Dark Academia

~ delightfully haunting ~ | katia | xvi |

[silklike]

dark academia outfit inspiration

[xaxtonx]

[amereinterlude]

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion."

- Democritus

(Link to a Halloween inspired, fall dark academia playlist - updating frequently, because I'm loving the weather)

[deadpoetsstuff]

oh to wear a warm woollen sweater and read books in the midst of a forest all day long while sipping hot coffee

[anna--ahha]

[princesskuragina]

Okay but really I have a serious problem with this website and its aversion to engaging critically with media you love. I know I'm not the first person to say this but when I say classic lit is often misogynistic I don't mean "you shouldn't read classic lit" or "all classic lit is bad". I mean that when you read it you should be aware of the context. You should think about whether you really agree with what the author is saying. And you can absolutely decide that you don't agree, and still love the book. The quest for absolute moral purity results in boring, narrow literature but the complete uncritical acceptance of problematic themes is every bit as ignorant. You need both.

[fallingtowers]

got a new job… im the person who passes the objects in front of the fire in plato’s cave

[academi-aesthetics]

No one:

dark academics: haha swords coffee blood murder latin moon poetry omens history homoeroticism reading death passion haha

[exitwound]

when whitman said “i contradict myself. i am large… i contain multitudes” and wilde said “what are you? to define is to limit” and sumney said “i insist upon my right to be multiple”

[witchmanor]

'All art is quite useless.'

– Oscar Wilde

His 119th Death Day

[lucidus-ordo]

people always tell me “oh but you always reread the same three books” like yeah bitch i stole my personality from them sometimes i need to brush up on the details

[deadpoetsstuff]

thinking about Kait Rokowski writing, "nothing ever ends poetically, it ends and we turn it into poetry. all that blood was never once beautiful. it was just red." and losing it

[rhizomatic-academic]

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

- Charles Darwin

[chimerality]

types of people: ways to read

p a p e r b a c k: folded pages, tangled earbuds, bitten nails, messy sheets, fluffy throws, windy and rainy days, overrun gardens, creased spines, glasses, oversized hoodies

h a r d c o v e r: diy bookmarks, underlined words, highlighted quotes, early grey tea with honey, soft classical music, knitted sweaters, fluffy socks, mood lighting, candles

e b o o k: faint blue glow, reads at night, tv as background noise, pajamas and ponytails, late night snacks, brownies and popcorn, digital clocks, falling asleep while reading

[rillabrooke]

Classical composers to listen to depending on your mood

Angry - Wagner, Stravinksy, Beethoven, Brahms

Calm - Faure, Chopin, Liszt

Cheerful - Mozart

Depressed - Debussy, Beethoven

Dreamy - Debussy, Faure, Saint-Saens, Chopin

Focused - Shostakovich, Bach

Groovy - Dvorak, Gershwin

Melancholy - Faure, Debussy, Dvorak, Elgar

Patriotic - Sibelius, Smetana, Dvorak

Serious - Bach

Reminiscent - Elgar, Barber, Schumann

Reverent - Bach, Brahms

Whimsical - Rimsky-Korsakov, Holst

(Feel free to add to this list.  I like romantic era music so this list is a little biased.  I’ll probably add to this later.)

[frokk]

dark academia but it’s online school

- waking up early in the morning to watch the sunrise, even though you don’t actually need to

- staying up late to read or paint because you don’t have to get up early

- handwriting assignments that should be typed and submitted digitally

- having a coffee cup with you, rather than a thermos because you don’t have to take it anywhere

- still getting ready and dressed so that you can feel focused on your work in the mornings

- emailing your teachers to see if they have any extra reading related to the topic

- turning in all of the assignments for the week earlier than the rest of your class because you wanted to finish them early

- not doing any assignments for the week because you were too interested in researching about different planets or the deep sea

[mrsmilfzilla]

𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟.