanna read the night away draped over second hand philosophy books and a worn out volume of the illiad and i do wanna quote french poetry and oscar wilde at social events and i wanna be what history would call an intellectual and i wanna live and breathe these things i care about because i have a deep and consuming passion for them and i want to be as immersed in them as possible.

from a 19th century bookplate..

Medusa in culture

(Medusa c. 1618 Peter Paul Rubens, Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon - Stephen Wilk, Medusa On Her Throne Reza Sedhi, Female Rage: Unlocking Its Secrets, Claiming Its Power - Mary Valentis and Anne Devane, Medusa c. 1640 Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Laugh of the Medusa - Helene Cixous, Medusa Robin Isley)

harry potter series: light and dark

we’ve all got both light and dark inside of us. what matters is the part we choose to act on.

living the dark academia life

messy handwriting and even messier notebooks, doodles of skulls with sunflowers dangling from their eyes

burning the corners of pages, an older look given to them, the smell of ancient given to your room

wearing the cheapest, largest brown sweaters and the most comfortable, softest cream skirts

classical music softly bouncing on each one of the walls in your room, a list of your favorite composers pinned to your wall

a black ring on your finger, your hands wrapped around a warm cup of tea

your eyes closing softly from spending too much time reading, a candle to keep you company

the wet tip of your finger, the turning of yet another page

soft brown on your eyelids, gloss on your lips

long studying session in the library, you’re curled up on your chair, seven academic books are sitting next to your side, three articles are waiting to be read

stains around the edges of your nails, your skin painted with ink

a book in your bag, a pen used as a bookmark to annotate everything that makes your hands shake

a leather belt around your waist, your old grandpa’s sweatshirt tucked in has not gone to waste

standing right in the centre of a museum, sketching the outline of a sculture, scribbling down everything there is to know about a painting – in this, your hands are still stained

letting the rain softly caress your hair, carrying an umbrella to match your velvet trousers

a smile on your face when writing an essay, a yawn from your mouth when you finally go to sleep – after your eyelids are closed, psychedelic, dark and soft dreams are reaching your mind

Masterlist: Vocab lists

Octobre

Yoga

Cheveux

Mer

Le marché de noel

Le bricolage

La mort

Le tribunal

La voiture

Ecriture inclusive

Space

La guerre

Vocabulaire du jour 1

Vocabulaire du jour 2

Vocabulaire du jour 3 

Vocabulaire du jour 4

Vocabulaire du jour 5

Vocabulaire du jour 6 

Vocabulaire du jour 7

Vocabulaire du jour 8

Vocabulaire du jour 9

Vocabulaire du jour 10

La Mante S1 E1

La Mante S1 E2

La Mante S1 E3

La Mante S1 E4 and 5

La Mante S1 E6

Workout

Recap Vocab verbes

Recap Vocab adverbes

Recap Vocab adjectifs

Recap Vocab nouns

Study Vocab

Hockey

La casa de papel/ Money Heist

La casa de papel/ Money Heist season 5 episode 1

Random Vocab

Random Vocab 2

Télévision et film

Faire du camping

La cuisine

L’île mystérieuse part 1

L’île mystérieuse part 2

L’île mystérieuse part 3

Le tour du monde en 80 jours part 1

Le tour du monde en 80 jours part 2

Voyage au centre de la terre part 1

Voyage au centre de la terre part 2

Vingt mile lieues sous les mers

Le Horla

Science et recherche

Bel Ami chapitre 1 

Bel Ami chapitre 2 

Bel Ami chapitre 3 

Bel Ami chapitre 4

Bel Ami chapitre 5

Bel Ami chapitre 6 

Bel Ami chapitre 7

Bel Ami chapitre 8

Bel Ami 2.1

Bel Ami 2.2.

Bel Ami 2.3

Bel Ami 2.4

Bel Ami 2.5 + 2.6

Bel Ami 2.7

Bel Ami 2.8+2.9+2.10

Flaubert: Un coeur simple

Flaubert: La légende de Saint Julien

Flaubert: Hérodias 

Nautical vocab in French

Au travail

L’environnement

La parure - Maupassant

Words I didn’t know in le Musée d’Orsay

Halloween

Les instruments

Les vêtements

Song translation masterlist/ Expressions masterlist / Grammar masterlist

*dives out the window* the forest is calling my name