Dante

I'm just trying to figure out how to live and while I'm doing this, I run this blog - any pronouns

[sleepdeprived-dumbass]

no dark academic is complete without their cottage core girlfriend

[sleepdeprived-dumbass]

physical attributes that seem like they were handed out by the gods

big hands

curves 

extremely dark or extremely light skin 

curved noses 

elegant hand movements 

sharp jawlines 

stretch marks 

scars 

[macbcth]

i like to believe that ophelia’s madness gave her a kind of meta knowledge of the plot— that she saw the tragic ending coming, knew that hamlet’s indecision would be his hamartia, that she realised gertrude and claudius were both poisoned with corruption from the beginning and instead of the customary funeral goers laying flowers at a grave, it was Ophelia— mad, at death’s door, about to die in less than 2 scenes— who handed flowers to the king, queen and protagonist as if the dead girl was mourning the living

[naseberry-deactivated20210325]

LOVE taking my glasses off after a long day. Hell yes...watercolors.

[laskulls-deactivated20250318]

love at first s(word f)ight

[sleepdeprived-dumbass]

I live in the city and most of the time I really like it. 

I like the bustle and noise and lights. I like the shops and restaurants and cafés and libraries and bars. I like the houses and the streets and the tube and busses and trains. I like that there are so many people that all have hundreds of stories to tell, everyone with different views and dreams and hopes but all united in humanity. I like the rare smiles and familiar strangeness of it all. I like how no one really knows each other but is still somehow connected through the veins of the city. I like that I can go outside and have the world at my fingertips. 

But sometimes I wish I was literally anywhere else. 

Sometimes, I ache for silence and quiet and peace. Sometimes, I want to live in the countryside. I want to wander through empty fields and damp forests and bathe in cold rivers and chilling mountain streams. I want to hear nature sing and sit in a garden surrounded by flowers and trees and breathe fresh air. I want to live a simple life with bread baking and gardening and chopping wood for a fireplace. 

And it pains me that I will never be able to have both. 

[what-even-is-thiss]

Guys do centaurs have to eat both horse food and human food?

[what-even-is-thiss]

Centaur, eating out of a burlap sack of hay like it’s potato chips: So do you guys wanna get Chipotle later?

[what-even-is-thiss]

Centaur: *kneeling on the ground, ripping up bits of grass and eating it*

Nearby horse: *neighs*

Centaur: Well it’s easy for you to bend over, isn’t it?

Horse: *snorts*

Centaur: *through a mouthful of grass* Well goody goody for you, but some of us have two spines.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Human: Hey does somebody want the rest of my burger?

Centaur: Oh I’ll have it. I am starving.

Human: Didn’t you just eat like an entire barrel of hay?

Centaur: *snatches the burger* That was for the horse stomach not the human one. Don’t be racist, Carl.

[fangirltothefullest]

DON’T BE RACIST CARL

[conversationswithamillennial]

That spine comment made me reevaluate my life

[what-even-is-thiss]

Two spines, two ribcages, and six limbs baby! And a tail! Four shoulders!

[nerdy-as-heck]

This picture makes my intellectual half happy but also causes me great pain

[dragon-in-a-fez]

is your intellectual half the horse half or the human half

[beowulf22121]

Head, Abdomen, Thorax. 6 limbs. Insect.

[would-we-be-friends-if-i]

That last comment hit me so hard I felt like Plato when Diogenes plopped a plucked chicken down and declared it a man

[sleepdeprived-dumbass]

How do you resist the urge to walk around mysteriously while wearing a long coat and carrying ominous books with you? 

Asking for a friend...

[gatrii]

Okay i know all of you here in the Dark Academia community are huge introverts, but what about Dark Academia for us extroverted people?

going to cafés with friends and chatting about the newest assignments and back talking the teachers

having group study sessions where you can all complain how stupid the assignment is or help each other out or joke about the historical fact you just found out as you were researching for your essay

candlelit sleepovers where you all whisper among one another about your favourite books and shows and subjects

sitting at different parts of the room - one on the floor, one on the bed, third on the armchair, fourth on the desk, etc - and just reading, occasionally complaining or laughing about something that happened in your book, before moving on

going on long autumn walks, stepping on crunchy leaves and puddles, someone's laughing about how childish that is

going to the library with people, picking out books for each other or asking each other for recommendations

going to museums and pointing out different details you find in the art, maybe someone having some very obscure info about a specific artist or exhibition

having a presentation evening where you present whatever you've been reading up on so you can share it with your friends as well

giving each other annotated books and maybe even letting them add one with a different coloured pen so it's a shared book experience

writing poems or letters to each other

having a reading session where you all read one book outloud, switching between who's reading every chapter or maybe even giving each other roles to read out

[sleepdeprived-dumbass]

getting drunk on wine together

reenacting Shakespeare’s plays in a candlelit living room with makeshift costumes out of blankets and hair ties 

going to flee markets, second hand bookshops and antique stores together, looking for decorations perfect for each other’s rooms and searching for the oldest findable copies of classics

celebrate birthdays, holidays and famous poet’s birthdays together

throwing theme parties where everyone dresses like a character from their favorite book 

recreating bacchanals while wearing togas and feasting on food and wine  while blasting Lorde, Gang of Youths and The Orion Experience through the entire house 

[sleepdeprived-dumbass]

things that make you seem like a god

bloody knuckles 

wine dripping down your lips, drizzling from your chin

crushing pomegranates in your hands

open off-white or black button-ups, exposing your divine body

rings and necklaces and earrings

jewelry in general 

walking barefoot 

smirking

[itagnola-deactivated20181222]

Are you straight?

don’t insult me

[sleepdeprived-dumbass]

currently having an identity crisis. not sure wether it’s because of my mental illness, the fact that I’m on my period or because I might not be as cis as I thought I was 

[sleepdeprived-dumbass]

today’s agenda: 

be gay

commit arson

have an existential crisis

[sleepdeprived-dumbass]

sometimes I wonder why I am attracted to men and then I see Måneskin and remember why

[sleepdeprived-dumbass]

I am both terrified and enamored with the thought of being immortal. 

On one hand I want to roam this earth forever, know hundreds, thousands of people, live to see rulers and nations rise and fall, I wanna see time change the cities and nature and see cultures and society evolve. I want to see humanity destroy itself and rebuild, I wanna be time’s eternal companion. 

On the other hand I want to taste the sweetness and bitterness of mortality, see  the beauty in death, live like a burning flame and die when my fuel runs out. I want to make this fraction of time mine, live my limited forever, time gnawing on me, devouring my body and soul. 

[sleepdeprived-dumbass]

What do you call friends that are mermaids? Mermates. 

[sleepdeprived-dumbass]

since when is it out of fashion to wear a suit with a pocket watch and a top-hat all day every day?