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in anticipation of autumn, here are some of my own dark academia-inspired photos 🕯✨

I´m only alive when I can wear wool sweaters and cover myself with blankets. When I can burn candles and cook some tea and soup.

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. July 1907

I meant to spend all my light on you

Anastasia (1997) dir. Don Bluth and Gary Goldman  Soundtrack written by Lynn Ahrens, composed by David Newman and Stephen Flaherty

how do you think incels feel when they come to this website and see women wanting to fuck junkrat and pennywise but not them?

I read this in a very accusatory tone

honestly this is my favourite addition to this post bc if you read it as being accusatory it becomes hilarious

I’ve been on a four month Wasteland, Baby! lockdown

- ekta somera

Umberto Eco and Susan Sontag listening to a talk by Roland Barthes, 1970s.

Stacie Flinner | Babington House. 

Torrey Merritt ( Instagram | Website )

“I’ve interviewed more than 50 people who have estranged themselves from family members, and I have yet to meet a single one who regrets it. They regret whatever situation made it necessary. They regret not having a parent/sibling/family member they could come to terms with. They regret that their problems were severe enough to make estrangement look good. But they don’t regret doing it.

“More than three-quarters of the participants in one study felt estrangement had made a positive difference in their lives. One woman I talked to who initiated an estrangement said her main feeling was relief, even liberation. Another told me it was as though she’d lived under a cloak of silence that had suddenly been lifted. A third said, ‘There really are cases where estrangement is the better course. It’s horrific, it’s sad, it’s tragic, and it’s better than the alternative.’”