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MAKE ME CHOOSE — @percyokonjos asks oliver marks or selwyn kane

actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. sometimes disaster.

happy birthday lily ♡

#ch: oliver marks #book: iwwv #dark academia #graphic

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somebody – one of those damned toddlers, I guess – got my favorite scarf off the bed and wrapped up part of a chicken leg in it. that nice silk one with the pattern of clocks on it. It’s just ruined.

#ch: francis abernathy #book: tsh #dark academia #graphic #picturesqueue

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And the rest of us rise too, and clink our glasses across the table, like an army regiment crossing sabres: Henry and Bunny, Charles and Francis, Camilla and I. “Live forever,” we chorus, throwing our glasses back in unison.

#book: tsh #dark academia #typography #picturesqueue

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This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

#type: books #book: tsh #dark academia #graphic #picturesqueue

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MAKE ME CHOOSE — @percyokonjos asks oliver marks or selwyn kane

actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. sometimes disaster.

happy birthday lily ♡

#ch: oliver marks #book: iwwv #dark academia #graphic

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READ IN 2018 → If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

#type: books #book: iwwv #dark academia #graphic

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MAKE ME CHOOSE — @fahey asks these violent delights or if we were villains + @hcrror asks if we were villains or sorcery of thorns

our squabbling was good-natured and usually harmless. we had, like seven siblings, spent so much time together that we had seen the best and worst of one another and were unimpressed by either.

#type: books #book: iwwv #dark academia #graphic

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#wow #type: books #book: frankenstein #classics #graphic

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                                                 Till this moment I never knew myself.

                                                                                 ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.  

#type: books #book: pride and prejudice #classics #graphic

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Dead Poets Society (1989), quoting Henry David Thoreau.

#:sob: #type: film #film: dps #dark academia #gifset

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OLIVER MARKS  — If We Were Villains 

❝ You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.❞

secret santa gift for @markoliver​

#type: books #book: iwwv #dark academia #graphic

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Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.

#type: books #book: iwwv #dark academia #graphic

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@storyseekers event 08 : favorite 2020 read  —  if we were villains

how could we explain that standing on a stage and speaking someone else’s words as if they are your own is less an act of bravery than a desperate lunge at mutual understanding?

#type: books #book: iwwv #dark academia #graphic

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fun fact for you all: bram stoker started writing dracula just weeks after oscar wilde’s conviction…….we really are in it now

#type: meta #is that even appropriate as a tag #anyway #book: dracula #bram stoker #oscar wilde #classics #reference

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So when YOU sew a bunch of unmatched parts together, it is “a quilt” and “a beautiful gift” and “will assuredly become a family heirloom” but when I sew a bunch of unmatched parts together it is “A MONSTER” and “AN ABOMINATION, AN AFFRONT TO THE GODS” and goes on “A MURDEROUS KILLING SPREE.”

#helppppp #type: humour #book: frankenstein #classics

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It’s so funny to me how, after creating a life and abandoning it, Victor Frankenstein just like… ignores it for the next two years. Did he really think it wouldn’t ever affect him years down the line? “Oh yeah, remember the time I made life in my apartment and then horribly rejected it? Sometimes that still haunts me.”

#type: meta #book: frankenstein #classics #what was going on w his brain tho <3

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I see a lot of dark academia aesthetic involving the classics fields, literature and languages and theater and music, but can the STEM kids get in on this too? Where’s my dark science aesthetic at? where’s my STEM gothic?

•  It has to be a mistake, on the syllabus your professor e-mailed over yesterday. The lab class can’t possibly start at 8pm. Not that you’d notice the time of night anyway, considering that for some reason it’s held in a basement of the STEM buildings that you were sure was closed off. You’ve never seen anyone emerging from its depths, and honestly you’re not even sure how to get down there. But not to worry, your professor assures you when you reply with your concerns. He’ll send his TA to pick you up. Just try not to stare at their hand. Especially if it sparks. They’re still working out the kinks.

• The transparent lightboard you use in your apartment building for working out math equations that require more room is the only illumination piercing your otherwise dim living room. You’ve been working for hours, and haven’t noticed how late it’s become, mostly because you’re pretty sure that you accidentally just determined exactly when the world is going to end. Before you can grab your phone to tell everyone, there’s a knock at your door. “Well done,” the man and woman in dark clothes and glasses that reflect even the minor light so that you can’t see your eyes as they enter your apartment. “A little too well done, we think. You’ll be coming with us now.”

•   H2 = H 2 0 [ Ωm(1+z) 3 +ΩDEexp {3 Z/z 0 dz 1+z [1+w(z)]}

•  “We are doctors,” in heart if not yet in degree,” the neurologist teaching your afternoon class says, laughing. “We are the ones who stand between that looming reaper Death and all of our patients, scalpels and syringes in hand, and say “not today, old friend. Not this one.” But then the mirth fades from his voice, and his gaze drifts to the left of the lecture hall for some odd reason, fixed on some dark corner. “That’s why it hates us, you know. Death. All of us. We as doctors must be very, very careful in our everyday lives, because Death despises us for stalling its work time and time again, and it constantly has its eyes on us. Waiting for us to relax, to look away. There are rituals, as we get older and Death steps closer every day…” but then they come back to themselves, shaking their heads and laughing. “Not enough coffee for me today, apparently!” Shadows in the corner where no one sits seem to be shifting.

•  The chemistry majors always seem to know something that no one else does. They all keep tiny glass bottles of clove oil in their backpacks at all times, for some reason. You’re starting to wonder if it wouldn’t be smart for you to do the same.

•  The engineering majors know exactly what the chem majors think only they know, and they laugh when you mention the clove oil. “They really think that will protect them,” one future robotics pioneer says to you, shaking his head. “They really think they can stop what’s coming.”

•  Something in the forensics lab whispers at night, but only when a lone student is working down there alone. One of them snags you in the halls one morning and says, “I know you’re not forensics and you’ve never heard it before, but last night I was working on a paper down there and, well. It knows your name.”

• Your roommate is a biogenetics student. She keeps beakers brimming with bubbling fluids in the fridge, and she often seems restless and distracted. You’ve caught her stealing hair off of your brush before, and one night as you watch her mixing and stirring and taking notes as she’s hunched over her desk, you realize that a single blinking eyeball is staring back at you from the green fluid surrounding it in her glass tube.

•  The mathematics students have figured out what the chemistry students know, and what the engineering students have known for years. They all look anxious now, walking around campus and constantly looking over their shoulders. One of them suggests to you that maybe you should start stockpiling bottled water. Just in case.

•  An astronomy major comes barreling into one of your classes one dim and dying afternoon, slapping a star chart down onto a desk in front of a newly enlightened mathematics student, sweating and furious. “You weren’t even going to tell us, you bastard?! You were just going to let it happen while we sat around unprepared?!”

•  A week later. You sit up in bed and your roommate is gone. Their things are gone. Campus is still and quiet, the chem and engineering and astronomy and mathematics students having all cleared out save for you. The bio, forensics, and med students are left blinking, dazed. Clearly you’ve all missed something important, but your roommate responds to your text with assurance that it’s fine. You’ll all know soon enough.

#dark academia #aesthetic #reference