#da aesthetic

[thedeadpoets-blog]

“honestly, don’t you two read?”

— hermione granger, harry potter and the philosopher’s stone

[camillamaecaulay]

graves grow no green that you can use.

gwendolyn brooks

[hizerain]

20241012

Though I am halfway through the notebook that is my dedicated commonplace book, I'm not exactly sure how to fix it anymore. Removing of structure makes it too messy and makes it impossible as a reference piece, adding even more structure makes it too unwieldy to add entries into. Perhaps the inherent problem is looking for this optimization, instead of just trying to make it work for me. Life is busy, thesis work is busy. I want to document more, to share more but I am unlikely to take photos and feel increasingly uncomfortable with being online, not so much because of the people as it is the corporations and the way the internet is changing (though admittedly, the players do play a role). I want to be seen, but I don't really want to be known.

[keatingwilde]

maybe romanticising my degree is the only viable option to get me through it

[rheaswrath]

Nocturnal Animals; 2.Lady Bird; 3.Stoker; 4.Writer in the Dark - Lorde; 5.Euphoria s2; 6.How to Do the Work - Dr Le Perra; 7.Causeway (2022); 8. When I Grow Up I want to be a List of Other Possibilities; 9. The Last Day of Pompeii - Karl Brulov; 10. House of the Dragon s1; 11. how to cure a ghost by fariha róisín

[theonewhereistudy]

I've started this week slowly despite this being my final week for turning in any activities for university and that my grades so far are not very good in math. But hey! At least I'm having some nice-looking breakfast and dressing up like an academic.

Ps: yells at you *I'm still the darkest and most mysterious person you'll ever meet even if my bedside "table" is a cute dog!!!*

[princessmarigolds]

falling in love was my coping mechanism but it’s failing so i’m just gonna pick up ancient greek and pretend i’m camilla macaulay

[somethingwithmoles]

Tommaso Minardi, Self-portrait, 1803, oil on canvas, 37 x 33 cm, Galleria d'arte moderna, Florence

Source: Wikimedia Commons

[moonyacademia]

March, 2023

I feel I’m going through some really strange months: sometimes floating, sometimes just breathing. I have a new old watch that ticks a bit faster than it should, and every few days I need to set it back a couple of minutes. Everything moves too fast and too slow.

[unadulteratedtyrantenthusiast]

why I compare them with you?

when I know I'd rather burn my hands holding you,

than feeling the absence of you being away.

t.k

[persephnx]

08.08.2023 ✨

I really like this corner of my desk

[thedeadpoets-blog]

[camillamaecaulay]

from wichita vortex sutra, allen ginsberg

[hizerain]

2024.11.03

I'm trying to find more peace with 'ugly' productivity. I am vulnerable to the allure of perfection, especially the kind encapsulated in pristine layouts, writing and appearance. Alas, images are not a lived reality. This blog is not a lived reality either, but I would like for it to be somewhat accurate to life. On a different note, I'm idly pondering ways of structing my commonplace. It is almost exclusively text, the exception being film stubs, and I dislike the circle indexing system as that doesn't help me easily find specific information. I would keep a running index digitally, but I have just a few too many loose quotes without further context slotted into the book. Very open to suggestions (and general thoughts related to commonplacing).

[keatingwilde]

oh to sit in an abandoned lecture hall of an old university campus, scribbling away poetry in black ink on loose paper

[rheaswrath]