ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴀᴄᴀᴜʟᴀʏs
charles : anglo-saxon
'warrior'
camilla: roman, female form of camillus
'noble'
ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴀᴄᴀᴜʟᴀʏs
charles : anglo-saxon
'warrior'
camilla: roman, female form of camillus
'noble'
clear starry nights, theatre major, urban lifestyle, writing essays on your own interests for the pleasure of it, annotated scripts, sheet music, all nighters, playing piano, lopsided glasses, turtlenecks, studying anatomy for artistic purposes, short dark and peach dyed hair, Sappho quotes on bookmarks, olive toned skin, peppermint mochas, vengeance
Reprinted, November, 1924.
- listening to classical music and hymns in Latin
- devoting myself absolutely to my studies, writing, reading, playing viola, and love
- stopping to appreciate small things
- wearing vintage, academic, menswear-esque clothes found mostly at the thrift store and my grandmother’s closet
- drinking tea in excess and mulled grape juice from wine glasses (because I’m not 21 lol)
- (accidentally) staying up too late and getting up too early
- reading more classic and gothic literature
- playing viola and piano late at night
- studying Latin even more than I already do (I was a Latin nerd before I was a dark academia fiend).
- expanding my vocabulary
- studying french, italian, and german
- Aspiring to go to a small school on the east coast (something I was already doing)
- Taking IB and all the classes/research involved purely for the love of knowlege
- Wearing dark lipstick that makes my lips look winestained (or bloodstained) and darkening my brows without tidying them up
- wearing ribbons in my hair
- getting my books from secondhand shops or checking them out from the library (this not only fits the aesthetic, but is also better for the environment and way cheaper!! Plus it helps libraries stay up and running if your government sees that they’re still popular!! I could make a whole post about this but yeah. I recommend this to anyone who loves books, especially if you tend to spend all your money on them👀).
- reading/studying by candlelight at night or natural light during the day
- drinking black coffee at all hours of the day
- wandering around antique shops, libraries, small bookstores, historical sights, and local forest trails
- reading books in their original language (if they’re in Latin)
- finding old, clothbound books on obscure subjects from the library or antique/secondhand shops
- wearing fragrances that smell either of book bindings or musky scents
Chaotic academia is
1.) Intense obsessions that last maybe two weeks but consume your soul
2.) Spacing out in class but loving to learn
3.) Swearing and slang while discussing deep academic topics
i want windswept hair, i want shirts not buttoned quite right but i’m late for class so i don’t care. i want long nights and longer mornings, strong candles burning behind conversations about plato’s divine madness. I want wine stained lips debating over latin etymology or computer code or whatever springs to mind. i want to be so exhausted from sheer knowledge and love it. I want to be pretentious and to be a mess because why not.
Hello! I replied to this post on Reddit today, trying to compile all the dark academia books I could think of, and then thought that maybe all of you here might find it useful too, so here you go. It is a very, very broad list, a mix of classic and contemporary literature, and there is no set criteria besides having a dark vibe (this includes murder and crime but could just be the way it’s written as well) and portraying an academic setting, most of the time from the student’s point of view. I haven’t read all of these myself and so I can’t judge on quality, but hopefully this will inspire people to add on to it in the comments.
Here you go!
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson The Secret History, Donna Tartt If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio Maurice by E. M. Forster The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Possession by A.S. Byatt The Truants by Kate Weinberg The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Vicious by V. E. Schwab The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (tangentially related) A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Likeness by Tana French The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (coming out tomorrow!) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman Oleanna by David Mamet Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Other classics that are not Dark Academia in content, but which I would include in a list of the DA canon: The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer Shakespeare’s plays (Macbeth, Hamlet are good ones to start with) A Separate Peace, John Knowles The Bacchae, Euripides Greek tragedies (a good one to start with is Antigone, very popular and staged many a time) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Beat generation literature Jane Austen’s books (light academia, anyone?)
oh to be a poetess and to write flawless brain regurgitations all day surrounded by plants and beautiful things, hosting literature clubs n getting lit at 2am yelling bacchic hymns
Psychology students and law students share a specific vibe but no one knows exactly what it is.
october 1st, 2019
ft. @studyplants // @jawnkeets // @sarahfromparis
1. stand in the middle of a lake staring at the way the moonlight reflects off the blood on your hands
2. start using words with more syllables because it sounds smarter and you need everyone to know how smart you are so they won’t know you bribed your way into the gentleman’s club
3. cover your chin with a black scarf so people can’t see the scar you got from turning the pages of the encyclopaedia too quickly
4. clutter your room with things that you bought from old charity shops, so you can watch them collect dust (and so you won’t have to look at that mysterious red stain on the floor)
5. buy a coffin to sleep in (you can find one secondhand if it’s too expensive - don’t worry, that just adds to the mystique).
6. string balls of cosy yarn across the floor, lest any intruders come. this way, you can catch them easily.
7. spell your name wrong to prevent identity theft
8. cut all your hair off in an attempt to become someone else and then send the locks to your neighbours (don’t provide context)
9. dig yourself a grave four feet to the left of the nearest skyscraper
10. don’t look behind your shoulder or you’ll see her. donna.
Where artemis would live 🌙
~ the cold glow of a laptop screen illuminating an otherwise dark room;
~ stacks of printed class handouts piled on the desk, messy and disorganised to all but the one they belong to;
~ textbooks with notes and observations scribbled hastily in the margin in black biro, important passages circled and underlined with feverish vigour;
~ a half-drunk cup of takeout coffee, its contents abandoned in favour of a sudden breakthrough;
~ a jacket draped over the back of a plastic library chair for hours on end;
~ the harsh fluorescent lights of a university corridor late at night, a single set of footsteps cutting through the silence.
Places I want to live: