death is not an adventure

there seems to be a fine line between coincidence and irony. • she/her, multifandom

[fawnsite]

[bpvile]

love on metal — symbols.

༒ ⚰️༺ 🌃🕸️ 222

🦇◌✦ ｡* 𓉳 disorder.

𖤓 🕳️ 𝄞 ◌ 🎞️♥︎༻

♱🏰♡♱ 𓂃 ♱🏰♡♱

[arabellasrevenge]

I wanna grab both your shoulders and shake baby, snap out of it.

[ofallingstar]

Rory Gilmore's Reading Challenge

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge upgraded from 339 books to 408 (including those mentioned in the Netflix special, A Year in the Life)

Over the course of 7 seasons and a Netflix special, Rory Gilmore was seen reading 408 books on screen. How many have you read?

[randomwpsd]

[cathrdrals]

girls in catholic school studying the saints. girls pouring over pages in libraries, reading about st catherine and st monica and st clare, being drawn in by their grace, poise, and kindness. girls composing sonnets for st cecelia, the patron saint of music, girls exchanging roses in honor of st elizabeth, girls falling in love with the beautiful joan of arc and weeping for her tragic fate.

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

–Charles Baudelaire

[icarus-archives]

create art for the sake of creating art, create art without caring about how beautiful it is, how perfect it flows. art is art. and all art is glorious. if it's rough around the edges, who cares. you might not be the next picasso, the next shakespeare, and that's alright. if you're enjoying creating art. create art for yourself. create art for art.

[snookersneek]

Darkly academic research ideas for your time indoors (because you're not a heathen):

The lives of great classical composers.

Ancient Egypt's social hierarchy and attitudes towards women, homosexuality etc.

Poisons.

The tea trade, and how it became so important to British culture.

18th century fashion and the production of clothing.

How corsets aren't the terrible patriarchal torture devices everyone thinks they are.

The use of recreational drugs in the late 19th century.

The French revolution.

Methods of forensic investigation at crime scenes.

Controversy in psychological studies.

Matriarchal societies.

How nostalgia influences fashion, media, and literature.

The nature versus nurture argument.

The history of trains and railroads.

Symbolism in art.

Just a few research rabbit holes to throw yourself into if you're bored. :)

[sappylittlebitch]

🕯 Witchy Academia 🕯

candles are lit all around you, sometimes you know who lit them, sometimes you don’t, old grimoires stacked around your room gathering dust, clippings of your favorite spells pinned up, diagrams of plants and their properties inked in black in your book of shadows, stacked teacups with already read tea leaves, tracing the lines on your friend/lover’s palm and secretly interpreting the meanings, forming incantations with the stars and planets, whispering to the plants on your windowsill before bed, piercings and stacked silver rings that catch the moonlight just right, studying the history of witchcraft instead of studying for class, divining from the steam of your coffee at your favorite coffee shop, walking through the fog with ease, lipstick the color of coagulated blood, black eyeliner, smudged sigils up and down your arms under long sleeves, carrying crystals in your book bag

📜 Book Recommendations:

- Circe by Madeleine Miller

- The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

- Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson (comes out July 21st, 2021)

- The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

[asecrethistorian]

Some random advice for people who just got into dark academia, because I know this can be really overwhelming, and it’s hard to know where to start.

Watch a few movies with this aesthetic, this is a great way to become more familiar with the aesthetic. (Favourites of mine include dead poet’s society, kill your darlings and The dreamers.)

Become familiar with different types of academia. (Dark academia is the more famous one, but there’s also light, chaotic, witch, cottage, theater and many others.)

Make a playlist. There’s lots online, but make sure you actually enjoy listening to the songs.

This is something that helped me a lot: pick a subject you know little about and read an introductory book on it. (For me, it was philosophy, and I chose Russel’s “the history of western philosophy”)

Become familiar with different authors. If you don’t feel like reading entire books, look for passages by Oscar Wilde, Scott Fitzgerald, Homer, and any other you feel curious about.

There are some books that embody the aesthetic very well. Those include If we were villains, the secret history, the picture of Dorian Gray, and many others. There is a list on Goodreads of the top 95 da books, and you’re sure to find something interesting in there.

Make use of your surroundings. If you live somewhere with lots of museums, visit them!! If there’s a nice library close by, use it!!if you feel like no one gets what you are going through, or like you have nowhere to go and exploit your interests, fear not, for you are simply a missunderstood academic!!

If you found this post, chances are you’re on tumblr. If so, great!! There are so many blogs with dark academia aesthetic, and those are great for inspiration. My faves are @greeksblog and @wine-stained-dawn

Feel free to contact me if you want to talk, and remember: PURSUE KNOWLEDGE.

[rintarousgirlfriend]

Aesthetics Playlists

ANGELCORE

👼ANGELCORE👼 Spotify playlist by NagitoKomaeda

angelcore Spotify playlist by plantingmusic

angelcore Spotify playlist by Hermione Carney

ANGELCORE Spotify playlist by YUCK!!!

Angelcore Spotify playlist by jordansumner675

ANIMECORE

Animecore Spotify playlist by Frenchgab

animecore 🥺✨ Spotify playlist by bunny1090

mix; animecore Spotify playlist dickgry

Anime Openings (Japanese) Spotify playlist by hata251

Animecore Spotify Playlist by Nate Bunny Lyman

YANDERECORE

YandereCore 🔪❤️ Spotify playlist by Masked Angel

Yanderecore Spotify playlist by kristinenb98

YandereCore Spotify playlist by moonlitdustball

⚠️YANDERECORE⚠️ Spotify playlist by NagitoKomaeda

YANDERECORE (BrAiNfUcK V2) Spotify playlist by Isopod

D̶̼̾̆͝ę̴͔͕͎̫̩̐ͅͅạ̴̖͈͚͎̭̳͉̝̺̊̂d̶̛͔̺̻̼͆̐̈́̒͑ ̷̨̧̘̙̰̼̬̏̒̈̎̓ͅX̷̧̡̛̞̯̣͓͍͇̻̐̀̓͊̿D̷̨̡̺̭̻͉̄ Spotify playlist by nugget_030

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1zVtZBwnOfq3BW1V5AXuoa

Yandere by Jazmin bean on YouTube

Jazmin Bean playlist (yandere-ish music) on YouTube

BASTARDCORE

[bastard noises Spotify playlist by bastard babey

Bastard Milescore Spotify playlist by Arg Argargarg

🖕🏻♠️💥*°.Alternative bastardcore.°*💥♠️🖕🏻 Spotify playlist by i2703gr2c9x2ns17g8nsr8kol

absolutely fucking feral Spotify playlist by d. layne

𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦 Spotify playlist by vuvudesu

𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 Spotify playlist by 𝑠 𝑣 𝑒 𝑎

BC Spotify playlist by Zopita

Cursed Playlist Spotify playlist by Yuki Katsu

cursed music Spotify playlist by Henbo

cursed songs Spotify playlist by marienverum

Cursed Times Spotify playlist by Tabi

Curseds vibes Spotify playlist by unclesam

DEVILCORE

Devilcore playlist by emmaleni05

NU DEVILCORE playlist by TOBY

Devilcore type shit playlist by _.Portes._

Demoncore playlist by Beelzebruh

Demoncore vibez playlist by Gracie

Demoncore playlist by Probablycryingrn

E-GIRL/E-BOY

e-girl songs Spotify playlist by abstarzy

E-Girly season 🧚🏼‍♀️🖤☠️ Spotify playlist by genevieve.mrvan

e-girl tiktok songs Spotify playlist by mary caroline

e girl vibes Spotify playlist by Bella Comellini

🖤 e girl anthems 🖤 Spotify playlist by zeldymusic

E boy playlist Spotify playlist by JodyJohnston

E-Boy TikTok Songs Spotify playlist by salazar.jessica.513

E-Boy Bops Spotify playlist by Regan

✞ E-boy ✞ Spotify playlist by Quin Kempker

e-boy songs Spotify playlist by abstarzy

🖤 E-Boy 🖤 Spotify playlist by ringler311075

e boy Spotify playlist by albertlbaker

EMO

emo 2000s playlist by igorsampaio

The Sound of Emo Rap playlist by The Sounds of Spotify

Emo Forever Official Spotify Playlist

2000s emo kid playlist by 1278741742

Emo Throwbacks playlist by Tom Brewer 

CLOUDCORE

Cloud Rap - Instrumental playlist by mr0ll3

Cloud Rap France playlist by Sverre Skre

Cloud Rap playlist by babyjoe444

Cloud Rap Deutsch playlist by le_nn_ard

cloudcore playlist by Johana Felton

DARK ACADEMIA

dark/chaotic academia ❧ playlist by swishy

dark academia ❧ (sequel to chaos) by swishy

darkest /gothic academia playlist by athena

academia study songs by athena

slytherin academia study songs by athena

5OoA|dark academia Spotify classical music by Palicatbu

dark academia Spotify playlist by Talkus

dark academia but it slaps Spotify playlist by liennee

dark academia vibes Spotify playlist by Maria Alejandra Ugarte

dark academia (classical) Spotify playlist by Jasmine Avila

dark academia Spotify playlist by sweetcreature

dark academia (instrumental) Spotify playlist by natbr5656

dark academia Spotify playlist by marie33599

dark academia // lofi Spotify playlist by autycitrine

dark academia. Spotify playlist by liv

dark Academia Spotify playlist by Mari Solaro

dark academia society playlist by lucie m

darkest academia Spotify playlist by Harshi Bharani

dark academia and witchy vibes Spotify playlist by LizzyKitten

dark academia by albertlbaker

russian dark academia by albertlbaker

dark academia spotify playlist by kmarzc

Books & Black Coffee (DA playlist)

DARKEST ACADEMIA

villain’s origin story - darkest academia by swishy

the dead flowers society by swishy

darkest / gothic academia playlist by athena

Darkest Academia playlist by allieakerley2000

Darkest Academia playlist by Emily

darkest academia playlist by ianragan47

DARKEST ACADEMIA playlist by wolfandlion

losing touch playlist by bellue

dark academia murder mystery

FEMME FATALE

femme fatale Spotify playlist by judithabels8

Femme Fatale Spotify playlist by… well Spotify

Femme Fatale Queer Spotify playlist by vampire_mahou_shoujo

Femme Fatale Dark Cabaret Spotify playlist by aycaderenozkan

Femme Fatale 💋 Spotify playlist by Sunny

GOTH

Dark & Gothic Official Spotify Playlist

Goth Essentials playlist by Derrick Johnson

Goth/Darkwave playlist by Beach Fossils

Gothic Rock playlist by Timothy Walschaerts

GRUNGE

Grunge Forever Official Spotify playlist

90’s Grunge/Rock Spotify playlist by adrianperegrino

The Sound of Grunge Spotify playlist by The Sounds of Spotify

Seattle Grunge Spotify playlist by Iain C Forbes

Grunge: Essentials Spotify playlist by Cultura Inquieta

grunge aesthetic songs Spotify playlist by Kyra

Post-Grunge Official Spotify playlist

HATECORE

Hatecore playlist by gixxer.x

Hatecore playlist by Lacika

hatecore playlist by drunkside2002

hatecore playtlist by horsefishy

KUROMICORE

Kuromi Spotify playlist by iwi

4 kuromi bitches only Spotify playlist by sam

Kuromi Spotify playlist by Opal

KUROMI IS AN ALT GIRL <3 Spotify playlist by Charlotte

bunny Spotify playlist by morgan!

drainer 🥦 Spotify playlist by emma ¡

LOFI

lofi hip hop music - beats to relax/study to by Chilled Cow

Lo-Fi Beats Spotify playlist by Spotify

Lo-Fi Hip Hop for Work from Home Spotify playlist by PlayStation™Music Japan

Sad Lo-fi Beats by aofd3

Lofi Hip Hop & Chill Beats Spotify playlist by Delicieuse Musique

3:30 A.M. Lofi Hip-Hop Playlist Spotify playlist by Feardog

Lo-fi Hip Hop Spotify playlist by saltyjavvie1

Chillhop and Lo-Fi Vol. 1 by Avereo

Lo-Fi Playlist #OPC by oldtowneast

The Sound of Lo-Fi Beats Spotify playlist by The Sounds of Spotify

Lo-fi House Spotify playlist by Mimi reads at Spotify

Lo-Fi House Spotify playlist by the fine folks at Spotify

LO-FI HOUSE Spotify playlist by Niklas Fällén

Lo-Fi House Cassette Spotify playlist by angelojnsn

Lo-fi House Essentials Spotify playlist by Mixmag

The Sound of Lo-Fi House Spotify playlist by The Sounds of Spotify

Chillwave Spotify playlist by Timothy Walschaerts

CHILLWAVE ✨Lofi Chill Synth Spotify playlist by Astral Wizard

Chillwave Spotify playlist by Evan Wall

Chillwave 1 by Todafir Spotify playlist by Todafir

The Sound of Chillwave Spotify playlist by The Sounds of Spotify

LOSTCORE

Lostcore playlist by ollithemess

LostCore Easy playlist by Riccardo D'Angelo

lostcore playlist by meganemiko

LUSTCORE

lustcore Spotify playlist by anastx

PASTEL GOTH

pastel goth Spotify playlist by Alex Wheeler

Pastel goth music Spotify playlist by Kitira Bailey

Pastel goth Spotify playlist by Foxtails

Pastel Goth Spotify playlist by Demi Gray

Pastel Goth Feels Spotify playlist by Larissa Weathers

Pastel Goth🖤🍭 Spotify playlist by yasemin.ozut

Pastel Goth † Spotify playlist by 12177486409

💀💖Pastel Goth💖💀 Spotify playlist by Kylie Underwood

RAINCORE

Rain Sounds by Spotify

Rain//Lofi by Jeremy Ho

songs with rain sounds (songs to pee to) by Izzy Vasquez

TRAUMACORE

traumacore Spotify playlist by ranfrenz

traumacore 🍓☁️✨ Spotify playlist by serenitysocha

TRAUMACORE Spotify playlist by gypsyhearts

traumacore | csa Spotify playlist by candyprozac

traumacore. Spotify playlist by jbastien05

traumacore baby Spotify playlist by Akumunosekai

traumacore Spotify playlist by Ula Obołończyk

my traumacore >:3 Spotify playlist by emil

you stole everything from me Spotify playlist by plasticspiders

𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔲𝔪𝔞𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔢 Spotify playlist by battery

emptycore 💀✨ Spotify playlist by hamomg

STRIPCORE

Strip club music.

Strip club 2020 ⭐️

Strip club anthems

Strip club music 🍑

WITCHY ACADEMIA

Witchy Dark Academia Spotify playlist by Leaf

dark academia and witchy vibes playlist by LizzyKitten

salem, massachusetts playlist by godhateskeely

[chaoticdevotee]

Tarot

Let's talk about tarot! This is a fun one, and a form of divination I'm still improving myself (though to me, we are always working to improve, no matter how good we may be at something).

What is Tarot?

Tarot is a form of divination that falls under cartomancy, the practice of divination using cards. There are more types of divination cards, but we'll worry about those later.

There are four suits: pentacles (earth), wands (fire), swords (air), and cups (water). There is also the major arcana, which hold the famous cards such as Death, The Devil, The Hanged Man that we so often see twisted in media. Personally, I like associating the major arcana with the fifth element of spirit, as the arcana mainly deal with large events or turning points in one's life, and they can dig into your core.

The Heart of the Cards:

Not sorry, I had to use Yu gi oh, but I'm gonna go over the meanings and purposes of each suit, starting with the major arcana:

The Major Arcana- this is a suit of 22 cards out of 78 total. They are also called trumps (gross) and represent ones life journey. It starts with The Fool, representing beginnings and innocence, and ends with The World, which represents unity, harmony, balance, perfection. It is the ideal end of life, to be connected to the world around you and feel one with it. Use the major arcana as a guide for your life, use this suit as little mirrors who show you what you need to work on for your ideal end and what you've accomplished so far.

The Minor Arcana:

There are 56 minor arcana cards, split up into the suits mentioned above, which have 14 cards in each suit. Each suit details more in depth what they represent than the major arcana, which give you general advices and reflections of yourself. These suits all have different meanings, and I'll briefly discuss each one.

Cups are the suit of water, which mainly discuss and dive deeper into ones feelings and relationships. They promote feeling with your full heart, no matter what that emotion may be. Cups are a receptive suit and highly spiritual, as they are the suit that looks you in the eye and details your heart, no matter how uncomfortable you may feel with it, but thats tarot baby, the cards are blunt.

Wands are the suit of fire, dealing mainly with ones passions, creativity, as well as desire and will. This suit is physical, meaning it details more what you physically feel, rather than in your heart and emotions. They are the spark that will scream at you to get your shit together, to start creating, and to let your passions guide you.

Swords are the suit of air, representing logic, intellectual pursuits, and making strides in the spirit world. This suit details more of the steps and a rough outline of a plan for you to choose to follow. Swords will take you by the hand, a little roughly, and point out healthy, logical steps that follow a plan best for you. It's up to you to work with the cards however, they offer so much, and its up to us to meet them halfway to reap their benefits (so put in the work they tell you to do).

Pentacles are the suit of earth. They represent worldly, material things such as the body, money, sensuality. Like cups, this suit is receptive and details how one can connect with themselves and the world around them. This suit will grab your ankles to ground you and guide your inner self to harmony and completion. You can also find paths for manifesting within these cards (depending on your intent and/or spread), and balancing yourself and your environment.

How Do You Use Tarot?

Using tarot cards is highly customizable, to the point where it can be overwhelming. For spreads, the arrangement of your cards and the order you draw them in, can range from numbers 1-10+ the most cards I've used in a spread is 15.

Tarot cards are tools to build relationships with, as they will show you answers to questions you can't find or reveal parts of yourself you couldn't unveil alone. They help and they serve, so they deserve respect, tell them thank you when you are done with them, and store them comfortably, as you would want to be tucked into bed (boxes and bags to place in drawers or on altars I've found are easiest for storage).

I have a ritual for building my relationships with divination tools that I'll share, and hopefully it'll help you! For the first week I receive my tool, in this case deck, I keep it on my person constantly, whether that's keeping my deck under my pillow while I sleep or in my bag as I'm out and about, this is for the deck to get used to me so I can receive more personable readings. After that week, I build up the detail and intensity of my intent and number of cards I use.

For example, my first few readings, I'll ask questions like, "How can I better my communication skills?" It's simple, yet intrinsic enough to continue building a bond; as I go on with more readings, I will begin asking questions such as: "What is the root cause(s) for my insecurities?" This reading will dive deep into my psyche and unearth answers I won't be comfortable with, but that's tarot (making tarot a great tool for shadow work! But that's a later post). This intention is more in depth and asks more from the cards.

Intention is very important, and in my opinion better to start building up and getting used to first before you start worrying about detailed, complex spreads. Worry about drawing as many cards as you feel is right and placing them in a line, then once your comfy with your cards and how they work, spice up your readings with spreads.

Tarot Spreads

Spreads are the format of the cards, they can guide the order you draw your cards, as well as acting as a physical support for your intention. For example, there are multiple three card spreads, some even with the classic three in a horizontal line, one may be called Past, Present, Future spread, which is drawn left to right, while another draws from the middle first and is a relationship spread. Here are some examples of spreads, courtesy of Golden Thread Tarot, which is a free app I highly reccomend.

This is a Work Problems spread, meant to help you understand why you're facing the problems you're facing at your job, and possibly how to begin solving them.

When you come across a spread with a horizontal, or as I call, neutral card, that will either be the last or first card you draw, and the card where I personally let both upright and reversed meanings of the card guide me.

This spread is a Compatibility Spread, detailing the connection (or lack of) between you and another person, covering the emotional and practical aspects of the compatability.

Cautions of Tarot

Really, mainly you just need to respect and trust your deck, your cards know you, probably better than yourself, and will be glad to roast you whenever. Be sure to keep respect by saying thank you after every reading and storing them somewhere safe.

Without giving respect, you will not receive respect and your deck will render itself useless, breaking the connection between you and having poor readings, as in the cards will be irrelevant and distant.

I hope this little guide helps, and here's a couple links for further research! Tarot is fascinating and such a great part of my practice, I truly couldn't make as many strides in my craft and religion without them.

A huge help in my early days of learning tarot were the apps by Labyrinthos Academy, these apps are called: Labyrinthos Tarot, Golden Thread Tarot, and Luminous Spirit Tarot. They also have a Lenormand app for those of you who know and use Lenormand cards (for another time).

Here are the links:

Tarot - Wikipedia

Some interesting references in wiki for this one, and wiki always provides a nice jumping point for research!

Learn the Tarot Card Meanings

Learn the meanings of the Tarot cards with Biddy's Tarot card meanings database - an extensive and FREE Tarot resource. Includes upright and

This site is really nice in that it goes over every single meaning of every single card, tells you the keywords, and even gives possible meanings for why certain card suits may show up in your readings. It a very easy to use and in depth site. Good luck, have fun, and be safe!

Blessed Be!

A gif of someone placing a tarot card down on a velvet tablecloth. I have no clue where this gif originated from, I find all my images, except the ones I photograph, from Pinterest.

[klassizismus]

Crow and blossom, 小原 又雄 Ohara Koson, 1910

[lucy-harker]

We don’t remember days, we remember moments.

[haileycarstairs]

✧･ﾟbookish playlists ✧*⋆

- the grishaverse:

a six of crows playlist

a six of crows playlist (but sad)

a kaz brekker playlist

an inej ghafa playlist

a jesper fahey playlist

a wylan van eck playlist

a nina zenik playlist

a matthias helvar playlist

a kanej playlist

a wesper playlist

a helnik playlist

a darklina playlist

a malina playlist

a zoyalai playlist

- the shadowhunter chronicals

a herongraystairs playlist

a blackstairs playlist

an emma carstairs playlist

a julian blackthorn playlist

a kitty playlist

a kit herondale playlist

a ty blackthorn playlist

a kierarktina playlist

a herondaisy playlist

a matthew fairchild playlist

- percy jackson

a camp half blood playlist

a percy jackson playlist

an annabeth chase playlist

a percabeth playlist

- others

a the invisible life of addie larue playlist

a radio silence playlist

another radio silence playlist

a red white and royal blue playlist

a the song of achilles / patrochilles playlist

a the cruel prince / judecardan playlist

a legend / juneday playlist

a dance of thieves / kazi and jase playlist

an it ends with us / lily and atlas playlist

a today tonight tomorrow playlist

a rowan and neil playlist

a heartstopper / nick and charlie playlist

a they both die at the end / rufus and mateo playlist

an all the bright places / violet and finch playlist

[crimsonletter]

studying tips for ex-gifted kid academics :)

Just thought I’d share some of my personal tricks to make studying easier and efficient;

• Planning one week ahead

It’s super important to stay ahead of schedule, especially in university, so organize your planner as efficiently as possible and make sure you stay on top of your assignements and readings

•Sticky notes

Write down key aspects or vocabulary, whatever it is you need to memorise, on sticky notes and put them in your textbooks. This will highlight the main ideas and make it easier to retain information.

•Find a study cycle that works with you and stick to it

Personnally, studying in 20/10 minutes cycles work best for my attention span. Other popular cycles include studying for 40min/break for 15, or studying for 15min/break for 5min. However any tempo that suits you is what you should try to keep. I try to aim for at least 6 cycles daily (add up to about 2 hours of actual studying)

• Summarizing

After each class, try to mentally go through what you learned and write it out on a piece of paper. This will help you train your memory and help you retain information easier.Also try to make recap sheets for your classes and put them at the beginning of your notebook/textbook.

• Keep in mind your goals

Keeping in mind your long-term and short-term goals will really motivate you to do your best and study more.

•Don’t overwork yourself

Now,I know that time can pass really quickly once you actually get down to work, however, overworking will cause more harm than good. Please do take breaks, keep hydrated and do things that you enjoy, otherwise you will very likely experience a burn-out.

• Music

Finding a playlist, podcast or background music that you can work to will both make you more efficient and definitely more focused. I personnally recommend classical music or cafe/library asmr or lo-fi beats (I find that music with lyrics end up distracting me when i study)

That was it, feel free to comment if you have any other tips!