Latest Posts by wisteriaacademia112 - Page 2

pov: you’re an occult librarian, serving witches, vampires, and other academics of the night 

current favourite words part I (part II):

• esoteric: likely to be understood or enjoyed by only a few people with a special knowledge or interest

• hubris (greek tragedy): excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis

• trepidation: great worry or fear about something unpleasant that may happen

• hedonistic: based on the belief that pleasure is the most important thing in life

• decadence: moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury

• writhe: respond with great emotional or physical discomfort to (a violent or unpleasant feeling or thought)

• acerbic: (of a person or what they say) critical in a direct and rather cruel way

• sanguine: blood red

𝖉𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖋 𝖆𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉🕯️⚰️

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cr. tim walker & artists of photos

𝑀𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑦. . .

— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion”

— Edgar Allan Poe - Ligeia, 1838

❝ I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we. ❞

— Nikita Gill

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‘There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand’

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.” 

– 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜, 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑚 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒

Step into my dream gothic library at Strawberry Hill House in England.

Look at those shelves and fireplace. 

Isn’t it gorgeous all lit up? That ceiling.

https://www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/

I was not made for hookup culture. Love me for an eternity or do not touch me at all.

“the harder you look the less you’ll find, sometimes it’s better to let out a sigh than to die”

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" does such a thing as ' the fatal flaw ' , that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life , exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this : a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs ." ☕

- Donna Tartt , The secret history.

dizzy

scattered

messy

mind

dizzy

scattered

messy

mind

Dark Academia TV Shows

Deadly Class

Gilmore Girls

The Queen's Gambit

Sherlock

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Good Omens

Tales of the Unexpected

The Crown

The Frankenstein Chronicles

How To Get Away With Murder

Wednesday

Young Royals

“There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.”

William Shakespeare

Instagram: @solitudeismyeuphoria

if there's no one to love you, how can you be certain of the existence of your being?

it's hard to save money when books are always flirting with me...