#pretentious shit

[cubitumm-eamuss]

what is dark academia, you ask? dark academia is being as far away from basic and as close to pretentious as inhumanly possible.

[cubitumm-eamuss]

Advice

Obsess to the point of destruction.

Be as hedonistic as inhumanly possible.

Drink large quantities of wine.

Smoke large quantities of cigarettes.

Go to a liberal arts college in Vermont. Make friends there, then murder one of them.

Wear too much tweed.

Have a bacchanal.

Kiss your classmate, never mention it again, then question your sexuality.

Plant roses that smell like raspberries.

Be a character from The Secret History.

[cubitumm-eamuss]

just remember that pretentious spelled backwards is suoitneterp

[moonageromantic]

I'll be retiring to my chambers with my feline familiar, for the frigid Boreas has been unkind

[narwhalimpalement]

oooooooohhhhhh how elusive...

Per Aspera Ad Astra?

[virtualknife]

is this a safe space?

dear reader, i selfishly become friends with those I consider to have “bad taste” because I get so much joy watching myself slowly rub off on them, and seeing them acquire a more… refined energy

[snufkinniee]

and I see a shape of myself on the moon;

and I remember that I am human

[irrationallatin]

My book/movie progression of last & this year.

Read The Raven Cycle then watched Dead Poets Society, then read The Secret History, then watched Call Me By Your Name, then read CMBYN, then read If We Were Villans

Anyone know what comes next?