Elise Academia

I'm Elise! (she/they, lesbian, Jewish, Pisces) This is mainly a dark academia/classics/literature blog :). instagram: beauty.is.terror

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Nobody:

Absolutely nobody:

Me in my notes app at 3 am:

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My dearest, most despised enemy, we're going out for dinner tonight... It's not because I like you or anything! I'm just planning on trying my 50th assassination attempt on you! Don't get the wrong idea!!!!

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uwu you want to stwike me down fow my hubwis??? owo??? You say I hawe gone too faw with my staggewing dispways of awwogance and compwete diswegawd of mowals? Be qwiet pwease (✿^‿^).

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I hope I'm not just a friend to you, but rather an ominous shadow that looms over you and whispers bits and pieces of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry into your ear in a way that leaves you with a persistent sense of unease and the urge to break free from the chains of reality.

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*80s pop playing as I lay dead in the middle of the woods*

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Bunny from The Secret History be like ⬆️

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Me: I can't talk right now, I'm doing hot girl shit.

Me: *Accidentally killing a farmer while in the midst of Dionysian revelry with my friends because our charismatic classics teacher told us that Bacchanals are fun and cool*

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who am i

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Two four six o ONEEEEEEE

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what i think i am: henry winter

what i am at most: richard papen

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The dark academia community is just a bunch of reluctant Richard Papen kinnies and that's a fact.

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cubitum eamus

inspired by a certain post. keep reading at your own peril.

Again Percival’s lips met mine - I tasted Amaroni on his tongue, bitter, full, but not as intoxicating as our forbidden love was. I felt him seize the collar of my shirt, so forceful that I feared the silk would tear. Not to be outdone, I drew my fingers across the rough tweed of his sport coat before greedily undoing the polished horn buttons. He let it slip off his shoulders as we drew back from each other for a breath of air.

Keep reading

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I'm filled with existential dread!

Good job 👍.

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DON'T 👏 CALL 👏 YOURSELF 👏 A 👏 DARK 👏 ACADEMIC 👏IF 👏 YOU 👏 HAVEN'T 👏 MADE 👏 SWEET 👏 SWEET 👏 LOVE 👏 TO 👏 A 👏 TWEED 👏 BLAZER 👏

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Woah I just realized I reached 1000 tumblr followers! Thank you guys for vibing with me :).

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My dream home is either:

An ancient Greek temple where I may receive prophetic visions

A gothic cathedral with plenty of alluring vampires

An old library filled with first-edition books

A forest clearing with many friendly cicadas trying to eat me

A quiet manor in the English countryside with ivy creeping up the walls

Wherever the ghost of Shakespeare lives

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Want to feel like a dark academic while relaxing? Here are a few ways to practice self-care in a dark academia way:

Read Dracula/Frankenstein/anything by Edgar Allen Poe on a stormy night while wrapped up in a blanket with a warm drink.

Recite Shakespearean monologues to your pets.

Read The Picture of Dorian Gray out loud to your plants.

Brew your favorite tea for yourself.

Fling yourself onto a divan (make it homoerotic as possible).

Take a bath with rose petals with some Hozier songs playing in the background.

Read the Odyssey on the beach.

Go out into nature and read some of Keats's poems.

Listen to classical music while making crafts.

Watch a historical documentary.

Knit a neutral-colored cardigan or sweater.

Pick some mushrooms in a forest, if you see some college kids in Dionysian madness, mind your business.

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I love how Ancient Greek philosophers were basically all sporty buff wrestling guys. Modern philosophers are unathletic dweebs for the most part... I want to see them wrestle... Bring back buff bicep philosophy!!!

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OK I'M SERIOUS IMAGINE A JORDAN PETERSON VS SLAVOJ ZIZEK WRESTLING MATCH.

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I love how Ancient Greek philosophers were basically all sporty buff wrestling guys. Modern philosophers are unathletic dweebs for the most part... I want to see them wrestle... Bring back big buff bicep philosophy!!!

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ok yes i may be evil and morally corrupt but i’m also incredibly beautiful and i think that makes up for it honestly

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-Dorian Gray

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Judy Poovey be like "I know a spot" then take you to a Burger King parking lot to do cocaine with her.