Mainromanoff - Anna

Dark academia aesthetic

There are no rules on when to be productive.

If you cannot function in the morning

You can do your work, homework, chores, etc. at 3am

You can go grocery shopping at 11:29pm on a thursday

You can shower, make your bed, brush your teeth at 3pm

You can write an essay in your bed at 9pm and go to bed at 1am

Don't force yourself to wake up at 5am to be productive and then think the day's ruined when you wake at noon

Doing something in a weird way is still doing something

When you feel you have lost everything, you still have

books

unexpected kindness in strangers

the rest of the world to travel

languages to learn

animals to take care of

volunteer work to do

the power of a good night’s rest

the changing of seasons

infinite things to learn

billions of people to meet and possibly love

billions of people who might love you back

Needed this today

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Object of the Week: Five-Draw Telescope, unknown maker, Italy, 1700-1750. 2018.8.5. 

The introduction of the telescope in 1608 led to the production of many Galilean telescopes with a single-lens eyepiece, low magnification, and a narrow field of view. The development of the compound eyepiece in 1645 made it possible to use the telescope as a more effective device for astronomical and terrestrial observation. This example could be used for both types of observation: at 44 cm in length, it’s portable, and it provides magnification and a field of view convenient for observing both realms.

Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

I am aware, sure, I am aware.

Catastrophically aware.

— Sylvia Plath, from “The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath”

“What cannot be said will be wept.“

― Sappho

“Elektra”, Sophokles