If you feel like you’ve seen this alread, that’s normal. This list of recommendation has been previously posted on my first account @praestantias which has been deleted for some reasons. So here I am, reposting it.
Hating how elitist and eurocentric the dark academia community became, I would truly appreciate that you leave some recommendation of book written by people of color, for I noticed that I am guilty of the eurocentric part, but I am really want to educate myself and read more non-white books.
Thank you for your suggestions!
HAMLET????
Going through the pile of books to go to charity shops and there’s this amazing kids history one that’s literally like
Give your friend a neolithic burial
renaissance in the 21st century
Taken from @wellyouwontknow on weheartit
1. Are you going to learn Greek, Latin or French?
2. Will you drink coffee or tea as you read trough old books?
3. Running through the dark, mysterious forests behind the school at night or early morning walks around the school?
4. Will you read Kill Your Darlings or The Picture of Dorian Gray?
5. Will you read The Secret History or Dead Poets Society?
6. All-girls school, all-boys school, or going to a school for everyone?
7. Will you tell your friends about Oscar Wilde or Edgar Allan Poe?
8. Will you tell the rough truth or the sweet lies about what happened last weekend?
9. Will you prefer the sound of the crowded library (flipping pages, pencils meeting paper, soft whispers) or your shared dormitory at night (snoring, fire crackles, rain tapping against the window?
10. Running in the rain or laying on grass during summer?
11. At night, when they ask for a scary story, will you tell of true crime or urban legends?
12. Will your old radio play classical or jazz?
13. Will you take history or English class?
14. Will you dance in the moonlight, or play the piano, softly?
15. Will you prefer an old countryside manor, or a big city house?
16. In an empty classroom, will you solve equations on the blackboard, or search for answers in an old forgotten book?
17. Will you sit on a bench, in silence, with the person that you love, or dance at a ball with the same person?
18. Will you write music or poetry?
19. Will you go to a crowded reception, or spend the night telling horror stories to your friends?
20. Will you be a student at a boarding school in the countryside, or at a prestigious university?
21. A quiet and desired solitude or a group of friends with whom to break the rules?
22. Will you play Hamlet or Othello?
23. Will you pledge allegiance to the gods of science or literature?
24. Will you be forced to abandon love for ambition or ambition for love?
25. Will you visit rainy London or gloomy Paris?
26. Will you experience a forbidden love, because homosexual, or because incompatible with the social differences?
27. Will you play the piano or the violin?
28. Will you study late at night, or from early morning?
29. Will you be crazy about old novels or old movies?
30. Will you visit an abandoned chapel, at night, or a hidden library?
31. Will you wear tweed blazer or a trench coat?
32. Corduroy or plaid pants?
33. Oxford shoes or Doc Marten's boots?
34. A beige blouse or a black turtleneck?
35. A pocket watch or metal glasses?
36. Will you prefer the sound of dead leaves crunching under the feet or the feeling of the sun on your skin on a winter day?
37. Will you smoke a cigarette on the terrace of a cafe, reading the newspaper, or drinking red wine at night, a violin in your hand?
38. Will you spend hours in a museum, starring the same piece of art, or typing an essay on a typewriter?
39. Will you wear your hair tied by a ribbon, or braided?
40. A hazy graveyard at dusk, or a wild horse running in a field?
41. Will you prefer a Gothic-style building (high windows, towers) or neoclassical (columns, sober)?
42. Will you meet your love in secret between two shelves in the library, or behind a chapel?
43. Will you read Jane Austen or Henry James?
44. Will you wear the portrait of your loved one as a medallion, or place one of their letters against your heart?
my inbox is open! send me a number <3 (or do it yourself too)
If anyone did this to me I would immediately fall in love you
how to love a dark academic:
• write them letters and seal the envelopes with fancy wax seals
• buy them books
• write them poetry
• quote shakespeare, or really any other author or playwright to them
• read and discuss books with them
• listen to their 3 am rants on how we could've heard oscar wilde's voice if he'd had lived just a tad longer
• help them study
The amount of time that the Ancient Egyptian civilisation lasted is just so mind boggling. It lasted over 3000 years. That's such an insane amount of time. It ended around 30BC meaning that it will only be extinct for as long as it existed in around 950 years. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of bitcoin than the building of the pyramids of Giza. They were already ancient to her. What the fuck
serious question
how tf are you meant to respond to pick up lines on dating apps???
sketchin
Vassar College girls practicing Greek dance c. 1923