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lemonhemlock · 2 months

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not to be a hater on main but i just stumbled on a tik tok claiming that tsh both takes itself too seriously and could use more absurd comedy and it nearly made me punch a wall

#my quest to find agreeable creators on booktok and booktube leaves me v frustrated sometimes #!!! i accept no criticism of this book #but even without stan goggles on how can say with your entire chest that tsh takes itself too seriously #when it literally makes fun of 'dark academia' types TO YOUR FACE #which is ironic for the book that spawned the entire genre #it's a comedy of manners at the very least #'this book that contains copious amounts of absurdly comedic situations and makes fun of pretentious twits obsessed with aesthetics #could use more absurd comedy and is not satirical enough'#recognising those basic building blocks of the text does NOT even mean to have to like it??#i hate to be bringing the Reading Comprehension debate again but good lord. and this person claims to have a phd in literature too 🤦‍♀️#i am so over this pretense at criticism that basically boils down to 'i didn't like this thing so i can't be seen to admit it executes #anything well. so instead i'm going to pretend basic obvious techniques in the text don't exist and peddle it as groundbreaking critique'#stuff like recognising basic genre. what happened to that.#i don't like The Hangover either but it would be very strange to call it anything other than a comedy #the secret history #donna tartt #again you don't even have to like the book!!!#I'M SORRY BUT IT MADE ME WANT TO RANT SO BAD #livresque #booktok and booktube are satan's garden

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g4rdensofb4bylon · 2 months

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still cannot fathom how Oliver said like the most romantic thing ever to Meredith and then went to jail for James 5 minutes later

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inkykeiji · 11 months

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aaaah what an incredible response!!!! (´∀｀)♡ thank you so much to everyone who’s sent something in, i can’t wait to write these!!! i will no longer be accepting any more requests <3 the words that have already been claimed are:

#1 early summer with bmb tomura

#2 pigeon with touya-nii

#3 strawberry moon with flawless tomura

#4 mint green with flawless tomura

#5 schools out with bmb tomura

#6 thirst with 1950s keigo

#7 dilapidated with sugar daddy natsuo

#8 bunny with twin!dabi + twin!touya

#9 lash with flawless tomura

#10 dark hair with bmb dabi

#11 sweet cream with flawless tomura

#12 faulty with 1950s keigo

#13 exposed throat with touya-nii

#15 can’t stand it with tag keigo

#16 pasttime with sd!nat shouto

#17 loon with dark academia (prof!) keigo

#18 dried fruit with tnii natsuo

#19 ten years ago with tag keigo

#20 car with sugar daddy natsuo

#21 psychology with touya-nii

#22 footbridge with bmb dabi

#23 blue dress with bmb dabi

#25 county fair with flawless tomura

#26 sickness with flawless tomura

#27 ravens and crows with dark academia touya

#28 time for [blank] with sd!nat touya

#30 archangel with touya-nii

last updated: oct 24 @ 9:42am EST

#@ the anon that sent in dark academia touya #please send in another one!!!!!!!!#i’d love to write for him but that word was already claimed by the time you sent it in >.< i’m sorry!!!#that’s why i wanted to make this list hahaha so everyone could see what had been taken so far <3 #eeee this is so much FUN i’ve never done something like this before!!!!!#the lil pieces are totally unedited so #they’re literally just for practice/writing exercise but i’m so glad you guys are helping me n participating <3 it means so much!!!!#inky.prompts #clari chatters

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annaleigh · 1 year

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listening to cody fry in my dream home

#illustration #digital art #original art #dare I say #dark academia #artists on tumblr #our assignment for this one was “what was the best gift you’ve ever received?#and with a question that means so much to me it was hard to choose #but my prof liked this composition best

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karinyosa · 1 year

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everyone talks about the ass paragraph but no one talks about the scene where finny arrives back at devon and gene like takes off his work clothes and finny just watches and comments on each layer????????????? like what the FUCK was that like actually john knowles what could possibly have been the reason what the fuck kind of intricate ritual

#like it would be innocuous if not for the fact that he watches in ‟wordless absorption‟ and speaks ‟through his teeth‟ and #smiles at gene's sweaty undershirt ‟for a while‟ like what the fuck does that mean what are you trying to say john #and then he says gene should've just worn the undershirt LIKE???????????????????#like you can just say oh i took off my work clothes and my buddy gave me a hard time like there are so many ways to relay #that sequence of events that are not That like it's sm more drawn out than it has to be #FOR WHAT REASON JOHN #truly like if this is what his friendships were like then i don't know what to tell him like bro you are. your rituals are so intricate #john knowles #gene forrester #phineas #phineas asp #finny asp #classic literature #dark academia #a separate peace

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skythanlmao · 1 year

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okay okay some stupid little edit ( i tried okay?)

#aled last #daniel jun #radio silence #alice oseman #osemanverse #being in love with dan since he was 10 doesn't have to mean romantic love or smth just loving dan generally yk?#childish kisses 💕#some of em are my hcs it isn't canon i may or may not have inserted what i like in to dans likings #bruh i hc him being a dark academia lover okay? he also likes other aesthetic too💕#and he would def love horror movies i don't make the rules #plain t shirts me and dan🤝💪🫂😌

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madocsmurderouschild · 1 year

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my number 1 flex is always gonna be that i share my birthday w sirius black. y'all losers can suck it

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goatmilksoda · 1 year

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When you go through the entire aesthetics wiki and look at all the new-ish ones that have specifically developed on Tumblr, TikTok, and Pinterest, you start to realize that they can really be put into three categories like 75% of the time because people choose the same music constantly when they're making -core playlists so they all fit into either "Soldier, Poet, King", "Bubblegum Bitch", or "Sweater Weather".

#occasionally you get one and it'll have Animal Crossing music #but yeah #tbh if this experiment has taught me anything #it's that people think aesthetics are WAY narrower than they should be #like girlie cottagecore prairiecore jamcore fairytalecore dark fairycore and angelcore are all very similar variations of the same thing #just accept you're wearing slightly different colors or a different motif #I'm not trying to be mean because people can do what they want but like...#idk I don't think the fact that your outfit is red and contains hearts makes it 'lovecore'#that's just wearing red and hearts. It's a motif #it's an outfit flavor #For a long time (they're starting to fix it)#the wiki was plagued with paged about like 'butterflycore' or 'seagul core' which just meant wearing things with those motifs...#and like I'm sorry a motif or a color isn't an aesthetic #the aesthetic is the overarching vibe!!!!#I think when it comes to aesthetics they should be very broad so people can carve out their own niches #the same thing goes for all the -academias btw. There isn't any difference between any of them in a fashion sense #They're all just Claire De Lune and Sweater Weather to me.#goat talk #I can't believe I'm doing this for a whole year #you can already see how crazy I'm going #perhaps appropriately #today is clowncore #(Which is actually distinct! But to me still a subsect of kidcore)

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veilwalkerxiv · 6 months

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why do horror visual novels have like the coziest spaces? why does horror in general have the coziest moments?

i'm not talking like "movie jumpscare horror", i'm talking like indie visual novel-esque, resident evil fixed camera, silent hill type stuff. the music is always so calming, the quiet moments with others is so intimate and personal.

i guess it's to balance the fear and uneasiness but in all places of games or media, there's a sense of calm that comes from no other.

it's like dark ambience, or like dark academia. a quiet, rainy night with only the sound of your heater blowing.

what's also good is like when you have the option to like talk to the entity. and it's not like hostile?? so you just kind of grow a bond with this otherworldly thing? like what kind of genre is that? is it still horror??

edward scissorhands and betelgeuse and stuff counts as horror i'm sure but like does it though?? iunno do you get what i mean..? like omori or like hope left me or milk inside/outside or signalis...

like there's a calm that you don't get from anywhere.

a sense of unease that's kind of comforting in a way too.. and it's like so gay too..??

#horror #silent hill #calm before the storm #ambient vibes #visual novels #dark academia #talking to eldritch beings #please tell me someone understands what i mean #gothic #quiet moments

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kalach-cha · 6 months

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idk why but so many gifmakers online are absolutely insufferable. like you'll see the most gorgeous sets from one person who's in a bunch of your fandoms, and then you'll scroll and see the most heinous takes floating about on their blogs

#so many of the ones i've seen (and maybe it's because i'm mostly in video game fandoms) are very much in the dark academia #pseudo-intellectual ''i'm better than you because of the media i consume'' camp and it. it drives me up the goddamn wall #it's very much the 2010s hipster mentality recycled and it SUCKS to see because so many are so good at what they do #but just because you're capable of making art doesn't mean your opinion is any more valid than anyone else's #idk maybe i am just hypersensitive to these really smug attitudes about fandom. but i feel like i've blocked all of the really popular #gifmakers for rancid takes in video game fandoms and now it's really hard to find shit i enjoy lmao #something something pros and cons about curating your online experience. i may be a little too trigger-happy with the block button lol #ALSO. this gets even worse when they're oc blogs lol. im saying this as someone with an oc-specific sideblog but #those places are breeding grounds for this hipster superiority complex mentality. so i can never find stuff for my own oc blog :/#michi.txt

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bibxrbie · 8 months

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high pitched screeching: IM GOING TO THROW MYSELF OFF A BRIDGE!!!!!

#why the actual hell is classics soo difficult?#why were the ancient greek and roman people such dicknags?#im going to find you aristotle/hippocrates/plutarch/every fuxking greek and roman writer in the afterlife and im going to rip your balls off #practicing necromancy to kill these fuckers over again!!!#what do you mean you thought women didnt have any organs but the fucking womb #why are you people so desperate to have sex with teenagers?#you think the opinions of misogynistic men are new?? let me tell you that it was old 2000 years ago #just when you think men cant dissapoint you more they dig up the bar and take it to hell with them #history #classicist #ancient rome #ancient greece #ancient greek mythology #do not think youre off the hook ovid!! ill find you and beat you up like the little rich baby bitch you are!!#ancient roman history #university #dark academia #academia is soooooo fun #academia #i wanted to be an academic and but academia wants me dead #the toxic relationship between me and my next due date

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roseddraws · 9 months

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Dark academia

Another aesthetic drawing! Particularly proud of this one with all the details :3

#again this one isn’t really an OC #it’s just the little character on my Ao3 pfp #but I like them they’re cute!#and I KNOW I always make the sky a glowing bright yellow-to-orange-to-red gradient #but LISTEN it makes SENSE for it to be apocalypse vibes alright #because that’s like what dark academia is about innit #it’s like a H.P Lovecraft protag/ ‘just because you can doesn’t mean you should’ type thing right??#you get what I mean #original art #digital art #original character #dark academia #anyway go check me out on ao3 at YourLokaleScholar

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k1rishiki · 11 months

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was abt to unfollow someone for putting ofmd on my dash but then when i looked to see who it was i realized it was my one (1) hatefollow free pass and now i'm pissed that something she posted elicited the exact emotion i followed her to feel

#i hatefollow her bc she posts sooo much historical misinfo despite allegedly being a medieval history professor and whenever she does i have #an excuse to shittalk her w rey bc they're the one who introduced me to her blog and i want to talk to rey more bc i miss them a lot but i #never do bc idk what to say #n e ways. when i say 'historical misinfo' i mean like. saying the crusades didn't affect the matter if britain bc they 'came later'#(they didn't) and claiming that old. middle and modern english are the same language (they're not)#we have a running theory that she's faking her credentials to be more dark academia bc of all the misinfo + some of the ways she talks #seeming a Lot like how someone who isn't an academic thinks they do #romeo.txt

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kneworder · 11 months

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dude the secret history is wiiiiiiild the whole thing is about how aesthetics are a lie and how there's horror in wealth and privilege and somehow that spawned the entire dark academia aesthetic thing?? like i understand the appeal of the aesthetic because That's Literally The Point the outfits and the look and the poetry of it all are so cool but it is baffling to me that the Don't Obsess Over Pseudo-Intellectualism and The Aesthetics of Old Wealth book created the pseudo-intellectuallism and aesthetics of old wealth movement

#im not hating on dark academia it looks dope as hell im just looking at the secret history like this is your king??????#you cant just be like 'oh i get that's what it's about but i looooove the aesthetic of it' how are you not disgusted by it????#they're all AWFUL? really REALLY fascinating and well written characters but the only ones i have sympathy for are francis and camilla #and even then. like the whole book tries to desensitize you to the fact that They Killed Two People bc that's what richard's trying to do #but like. They Killed Two People.#DO NOT ARGUE WITH ME ON THIS IM JUST THINKING OUT LOUD IM NOT TRYING TO START ANYTHING #henry's whole terza rima thing. the beauty in the horror. the bit at the end that's like beauty without meaning is superficial.#again dark academia slaps as a look and is compelling as a vibe but to emulate??? you want to be like these people???? why????

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lov3rs-go · 2 years

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the only thing i dislike abt the academia aesthetic is how just... brown it is??? color exists in art!!!!!! art is color!!!!!!! art is where you find the most all encompassing expressions of color !!!!!!!!

#I LOVE COLORFUL ART #this aesthetic to me is the closets we have to the eptiome of what it means to really love art #so it makes me sad its not the full expression of it #dark academia

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cloverwoodss · 2 years

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Yoo I wish there was another name for "Light Academia/Dark Academia"

Like the looks without the schooling?? A more umbrella type term. It doesn't have to be learning stuff what about the clothing the building and colors?

Sure books can be there but the picture I feel could be more than that but I have no idea if there is another name or it just gets smushed into the same name, ya know??

#academia #light academia #dark academia #light academia aesthetic #dark academia aesthetic #if you know another term for it please let me know!!#i mean h well i forgot academia's meaning was school learning knowledge what ever

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