"The Only Noise Now Was The Rain, Pattering Softly With The Magnificent Indifference Of Nature For The

Stop constantly burning the candle at both ends , or you will eventually be reduced to ashes.

Christine E. Szymanski.

the flowers of your love are suffocating me

The Roses of Heliogabalus - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (detail) // “Monster” (1994-2001) - Naoki Urasawa // Samuel Cirnansck at Sao Paulo Fashion Week Summer (2012) // x // “Hanahaki Disease” Part 2 - Celeste Durham // “hanahaki disease” - ari // Hannibal (2013-2015)

launch out on his story, muse, daughter of zeus,

start from where you will - sing for our time too.

musings on poetry Anne Sexton, Victoria Chang, Carl Sandburg, Carl Sandburg, Richard Blanco, Henrik Edoyan, Anne Sexton, Czeslaw Milosz, Richard Blanco, Mary Oliver

The Lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper

Science Dark Academia Things

staying up late to read one cool paper

which turns into reading another cool paper that the first paper referenced

that turns into getting to lab mid afternoon because you woke up at noon 

staying in lab late into the evening because there’s just so much to do

wanting to be aesthetic, but knowing that wearing nice clothes into lab is a bad idea (:’()

blue light glasses to protect your eyes from strain as you analyze data

going back to lab late at night to rerun an experiment because the data sucked and you have group meeting tomorrow

the wonderful feeling of finally troubleshooting that one experiment correctly

having science idols that you gaze wonderingly at when you see them at conferences

struggling through a class even but you enjoy it because sometimes learning is just hard

students emailing you with questions about the class you’re TA-ing causing you to wonder when you became the Adult In Charge who Knows Things

talking with your PI/ older grad students and realizing that you definitely are NOT the Adult In Charge who Knows Things but that’s a good thing because it means that you’re in the right place to learn

when your NMR shows your expected product and the MS shows high purity (tears of joy)

being the nerd in all your conversations with non-Science people and pulling out fun facts about solubility rules, thermodynamics, or the ultimate crowd pleaser: molecular quantum mechanics

getting really excited meeting another person your age from your field even if your projects are totally different

remembering even that when science is kicking your butt… you’re doing something cool that will have an impact and that no-one else has done yet!

Vardges Petrosyan, Years Lived and Unlived (translated by metamorphesque)

“We worship perfection because we can’t have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

when will someone make a sapphic dark academia book WHEN??

Leah Raeder, Black Iris

"Close your eyes", Paruyr Sevak (translated by metamorphesque)