Reminder that academia isn’t just an aesthetic but a way of living that allows you to see all the beauty in the world, to learn to your hearts content for the sake of learning, and to embrace human resilience and creation. It is NOT an excuse to think you’re better than anyone who “hAsnT rEad sHaKEspEaRe” nor is it required that you “look a certain way”. Wanna go all grunge and learn about Greek mythology? Wanna wear pastels and flower print while reading Dante’s Inferno? Wanna wear sweats and research Egyptian curses? Go for it! You aren’t bound to one aesthetic and should not feel pressured to look or behave a certain way! To me academia is about learning and love. Regardless of sexual orientation, race, gender, disability, etc. You are welcome here <3
Derek Mahon, from “Everything Is Going to Be Alright”
@academia-lucifer
safe house rules
Do y’all think henry winter shipped achilles and patroclus yes or no
me, at 3 am, in the middle of yet another personal crisis: i need to learn 2 instruments, 1 craft and 5 languages. immediately.
- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)
some spreads of a book on the history of books I got recently!
kevin is ready to fight anyone who doesn’t appreciate his husband 😍💞
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James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room