Dark Academia

𝐂. entp | classic + gothic literature | per aspera ad astra

[hoaxvault]

Pierre Julien - The Dying Gladiator

[bryonyashley]

Crimson Peak Set Interiors - Open in new tab for HR.

[pemberlaey]

Moodboard: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 

“the world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. the curves of your lips rewrite history.”

[metamorphesque]

— Virginia Woolf, a diary entry

[a-writers-orchard-deactivated20]

I will return when the hills are covered in snow…

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: fieldnotesbyfi

[simena]

Henri Lehmann - Ophelia (detail)

[courtacademia]

[courtacademia]

Dracula: **scales outer walls at night**

Jonathan Harker watching him: Hmm must be a trick of the moonlight.

(My favorite Ch. 3 Jonathan Harker observation)

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[courtacademia]

Beauty is terror

[courtacademia]

[cynthia-viv-deactivated20240204]

"And a softness came from the starlight and filled me to the bone."

–W.B Yeats

[a-poets-darling]

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

Edgar Allan Poe, Romance 1831

[roundo]

ok while I was searching for that bust of hercules I found THIS statue... jesus christ. the sculptor had to have been hard the whole time he was working

[cornedbeefhashtags]

[thoodleoo]

maybe this time i read ancient poetry i won't be sent into a howling fit at the emotional burden of thousands of years of human experience

[poeticallybitter]

[tunaktis]