dark academia

sasha | xvii | alis volat propriis

[soft-lovely]

mood

[darkmacademia]

view from the university church of st. mary the virgin, university of oxford / oxford, uk

[literature-liv]

hands; MAURICE (1987)

[willowcreme]

[chaoticandromantic]

Some quite dark academia

[chaoticandromantic]

Jewelry

[chaoticandromantic]

Dark Academic Starter Pack

[chaoticandromantic]

Some Dark Academic Things

[deadliver]

dark academia culture is reminding yourself that it's okay to be alone and continue reading depressed classics

[bakwaaas]

📖.

[aceademic]

quotes that make me go feral

a list in no particular order

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.” -The Secret History, Donna Tartt

“My dear basil,” said Dorian, “What have you told me? Simply that you felt you admired me too much. That is not even a compliment.” “It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” -The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever.” -The Secret History, Donna Tartt

i’ll probably add more to this later but pls add your own too!! i wanna see what other quotes make people go absolutely insane

[maybe-love-cant]

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam [14.02.2020]

[coffee-butler]

ok but what about secret academia - always sit in the back of the class - never seen after class is done - dress in blacks and greys - always introduce yourself with a different backstory - joining secret clubs with aliases - desiring to learn forbidden knowledge - use a lot of metaphors and proverbs - can sometimes be found in the obscure corner of the library - have a symbol you use instead of your name

[thus-said-the-soul]

“Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they’re born.”

Latin: Duo anima aliquando creantur simul et in amore ante nascuntur.

Greek: αἱ σύνδυο ψυχαί ἐνίοτε γεννῶνται καὶ ἐν φιλίᾳ πρόσθεν γίγνονται.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

[iamoverdressedandovereducated]

Teaching myself ancient Greek, Latin, and Esperanto like a true academic who’s completely alone on Valentine’s Day and honestly I am loving it.

[marauder-exe-old]

my favourite things i’ve done with Dark Academia

stayed up all night before school to read an entire book

completely bought out the charity shops book shelves,, like they where e m p t y

also all those books cost 50p each

worn the same sweater 4 days in a row because it’s comfortable and looks pretty

had so many notebooks my desk is overflowing with them

having so many books that they physically won’t fit on my shelf anymore so they need to go around my room on the floor

drinking mass amounts of coffee even tho i’m lactose intolerant

i shall add on as my crackheadery progresses

[alexatsmith-blog]

Top Five Reasons Why History Is The Best Major

1. Class is basically story time. Do you want to hear riveting tales of cross-dressing slaves that escaped in a daring journey across the U.S. or how about an apocalyptic bad Byzantine battle where half the army switch sides and the other half ran away?  or what about that time a women became king of Nigeria? Yeah I get to go to class everyday and be endless entertained by these awesome stories and even better? Its all true. 

2. It makes you a more empathetic person. Its really easy to look at people in the past and make a snap judgement about them, that they are so stupid, bad, sexist, uncultured. ect ect… But as historians we have to walk a mile in their shoes and not judge them by the standards we have today. For instance important idea that we take today like umm. universal individual rights  or personally property or not having to work everyday for our physical survival hadn’t even been invented till pretty recently. History forces you to understand why people make certain decision and why they held certain views without judging them, a skill I am happy to carry into my day to day life. 

3. It is the best study of people. There are a lot of majors that study people: physiology, sociology, gender studies but those all focus on theory. History studies what real people do when faced with real situations. And it is indeed history that sparks social scientist to do their work. The reason behind the famous Milgram Experiment was trying to figure out why good people followed Hitler during WW2. History is the ultimate social experiment and gives us the best data on why people are the way they are and do what they do 

4. You get to touch the old things. You stand around in museum. See some boring rocks and some ugly paintings but when you are a history major, all the sudden its “HOLY S#&%* THESE WEIRD LITTLE BONES CHUNKS WAS TOUCHED MOTHERF@#$*$@# SHANG DYNASTY EMPEROR!!!” All the sudden the world is a magically place where everything even mundane, ugly, old things become special and amazing because there is history there! 

5. You become very ok with change. History is the study of change over time and over all history has made me a much more chill person. Its like you see that bad stuff happens and life moves on and its ok. Empires fall, major world views shift, rulers come and go but everything turns out ok in the end and life goes on. Nothing is the end of the world.