Dark Academia

I’ll talk about Shakespeare, books, poetry, and just life in general. Also be prepared to read my shitty poems and short stories from time to time

[secretparadiseexpert]

I don't have daddy issues my dad has daughter issues

[darkness-academia]

This is your reminder (and definitely mine) to replace scrolling with reading

[eli-zab3th]

eli-zab3th‌:

This or that Academia Aesthetic Pt. 2

Castle or manor ?

Navy or Emerald ?

Ochre or Burgundy ?

Statues or paintings ?

Short stories or Poetry ?

Annotating or no writing ?

Antique books or new books ?

Art museum or history museum ?

Part 1

[darkness-academia]

Manor

Emerald

Burgundy

Paintings

Short stories

No writing

New books

History museum (that’s a hard choice though)

[eli-zab3th]

This-or-that Academia Aesthetic

Coffee or tea?

Beige or brown?

Green or burgundy?

Library or bookshop?

Candlelight or desk lamp?

Hardbacks or paperbacks?

[darkness-academia]

Coffee

Brown

Green

Bookshop

Candlelight

Paperbacks

[darkness-academia]

I relate to Amy March because I too am weeks behind in French

[valtsv]

i can't vibe with anyone who thinks icarus was an ignorant idiot for flying too close to the sun. "oh i'd never do that i would have remembered my father's warning and been fine". do you seriously think that after years of imprisonment, feeling the sun on your face and the open air beneath your wings, you would be able to focus on anything but the joy of being alive and free? do you actually think that if you were given the opportunity to go where nobody has never been before, you wouldn't want to push it to the limit? to dare to be the first to try what no one else has ever even thought possible? do you honestly think you're too good for your own human nature? look me in the eyes and tell me if i strapped a pair of wings to your back that could take you wherever you wanted to go whenever you pleased that you'd be careful and sensible about it. you are not better than icarus just because you have the benefit of his example.

[valtsv]

[darkness-academia]

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“You can’t be good at everything,” they say.

To which I respond, “why not?”

I can push harder, stay up later.

“It’ll tire you out. You’ll get sick of it” they say.

It doesn’t matter.

My fingers begin to callous

From time spent practicing guitar,

Attempting violin and ukulele.

Those same fingers grow weary

From hours upon hours flying over a piano.

Gripping a paintbrush

Clutching a crochet hook

Those same fingers have dozens of tiny scars

Left from the pricks of embroidery needles.

The fingers that pressed the buttons

To adjust the shutter speed

Those fingers have typed thousands of words

Words that amounted to nothing in the end.

Now we move down to the feet.

These too hold callouses

From endless miles of running

And from the failed- no- disappointing attempt at dancing.

The feet that have balanced on a wire

And turned on too tight ice skates.

“You can’t be good at everything,” they say.

Tell that to the twelve sports I’ve played.

To the crowds that have cheered

As my cast mates and I exit.

To the voice that has sung itself raw

And spoken all the languages

And the mind that has endlessly studied and learned.

“You can’t be good at everything,” they say

But I must be good at everything

For if I’m not, then I am nothing.

[darkness-academia]

It’s always “wyd” and never “Love is my religion — I could die for it — I could die for you.”

[darkness-academia]

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”

[zandraart]

good morning 

[darkness-academia]

“2 AM is made for writers, painters, poets, over thinkers, silent seekers and creative people. That is my favorite hour.”

[darkness-academia]

Black and white winter walk

[darkness-academia]

I always wanted to try one of these…

[radishnt]

which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

[mothman-misato]

y- you were putting it in cold water?????

[boimgfrog]

Radish. Answer the question radish.

[radishnt]

yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn’t realize there was an actual reason

[boimgfrog]

You dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???

[catsnraincoats]

[ID: Tags reading “u think i have the patience to boil water wtf ?????” /End ID]

why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it

[boimgfrog]

Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove

[catsnraincoats]

Its takes less than a minute

[boimgfrog]

Bestie is ur stovetop powered by the fucking sun

[catsnraincoats]

How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove

[boimgfrog]

Like seven minutes

[catsnraincoats]

Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat n it boils in like two minutes… less than that is u use a saucepan…

[boimgfrog]

Crying you’re putting the whole mug on the stove ???? On medium heat???? Ur stove is enchanted

[pidoop]

Every single person in this post is a fucking lunatic

[silverjirachi]

Yet another post that reads like four shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief

[wizardlyghost]

(Enter RADISHN’T, MOTHMAN MISATO, BOIMG FROG and CATS'N RAINCOATS, stage left. They are having a HEATED DISCUSSION.)

RADISHN’T: Prithee, which one of you had planned to tell

Of diff'rent flavours gained by simple act

Of brewing tea with water hot, not cold?

MOTHMAN: Egad! you poured the water cold? Wherefore?!

FROG: An answer from you, Radish, I must beg.

RADISHN’T: Indeed I did, dear friends - why does this shock?

Without the guide of others I assumed

That heat was merely added for the sake

Of expediting this solution’s brewing!

Half a decade I have spent, or more,

Not questioning this worldview I had made.

In fact, I am myself a bit surprised

That you might think that I, your dearest friend,

Might have a patience of sufficient stock

To wait until a pot of water boils.

FROG: Three minutes overtaxes patience so?

The microwave will beep when it is done!

CATS'N: My friend, this answer vexes me the more!

Can it be true that thou dost boil by nuke?!

FROG: Are you in turn, my friend, so shocked to know

That I have not the patience, like our Root,

To boil upon the stove our favour’d drink?

CATS'N: It takes less than a minute!

FROG: On what plate?

Perhaps your dinner cooks atop the sun?

CATS'N: How long can take your stove to fill the task

Of boiling but a single cup alone?

FROG: In minutes?

CATS'N: Yes!

FROG: I counted seven, once.

CATS'N: Perhaps you ought to have your timepiece checked!

If on a middle heat you place the cup

You soon will have the scalding drink you crave.

Two minutes, in a mug upon the plate

Or even less, if you should have a pot.

FROG: You cause me tears - is this how thou dost live?

You place upon the iron stove a mug?

A mug, ceramic, filled with water cold?

How do these flames, though medium in height,

Not shatter like a glass this fragile thing?

Surely, then, your kitchen is bewitched

With magicks far beyond the mortal ken!

(The FOUR realise they have wandered into the THRONE ROOM. The ROYAL COURT watches with fascination.)

KING: Ev'ry single person in this group must be a fucking lunatic, it seems.

[elodieunderglass]

[darkness-academia]

This is a fucking masterpiece

[darkness-academia]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s ok to put cream in your coffee.

[aureliusaurus]

If someone wrote poems about me I would simply marry them.

[darkness-academia]

Literally like it’s such an intimate and romantic thing I don’t think I could handle it

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

My friends and I were literally just talking about the reason we love watching Lord of the Rings is that it feels so safe.

My sister hadn’t seen it before and in the scene where Wormtongue is creeping on Eowyn she said she was so afraid it was going to turn into a rape scene before she realized that wouldn’t happen in Lord of the Rings.

We were discussing how wonderful it is to be able to enjoy a series that has a main message of friendship, love, and above all, hope,

All while knowing as we watch it that we won’t have to see these characters we love, especially the female characters, suffer at the hands of excessive and unnecessary violence, specifically sexual violence.

I am so afraid of what it means for this writer to have access to this storyworld.

I want to be hopeful that he will remain true to the innocence of hope and optimism that has always stayed true in Middle Earth, even in the face of great evil.

I want to believe that this will be a show kids could grow up on, the same as generations of kids have on the books and movies before it.

But I’m seriously doubtful. I can’t stand the idea of Middle Earth looking anything like Game of Thrones. I’m so worried ugh.

[mrdistracted]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[darkness-academia]

The same thing applies to Netflix getting their hands on Narnia. That series has just always been so safe to me, partly because I started it in my childhood, and it reminds me of childhood.

In Netflix maybe starting a Narnia series, I’m afraid that they will add lots of things that will take away from the innocence and purity of what Narnia has been for me and for so many others.

Some of the safety and innocence and comfort needs to stay that way. It’s the same way that if there is a book being turned into a movie, you already have the script and screenplay in front of you to write the movie, so why would you change it?