#ivory academia

[filmreveries]

“Did you dream you had a friend? Someone to last your whole life?”

Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory

#maurice #james ivory #james wilby #hugh grant #rupert graves #ben kingsley #film screencaps #film stills #films #screencaps #cinematography #dark academia

[unhookedwings]

Knife with Sheath, Dieppe (French), 19th century

#dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #academia #art #aesthetic #artwork #light academia aesthetic #fashion #dark academia fashion #gold aesthetic #French #bloody knife #dieppe #ivory knife #anthropology #19th century #ivory carving

[oldwinesoul]

Who can face the sea and not inherit its loneliness?

// Olin Ivory, the poem “Bad Year Anthem” by Matthew Nienow, Poetry (November 2013)

#spilled poetry #Olin Ivory #dark academia #poets on tumblr #spilled thoughts #spilled ink

[typewriter-worries]

Lovers do the looking while the strangers look away.

Twilight Conversation, Ron Hicks | Warmth of the Sun, Ron Hicks | Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory | Friends & Lovers, Brenda Hendrix |  Emily L., Marguerite Duras

#web weaving #web-weaving #webweaving #parallels #cottage academia #cottagecore #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #light academia #classic academia #ron hicks #maurice #hugh grant #james ivory #brenda hendrix #marguerite duras

[burningvelvet]

Hugh Grant as Clive Durham in a deleted scene from Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory

#maurice #maurice 1987 #em forster #clive durham #hugh grant #james ivory #e.m. forster #literature #english literature #film #aesthetic #quotes #screencaps #film stills #period piece #vintage #nostalgia #gothic #goth #dark academia #literary #film edit #film aesthetic #80s #edwardian era #lgbt #art #romantic

[ghostofanovelwriter]

Just thinking about how em forster had no way of knowing in 1917 if there would ever come a time where people like him could be free to love whoever they wanted but he still made a point of creating a story where the canonically gay protagonist found himself with a happy ending despite not ending up with his initial lover because he still learned how to accept and love himself as he is and found a man who felt the same and not two decades after the book was published an openly gay director decided to make a movie that kept it lovingly close to the source material with actors incredibly dedicated to their roles so now to this day people can read the book or watch the film and understand what forster wanted to say , which just goes to show how far this story has come to finally reach an audience to appreciate it in all its glory and connect people to a time that seems so far off to them now, simply because forster believed that no one deserves to have a happy ending taken from them and even though he never got to live to see the day where two members of the same sex could love each other without fear of persecution he knew that it wasn’t him or who he was that was wrong, it was the world’s way of thinking at the time that was wrong, and because he never once doubted that he’s managed to create a legacy that has managed to surpass the test of time. In a way this story is a message to the future lgbt community to remind us that we’ve never been alone. We’ve been around for ages and prevailed. And not only we deserve to be loved, we deserve to be able to love, because neither sex or social class should be allowed to divide us because those aspects don’t define our entire identity.

#em forster #maurice 1917 #maurice 1987 #james ivory #i went on a small rant about this movie during an interview the other day and I managed to make the interviewer tear up #lgbtqia #dark academia #we’ve come so far #may this story never die #on the surface it’s just a gay love story setbin the edwardian era but it’s so much more than that #rip

[licorice-lips]

So, the whole film of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and the fact that Snow is unable to erase Lucy Gray from History (as much as he tried, and he tried A LOT, twink Draco Malfoy had it bad), got me thinking: no one can erase people from history because people make echoes.

I see it in the people I love, the way they have just a tic or a way of doing things that is an echo from a dead aunt or parent, songs and films they like because of people that are no longer here, my cousin making faces in the exact way our uncle used to make because even though he was little when my uncle died, he remembers.

Because we echo through History. All of us.

Makes me wonder which of my aspects are an echo of people my parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents knew.

But coming back to the point, there's such a strength in Lucy's dubious ending because even if she is alive, it's her memory in the minds of others that makes the echo of the revolution 65 years later. It's why I love the theory that Maude Ivory is Katniss' grandmother so much: because it'd be real to assume that everything of Lucy Gray Snow sees in Katniss is an echo of Lucy's memory, stronger because we're talking about family.

Snow was delusional from the beginning. People don't fade from existence, doesn't matter how much we try to forget them. People echo.

#the hunger games the ballad of songbirds & snakes #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #katniss is maude ivory's granddaugther #katniss everdeen #peeta melark #lucy gray #lucy gray baird #maude ivory #dark academia #poetry #suzanne collins #the hunger games theory #I'm crying right now of how beautiful is this thought

[sincerelyasimp]

Maurice (1987) // dir. James Ivory

Clive Durham gif set by sincerelyasimp

#maurice 1987 #maurice #filmedit #gifset #gif pack #hugh grant #james wilby #james ivory #film #films #movies #80s movies #dark academia #e. m. forster #aesthetic #clive durham #maurice hall #lgbt movie #lgbtq #academia

[bbybrownbat]

From Sir Henry’s Wellcome’s Museum collection. Ivory anatomical figure, a pregnant female, with some removable organs, lying on cloth-covered bier inside wooden box, possibly German, possibly 17th century

#archaeology #art #ceramic sculpture #anatomy #anatomical model #anatomical study #medical field #antique #medical antique #aesthetic #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #medical aesthetic #antique aesthetic #victorian medicine #ivory sculpture #ivory art

[teanicolae]

the darkest side of academia that the dark academia genre exhibits to me is the ivory tower. the superiority complex. the snobbery. deluding yourself that you are superior to other human beings because of your accumulated information, information used as justification to behave with contempt.

i’ve recently read the brilliant The Secret History by Donna Tartt, a staple book of the dark academia genre, and what marked me was the contempt with which the exceptionally intelligent group of main characters treated everything: from the people around them to technological advancements and innovations in any field which was not theirs (namely, the classics).

i’ve been contemplating that, personally, i am not interested in knowledge that cuts me off from the world. i am interested in knowledge that enhances every facet of my experience of the world. i am interested in knowledge that deepens my connection to myself and to the people i encounter. the moment knowledge instils a sense of superiority, elitism, and exclusivity, to me that is not knowledge. that is a trap of the illusion of knowledge.

the trap will come, and i've seen it in me plenty: at our core, we are meaning-making machines and our identity is built on separation, comparison and rejection. the mind will feed into the making of identity any information it gathers. but ultimately we are not slaves to it. when the allure of superiority peeks its head, it can be deconstructed – not from a place of fear or shame, but from a place of understanding and gentleness. that is knowledge to me. what excludes that, to me, is accumulation of information.

i love reading dark academia books because they mirror back to me my ingrained patterns (such as fascination with exclusivity; exclusive teachings, teachers such as Julian Morrow - writing an article on him at the moment!) & the many traps paving the / my way.

#the secret history #dark academia #ivory tower #academia #superiority complex #knowledge #connection #openness #love #julian morrow #exclusivity #donna tartt

[astrantiia]

when I passed the first exam session at my new university, I decided to reward myself with new books

and I finally managed to collect the complete series of defy the night! at first I wanted to buy these books because of the beautiful covers, but then when I read the description and looked for aesthetics on pinterest, I realized that I would really like this series!

and in the bookstore there was just one copy of each of the first and second parts, but just when I had the opportunity to buy them they disappeared 🥲 but it’s good that the third part was recently released and all three books appeared in the bookstore again

and onyx & ivory I liked at first sight. I had never heard of it before and only saw it in a bookstore. I liked the description and that it is easy to open and read. and every time I went to the bookstore, I glanced at it. and I realized that I had to take it because I really liked it at first sight and there was only one copy left

#books and reading #books #new books #book haul #reading #defy the night #bookshop #bookstore #dark academia #light academia #cottagecore #books & libraries #cozy #fantasy #cozy fantasy #onyx & ivory

[ronnide]

yuriko, unfinished randal and sucy.

#sketch #kaneto juusei #ranfren #randal ivory #sucy manbaravan #little witch academia

[tygerland]

Bruce Chatwin (From the top: 1972 by James Ivory, 1979 by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1982 by Lord Snowdon.)

#robert mapplethorpe #james ivory #lord snowdon #bruce chatwin #1970s #travel #academia #1980s #lit #gay #queer history #photos #history #lgbtq #culture #retro #in patagonia #the songlines #literature #wanderlust #on the black hill #📚

[laconicearthling]

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May peaceful days embrace you fully, while enjoying an organized and aesthetically pleasing home screen with the new iOS 17 White Aesthetic App Icons Pack brought to you by Laconic Earthling Shop.

#white #ivory #tulips #flowers #scents #perfume #vintage #oldmoney #wedding #clean girl #clean girl aesthetic #it girl #it girl aesthetic #kawaii #trending #digital #digitalart #aesthetic #light academia #book quotes

[kingedmundsroyalmurder]

Look, you know how sometimes a relationship isn't toxic, isn't unhappy, actually you're pretty comfortable where you're at, but looking forwards you can tell that it's not going to be healthy or fulfulling long term and that it would be better to call it quits now and stay amicable exes, rather than letting it go on and actually become toxic and miserable? And how making that adult, rational, objectively correct choice still kind of feels like shit and for years later you look back at that relationship and go, "yeah, but what if?"

That's me with academia. I broke up with the Academy on purpose, but fuck if I don't miss it desperately every goddamn day of my life.

#thoughts from the fire escape #I'm watching a video about how toxic academia is (in this case wrt pro-palestinian speech) #And i can feel myself getting all big anime eyed about it anyway #Maybe i need to start looking into university museums or something and just get it out of my system #Hi my name is tamara and i yearn to be degraded by the ivory tower apparently

[oldschoolers]

#old school #classy #dark academia #ivory