The thing I find comically ironic is that The Secret History, dark academia’s so called ‘bible’, is, to me, a cautionary tale against the whole idea of embodying the aesthetic. If you haven’t read it, here’s your spoiler alert.
To me, the characters’ fatal flaw is that they’re so immersed in manifesting the aesthetic, so totally absorbed in living in this particular way that they’ve romanticised (unhealthy bits and all), they literally, albeit accidentally, kill a man. And instead of facing the consequences of their actions (brought about by their obsession with their lifestyle of mystery and studying greek by candle light), they go to extraordinary lengths to save their skin. which isn’t so inexplicable; they killed someone by accident and they really really don’t want to go to jail for it.
For the record, I’m not hating on this aesthetic, as I know a lot of people genuinely enjoy it and find an important community in it. I just personally don’t think it’s entirely healthy to replace an aesthetic with your personality, and i find it ironic that Donna Tart literally said, romanticising life and replacing your rose coloured idea of the world with what it’s really like is dangerous’, and then the internet did exactly that, with her book as the catalyst for it.
Ada Limon said, “I haven’t given up on trying to live a good life, a really good one even.” and “I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.” and Anis Mojgani said, “Will I be something? Am I something? and the answer comes: You already are. You always were. And you still have time to be.”
[ first contact, communion from everyone on the moon is essential personnel ] by julian k. jarboe
Compilation of deleted scenes from tdr (from now-deleted tweets from rfk)
(full credit to @rinezhabot on twitter for the original tweet and gathering the screenshots!)
something I very much needed to read today
Anis Mojgani, “Here I am,” Songs from Under the River
Silas Denver Melvin, Love as an Act of Merciful Conquer
I won’t last. Memory is sweet. Even when it is painful, memory is sweet.
Li-Young Lee, Mnemonic
Alice Notley, In The Pines
Marina Tsvetaeva
Elle Emerson, Regarding the Röttgen Pietà
Tony Kushner, Angels in America
Mary Oliver, Devotions
Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost
Suzanne Rivecca, Ugly, Bitter and True
Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost
repetition in poetry // part ii
(part i) (part iii) (part iv)
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Richard Siken, Crush (Little Beast)
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Margaret Atwood
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Yves Olade, Bloodsport
Rin and Nezha>>>> Romeo and Juliet.
🚨 spoilers 🚨
Yeah, she stabs herself for him and he’d die for her if he could, but for all her flame she can never bring herself to burn him when it matter most and to him she’s the divine Phoenix that kills him in all his loviest dreams.
not to be political but why on earth would you choose your wedding venue to be a plantation when you can celebrate your matrimony around beautiful huge bones of ancient creatures
LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS LIFE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU IT HOLDS YOU IN ITS HANDS
Finally finished my Hidden Figures print! Another one you can find at ECCC! Which I need to remember to make a map of my location lol