dark academia

they/them slytherin//gemini//intj//queer 📖+📝+🎶+🎭

[bruises-and-wine]

Give me old books. Books with annotated pages and tear stains and little scraps of paper and fabric that were used as book marks. Give me notes and sketches that let me see into the mind of the old owner, let me see what made them cry, see what made them happy and what made them think. Let me see the depth of the plot lines that they expanded with their own thoughts.

Give me books with water stains and cracked spines and creased pages. Give me books so loved by the owner, given away to move on to the next one to adore them.

[visionsofhelios]

what is life if not an amalgamation of homoeroticism, the arts, unsolved mysteries, and the never-ending desire to occasionally stop existing? 

[nbacademic]

no, thank you, i’m reading

[nbacademic]

my god i just want to walk through a library and surround myself with literature and listen to the rustling of pages and the pounding of rain and turn to the first page of a random book and let it drag me inside until i forget about reality

[nbacademic]

there’s something oddly exhilarating about shuffling a new playlist of classical music and having no idea whether you’re going to get slow and peaceful piano tinkling or a cacophony of instruments screaming your own agony back to you.

[victorianlonging]

concept: you stumble home from the library after it closes at two in the morning, the cold autumn air biting at your fingers and bare ankles. above you the full moon shines overhead. you light up a cigarette, pour a cup of cold coffee left over from that morning’s brew, and settle in with a book, ready for a quiet evening of scribbled thoughts and aimless perusal of your favourite texts.

[nbacademic]

sitting in a window seat, staring at the moon through the raindrops inching their way down the glass, an open book in your lap or an uncapped pen in your hand as you contemplate the beauty of the stars and the vastness between them

[nbacademic]

can it stop being so hot so i can light some candles and drink coffee whilst huddling under a blanket? please and thank you

[nbacademic]

is there anything better than the sound of rain and the light of a candle and the taste of coffee and a book in your lap? because if there is it must be pretty great

[nbacademic]

you know what my perfect gift would be? an annotated copy of your favourite book. i don’t just mean a couple of tabs, i mean annotated. i mean highlighted to the ends of the earth, pages black with scribbled annotations, entire pages underlined and captioned ‘THIS’. i want to see tear stains on the pages, corners bent from when you threw it across the room, spine broken because you were too absorbed in the story to care. i want paragraphs of you yelling at characters, i want your witty remarks and sarcastic comments, i want your little doodles in the margins. because then you’re not just giving me a book. you’re giving me a little piece of yourself, and i think that’s the best gift you could give.

[nbacademic]

so who wants to listen to classical music whilst staring at the moon and sipping something that should not be in a wine glass out of a wine glass with me?

[nbacademic]

can someone please read poetry to me as we lay under the stars, your head in my lap, letting me thread my fingers through your hair, interrupting yourself every so often with witty remarks and watching me as i laugh a little too much at them? please and thank you.

[faridaspeare]

I just want to drink coffee and watch cold rain droplets racing down my window as I listen to music and everything will be okay again and I'll feel it in my heart.

[nbacademic]

my god i just want to crawl inside the pages of a book and live there forever and ever is that too much to ask?

[goldfinch-history]

find a book, read the book, live vicariously through the books characters and take on their fantastical dramas as my own dramas only to be disappointed in the end when i realize i will never experience such a life and yearn over what i can never have, forget the book, repeat!

[faridaspeare]

I hope stars gaze back at us, too.

[nbacademic]

people who think it ridiculous to cry over books have obviously never read a good one