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detailstodiefor · 1 year

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Babel by R.F. Kuang

#dark academia #light academia #mine #babel #books #bookblr #rf kuang #babel aesthetic #oxford #oxford aesthetic #oxbridge aesthetic #study aesthetic #student aesthetic #university

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friend-of-wisdom · 1 year

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I want to study in Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, at least in the Sorbonne or some kind of college where classes are great, the infrastructure is beautiful and practical, with outdoor spaces with lots of grass to sit (for picnics with other students, or to read by yourself) and just relax. I want to be taught by Professors Researchers, and I wanna be able to take every book that i need to read from the university's library. I want cafeterias with a few normal options for lunch at a cheap price, and coffee from the uni café or from those shitty coffee vending machines.

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darkparisian · 8 months

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#photography #paris #dark academia vibes #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #autumn aesthetic #autumn vibes #winter #winter aesthetic #fall aesthetic #chaotic academic aesthetic #fall blog #romantic academia #architecture #university #oxbridge

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vinylstudies · 8 months

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{ 12/08/2023

Visited my future college and faculty buildings in Oxford where I’ll be residing from October onwards! Likewise, let’s just say I’m looking forward to my Masters and getting back into the spirit of taking photos of the extended academic journey.

#studyspo #studyblr #studyspiration #university #study motivation #uk studyblr #studying #studyign #study aesthetic #uni studyspo #postgrad studyblr #notes #books & libraries #oxbridge #oxford

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collectoroftheabyss · 7 months

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Oxford c. 2013

#oxbridge #oxford #dark academia #light academia #study aesthetic #architecture #uk

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latewhitenights · 2 years

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🪷Cambridge, summer 2022

🪷photos taken by me

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saltstudying · 2 years

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ineffabells · 11 months

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college at dusk

#cambridge university #homerton college #dark academia #spent all day at the library and left at dusk lmao #but as soon as i stepped out everything was #university of cambridge #so pretty #oxbridge #aesthetic

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fromunderdreamingspires · 1 year

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It’s been a very long year and much of it has been dark. Here’s to spending its last few weeks in the warm glow of fireplaces, loving company, and welcoming halls!

#oxford #about me #can’t wait for xmas #grad school #phdjourney #gradblr #oxbridge #studyspo #smartspo #inspiration #motivation #study inspiration #studyblr #dark academia #dark academic aesthetic #christmas #university of oxford

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salvadorbonaparte · 7 months

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No but no joke I have the dark academia tag blocked. Having it not filtered made the langblr and studyblr tags unusable for me lmao

Yeah same I find it mostly insufferable. Nothing against some aesthetics to get through your day but does it really have to be oxbridge faux intellectual stuff clogging all tags

#Not to mention how it prioritises aesthetic over you know actual learning sometimes??#Like if dark academia inspires you to study I support you #But I am so certain that for a lot of people it's posting pictures of books and tweed jackets #And out of context quotes to appear Intellectual with nothing actually behind it but The Aesthetic #Asks #Oh boy is this going to get me cancelled on here lol

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saint-starflicker · 6 months

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5 Dark Academia Movies That I Don't Find Too Many Other People Posting Very Frequently About

Note my definition of Dark Academia: dark because somebody dies (at a stretch, the darkness can be oppression or abuse from which no one necessarily dies but it still gets pretty dark—or if someone attempts suicide or murder then I count it as dark); academia because they go to uniform school or prepster university (the academia part can be an intense study, discussion, or research of a subject even though they are not at a campus.)

1. The Moth Diaries 2011

The book was better, more detailed, but the movie is still pretty good. The campus is peak neoclassical splendor, the uniforms are on-point aesthetic, and the darkness is gruesomely bloody and also it's on fire. The book is set during the school year of 1970 to 1971, but the movie is set in 2010 thereabouts.

2. "O" 2001

A modern retelling of Othello by William Shakespeare set at a prestigious boarding school. Adapting classical literature in a high school was trendy at the time, trying to capture the magic of Clueless 1995, and in my opinion "O" was the most glammed-up production with the most dark academia atmosphere out of all of them.

3. Educating Rita 1983

A working-class British young woman takes a social enrichment outreach education opportunity to study literature, in hopes that a study in the humanities will give her a better sense of self. Her tutor is a "failed" poet who struggles with substance addiction. Unbeknownst to them, both their lives are at the crux of change. In their consistently non-romantic conversations together, they unpack class discrimination in academia and society, as well as argue about the meaningfulness versus empty pretensions of studying humanities.

Nobody dies, well all right somebody almost dies for pretentious academic reasons...but the conversations leave a lot between the lines.

4. Private Romeo 2011

A modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare set at an all-boys military school. Sure, it's not the Oxbridge-Camford or "Hollywood New England" collegiate aesthetic...but it is very gay, a feature that I hope lends the movie some compensatory merit in this context. Juliet's a boy. Romeo is still a boy. Nurse is a boy. Juliet's mom is a man. Paris is an abstract concept. They are studying Romeo and Juliet at the military school English class at the same time that they are living and speaking the lines in Romeo and Juliet, so it gets surreal and I recommend getting more into the emotion of it than get caught up in what the lines they're saying are supposed to mean.

This should be chaotic academia or frenzy academia, but there's homophobic hazing and bullying so I think that's pretty dark.

5. Bare: a Pop Opera ???? There was supposed to be a movie but I deduce that it's stalled in development purgatory. I have not liked a movie adaptation of a stage musical since Chicago 2002, so I guess I don't really like movie adaptations of stage musicals—but I definitely want my current hyperfixation to be more accessible than a Spotify album oh hey while waiting for this adaptation to happen you can listen to the Spotify album. It's an operetta, so it's sung-through and you won't miss out on any story dialogue unlike with other musicals. Here's my argument for B:APO being Dark Academia.

DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE #5 SPOT ON MY LIST DOES NOT EXIST...WHAT DARK ACADEMIA MOVIES DO YOU THINK SHOULD BE IN THIS SPOT IN THE MEANTIME?

I CAPSLOCK IN ANGUISH THAT THE B:APO MOVIE DOES NOT EXIST YET AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL.

YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE CONSOLATION.

Honorable Mentions:

The History Boys 2006 had one subplot I was bothered by at first and then grew to despise which is really too bad because this movie had racial diversity, directly addressed misogyny in academia, and had canon gays in a love triangle — but it is dark and it doesn't really seem to know that it's dark.

The Children's Hour 1961 "dark academia is mlm while cottagecore is wlw" WRONG watching this movie to consider evidence of dark academia wlw is part of your yuri duty! remember our history!

Never Let Me Go 2010 I can't describe objectively because I read the book at a time in my life that I was having a time at that time. The movie is a faithful adaptation. I re-read it recently and I think it's more Dark Academia than I gave it credit for, but if you're not into Contemplative Dystopia then I completely understand it not being your thing.

Like Minds 2006 — Huh, so 2006 was a busy year for this genre that did not yet exist at the time. Witness the folie à deux of 21st century teenaged Templar Knight kinnies who are also homoerotic serial killers. (Waves to the people that introduced me to this movie, who—contrary to the header of this post—actually do post about it.)

Rope 1948 does have some activity that I've caught recently enough, but I thought maybe it wouldn't be considered Dark Academia right away because it doesn't take place at a school. It takes place at a dinner party where ex-schoolfriends talk to their philosophy professor who they remain well-acquainted with after graduation, an interrogation of putting this professor's morally heinous philosophy into practice. Also there is a corpse at this dinner party. There's your academics and your darkness, so there's your dark academia.

#(yes BAPO fandom i am using the colon in b:apo for the benefit of the uninitiated)#If We Were Villains #<- tagged due to ALL THE SHAKESPEARES IN THIS LIST #dark academia #The Moth Diaries #O 2011 #Educating Rita 1983 #Private Romeo 2011 #Bare: a Pop Opera #The History Boys 2006 #The Children's Hour 1961 #Never Let Me Go 2010 #Like Minds 2006 #Rope 1948

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radicalposture · 8 months

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actually this has helped me put my finger on what i find so irritating about the way so many people (usually usamericans) talk about england etc etc like there is on the one hand a deep attachment to extremely twee english aesthetics (tea and crumpets! at oxbridge! what ho!) absorbed via fandom whether thats harry potter or idk. jane austen and then at the same time because their politics are sooooo good and twitter-proof there is also tutting and frowning at imperialisms and racisms the whole time. more than anything it just shows a complete lack of familiarity with england, the Actual Real Country and it just makes it all seem so. stupid. like when you’ve got past the brits being at it again there’s actually lots of cool interesting things about england and if you knew what they were the tea and crumpets with paddington i wish i was at hogwarts shtick would make your insides shrivel up from the cringe

#i bet this makes no sense #can’t believe i admitted there’s cool things abt england sometimes bleh ugh

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grassangel · 27 days

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I am one hour into reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt, and I can already tell I'm going to be insufferable about it.

Insufferable because I want a more Oxbridge version of this already (thanks Lewis and Morse, for making me this way) and making my opinions about books that are Dark Academia (genre/narrative) or dark academia (aesthetic, ie what a dark academic would read) even stronger, especially in regards to how the two of them are different and how they crossover into the gothic and dark fiction in general

#dark academia #also Thoschei (Academy era) is a dark academy ship and I love that for them #you kill that boy and feel guilt about it for the rest of your lives

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ayliffe · 1 month

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tagged by @direful, thank u king 🙏

Nicknames: man i'm not sure i have any rn. hugh is a difficult one to shorten/lengthen/whatever

Zodiac: cancer sun, aquarius moon, libra rising

Height: 5'6"/168.5cm

Last Thing I Googled: watch avatar airbender online free (i've torrented it but fsr s3e10/11 would NOT play so i had to find a stream)

Song Stuck In My Head: im zeichen des zodiak - e nomine (PLEASE listen to this. literally camp)

Number of followers: 6200

Amount of Sleep: lol. generally like 9-10 hours. which i realise is good but i never actually feel rested afterwards so god knows what that's about

Lucky Number: 19

Favorite Song: good question! i've been listening to e nomine a lot recently because they recently remastered their entire oeuvre, and i'm rediscovering their more electronic/edm stuff. i'm not sure i have a favourite song rn but i'm enjoying the one i linked above a lot!

Favorite Instrument: i miss playing the piano but i do love the idea of playing the harp

Dream job: uuuuhhh. writing bitchy articles in the times higher education supplement about oxbridge i guess

Favorite Author(s): p g wodehouse, donna tartt, terry pratchett

Aesthetic: i like to pretend i've grown out of the secret history but my new glasses frames are the henry winter glasses (or rather the glasses of that one guy everyone cast as henry winter in their edits) and i bought a pack of lucky strikes earlier today so. uh. the more things change i guess!

Favorite Animal Noise: my cat making her stupid little miaow. chain-smoker ass noise

Random: i saw an old friend earlier today and it was really nice! we met up at the brunch place we used to go to and it was super chill to just sit and chat for a while

tagging whoever would like to do this!

#ask games #about #the thing is i never even liked henry winter. the guy who introduced me to tsh hated him so i went in with that bias #AND YET HERE WE ARE

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patrice-bergerons · 1 year

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I thought I was all out of loose fic ideas and then that Belvedere vodka ad happened so may I give you football hooligan!Bond AU, with um my sincere apologies.

But Q accidentally gets yanked into a different timeline and (a) there is no original Q here - maybe he died as a child - and (b) Bond was never raised by his aunt when his parents died but instead taken in by a Cockney family friend and grew up in East London. Raised in a loving, if also boisterous, household, he skated right past M's 'orphans make the best recruits' metric and never got involved with MI6, or for that matter, even the Navy.

Instead he owns a chain of laundrettes as a front and makes most of his money via Crime TM -- and finds it absolutely hilarious that he is using a laundrette to launder money. Bond is openly bi in this verse, and seamlessly blends together camp with a dirtbag crime lord aesthetic. He is also a true loose cannon.

In the beginning Q is disoriented and also very alone bc no matter in how high regard he hold his colleagues, he has too much sense to go to anyone involved at MI6 with secret knowledge about their lives and a tale about how he is not from this timeline, actually.

I think he runs into Bond when Bond saves him from a tough spot - maybe he is getting mugged or falls into the Thames - and Bond seeing this attractive but also desperate twink, decides to help him even after he rescues him. But, he explains, the crew he runs with is no place for a posh Oxbridge boy like Q, so the only way to keep him safe is if they pretend he is Bond’s new boy toy (Q: “I resent that characterisation.” Bond: “It’s either that or the street, sweetheart.”)

I don’t have a plot yet per se but the story would feature a great amount of bewilderement from Q (including the fact that he is now running with criminals), a realisation of how much of the Bond he knows is a result of lifelong trauma and how much, including his kindness, is innate, Q’s skills with guns and ability to make anything explode coming in surprisingly handy, underground boxing which Bond is surprsingly good at, and of course, hot sex.

Euros would also be on during this time which gives Q more exposure to football and three lions fan culture than he ever wanted to, and I think, in the midst of all this chaos I could sneak in some ponderings on cultural disconnect and diaspora trauma what with Bond a Scotsman being an avid England NT fan.

#00q #fic ideas #that ad literally made me lose what was left of my mind welp #but also Q missing his own Bond and wondering what that says abt him #bc this one - while unhinged - is also at peace. happy.#and Q cleaning up Bond's cuts and scrapes after a rough boxing match #and bond normally always so loud stills under his hand #and looks up at Q in the exact way his Bond does #w/ such trust and fondness and this pain - of the knowledge that Q is more than anything he ever deserves #mmm #i will stop now #truly lost it over here

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thepropertylovers · 1 year

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The Design Trend I've Loved for Years is Taking the Internet by Storm: Dark Academia

It finally has a name!!!

I couldn’t put my finger on it, I just knew that I liked it. No, I loved it. It felt like all the best parts of my favorite kind of design put into one: Cozy, collected, cluttered, yet controlled. The 4 C’s, if you will. And now it finally has a name that makes so much sense, I’m wondering why I didn’t think of it to begin with:

Dark Academia

If you’ve ever seen the movie Knives Out and found yourself drooling over the mansion the movie is set in, you may be a fan of Dark Academia, too. It’s a look that feels collected over time and carries with it an air of sophistication and, well, academia. Think lots of stacked books, picture frames on walls, textures and patterns, layers, and dark colors/wallpaper on the walls.

It’s a style I have done and loved for years, but I never knew there was actually a name for it until I saw this post from Scene Therapy, where they describe the style as “combining the traditional accoutrement of the ancient Oxbridge scholar with the shades and designs of a seasonal murder mystery.”

And then after this post from Architectural Digest popped up in my email, I knew it was time to finally acknowledge that Dark Academia is officially a style that people are talking about and loving, and I’m so glad. While we’re fixing up Holiday House at the farm, which will be a mostly white and cream color palette inside, we’re going to be getting into more warm, earthy, and dark colors for our house in town, and I’m excited to lean into the Dark Academia style here at home.

Architectural Digest goes on to say:

“Unlike other aesthetic microtrends born from the internet, like cluttercore or cottagecore, the murky atmosphere of dark academia seems to have kept the style from burning out fast and bright. According to Google’s Year in Search, an annual retrospective of trending searches compiled by the tech company, dark academia was among ten trending interior styles from 2022, a representative confirmed. Among the other styles on the lists—aesthetics like Scandinavian, modern farmhouse, art deco, and bauhaus—dark academia was the only one that had a direct correlation to a social media subculture. Looking back on the past five years, styles like midcentury modern and boho have dominated when it comes to capturing the attention of people around the globe; however, there’s a case to be made that dark academia could soon become an interiors stronghold.”

I am very excited to see where this trend goes and if it’s here to stay. And in the meantime, if you need me, I’ll be watching Knives Out on repeat.

(photos via Set Decorators Society of America)

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