#babel an arcane history

[kindlespark]

my brother's keeper (poem from here)

#babel #griffin lovell #robin swift #my art #babel rf kuang #babel or the necessity of violence #babel an arcane history #drawing this made me cry btw #babel spoilers

[belle-keys]

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 #dark academia books #dark academia aesthetic #poc dark academia #light academia #chaotic academia #books and literature #book blog #ya books #books #book recs #book recommendations #the secret history #if we were villains #babel an arcane history #the atlas six #ninth house #legendborn #dead poets society #bookblr #bookstagram #academia #academic #bookish #vicious ve schwab #the maidens #the raven boys #vita nostra

[meruz]

reposting this babel drawing w/o the ask and then remembering abruptly that I have a sketchbook pg of babel drawings just sitting around

#sketchbook #babel #robin swift #ramy mirza #meruzart #babel an arcane history

[skaiplana]

Girls when translation is always an act of violence, but it can also be an act of love

#babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #babel

[literarybrainrot]

Babel, by RF Kuang, is fun cause the first half is sad but also really sweet and hopeful and relatively low stakes and you’re like “aw this is nice, found family, thanks” and then suddenly it’s the most intense most emotionally heart wrenching book you’ve ever read in your life so that’s cool I guess.

#babel an arcane history #rf kuang #babel rf kuang #babel #robin swift #ramiz rafi mirza

[changeofpace]

"The Undergrad Cohort"

I finished Babel in about 2 weeks and it's left a gaping hole in my heart I need to patch with fanart.

Uncleaned scanned sketch below.

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#babel #babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #ramiz rafi mirza #robin swift #victoire desgraves #letty price #reetarts #fanart

[sleepy-vix]

we've got greek, we've got theatre, we've got translation. can we get an insanely good "dark academia" book based around music? 🙏

#dark academia #babel #babel an arcane history #the secret history #if we were villains #i say this because these 3 are known as THE dark academia books im pretty sure? #booklr #light academia #chaotic academia

[izze-art]

The Fallen Angel of Babel 📜✒️🪽

LOVE BABEL BY RF KUANG!! I drew Robin Swift as the fallen angel painting!!

#babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #rf kuang #babel #robin swift #babel or the necessity of violence #ramy mirza #griffin lovell #victoire desgraves #letitia price #rebecca f kuang

[chaoticmiserablelover]

Two people who understand each other deeply. The power they hold over each other's hearts. the trust between them. That's why I keep reading books. It fascinates me.

#books and reading #books #evervale #vicious #victor vale #eli ever #eli cardale #paul fleischer #these violent delights #richard papen #henry winter #the secret history #if we were villains #oliver marks #james farrow #babel an arcane history #robin swift #ramiz rafi mirza #the atlas six #nico de varona #gideon drake #demian #max demian #emil sinclair #julian fromme

[spittinwatches]

brothers in crime

#babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #babel #my art #fanart #art #barbie meme

[sharlsainz]

i will forever cry over how robin lost ramy and griffin after both of them saved him. only for him not to be able to continue life. because the grief was greater than he could bear. the pain was too much for him to think of the life after the strike. after all he did in the spirit of his late brother and dearest friend.

i will forever cry over robin letting victoire go. i simply couldn't find the words to describe the bond that they had. it was meant to be. victoire was the voice of reason between the two and robin just couldn't get through all of it, not without griffin and ramy. she made up her mind and so did he and it was hurtful to witness this two souls make peace with their choices. im going insane over this.

#babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #babel #robin swift #ramiz rafi mirza #victoire desgraves #griffin harley

[mariibu-art]

#babel rf kuang fanart #babel rf kuang #babel an arcane history #babel #babel fanart #fanart #robin swift #art #griffin lovell #professor lovell #lovell #griffin babel #robin babel #rf kuang #babel or the necessity of violence #poppy #book fanart #griffin harley

[i-wish-i-were-softer]

So my friend recently finished Babel and they said creating homoerotic tension between robin and ramy only to kill them afterwards was a weak move.

What does that even mean? If you wanted to a read a happy queer novel why did you choose Babel? Why are you looking for a fairytale ending in a book that deals with heavy topics like colonialism, racism, sexism, poverty, slavery, war and whatnot. Death was always upon them. Being gay doesn't magically give characters plot armour. War doesn't care about anyone's sexuality.

#and this is not only about Babel #I've seen this take on so many other media #authors are not obligated to explore the queer chemistry between characters everytime they introduce one #babel #babel an arcane history #babel spoilers #ramiz rafi mirza #ramy #robin swift #babel rf kuang

[cryptidspaghetti]

Literally how big of an ask is it to be part of the small group of literature students with a clever name in a small college in Vermont, studying Shakespeare and Homer and Tolstoy, smoking cigarettes and drinking cheap wine straight from the bottle. Racing through the forest, hearts pounding in our chests, plaid pea coats flying out behind us as we run. Whispering love songs in French. Dancing to Bowie and Queen and the Beatles. Leaving notes stuck under dorm room doors. Stargazing and eating oranges. Living.

#dark academia #chaotic academia #punk academia #dead poets society #the secret history #donna tartt #babel an arcane history

[monsterfactoryfanfic]

I’m done. I fucking did it. I spent like 30-40 hours making a video essay and it was terrible and also something im prouder of than anything i did in grad school. Holy shit that took forever

If you are interested in

Spire: The City Must Fall, by Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor

Babel: An Arcane History, by RF Kuang

Portrayals of imperialism in fiction

Textual analysis of tabletop games and the implications of their settings

The futility of moderate resistance to liberal governments

Mushrooms

please check out this video, oh my god i worked so hard on it and i think its pretty good, and i know im not the only person in ttrpgs doing cool projects but i do think this essay is special!!!

Transcript here if you just wanna read it

#spire the city must fall #babel an arcane history #rf kuang #rowan rook and decard #indie ttrpgs #Youtube

[fandomsandfeminism]

Oof yall. The 2023 Hugo controversy has gotten much, much worse.

The Hugo's are another big Scifi/Fantasy book award, basically only second in prestige to the Nebulas. It's held by WorldCon, so who runs the awards changes each year- its handled by whatever group is doing the con.

And in 2023, it was held in China. And at the time, the finalist list took FOREVER to come out, and when it did, Babel (which had won the Nebula and Locus awards already) wasn't even nominated. Which everyone thought was *suspicious*

And NOW the actual nomination ballot data has come out. And not only do some of the counts... seem.....weird. BUT we've found out that not only Babel, but also Xiran Jay Zhao (who wrote the Chinese Yugioh book lol), and Sandman were disqualified late in nomination for being "ineligible" with no explanation for WHY.

The obvious explanation is Chinese censorship, either for the queer content, though other queer works were still included (including Legends and Lattes and Nona the Ninth), or some other political themes. Kuang and Zhou have content in their books that the Chinese government might not...love. but I dunno why Sandman got snubbed then? This is all speculation, but since the people actually running 2024 WorldCon are refusing to answer questions, what should we think? Neil Gaiman apparently tried to get answers and was basically brushed off.

And people are piiiiiiiissed

Mostly, I feel bad for T Kingfisher, who won Best Novel at the Hugo's for Nettle and Bone. Nettle and Bone was a great book! And now this win is always going to have this sheen of ick on it.

#hugos #2023 hugo awards #hugo awards #rf kuang #babel an arcane history #xiran jay zhao #t kingfisher #neil gaiman