[anderperry]

dark academia moodboard with people of colour because we need to actively be more diverse; lots of people feel excluded because of the white skinny cis ideal that is prevalent in a lot of dark academia content, this isn't okay and it needs to be changed :)

[black-is-no-colour]

Du Juan, photographed by Zeng Wu and styled by Liu Xiao for Wallpaper Magazine China Edition April 2020

[aesthetictim3]

Art Academia 🖋

[epicene-street-light-deactivate]

wholesome student life things that we should collectively start romancizing

waking up and being genuinely thrilled to go to class because today is THAT CLASS you love so much you’d like it to never end

coffee breaks with friends, chatting and joking about this particularly hard essay and the prof’s mannerism

coffee breaks on your own, as you absent-mindedly watch the people around you, while thinking about what you’re working on

finding this book you’ve been dying to read for so long, and borrowing it from the library

the feeling of excitement that goes through you whenever you remember The Book is in your backpack

understanding everything during demanding classes and being genuinely interested in the subject

buying a New Special Pen and taking colorful notes that look super pretty

not being able to shut up about your school projects (no your friends dont really care about the intricate details of what you’re working on, they don’t even have the same major as you, but they’re happy to hear you rant with such a burning passion)

actually doing the extra reading and having your curiosity so piqued by what you’re reading that you go on and on and suddenly its 1am and what happened

printing the project you’ve spent so much time and energy on and feeling the paper’s warmth

actually submitting that project without feeling awful about it because you know you did your best and aren’t responsible for what happens next

when you finally finish this Super Hard And Important Essay at like 3am, open the window and feel the cold night air on your burning cheeks and everything is dark and quiet and you can see the moon and you’re at peace with everything for a few minutes

when this professor you admire says you did a great job and/or that you’re talented!!!!

realizing two concepts that seemed so far away from each other and that you discovered in wildly different contexts are actually interlinked, then Realizing™ things and linking concepts/works/articles to each other at the speed of light & being super excited about it

being so deeply immersed in your work that you didn’t realize two hours have passed

finding the Perfect Spot at the library

that Pure Joy moment when you FINALLY understand that super obscure sentence/text

when you feel anxious because you’re not done with your homework & the deadline is super tight & your friend tells you they aren’t done yet either

same but with an even more intense relief feeling when you realize you both haven’t even started yet

when the professor starts a new reasoning and you can predict what the next idea/the final conclusion will be

when the professor mention your favorite novel/author/fictional character in class and you feel like your internal screech of joy could shatter glass

the Academic Salt™ that has you like 👀👀

when the professor tears apart an author or scholar you hate and you’re like YES I WANT BLOOD GIVE ME BLOOD

when you learn that Cool New Fact that makes you reconsider your whole life

leaving the library after a long productive day and feeling like nothing is real but experiencing everything more intensely

leaving the library at night after a long study session and everybody has left already and its just you and the long neon-lit corridors then stepping outside and smelling the crisp night wind

feel free to add your own!!!

[a-random-fandom-friend]

when you learned a thing that interessted you and two days later someone completly unrelated to your work will say “hey i wonder how this works?” and you’re so excited to explain it because you KNOW THAT

when you’re anxious af for a class and the professor is actually super friendly and you feel confident enough to ask questions

and suddently thank to this one professor EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE

understanding that One Difficult Point and suddently you feel like you UNDERSTAND THE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE

sometimes you can feel like you have too much in your bag but then one friend has a problem and they are pleasently surprised when you have Just The Right Thing

Running half the campus because you’re so excited to see your friend and to eat with them !!!!!!!!

[simena]

Alcide-Théophile Robaudi (detail)

[russsianbimbo]

/beauty is terror/

[luxe-pauvre]

“When I was younger, I wanted to be beautiful so badly that I could taste it, and it tasted like blood. It was a hard, painful desire. I didn’t want to be cute, or pretty. I didn’t want to be more attractive to men. I didn’t want to be sexier. I wanted only to be beautiful, and the fact that I was not beautiful hurt more, not less, for the fact that I so nearly was. What I wanted was to be undeniable, to be all clean lines, to not be debatable. I wanted to be like a drawing of a beautiful woman you might do in a game of Pictionary. I think now that I idolized beauty so much because I was often embarrassed and ashamed as a teenager and beauty seemed the opposite of embarrassment to me. To be beautiful was to have power over others. It was much more difficult to make a beautiful girl seem foolish than it was an average-looking one, I thought. […] Challenging social norms about who can be beautiful is vital work, and of course it is true that representations of beauty in the media are pathetically white, thin, able-bodied and hetero, and of course this should change. But somewhere along the way, the message of inclusivity went from “every kind of person can be beautiful” to “every person is beautiful.” I’m increasingly convinced that this message isn’t only less radical than we might like to believe, but also actively harmful. […]Everyone is beautiful, we’re told. But why should we have to be?”

— Megan Nolan, Why Do We All Have to Be Beautiful?

[wulfhalls]

god of the sun

[melfleur]

any queer person born after 1997 can’t cook, all they know is romantic sex, baby animals, fascination with religious iconography, academia, eat pastry and yearn

[theladyvampire-deactivated20200]

German dagger.

[campusenvy-blog]

not really into jumping onto tumblr to project my thoughts but i'm listening to a playlist with nobody by mitski in it and have just taken a bunch of random personality quizzes because that's where my sense of identity comes from and i was thinking! the way young people think about love is really comforting, all i see is stuff like "i want to be soft and lovely and easily impressed" (@.melancholymango, though im not sure what platform theyre on) and i RESONATE!! like its simple and its beautiful! and that's literally all it needs to be, i think a lot of people find it really naive but really you should take it for what it is i think? like, its sweet! and you don't need any information other than that. its not a statement that needs any breaking down. let people want to walk holding hands in a flower field, be able to sit in silence together and not feel uncomfortable, just grow old together, etc!

basically i'm trying to say that young people such as myself just want love to be the 🥺 emoji and it is the greatest love that i have ever seen wanted

[thoodleoo]

my gender is whatever the hell dionysus had going on

[oscarwildegonewild]

[campusenvy-blog]

traveling is so much fun!! how wild is it that you can find so much joy discovering a new place no matter how close or far to home. it's such an adorable experience

[187o]

“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.” ― Charles Baudelaire

[witchmanor]

If you don't like this world – create your own

[campusenvy-blog]

haven't read a single book in 2020 (that wasn't for class) and that's perfectly ok! reading is no competition and is for my pleasure so i should never feel like i'm lacking, it actually feels really cool because instead i've finally taken the time to start writing again