Sorry, Dark Academia Friends, I Have An Even Darker Side.

I made a zine!! 12 pages, black and white interior, it's basically a 50-something year old gay guy's take on the Dark Academia aesthetic. Price is US $5 to cover costs. PM if you're interested in getting one. So far, only 10 have been made.

I am absolutely obsessed with Kurt Schwitters this week.

My current mood -- with images I pulled from Pinterest.

Sign me up for any place like this!

Yale

Now this is wisdom. I mean, the source title says it all.

“Fairy tales — the proper kind, those original Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen tales I recall from my Eastern European childhood, unsanitized by censorship and unsweetened by American retellings — affirm what children intuitively know to be true but are gradually taught to forget, then to dread: that the terrible and the terrific spring from the same source, and that what grants life its beauty and magic is not the absence of terror and tumult but the grace and elegance with which we navigate the gauntlet.”

— Maria Popova, “The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear” (via soracities)

Venice, Italy

I love all of this.

(these photos are mine)

Pompei, 79 d.c.

Mood board. These came from my Pinterest boards, originally from various sources.