The Queen's Gambit as Dark Academia
“She had flirted with alcohol for years. Now it was time to consummate the relationship.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit.
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Dark Academia TV Shows
Deadly Class
Gilmore Girls
The Queen's Gambit
Sherlock
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Good Omens
Tales of the Unexpected
The Crown
The Frankenstein Chronicles
How To Get Away With Murder
Wednesday
Young Royals
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My 13 year old cousin came back from a date with her boyfriend and said, "I can't wait to grow up and spend sunday afternoons with him." At first, I wanted to laugh (after all they're just 13), but I remember being 13 and having the world in my hands. I remember getting excited to talk to someone about my dreams and wishes, and how happy these daydreams and fantasies made me. There's this innocence you can only have at 13 and the world rises and falls and crashes and burns every year... until you do not think about quiet sunday afternoons.
So I asked her about the date and heard her giggle about bubblegum flavored ice cream, and how much she loves this little life. I think she makes me love it too.
-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire
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Agnès Varda: ‘I am still alive, I am still curious. I am not a piece of rotting flesh’
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dead poets society changed my life because john keating is so right. i read and write poetry because i’m a member of the human race. i do need to seize the day. words and ideas do change the world. i am filled with passion.
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Netflix's Enola Holmes: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List
The Enola Holmes Novels by Nancy Springer (the books that inspired the films)
Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers by Jessica Roux
Rise Up Women! by Diane Atkinson
A Vindication of The Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Nancy Drew Mysteries by Carolyn Keene
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Suffragette by Emmeline Pankhurst
The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Arthur Conan Doyle
Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nichols
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As a child, I was always searching for the meaning of it all, the big Why; and my father always said that there is no one big purpose but I had the most ripe orange today and kissed my cat goodnight, I think that's enough purpose for a day.
-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned
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