Sparkling Creatures

🌻 Special interest side blog for boarding school media 🌻 🌻 Sink 🌻 he/they 🌻 26 🌻

[priptonweird]

This is my sideblog for my boarding school special interest. Mostly it will be about media depictions of boarding schools and boarding school aesthetics.

Like a lot of dark academia the media I'm drawing from is mostly concerned with white upperclass westerners. I am on the lookout for things that are outside of that so if anyone has any recs feel free to send them to me!

In the tags of this post are the tags of the different books, movies, and tv shows on the blog as well as category tags.

Read my about page to see my faves and my to do list.

[henk-heijmans]

Man reading a book with sika deers, Nara Park, Mount Wakakusa, Japan, 1960's - by Hans Silvester (1938), German

[isabelleadjani]

NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE dir. Werner Herzog, 1979

[kaylamsavage]

hallways connecting different parts of an abandoned mental facility 

[cuubism]

my friend and i have been losing our goddamn minds over the photography in this zillow listing and i feel the need to share it with you all too

the lighting??? the fog?? the atmosphere???

this shit is like high art and it's a ZILLOW LISTING . and that's not even all the photos!!! what the fuck!!!

[edinburgh-by-the-sea]

I'd like to try the deeper waters, spread a fathom nearer liquid liberty

[hermerriday]

All-girls boarding school at Malory Towers (2020)

[hermerriday]

Malory Towers (S4 & S5)

I recently finished the series! I will definitely re-watch it because it became my comfort show this mid-year.

[cum-mywae-deactivated20250824]

[omegomagnit]

[cantcatchmeee]

The Spice Girls having a cig break behind the scenes of a Polaroid commercial in 1997

[cityhoppersgarden-deactivated20]

Edinburgh, Leith Water Walkway, April 2007,  Scotland

photography by cityhopper2

[requiem-on-water]

The Secret Garden, a Jacobean manor at Cotswolds, England | Ph: Oberto Gili for Vogue (2019)

[garadinervi]

Rijksmuseum Research Library, Amsterdam (published online on January 29, 2025)

[ten-don]

Xユーザーの13βさん: 「この本の続きがあるかと聞いたら「ちょっと探しますわ…」と言われて足元が開いた　東京ってすごい https://t.co/aibSUjzYgX」 / X

[beyondfabric]

Drake's "Perennials in Tokyo" Editorial

For their latest Perennials campaign - an annual collection that comprises a classic Drake’s wardrobe, the staples and timeless go-tos that will never go out of style - the brand gathered a group of friends in Tokyo.

The result is impeccable as usual, with a range of preppy-inspired outfits that feel unabashedly sophisticated, but natural and relaxed at the same time - quite a delicate balance to achieve. Even in a suit and tie, there is an inherent coolness to the styling and wearer that never makes it feel stiff or overdressed.

[forsapphics]

Boarding School Friends (1837)

Unknown French student