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gayest shakespeare sonnets: a selection
turns out all the sonnets are really gay but here is my list of the absolute gayest ones, because i was not prepared for how explicit these were going to be and it devastated me
sonnet 20 - this is the ‘master-mistress of my passion’ one
sonnet 22 - ‘Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain; / Thou gav’st me thine, not to give back again.’
sonnet 23 - acting metaphors! the difficulty of expressing verbally what silent love hath writ! gazing at your love with your whole heart in your eyes!
sonnet 25 - rich and noble people have joy in honour and wealth and so on but turns out having joy in being gay is way better than that - ‘Then happy I, that love and am beloved / Where I may not remove nor be removed.’
sonnet 26 - begins ‘Lord of my love’ and just gets gayer from there
sonnet 27 - for those nights when u can’t sleep for staying up pining and thinking about him
sonnet 41 - this one’s sad bc his boyfriend is Straying but also love btw a man and woman is explicitly directly made analogous to the love between the speaker and the addressee so like. stop no-homoing the sonnets
sonnet 53 - compare ur bf to both helen and adonis, no big deal
sonnet 57 - this love is the speaker’s WHOLE LIFE and he knows he’s a fool for his bf but he can’t help it
sonnet 61 - another too-gay-to-sleep one
sonnet 71 and sonnet 72 - don’t be sad for me when i’m dead, i’d rather be forgotten by you than have you be sad or be exposed to ridicule over your love for me - please read these ones they make me cry
sonnet 80 - RIVAL POET someone else is writing fancier poems about you!! now what!!
sonnet 87 - ‘Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,’ aka If You Love Someone Let Him Go (sad)
sonnet 91 - i’m not rich or noble but at least i’m not straight, mark two - ‘Thy love is better than high birth to me, / Richer than wealth, prouder than garments’ cost, / Of more delight than hawks or horses be; / And having thee, of all men’s pride I boast’
sonnet 93 - ‘So shall I live, supposing thou art true, / Like a deceived husband’ - just comparing yourself to his HUSBAND. bye
sonnet 108 - the reason he’s writing all these sonnets is to immortalise their love for antiquity - ‘So that eternal love in love’s fresh case / Weighs not the dust and injury of age’. also, ‘sweet boy’
#lit quote#dark academia#dark academia aesthetic#history#light academia#writers#literature#classic literature#poetry#shakespeare
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Imperial court mourning gala hearse, so called: “Trauerhuldigungswagen”, 1735.
-KHMÖ
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Academia style but make it inclusive 🦇✨🥀
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This was actually quite lovely.
hey mutuals. lose yourself in a dream and i’ll tell you why you’ll be okay
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Some *personal* news, I started teaching grad students at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. ✨
More on that after the semester is over. But having graduated from the same program I am teaching, I have an immense appreciation for all my teachers. Whoo boy teaching is hard! And during a pandemic for the first time is even harder!
But super excited with helping this batch of students learn and grow and shepherd their final thesis projects. If you're a teacher and you're seeing this...please holler! I would love to connect.
#personal#journalist#journalism#academic#dark academia#light academia#writers#teachers#professors#students#education#aspiring journalist
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Cape May smelled like the sea and looked like a Wes Anderson movie all the time.
#dark academia#journalist#history#aesthetic#light academia#misc#writers#journalism#cape may#nautical#light house#ocean#beach vibes#adventure#personal#me#Wes Anderson#quirky
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some people need to learn the difference between a book being problematic and a book just having characters that aren’t nice people
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Same with writers and journalists. We're not all rich kids who went to an Ivy. Our identities give us grit and empathy.
normalize people of colour, disabled people, working-class people, women, lgbt+ people in the dark academia community.
we exist.
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Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
#academia aesthetic#aesthetic#dark academia#dark academia aesthetic#dark academy aesthetic#studyinspo#academia#black dark academia#poc dark academia
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Stunning vintage photos captured inside the Cincinnati Old Main Library, one of the most beautiful libraries in America.
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The place I come from is beautiful.
Sheesh Mahal, Pakistan.
#pakistan#asia#south asia#architecture#mughal architecture#muslim countries#muslims#buildings#mahal#sheesh mahal#dark acadamia aesthetic#dark academia aesthetic#dark#dark academia#light aesthetic#light academia#world
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There’s a neat little story behind this bookmark. A few years ago I was taking some preparatory classes that were hosted on the various Oxford campuses. While I was staying at the dorms there I stumbled across this grand bookstore. I ended up making a very close friend while staying in Oxford and we loved talking about this store. After a few years, our friendship broke apart. We both travelled back to Oxford on separate occasions and visited the bookstore. I recently ordered a book for my thesis research and when it arrived it included this bookmark. The amazon seller happened to be the bookstore in Oxford. I sent a picture of the bookmark to the aforementioned friend and we finally reconnected.
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shakespeare & art
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Robert Doisneau- Gargoyles of Notre Dame, April 1969 (via)
#robert doisneau#photography#vintage#paris#notre dame#gargoyles#1960s#dark academia#dark academia aesthetic#black and white#dark academia architecture#architecture
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