#mexican dark academia

[kuramirocket]

Centro Cultural Elena Garro

Mexico City, Mexico

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[black-academia]

Can you include more Mexican Academia?

Yes, of course! Here's a moodboard, and I'll be on the lookout for more Mexican Academia posts to reblog as well.

— Sai 🖤

#mexican dark academia #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #moodboard request

[belle-keys]

no, it’s gothic girl summer. while you down patrón shots, i’ll be repeatedly catching fevers while staring virginally out into the bogs as i pine for a man without any self-respect and unironically read “the monk” by matthew lewis.

#gothic #gothic literature #gothic lit memes #mary shelley #jane eyre #catherine earnshaw #dark academia #dark academia books #english literature #english lit #northanger abbey #dracula #daphne du maurier #mexican gothic #wuthering heights #frankenstein #brideshead revisited #the castle of otranto

[stanleyscubrick]

The Illiad, Homer trans. W. H. D. Rouse

#the illiad #homer #reminds me of the mexican poems in this anthology i have :-] #man the descriptions go so hard sometimes #mine #studyblr #studyspo #dark academia #light academia #booklr #writing #chaotic academia #literature #classical academia

[yellow3xo]

Rubí (2004)

#novelas #rubí #2000s tv #barbara mori #mexican actress #mexican #fashion #art #tv #female manipulator #gifset #soft girl #girlblogging #coquette #female hysteria #lifestyle #vibes #vintage #dark academia #red dress #cottage aesthetic #shakespeare

[generouspeachheart]

Currently reading:

Mexican Gothic

#bookish #books #bookworm #books & libraries #dark academia #grunge academia #mexican gothic #gothic #reading #currently reading #dark academia books #booklover

[pemberlyprose]

Mycelium and Mexican Gothic

While sitting and listening to music, I got thinking about Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Over the past few days, I have been ruminating on what I'd like to write about regarding this story and how it has affected me. Typically, my process for writing essays, formal or informal, involves a lot of black tea and annotating.  Today, inspired by Hozier and Noah Khan, I want to have a brief interpretation/contemplation of a single topic instead: mushrooms being a metaphor for toxic family dynamics in Mexican Gothic. 

SPOILERS AHEAD IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THIS NOVEL! 

(Also, this is highly summarized because I am a creature fueled by caffeine and chaos and can't be bothered right now. Please forgive any errors).

Taking place in the isolated mountains of Mexico's countryside, Mexican Gothic points a crooked and mishappen finger at the horrors lying beneath the Doyle family's history and home. Noemi, the protagonist of the story, arrives to the Doyles' house to call into question the care of her cousin, Catalina, who has been sending frantic and incoherent letters about voices and apparitions since moving into her English husband's home. As Noemi spends time with the Doyle family, and her cousin, she begins to unravel more of their secrets. Eventually she becomes so deeply involved that, before she knows it, she is taken prisoner. 

Now there is a patriarchal element to this novel that I find fascinating. The Doyles' are made immortal by becoming hosts for "The Gloom" a conscious mushroom network that has inhabited thier bodies, home, and minds for centuries. The Gloom controls the house and thier minds, but it is Howard Doyle, the patriarchal figure, who physically and spiritually controls his family. God-like in power, he has been ingesting these mushrooms for hundreds of years. So, to maintain his power, and in return for making his family immortal, they must give up thier lives, bodies, and offspring to him when necessary for the most henious reasons. 

Like a snake, he stays alive by sliding from body to body, consciousness to consciousness, and he cannot be stopped. Meanwhile, those he takes over are completely erased from existence or thier consciousness remains trapped in The Gloom. They become an echo... A phantom in the house they have lived and died in for the rest of time. All in the name of tradition and family. 

This is a great allegory of how family, tradition, and generational trauma can affect the living. Our bodies store memories from hundreds of years ago, and whether we know it or not, feel it or not, our family members have weaved their genetic memories into our bodies. We are a mycelium of memories. It is in our blood and stretches out to those joining our families and learning our customs. 

Of course, at least I hope, most of the time this is not in a creepy The Last of Us kind of way, but in a loving and grounding ancestral kind of way. I believe there is always more good than bad. However, regardless of patriarchal or matriarchal themes, this novel does an excellent job of illuminating the expectations children feel pressured to meet (in the most extreme way) to please/satiate a parental or authority figure. It's also an incredibly creepy and interesting way to examine the lengths families, even unrelated groups of people, will go to preserve a way of life. Even when it goes against everything they stand for morally and physically. 

I also wondered to myself, why mushrooms? Lately in popular culture we are seeing a rise of mushroom media, and although humankind has always had a certain reverence for them, this novel along with shows like The Last of Us call into question where this circulated fear of being taken over by mushrooms comes from. I don't have an answer for this, but it is a dynamic question to contemplate. 

Why do we fear being taken over by nature? Is it our physical minds we fear losing, or our autonomy in the abstract? Would we even notice it was happening, or would we find out too late like Noemi in Mexican Gothic? Could we escape even after we were captured? 

I don't know. But what I do know is if any of these themes strike your fancy check out this brilliant novel. It truly had me on the edge of my seat all night.

**If you are interested in this story, please note that it is a gothic novel and has many triggering themes surrounding gore, sexual content, and horror. Always do research before reading if you are unsure :) Stay safe out there. 

#dark academia #books & libraries #literature #words #books #mexican gothic #Silva Moreno-Garcia

[fairys-darkacademia]

- Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

#pedro paramo #juan rulfo #mexican literature #classic #literature #bibliophile #books #dark academia #literary #romanticism #dark academism #light academia #excerpt #magical realism #books and literature #book quotes #books and libraries #dark academia books

[deliriousdisquisitions]

07.03.2023. Had some time to myself over this weekend and made these little bookmarks! I finally got to try out gouche painting (right), and I'm still not a fan. I haven't fully gotten the hang of it yet. Watercolour continues to be the favourite. I am a little rusty though, I haven't picked up a brush in a while.

#deliriousdisquisitions #delirious disquisitions #studyblr #bookblr #gradblr #books #bookmarks #book quotes #art #painting #gouche #watercolour art #Rebecca #northanger abbey #mexican gothic #daphne du maurier #jane austen #silvia moreno garcia #books and libraries #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #english literature #literature #bookmark

[algodondeazucar97]

✨"El Sagrado Corazón, en efecto, es una fuente inagotable, que no desea otra cosa que derramarse en el corazón de los humildes, para que estén libres y dispuestos a gastar la propia vida según su beneplácito". ✝️❤️‍🔥

#mexico 🇲🇽 #mexico #museo soumaya #sagrado corazón #sacred heart #jesus christ #faith in jesus #mexican museum #art exhibition #arte #art #heartbroken #museo #museology #dark academia #dark art

[kuramirocket]

"In school, I was taught-like my father-the myths of the Norse, the Egyptians, the Romans, and especially the Greeks. [...] But it wasn't until I took a world literature class in college that I read a single Aztec or Maya myth. Amazing. I had attended schools just miles from the Mexican border, but not one of my teachers had spoken of Quetzalcoatl or Itzamna, of Cihuacoatl or Ixchel. My family also knew nothing of these Mesoamerican gods. Something important had been kept from me and other Mexican American students."

- David Bowles, Feathered Serpent Dark Heart of Sky Myths of Mexico

Yup. If we are lucky to be taught something, it is always a very brief mention, maybe just one report we do and that's it. I didn't really learn anything about the history of Mexican Americans and Chicanos in the U.S., not about one single important activist or a person of Mexican ancestry/ethnicity/descent and their contributions to the world in fields such as science, technological advancement, etc. or of our myths and legends until I took a Mexican Anerican studies course in college.

#🇲🇽 #indigenous #native #aztec #academia #dark academia #mexican dark academia #david bowles #racism #feathered serpent dark heart of sky myths of mexico #books #europe #africa #greece #rome #discrimination against mexicans #mexican bookblr

[belle-keys]

“To realize itself, love must violate the laws of our world. It is scandalous and disorderly, a transgression committed by two stars that break out of their predestined orbits and rush together in the midst of space.”

- The Dialectic of Solitude by Octavio Paz

#octavio paz #mexican writers #latin america #love #death #society #books and literature #dark academia #books #book quotes #transcendence #passion #book blog

[celestixlwrld]

hey um ive never done this but im looking for friends on tumblr. ive always wanted to get into this social media app but ive never gotten friends on here so yeah :,) i follow back and all that <3 im 23 and use she/her pronouns im mexican american and i go to university, studying in the field of psychology <3

#friends #finding friends #psychology major #university #kpop #ateez #txt #dark academia #darkacademia #mexican #latina

[pittoresko]

"Bernadita" (1922) by Robert Henri (1865-1929), American painter.

Visit Pittoresko for more Robert Henri Art Prints!

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#vintage art #vintage prints #vintage posters #robert henri #southwest art #american painting #american vintage #american art #mexican american #american folklore #dark art #dark painting #dark academia #dark aesthetic #digital download #digital poster #digital prints #etsy art prints #etsy printables #1900s painting #1900s art #20th century painting #20th century art

[frenchtoastlover]

We all thought it's almost summer here then the weather got cold again.

Here I am sitting in my cardigan in May.But it's fine,not being a big fan of summer makes it easier for me LOL

I recently finished reading "Mexican Gothic" and it was amazing,I highly recommend it if you like horror novels ♡

[sheltiechicago]

The Dark Surrealism Of Arturo Rivera

Arturo Rivera was born in Mexico City in 1945. He studied painting at Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City (1963-68); and silk-screen process and photo-silk screen process at The City Lit Art School of London (1973-74).

#arturo rivera #artist #art #mexico city #mexican artist #academia de san carlos #silk-screen process #photo-silk screen process #the city lit art school london #dark surrealism #painting #painter