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picked up the pen after a long time
been a while,,, i downloaded csp and now it looks like i have a new art style lol
Tips to learn a new language
The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences
(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)
This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.
We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)
EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)
‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.
Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?
Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.
Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.
Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.
NOUNS (about 120 words)
Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.
People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.
Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.
Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.
Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.
Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.
PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)
General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.
Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.
Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.
Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.
DETERMINERS (about 80 words)
Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.
Demonstrative: this, that.
Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.
Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.
ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)
Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.
Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.
General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.
Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.
VERBS (about 100 words)
arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.
PRONOUNS (about 40 words)
Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
Demonstrative: this, that.
Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.
Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.
Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.
ADVERBS (about 60 words)
Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.
Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.
Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.
Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.
CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)
Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.
Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.
Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.
Oh i love this concept!
I love it too! I love it mostly because it makes me feel less overwhelmed. When you break it down like this, everything seems so much more manageable. Like, hey, I could memorize 20 words at a time (even if ‘at a time’ varies wildly for me), and just do that like ten times. That’s a HUGE chunk of a language.
(And since I have the habit of doing languages that are similar to ones I’m already familiar with, the grammar part usually comes pretty easy, too.)
CSP Brush Compilation
Some of my favorite csp brushes, I figured I may as well do one of these as well if anyone is interested
General Brushes
Lineart
CRO SAI PEN
ACHE & GANG PEN
DAE 12345 SET
Tuna G-Pen
SOIPEN
SU-Cream Pencil
Pom-a Pencil
Painting
Paint
Salmon Brushes
SOL
Soft fluffy paint (10cp)
Sharp Watercolor
PinGoshi dragging brush
ARTIST21 BRUSH PACK
Shading
Hair Pen
One-sided gradient brush
Other
Hair Highlights Mega Pack
Curly Hair Pen
Severely Braid Brush
Decay pen (10cp)
Graffiti Blood
Birdprints (10cp)
Animal pattern brush
Snake Scale Brush
Pixel Brushes Mega Pack
Simple Retro Halftone Brushes
Tools
Mirre’s Favourites
MaaBlur Brush
Motion Blur Brush
Erase Along Edge
Eraser to remove only protrude pen and overflow
No gaps close and fill + for erasing tool reference layer
Tool to remove without gaps
Close and fill tool without gaps
Regular pattern creations aids
The Only Perspective Grid You Need!
10 Kinds of 3D grids & Basic Shapes (10g, 500cp)
Horn Model Collection 1 (500cp)
Bones
Clothing
General
Easy Seams
Seam, double line
Stitch Brush
Tights Brush
Boots New 01.
String brush
Fluttering string pen Kai
Patterns
The Border pen
Easy lines
Hound’s Tooth Check_Set
Camouflage Pens
Greek Pottery Patterns
Traditional Korean Glysm Brush
Korea Old Moon Exchange 2 (10cp)
Korea Old Moon Exchange 3 (10cp)
Traditional gold leaf brush
12
Triangular Diamond Brush
Backgrounds
A brush set that draws clouds
Sputtering brush
Rain brush
Rain Brush Set
Shake/Flow Brush
Roughly waves and light sea brushes
Glowing waves (10cp)
Water description
A brush set that paints a meadow
Bramble
Rose Petals
Building group brushes for a distant distance
Window brushes
Raiku’s City Lights
Hand-painted/ Bookshelf Book & File Brushes
Dancing paper brushes
Fantasy Papers
Ledlights
Sparkling Fish Flock Brush (100g)
Birbs
Battlefield Dust Brush
Dust brushes
Sunlight brushes
Sunlight brushes (yes it’s different)
Ellipse blur brush
Effects
General Effects
Retro Effects
Retro Filters
VHS action set
Color-changing auto-action
Raiku RGB Shift
Gradient Sets
Empty color gradient set
Petitchery Set
Soft Atmosphere Gradient
Sea Gradient
Forest Memory Gradient Map Set
Waste World Gradient Map Set
Other
Ver.1.10.10 Default Sub Tools (May already be added during the update but if not, I highly recommend getting these!)
Jonas De Ro’s Photoshop Brush Pack (Since csp now supports photoshop brushes, I love to use these for backgrounds)
Mar-ka Photoshop Brush Pack (Some more really nice photoshop brushes)
(Paid) ByVegalia Black Hair Brushes: Gumroad Link, Etsy Link (Lots of options for programs as well!!)
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here is some Daichi content
100 questions to talk about on the late night train at 11:04 pm (can also function as an ask list)
(second edition of this post)
1. What do you crave in a psychological sense? Intimacy, passion, purpose, belonging, social interaction, etc.?
2. What kind of emotions do the stars evoke for you, if any? The ocean, the sky, the moon?
3. Are you pretending to be something you're not?
4. Who's the most important person in your life right now? Why?
5. Do you see your parents in your appearance or behaviour? Are they favourable traits?
6. If you have siblings, are you similar to them, and in what ways? If you don't, do you think growing up with siblings would have changed your personality in any way?
7. Would you cannibalise a dead body in a life-or-death scenario? Does your answer change depending on whether they're a loved one or not?
8. In reverse, would you give permission for someone to eat you if they would die otherwise?
9. Do you know a lot about politics? Do you think it's important to be educated on them?
10. What are your feelings on cheating in relationships? Have you ever done it, has anyone ever cheated on you?
11. Do you think you have a particularly unique view on life?
12. What's your most controversial opinion? Would you state it publicly? What's the most controversial opinion that you would publicly support, if it's different?
13. Do you have trust issues?
14. What are you worried about right now, if anything?
15. Is there a song, book, movie, or other piece of media that has drastically altered your life? What was it, are there multiple?
16. What's the worst decision you've ever made? What's the best decision you've ever made?
17. What's the most interesting coincidence you've had happen to you (or someone you know)?
18. You're offered a one-way ticket to any place and time in history you want. You cannot return. You can't exist at the same time as your current self. You won't carry any diseases, nor will you be infected by others, you have enough money to survive (if relevant). You can speak the local language(s). You still look like yourself and have all your memories. Do you take this offer? Why or why not? Where do you go? What do you do? Does your answer change depending on whether you can alter the future or not?
19. In general, is there any historical event you desperately want to witness?
20. Do you think about your past or future more?
21. What's the luckiest you've ever been?
22. Do you want children? Why or why not?
23. What would you never admit to in real life?
24. Does your name suit you? Do you think you "look" like your name?
25. A classic - would you rather know the date of your death or the way you die? Would you rather know when you die or when your closest loved one dies?
26. Is marriage an important institution for you? Do you want to get married? Why or why not?
27. Do you think you have a "moral compass" and where or who do you think you got it from? Or do you think of it as something inherent to yourself?
28. What has influenced your taste in music?
29. How do you want your body to be treated after your death?
30. If you don't have tattoos, and had to get one, what would you get tattooed on you? Is getting tattooed a big deal to you? If you are tattooed, do you regret any?
31. Do you feel like you have a 'purpose'? What is it, if so?
32. What's a common thing that you think shouldn't exist (if any)?
33. What are your predictions for the next few years? Or tomorrow, even?
34. Is there someone you would do absolutely anything for? How loyal are you to your friends and family in general?
35. What's wrong with you? Physically, mentally, whatever comes to mind. What's right about you? What are your best and worst traits?
36. Do you like looking at artwork?
37. What stereotypes do you fulfil, what ones you do break?
38. Who do you miss, if anyone?
39. What taboo do you think should be discussed more, if any? Alternatively, do you think a topic that isn't taboo should be?
40. Would you sacrifice your life for a stranger? An acquaintance? A loved one?
41. Do you find it easy to ask for help?
42. Does affection come easily to you?
43. How do you express affection? How do you like to receive affection?
44. What's your pettiest "dealbreaker" in a relationship or friendship?
45. Do you put any value in the idea of "virginity"? Do you think there's a specific sexual act that makes someone no longer a virgin or is it more general sexual contact? Was/is losing your virginity a big deal to you?
46. Do you have a "right person, wrong time"?
47. Do you feel like you're impacting the world around you?
48. What do you think of the idiom "blood is thicker than water"?
49. If you have a nickname, where did it come from? Did you choose it, did someone else, did it naturally form?
50. What qualities do you find charming?
51. What can make you dislike someone very quickly?
52. Do you spend a lot of time thinking about the meaning of your life? Are you looking for meaning?
54. When were you the happiest in your life? The saddest? Why?
55. What reminds you of your childhood?
56. What (or who) do you daydream about?
57. Do you feel like you don't belong in your social circles, or in this world in general? If so, why?
58. Do you regret a lot of your choices?
59. What's something you can never tell your family?
60. What are you afraid of? What are your worst fears? Are you afraid of any of the following - the dark, fire, heights, being alone, people, spiders, snakes, blood, drowning, or death?
61. Are you a romantic person? Why?
62. What topic(s) have you drastically changed your opinion on?
63. Do you have a good relationship with your family? How would you describe your family in a single word? If your family is chosen, why or how did you choose them?
64. Do you feel like you know yourself very well?
65. When you look in the mirror, do you see yourself or your reflection? Do you make the distinction between those things?
66. If you are gay, did you struggle to accept your sexuality? Would you change it if you could?
67. What did you need to hear as a child?
68. What's the best advice you've ever been given?
69. Do you struggle with emotional expression or regulation? Do you suppress your feelings?
70. What do you hope others think of you? How would you like to be perceived?
71. Tell me something you don't like telling others.
72. Who did you last say "I love you" to? Who last said it to you?
73. Have you ever broken someone's heart? Would you change anything, looking back?
74. Do you believe in karma? Do you think someone can "deserve" bad things?
75. What is your favourite fairytale?
76. What do you label yourself as, if anything? What subcultures do you identify with, if any?
77. How long can you go without socialising?
78. Have you ever written a poem or song about someone? Or had someone write one about you? Do you hope to have either of those experiences in the future?
79. What stupid thing are you really insecure about?
80. What scars do you have, if any?
81. What's the worst crime you think you're capable of committing?
82. Do you get bored easily?
83. What's your type? Otherwise, do you think you attract a certain a sort of person?
84. What do you think is waiting for you after death, if anything? Does the idea of dying upset you? Why? Can you imagine nothingness?
85. What memories would describe as your "core" ones?
86. What could you talk about for hours?
87. What do you wish people would stop asking you?
88. What's an unusual but useful trait or talent you have?
89. Do you think of yourself as attractive?
90. What surname would you choose for yourself?
91. If I could only know one thing about you, what would be the most important thing?
92. Do you have any ghost stories? Or general encounters with the supernatural? Do you believe in ghosts?
93. What are two facts about yourself that are true, but seem contradictory? Or two beliefs you have that seem unlikely to exist together?
94. Who is the first person you tell good news to? Is is the same for bad news?
95. Where do you wish you had grown up? Do you think your childhood's natural landscape had a role in the person you are today?
96. What is the worst thing about your favourite person and the best thing about your least favourite person?
97. What is a trivial hill that you are willing to die on?
98. What genre of film or literature do you think your life is? Comedy, romance, action, horror, etc.? Alternatively, if you were written into a fictional universe, what genre would you be best suited for?
99. Do you enjoy "slice of life" media?
100. What do you want an answer to?
100 good questions to ask your friends at 4:02 am when you can’t sleep (can also function as an asks list)
Are you bothered by your cosmic insignificance?
Do you mourn for a place or person you’ve never known?
Do you really think there is somebody for everybody?
Do you place any value in gender roles?
Do you have to be related to be family?
Are your platonic relationships just as valuable as romantic or family ones?
Are you in love? Do you want to be?
Do you think you can put love into categories (family, platonic, romantic, etc.) or is it just one general sensation?
Would you be happy with a life without romance?
Are you always going to be a little in love with somebody?
Would you change your appearance if you could?
Do you have the feeling you’ve lost something you might have had in another life - whether it be a person, a place, a world, a language, etc.?
Do you believe in reincarnation?
Would you want to be reincarnated?
Do you think you’re special, or just another person amongst billions? Can you be both?
Do theoretical ethical debates have any value? Is it important people discuss ethical dilemmas, e.g. the trolley problem?
Did you have imaginary friends? Do you still have them?
Are you religious? Do you think your religion is ‘correct’?
If you aren’t religious, do you wish you were? Why?
Do you want a grand adventure?
Do you have somebody, whether it be a friend or stranger, who you think you could have loved if the circumstances were different?
How long does it take you to fall in love with somebody?Is the sensation of ‘falling in love’ or ‘being in love’ better?
Is love about convenience or something more? Can it be about both?
Do you think you really understand your gender and sexuality?
How fluid is your concept of gender and sexuality?
What’s the most life-changing choice you’ve made so far?
Are you afraid of growing old?
Would you want to live forever? How about for a billion years, a million, a millennium, a century?
Do you believe in some form of god/s?
Are your choices fated or of your own free will?
Do you have a hunch about how you’re going to die?
Do you believe in star signs?
How old do you have to be to be considered an adult?
Was your childhood happy?
What are you missing from your life?
Have you ever met someone who had a very similar personality to your own? Did you get along?
Do opposites attract?
Is your life what you expected it would be five years ago?
Do you know what you want out of life?
What makes a person ‘good’? Are you a ‘good person’?
What fundamentally matters do you?
Is freewill an illusion?
Do you create art? How do you define art?
How often do you lie? Is all lying inherently bad? Are you generally truthful?
Do you want to be remembered after your death? What for?
Is true world peace ever possible?
Do you have to suffer to truly understand the human condition? What is the human condition? How can you really experience it?
Are you free? Will you ever be? Can anyone be truly free?
Do you hold yourself to higher standards than you hold others?
What do you expect from a friend or partner?
What question could you ask to find out the most about a person?
Do you justify all your beliefs or have you just inherited/absorbed some?
Which beliefs do you have that is most likely to be wrong?
Can human really understand the complete nature of the universe, space and time?
Is a conscious what makes someone a person?
What do you think about artificial intelligence?
Do you thinks humans are obsessed with escapism (books, video games, movies, etc.)? Are you looking for an escape? Do you think that’s a bad thing?
Are we eventually going to ‘run out’ of new combinations for music, art, language, etc.? Is there a limit to human creativity?
What do you think the next era of music will be like?
What do you think the next era of fashion will be like?
Do we live in tumultuous times, or do they just seem so strange because we’re living in them?
Would you want to meet a clone of yourself? Would you like them?
How confident are you, really?
How consistent is your perception of time?
What age should people be allowed to vote? Should children and teenagers be allowed to vote?
How do you feel about the idea ‘an eye for an eye’?
What’s the worse thing a person can be?
How do you feel about monogamy?
Can you be in love with someone and still fall in love with someone else?
What’s the tragedy of your life?
Would your life make a good play?
Should people be prosecuted for crimes that weren’t considered crimes at the time?
Would you fight for your country? Do you feel a sense of loyalty to your nation?
Do you believe in gender equality in every aspect?
Do we have a moral obligation to care for others? To what extent?
Do you crave approval and/or praise?
Is there comedy in all tragedy and tragedy in all comedy?
Are you ever going to be satisfied?
When you are sad, do you listen to music that conveys your emotions or music that makes you happy?
Is your music organised by mood or sensation or do you just listen to everything at any time?
Would you marry a friend if they needed you to (e.g. for citizenship)?
Are you a deep person?
Given the chance to live your life on Mars, with no hope of returning to Earth but with the promise of scientific discovery and glory, would you take it?
Are you who people think you are?
Do you think you would be happier if you had been born a different gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality or religion?
What’s your toxic trait? Are you trying to improve yourself and fix it?
Do you anger easily?
Are you a jealous person?
If you lost all your memories, would you have the same personality?
Given the chance to reset your life (with none of the knowledge you currently have), would you take it?
Is hate as strong as love? Who do you hate?
Do you speak multiple languages? Which do you dream in? What language would you want to learn?
Do you draw meaning from your dreams, or do you disregard them?
How would you describe yourself when you love? Do you love forcefully, unconditionally, gently, quietly, desperately?
Is unrequited love real love?
Is your perception of yourself similar or the same to how others perceive you?
Are you overly analytical?
Do you ever feel that you are really a terrible person, and only act good out of societal or some other obligation?
Do you believe in magic? Are you superstitious?
What belief do you have that isn’t logically grounded, but you still firmly believe in?
Booklist for all the Dark Academics:
[Dark Academia book recs of all the different kinds I could think of. It's a long journey. Buckle up.]
The Classic Dark Academic :
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Anything by the Brontë sisters
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (this book birthed Dark Academia)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Bram Stokers Dracula
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
Maurice by EM Forster
Madam Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Good Man is Hard to Find
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Macbeth by Shakespeare
Othello by Shakespeare
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Poetry-lover Academic:
Poetry of Baudelaire
Odes of Keats (ALL OF THEM ARE A MUST READ)
Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (especially The Raven)
Shelley's Alastor, Prometheus Unbound, Masque of Anarchy
Kubla Khan by Coleridge
T.S Elliott's Wasteland
all Emily Dickinson poetry but especially 'I felt a funeral in my brain', 'Because I could not stop for death' (read them a thousand times already)
Pablo Neruda's Nothing but Death
Langston Hughes Poems
Tennyson's Lotos eater (underrated gem)
Sylvia Plath poems but special mentions to Lady Lazarus and the Bell jar
Paradise Lost by Milton (if you want to include something about the Devil in your list)
Poems by Sappho
Poems of Charles Bukowski (especially Love Is a Dog from Hell)
The Contemporary Dark Academic:
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (the origin of Dark Academia)
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Ace of Spades by Amanda Foody (could recommend it a hundred times)
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
If We Were Villains by ML Rio
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Girls are all so nice here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
The Likeness by Tana French
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
One of us is lying by Karen Mcmanus
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Plot by Jean Hanff
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Conversion by Katherine Howe
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A Quaint and Curious Volume
We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Lying Games by Ruth Ware
Black Chalk by Christopher J Yates
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
The Furies by Fernanda Eberstadt
The Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Bad Habits by Charleigh Rose
Good Girls Lie by JT Ellison
Shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
If We were Villains by M.L. Rio
Queer Dark Academic:
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (yes, yes, yes it's the gay shit)
Notes on a Scandal (What was she thinking?) by Zoë Heller
Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu (lesbian vampire, hell yeah!)
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Maurice by EM Forster
Christabel by Coleridge
Poems by Sappho
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
Ace of Spades by Amanda Foody
The Dark Romantic Academic:
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Likeness by Tana French
The Temple House by Rachel Donohue
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Mythological Dark Academic:
(pardon me for my cluelessness)
I have not really read much about mythology but if Norse mythology is the area of your interest, Neil Gaiman is the God of it. (aka not only Good Omens and American Gods, but also the book 'Norse Mythology')
The Furies by Fernanda Eberstadt
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Circe by Madeline Miller
Ovid's Metamorphoses for Greek mythology enthusiasts
[Remember: Some of these books have dark academia as their major aspect but most of them have dark academia as their minor aspect, and many of them have been put into the list because I got a dark academia kind of vibe from them. Moreover these books have a lot more to offer than just Dark Academia, even if we ignore that aspect, these books are just great pieces of literature. This list is entirely created out of my own reading researches, friendly recommendations, and book recs from reddit, pinterest and the internet in general. If I have gone wrong somewhere or if you want me to add something new, feel free to drop an ask.]
"Poetry is not just relief; poetry is tension. Poetry is departure. Poetry is return. Poetry is memory."
Emily Jungmin Yoon, from A Cruelty Special to Our Species
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