literature& asian dark academia

Flora || 17 || Xueyun || INTP All pics owned by me unless said otherwise. clothing. music. literature(maybe). being a pretentiously academic high school kid.

[crystallizedtwilight]

can u believe the play ends like this

[lillagrim]

[lordkingsmith-deactivated202311]

That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of ‘escape’. I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, ‘What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and most hostile to, the idea of escape?’ and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

- CS Lewis, on the matter of escapism and fantasy

[waiting-on-gregory]

Going to Christmas market today with my layered sweaters

[waiting-on-gregory]

A trip to the art institute.

[blackness-by-your-side]

The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.

[cuntybearjamboree]

FARENHEIT 451 IS ON THE BANNED BOOKS LIST??? IT’S LITERALLY ABOUT THE SOCIETAL DANGERS OF BANNING/OUTLAWING/BURNING BOOKS ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[dancing-coyote]

That’s the reason it’s on the bloody list.

BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT HOW BANNING AND BURNING BOOKS IS WRONG.

[unlimitedgamesbutnogames]

HERE’S ALL THE PDF VERSIONS I COULD FIND SINCE WE’RE ALL IN QUARANTINE AND WE CAN’T PHYSICALLY GET THE BOOKS WE DON’T HAVE

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Beloved

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (this was the only free version I could find, and it’s a downloadable thing, so do so with caution)

The Call of the Wild

Catch-22 (it was either this version or one where the entire thing was in comic sans font)

The Catcher in the Rye

Fahrenheit 451

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Gone With the Wind

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

Howl

In Cold Blood

Invisible Man

The Jungle (personally I don’t like this formatting, but the site doesn’t look sketchy so…) - there’s also this which is the proper book format in a pdf, but it’s directly photocopied so it might be hard to read some of the print

Leaves of Grass

Moby Dick

Native Son

Our Bodies, Ourselves (we learned about this one in APUSH!)

The Red Badge of Courage

The Scarlet Letter

COULD NOT FIND Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the ebook is 47 fucking dollars??? and i can’t even find sketchy websites that’ll let me download a pdf. if anyone manages to find a link, lmk please)

Stranger in a Strange Land

A Streetcar Named Desire

Their Eyes Were Watching God

To Kill a Mockingbird

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Where the Wild Things Are (this is a slideshow!!!! how fun)

COULD NOT FIND The Words of Cesar Chavez (however I did manage to download the first 71 pages of the book from EBSCO and I put it here but I couldn’t get the rest. sorry y’all)

[emeraldscholar]

rebloggan 4 links

[waiting-on-gregory]

[waiting-on-gregory]

I made this out of SAT reading practice tests after I got a 1550 on the SATs🤪

[mydailybookquotes]

“Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can’t read anymore, write.”

-James Baldwin

[academia-aesthetics]

Give me moonlight and a forgotten love

[hcseokie]

tbh having followers here is so weird bc they don’t interact with you or talk to you at all they just……stare at your breakdowns and say mood

[waiting-on-gregory]

yeah.......

[waiting-on-gregory]

The Goldfinch is the most mentally taxing book I’ve ever read. In my life.

[shaded-lamp]

Starting a new thing (if it isn’t already)

Distracted academia aesthetic

Get good grades but can’t read a chapter of a book without mindlessly scrolling through dark academic lit posts or pictures of other books in between pages

Likes the IDEA of studying, cannot for the life of them make it through a chapter of that textbook without thinking about moving to England after getting into Cambridge or Oxford

Makes it through the classics in the pursuit of knowledge but took multiple years because of the allure of the ya fiction fantasy section at Barnes and noble

Writes handwritten letters for loved ones with little pressed flowers in them, but has the absolute messiest handwriting

Style fluctuates from dark academia style to only sweats for a week to whatever was on the floor when they woke up that day

Has read the classics a couple times and follows the text post fandom accounts, but couldn’t hold an in-person conversation about them because reasons

Loves to read but literally hasn’t picked up or finished a book in ages just because of the sheer number of things they are currently procrastinating at the moment

Either has 30 million things in there mind or has about -2, there is no in between

Is trying their best and deserves a hug :)

Distracted academia

[museenkuss]

Dark academia blogs are too much “skinny white teen wearing plaid” and not enough “sharing and discussing ominous articles”

[alphacrone]

thanksgiving is cancelled in 2020. instead, november will be a month of Dionysian madness, casting curses, moonlight revelry, dubious self-care methods, ritual sacrifice, and mashed potatoes. 

[renthony]

And we’re off to an excellent start.

[waiting-on-gregory]

Pictures of Ophelia(pinterest)....

Have you seen the wonder called Ophelia?

The innocent girl who fluttered out flowers to murderers, incestuous adulterers, the dead, and her poor brother?

She sang like the wind as her breath sways her hair,

She ordered a whimsical symphony with her lips,

Her love and father gave her tears.

She wondered round to her willow and her brook

Followed the scent back to her daisies, “long purples,” and “dead men’s fingers,”

She knew not it was her own life she took

When she sang herself into the water.

She had a love for life once.

She had a wise, stern father

But now her soul fades into the weeds and forever sleeps with smooth pebbles and pills of gold under the river deep

[edmundofgloucester]

[waiting-on-gregory]

lmao

[waiting-on-gregory]

Oh, to overcome your internal homophobia and play a gay dude in the 80s’, helping countless other gay dudes overcome their internal trauma and pain.