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a masterlist of my dark academia posts

a reminder.

about sleep & about addiction.

to seem well-educated.

in everyday life & in quarantine.

seasons in the north.

autumn – september, october & november. morning routine, night routine.

winter – december, january & february. holidays, gift guide, new year’s eve, a mood.

spring – march, april & may.

summer – june, july & august. books, music, films & tv, activities, a mood.

to do at home, books, quill & ink, to draw.

studying: online school, to research, study notes, typed notes, annotating, uniform & public school.

inspiring characters.

classical music recommendations i (note about wagner!) & ii, classical music major.

dark academia in my relationship, pandemic valentine’s day, first date ideas.

on a budget.

sustainability i & ii.

decor – dorm room.

clothing – winter, spring, summer & autumn. autumn-winter style, sportswear, hair accessories, overdressing, hermione granger outfits, modern style.

beauty –  skincare, makeup & hairstyles i & ii.

dark academia x cottagecore.

stop reposting.

please feel free to send any dark academia related questions! my inbox is always open🖤

having a really cool art teacher brought the best artistic abilities in me, abilities i didn’t know i fucking had. 

I draw for myself? the fuck is that. boring. what the hell

I draw for arts class? oh my god how did i do this? did i get possessed by an artist? do i have hands?

The Mechanisms have so many genders going on, and most of these genders are waistcoat

chaotic academia is basically dedicating your entire soul to the concept of dark academia but not having the time to actually put your effort in it so you're just trying your best.

trying to find a fic that you binge read some time ago and then forgot to save is truly an olympic sport and I accept no criticism

~True Love~

If Love is a Promise

Gliding off a forked tongue,

But too unknown and tempting to reject;

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If Love is Sacrifice:

A debt and inconvenience

Strapped around a life like a millstone;

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If Love is Provision:

The gift of necessities

Barely and begrudgingly given;

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If Love is Respect:

A trade of raised voices for silence-

Acceptance and worship of flaws;

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If Love is a Word

Spoken with false safety

Moments before ears and hearts bleed;

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If Love is Comfort:

An embrace between strikes-

The fearful blanket of soft words and terror;

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If this is Love,

If this is what is supposed to sustain Life,

We ought to welcome Death with open arms.

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~Reigh Lynne

Physics homework? What is that.

Staying up all night to study every astronomy and astrophysics related things, dreaming about what's hiding behind the dust clouds and void, letting your mind wonder through the shadows? That's it, that's my ideal life.

*rings large bell*

Here ye here ye Mechs fandom! Come get your Nastya wallpapers! Nastya wallpapers right here! Step right up and simp over the fictional space lesbian!

STEM DARK ACADEMIA

I'm a little upset at the lack of stem in dark academia, so here's my list of aesthetic science things, STEM ACADEMIA (dark edition)

• relating a little too much to the mad scientist trope (and telling everyone "no, no I would never do anything like that, I just want to help people" but like imagine if we could resurrect people)

• rereading Frankenstein every year, specifically in the month of october

• "why is STEAM a thing?? Art? who that?"

• minoring in classics because you still like mythology and history and reading

• finding the science in art (why things make you feel a certain way, how they do that, what effect they've had on health and medicine) and finding the art in science (isn't it incredible that dna knows how to tell plant cells to break down chlorophyll and this makes the gorgeous fall colors)

• reading every book that mentions at all a scientist or has a character who is interested in stem (they are few and far between)

• enjoying the structure of math and engineering but thriving off the chaos that is science

• where are the mad scientist women? I need this

• people being surprised when you tell them you're majoring in something "really science-y" after being an absolute bookworm and musician all throughout your childhood and having to defend what your heart desires (no? just me?)

• CARDIGANS are peak stem culture

• "why aren't you a doctor? why aren't you going to med school? why are you doing insert reasonable science degree here and not becoming a doctor? don't you want to help people?"

• wanting to go into genetics but wanting to go into botany but wanting to go into theoretical physics but wanting to go into astronomy but wanting to go into geology but wanting to go into chemical engineering but wanting to go into astrophysics but wanting to go into wildlife biology

• for some reason having a huge obsession with morals, ethics, and philosophy

• watching true crime just for the forensic bits

• watching mythbusters as a kid

• LISTENING TO TCHAIKOVSKY, BEETHOVEN, BACH, AND MOZART those are the stem classical musicians change my mind

• doing all your homework and frying your brain then getting to read a simple book that really refreshes you

• you had the astronomy and archaeology obsession as a kid

• listening to synth wave instrumentals

• MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL

• when people tell you that one cool science fact they learned and you try your hardest to encourage them but girl that wasn't even close to being correct

• ScienceDirect and PubMed are your go-to databases

• having lots of intrusive, existential thoughts that sometimes suffocate you, because you know better than most how much dark dna there is or how small we really are in the universe or knowing how much math explains and how little room there is for free will or thinking about how we are made up of mostly four types of atoms

• reading science or math textbooks for fun

• reading the fountainhead by ayn rand when you were way too young and didn't understand it but now parts of it emerge from the depths of your memory and you are struck by the power

• watching marvel and x-men and jurassic park just because

• reading sci-fi because it's the closest thing to real science in literature

• knowing a little too much about radiation poisoning and how to really dissolve a body in chemicals

• wearing white to make up for how little your professors make you wear lab coats

(sorry, I don't know that much about technology and I'm a literal grandpa when it comes to using it myself)

Good Omens 1941

The Bombshell

Bit obsessed by this.