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#explore #stars #dark academia #goth #sky #clouds #aesthetic

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THE WAY HE LOOKS AT HER?!?! INSAAAANEEEEEE!

#bridgerton #bridgerton s3 #polin #luke newton #nicola coughlan #romancing mister bridgerton #im obsessed #penelope x colin #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington

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the best percy & annabeth we could've ever asked for

#THE SCENE OF THE NECKLACE MEDE ME FEEL THINGS #IT MADE ME SHIP PERCABETH LIKE WHEN I WAS THIRTEEN #percabeth #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians

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oh he’s a goner

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percabeth #annabeth chase

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the 'hold fast Perseus' to the 'hold fast mom' pipeline 😭

#OMG I DIDNT CATCHED THAT #OH PLS #ILOVETHEM #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson

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I want him to know who he is before your family tries to tell him who they want him to be. He is better than that. He has better things in him than that.

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS 1x07 | We Find out the Truth, Sort Of

#percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #MY MAN #toby stephens #MY CAPTAIN FLINT THE WAY I GIGGLED WHEN HE CAME ON SCREEN EVEN THO I KNEW FULLY WELL THAT HE WAS GOING TO PLAY POSEIDONE .. THE PERFECT CAST

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The thunder right after Sally asks Poseidon to meet Percy!????

this. THIS. Peak cinema.

#percy jackson

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The fact that they never look at each other but convey their feelings for each other is why Percy Jackson’s casting is god tier (pun intended)

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OKAY.. NOW YOU MADE ME CRY

**Babel Spoilers**

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Still not over Babel and I started thinking about a vaguely time-travel fix-it situation (because TMA has ruined my brain forever) where Robin wakes up sometime in third year with all the memories of what happens after, and I don’t know if anything will come of it but here’s a scene from Ramy’s POV of the moment Robin sees Ramy again:

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Ramy bangs on Robin’s door for the second time this morning.

“Come on, you dolt, we’re going to be late.”

It’s not an unheard of occurrence, one of them sleeping through the bells. They’ve all been worked to the bone this term, and it’s a miracle if they ever get to bed before midnight.

Still, Robin usually startles awake at Ramy’s first knock, and will grumble through the door to let him know he’s heard him. Today, though, there is only silence on the other side of the door.

Ramy pushes down his worry–Robin is fine, they’re all just tired, he’s probably just still asleep–and tries the doorknob. It turns, and Ramy gives a silent prayer of thanks for Robin’s bad habit of never locking his door, and steps inside.

He sees Robin as soon as he crosses the threshold. He’s awake–but he’s not groggily rubbing his face, or frantically trying to get dressed. He’s just standing there by the bed, staring at the room like he doesn’t know what to make of it. His hands hang limply at his sides and he looks…lost. Like he doesn’t know where he is or why he’s here. 

Ramy steps toward him, his mouth suddenly dry.

Robin must sense his movement, because his head jerks up–and every part of him stills, his eyes wide and lips parted like he’s seen a ghost.

What could have possibly happened, to make Robin look at him like that?

“Birdie?”

He tries to say it gently, to try and pull Robin out of his reverie. And at that–just one word, just his name–Robin’s expression crumples.

He crosses the room in two strides and throws his arms around Ramy, holding him so tight that for a moment it’s hard to breathe, and before Ramy can process that particular shock, Robin buries his face into his shoulder and bursts into tears.

Ramy’s heart gives a painful thump.

Robin doesn’t cry–or if he does, he’s never done it where any of them can see. In some ways, he’s always been the most stoic of all of them.

Now he’s clinging to Ramy as though he’s afraid he’ll disappear if he lets go, and sobbing as if his heart would break, and Ramy doesn’t know what to do.

He can’t think what could have caused this. It’s not a breakdown from overwork–they’ve all had their fair share of those, and they’re nothing like this. His next, terrified thought is that something has happened to one of the girls–but how would Robin have known? 

Slowly, cautiously, Ramy reaches up to fold his arms around Robin, and as soon as he does Robin’s knees seem to give out entirely, and they sink together ungracefully to the floor. 

“What’s wrong?” Ramy whispers. “Oh, Birdie, what’s happened?”

Robin doesn’t respond to this–Ramy isn’t even sure he hears him, except that he clings to him even tighter. He’s murmuring something into Ramy’s collar, and it takes a moment for Ramy to work out what it is:

His name. Over and over and over, in tones so broken that he can hardly make it out.

Ramy, Robin says. Ramy Ramy Ramy Ramy.

Tears prick at Ramy’s eyes, hard as he tries to blink them away. He doesn’t know what brought Robin to this, so he can’t fix it–all he can do is hold him tighter, whispering to him as he weeps.

“It’s all right,” he says, “It’s all right. I’m here, it’s going to be all right.” And he hopes, with all the hope he has in him, that what he’s saying is true.

#babel #ramy mirza #robin swift #this is definitely a 'no plot only emotions' scene but i couldn't get it out of my head so here you go #what if

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Ramy, pointing: May I sit there?

Robin: That's my lap

Ramy: That doesn't answer my question, Birdie.

#babel #incorrect babel quotes #robin swift #ramy mirza

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Sometimes I worry I’m not a nice person but then I remember R.F. Kuang wrote “Nice comes from the Latin word for “stupid”. We do not want to be nice.” and I go on with my day.

#babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #dark academia #quotes #robin swift #ramy mirza

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The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

#dark academia #tbr list

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And if I could speak, I would've said: I want you.

And I want to wake up beside you every morning in your bed.

#cyrano de bergerac #james mcavoy #theatre #nt: live

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LUKE EVANS as BARD

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

#thehobbitedit #the hobbit #bard the bowman #luke evans #gif

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Immortals 2011

#luke evans #immortals #greek mythology #gif

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A young villain tried to mug you, but upon seeing your face, he fled in terror. Upon further investigation, you discover that your high school sweetheart is now the most powerful villain in the world and has you on a list titled “hurt them, and I’ll kill you.”

#FAVORITE SHIT #goodbye #villain #writers #writing prompts #writing inspiration

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mi ci sento male... adoro

#Can't stop thinking about Ncuti getting drunk and telling everyone he's The Doctor

#doctor who #ncuti gatwa