Dark Acadamia Aesthetic - Blog Posts
catharsis burns
a sketch lined palm
it pains, it crutches
liberty, jealous harm
her virgin match
strikes the ardour
It falls, it fails
scalding, icy balm
Words by me // Catharsis
Today I was lonely. So, I went to the Courtauld to see some beauty.
Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
Emily Brontë
everyone from my high school is living their best lives. i, on the other hand, became an anarchist
when the Donna Tartt; dark sweaters and short skirts; lace tights and mary jane’s; ink stained fingertips and scribbled notes in the margins; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and M.L. Rio’s If We Were Villians; writing in a spiraled notebook; lectures on Rome and Religion; starts to resurface in your psyche
oh to live in one’s own apartment surrounded by antique furniture and books…
“I crave intimacy but I don’t want temporary people touching my mind, body, or soul.”
-unknown
“Oh to be loved by a writer…written about endlessly, ardently, passionately…”
"I'll tell them put me back in it/ Darling, I would do it again/ If I could hold you for a minute/ Darling, I'd go through it again," -Francesca, Hozier
“Maybe in a perfect world. But the world wasn’t perfect it was cruel. And maybe that’s why he left; someone so perfect can’t survive in a cruel world.”
- my novel
“It’s complicated.”
“Perfect. I love complicated.”
- Kill Your Darlings, 2013
“Forget thus the nature of men, for love makes fools of the hands it holds/ Think not the torment that comes from kissing the thorns/ For a rose is often scornful before it is adored.”
- the play i’m currently writing <3
“If I am the Phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made me so.”
- Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
oh to live in a victorian styled home with orange tinted lamps that flicker in the evening as paintings of obscure aesthetic origins line the walls of the hallway where i can pretend to be sherlock holmes pacing before the bookshelves and scattered papers trying to uncover the truth behind the age old murder of the old owner…
“O Captain! My Captain!” -A poem by Walt Whitman, A mantra from John Keating
“These violent delights have violents ends. And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.”
- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Personally I believe we should bring back balls and galas, like whatever happened to having a pride and prejudice moment? a little women moment??
Frankenstein but it’s just Victor being depressed because he realizes his entire life is his fault:
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“take me oh muse to the madness within and let us sink into the thought that perhaps one day I shall find you in the oblivion”
“And I say: hello satan,I believe, it's time to go; Me and the devil, Walking side by side”
- Me and the Devil by Soap&Skin
“Let be not a tragedy worse than that of mine own nature/For woe shall thy heart beat only for thine affection/Oh cursed beauty thou art the artist of my pain/Love lives not in thy body but in mine soul for shall I devote my every breath to thee”
“i will live a hundred lifetimes if it means that in one of them i can sit beside you and- even if just for a moment- know that you are mine.”
“then let this be the hundredth one and no more- for there is no life of mine where you are not beside me.”
“there must be another way, another ending to this madness.”
“but oh how I’ve dreamt of it this way.”
everyday my mind spirals more and more with my passion for greek mythology, ancient history, and literature <3
“We men are wretched things”
- Homer, The Iliad
- Billy Joel, Vienna
In honor of school starting back up for many of you, a gentle reminder that it is okay to be scared and anxious, just slow down and know you’re going to be alright
-unknown
