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Dark Academia: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List (Part 2)

Part one is here for anyone interested!

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Dead Girls Society by Michelle Krys

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Bunny by Mona Awad

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Maurice by E.M. Foster

The Society For Soulless Girls by Laura Steven

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Sharp Edge of Silence by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum

The Muse by Jessie Burton

Persuasion by Jane Austen

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Had to have this on my feed.

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I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

the only thing AI checker does is harm genuine artists and people in general too.

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𝖑𝖎𝖋𝖊 𝖎𝖘 𝖇𝖚𝖙 𝖆 𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖓 𝖉𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖒

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𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 𝔭𝔬𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔠

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Wen Ning and Wen Qing went all out to help Wei Ying and Jiang Cheng just because of one time Wei Ying treated Wen Ning with kindness.

But when it came to Jiang Cheng to have the chance to repay his life debt towards Wen Ning and Wen Qing, besides the fact that he basically didn't do shit, the fucking MDZS be like: "Well, their clans destroyed his clan so he could choose to not repaying his debt without looking like an ungrateful asshole". So we can treat people like shit just because of family ties now? Like the way some of you think the Wens Renmants were all war criminals, including Wen Yuan and Wen PoPo, thus, deserved to be put down by the Cultivation World like dogs, huh? Also, Jiang Cheng already got his revenge towards the cunts that were actually directly responsible for his clan's massacre. What Wen Chao and WangLingJiao did to the Lotus Pier had nothing to do with Wen Ning and Wen Qing. Plus, are we not going to talk about the way Jiang Cheng treated Wen Ning like trash, even before the death of Jin Zixuan? I guessed we are entitled to treat out benefactor like trash just because they are from the family of your arc-enemy then?

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Random Thought #45: You know what, actually? Wei Wuxian actually had multiple valid reasons to believe that Jin Zixuan was attacking him during the ambush when he had Wen Ning kill the guy on defense instinct. Other than the fact that Jin Zixuan refused to side against his shitty cousin then lunged at him with a drawn sword because he was offended at the thought of needing to confirm that he wasn’t a part of the ambush his shitty cousin was leading, this is actually not the first time that Jin Zixuan has pulled a sword on and attacked Wei Wuxian in a situation that was later revealed to have been easily resolved had Jin Zixuan not escalated the tension to violence with his unwillingness to humble himself and communicate with Wei Wuxian.

During the Phoenix Mountain Hunt when Jin Zixuan is harassing a clearly uncomfortable Jiang Yanli, he gets angry when Wei Wuxian steps in to her defense, even though he only stepped in because once again Jin Zixuan had begun insulting Jiang Yanli to her face, in an isolated area where no one would see if anything went wrong, then got physical with her when she attempted to leave! Then, angry at being called out by Wei Wuxian for his continued piss poor behavior towards Jiang Yanli, Jin Zixuan literally attacks them! The sword glare he slashed out had to be deflected by Lan Wangji! Like, imagine what would have happened to both of them had Lan Wangji not deflected the attack, cause Jiang Yanli, the woman Jin Zixuan was supposedly attempting to woo, was in the crossfire, too! Both in situations where he dislikes them and in situations where he’s trying to make amends, Jin Zixuan acts violently belligerent towards both Wei Wuxian and Jiang Yanli during most of these scenes. It’s literally impossible to tell if he’s harmless, cause even when he’s being genuine, that doesn’t preclude him resorting to violence when his ego is threatened!

Wei Wuxian gave him multiple chances during the Qiongqi Pass ambush to clearly state that he was not a part of the ambush, and with his history of attacking first and explaining only when forced to, Jin Zixuan decides to lunge at Wei Wuxian first with a sword he’d drawn in anger in hand and explain afterwards. But unlike the last time he did this, Wei Wuxian had Wen Ning and a lot less patience for his bullshit. I’m sorry for Jiang Yanli and Jin Ling that they lost their husband and father. I’m sorry that Jin Zixuan’s death was the death knell that condemned all of the Wen remnants and Wei Wuxian. But I cannot be sorry that Jin Zixuan died. He deserved it for refusing to learn the most basic deescalation tactic of not physically attacking the person you are trying to convince you mean no harm to during a tense situation.

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“March' is a sharp word, brusque and bracing, like its month. 'January', "February'; they meander like rivers; 'April' is like the sound of raindrops on the windowpane; but 'March' is a gust of wind flinging grit.”

Adrian Bell “A Countryman's Spring Notebook”