elysia's compendium

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♡ words ♡

beautiful words

• acedia: apathy
• alacrity: cheerful readiness
• aleatory: depending on dice throw
• alpenglow: soft, rosy light in mountains
• amaranth: a flower that never fades
• amaranthine: purple
• anadyomene: rising from the sea
• anamnesis: memory
• ananke: fate
• anthesis: flowering period, truth emerges
• aphelion: farthest orbit point from sun
• ataraxia: tranquility
• apotropaic: magic to turn away evil
• asphodel: flower associated with underworld
• asterism: star pattern
• aurelia: golden chrysalis of a butterfly
• austromancy: divination by observing wind
• avalerion: mythical bird, king of all birds
• azygous: single vein
• balisage: wayfinding markers or beacons
• bellicine: velvet, silk
• benthic: deep-sea, abyssal
• berylline: blue-green
• bdelygmia: filth
• brimlight: gleam of sun/moon over the sea
• brontide: distant rumbling of thunder
• brumous: wintry
• caelian: heavenly
• caliginous: misty, dim, obscured
• callipygian: having shapely buttocks
• calyx: outer part of a flower, protecting petals before bloom
• catoptric: evoking mirrors / reflections
• chresmology: the study of prophecies
• chrysalis: a protecting covering
• chrysopoeia: gold-making, alchemically
• cicatrix: scar of a healed wound
• cirrus: wispy clouds high in the sky
• cithara: ancient stringed instrument
• clairaudience: ability to hear beyond normal
• crepuscular: dim light of dusk & dawn
• deliquescent: melting into a liquid
• diaphanous: delicate, translucent
• dithyramb: a wild, passionate chant
• drosera: sundew plants, glistening
• dulciloquent: speaking sweetly
• dysania: the struggle to get out of bed
• eburnean: ivory-like, smooth, pale
• eglantine: wild rose
• eidolon: ideal
• empyrean: the highest heavens
• enchiridion: handbook of wisdom
• eos: rosy-fingered, dawn personified
• epektasis: continual striving towards God
• etiolated: pale, drawn out, lightless
• erebus: primordial darkness
• eremitic: solitary
• exuviae: cast-off skins or husks
• flavescent: golden
• fulgurant: flashing
• galantine: relating to snowdrops
• glaucidium: little owl
• glaucous: blue-green
• gloaming: twilight
• heliophany: appearance of the sun
• hiraeth: longing for home, impossible
• hyaline: glassy
• iridule: a delicate, rainbow shimmer
• kalopsia: the delusion of beauty
• kairos: weather; time; critical moment
• lacuna: gap, cavity
• lacerate: tear
• lambent: softly glowing, flickering
• lissome: graceful
• luculent: shining, clear in expression
• lustrum: five years
• mausoleum: tomb
• mauve: violet
• meristem: plant tissue enabling growth
• metanoia: heart transformation
• moiré: an iridescent, shifting pattern
• moue: a pout-like expression
• nepenthe: elixir to induce forgetfulness
• nephology: the study of clouds
• nepsis: spiritual watchfulness
• naiad: water nymph
• niveous: snowy
• noctivagant: night-wandering
• numinous: religious
• nyctophilia: love of the night
• oneiric: dreamlike
• ocellus: eyelike spot
• ommatidia: individual eye units
• ophidian: sinuous, serpentine
• oriflamme: a sacred banner
• orison: prayer, plea
• palingenesis: rebirth
• penumbra: the fringe of an eclipse
• peregrinate: travel
• perfidious: deceitful
• plangent: resonant
• propinquity: space / time proximity
• prosomion: hymn
• pyrrhic: won at too great a cost
• roscid: glistening with moisture, dewy
• selene: moon goddess, luminous
• seraphic: angelic
• sibylline: prophetic
• silvestrine: woodland-like
• solivagant: wandering alone
• susurrus: hushed
• sylph: slender, graceful woman
• synaxis: liturgical worship gathering
• tenebrous: dark
• thaumaturge: worker of wonders
• threnody: song of lamentation
• vatic: prophetic, visionary, lofty
• velutinous: having a soft, velvety texture
• vesper: evening
• vitrine: glass display case
• wend: meander
• xeric: extremely dry
• zephyr: wind

♡ recommendations ♡

• shows
• thriller: breaking bad, ozark, mr. robot, dexter; resurrection, money heist
• sci-fi: severance, silo, sweet tooth, utopia
• mystery: true detective, twin peaks, white lotus
• survival: yellowjackets, the wilds
• comfort: house of anubis, the good place, totally spies
• anime: madoka magica, death note, angel beats, gurren lagann
• docudrama: dopesick, painkillers
• movies
• documentaries: century of the self
• art cinema: in the mood for love trilogy
• thriller: battle royale, kokuhaku, lady vengeance, kill bill, mulholland drive
• sci-fi: donnie darko, 12 monkeys, dune
• comfort: the princess bride, any old barbie movie
• books
• novels: babel by rf kuang
• media theory: the medium is the massage by marshall mcluhan
• philosophy: tao te ching by laozi

♡ favourite youtubers ♡

• linguistics: jackson crawford, graham scheper, alexander arguelles
• religion: let's talk religion, esoterica, religion for breakfast
• deep dives: tor's cabinet of curiosities
• comedy / commentary: goodwork, jreg, gattsu
• video essays: final girl digital, mickey galvin

♡ favourite rabbit holes ♡

• secret societies: mcluhan's letters to pound & voegelin, golden dawn drama
• lost media: hauntology
• prehistory:out of place artefacts, antikythera mechanism, gobekli tepe, oral traditions
• niche academic lore: 90s science wars, linguistics wars
• tech & mysticism: divine machinery, serres' hermes, ccru, techgnosis, hauntology

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