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Do Not Under Any Circumstances Drink From These Teacups
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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im needy
hi followers, interact with me and let’s talk about something nice, like the mandalorian or jane eyre or knitting or f r o g s ?? or whatever you like ! 
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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Classic Movies You Need To Watch
Here’s my Classic Movies Pick From 39′s to 79′s, Here goes:
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Gone With The Wind (1939)
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Ben-Hur (1959)
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Breakfats At Tiffany’s (1961)
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
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To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
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The Sound of Music (1965)
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The Graduate (1967)
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2001: A Space Oddysey (1968)
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The Godfather Trilogy (1972)
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The Jerk (1979)
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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Dark Academia Film List
Hello everyone! I have wanted to do a film recommendation list for some while and it was @bewitchedlady who encouraged me to bring this to life (gratias maximas, love). It is important to remember that the “academia” aesthetic is not restricted with classic literature or mythology, music and films can also be an integral part of this subgenre. 
This list includes films that have an academic, arthouse, and intelligent atmosphere regarding storyline or visuals. In this list, I tried to add great films as well as not-so-great ones, and in my opinion, they are all worth seeing.
Recommendations to this list are always welcome! I’ll be especially very happy if you recommend films that are non-English, pre-2000s, or female directed ones.
La migliore offerta (2013) dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Cracks (2009) dir. Jordan Scott
An Education (2009) dir. Lone Scherfig
Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma
Tolkien (2019) dir. Dome Karukoski
Russian Ark (2002) dir. Aleksandr Sokurov
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir
Wilde (1997) dir. Brian Gilbert
The Oxford Murders (2008) dir. Álex de la Iglesia
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) dir. Jim Jarmusch
La grande bellezza (2013) dir. Paolo Sorrentino
The Theory of Everything (2014) dir. James Marsh
Le Brio (2017) dir. Yvan Attal
Heavenly Creatures (1994) dir. Peter Jackson
The Beguiled (2017) dir. Sofia Coppola
Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir
Indignation (2016) dir. James Schamus
The Professor and the Madman (2019) Fahrad Safinia
The Testament of Youth (2014) dir. James Kent
Call Me by Your Name (2017) dir. Luca Guadagnino
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) dir. Anthony Minghella
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) dir. Mike Newell
Mr. Klein (1976) dir. Joseph Losey (recommended by @pieniharmaakani)
And Then We Danced (2019), dir. Levan Akin (recomended by @pieniharmaakani)
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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yeah, we can’t have that
the weird thing is, when I view my job as some sort of background extra it becomes much more palatable. people go to a library and see me shelving a stack of books in my cardigan and glasses (now with glasses chain!) and they go "yeah, that's exactly right. that's how it's supposed to be in a library." and for some reason, that's comforting? the work is whatever, and the customers are customers, but sometimes it feels like I'm being paid just to make sure this places looks right, and I find that very fun.
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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shoutout to @ sparknotes for always being there for me
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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i was forced into watching the dora the explorer movie today by my brothers, and my one and only highlight was seeing temuera morrison
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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reblog for those we lost
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Keep the flame going for those we have lost to suicide. 
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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i have a bilbo baggins vest with little leaves all over it and i love it so much !!!
If you say you’ve never bought clothes influenced by a fictional character youre lying
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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i am completely ready to go on an adventure with a small group of my closest friends and a man i just so happen to be in love with, but the second it gets physically exerting i will demand to be carried
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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who wants to go on a date with me here ??
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Shakespeare and Company in Paris, France 
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i made this in 2 hours of pure rabid energy and im going to pass out
happy adhd awareness month yeehaw
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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don’t try to tell me that isn’t a person under a thin layer of statue stuff
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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i want someone to tell me what it’s like falling in love
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veryeducatedtoad · 3 years
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Are you tired of seeing Dorian Gray being portrayed in films with black hair? Well this version of The Picture of Dorian Gray has Dorian with blond hair! Enjoy!
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Dark Academia in various medias masterpost
“Dark academia is the unofficial term for a genre of fiction with stories that revolve around an academic campus. In literature, it’s recognized with the title campus or academic novel. Film has no term for it yet.
Dark academia works contain elements of satire, tragedy, and philosophy. They tend to promote humanities and liberal arts as passions for their protagonists to pursue. Since dark academia centers around an academic environment with young adults, most of the stories are coming-of-age.
Dark academia criticizes static social attitudes by encouraging new and unique social perspectives represented with its protagonists. Simultaneously, the genre emphasizes how students never truly get prepared for the turbulent reality they face outside their campus, despite a school’s claims to do so.”
-Definition by user @decadeance
Dark Academia in books
Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
Hangsman by Shirley Jackson (1976)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1993)
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (1998)
Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum (1998)
The Chinese Garden by Rosemary Manning (1999)
The River King by Alice Hoffman (2001)
The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy (2002)
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (2003)
Mona Lisa Smile by Deboarah Chiel (2003)
The History Boys by Alan Bennet (2004)
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman (2005)
The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler (2006)
Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (2006)
And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs (2008)
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (2010)
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood (2012)
Sleepwalking by Meg Wolitzer (2014)
Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates (2015)
Long Black Beil by Jennifer Finney Boylan (2017)
If We Were Villains by M.L Rio (2017)
People Like Us by Dana Mele (2018)
Dark Academia in Films
Rope by Dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1948)
A Seperate Peace by Dir. Larry Peerce (1972)
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Dir. Peter Weir (1975)
Suspiria by Dir. Dario Argento (1977)
Maurice by Dir. James Ivory (1987)
Dead Poets Society by Dir. Peter Weir (1989)
School Ties by Dir. Robert Mandel (1992)
A Little Princess by Dir. Alfonso Cuarón (1995)
Lost and Delirious by Dir. Léa Pool (2001)
Mona Lisa Smile by Dir. Mike Newell (2003)
The History Boys by Dir. Nicholas Hytner (2006)
Freedom Writers by Dir. Richard LaGravenese (2007)
The Great Debaters by Dir. Denzel Washington (2007)
Brideshead Revisited by Dir. Julia Jarrold (2018)
Black Swan by Dir. Darren Aronofsky (2010)
Kill Your Darlings by Dir. John Krokidas (2013)
The Riot Club by Dir. Lone Scherfig (2014)
Whiplash by Dir. Damien Chazelle (2014)
Raw by Dir. Julia Ducournau (2016)
Handsome Devil by Dir. John Butler (2016)
Novitiate by Dir. Margaret Bettes (2017)
Suspiria by Dir Luca Guadagnino (2018)
Dark Academia in Different Medias
TV Shows
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
How To Get Away With Murder (2014 - 2020)
Elite (2018 - )
Video Games
Life is Strange (season one)
The Persona series
Bully
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veryeducatedtoad · 4 years
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Giving Your Plot Depth
So far on my blog, I’ve covered the first two steps of writing a novel: developing realistic characters and coming up with a plot. Congratulations! You now have an A plot. 
An A plot is the surface level plot. It’s what your character is doing and what’s happening to them. This plot deals with questions like:
What is wrong with my character’s life at the beginning of the novel?
What do they think will fix their lives when—spoiler alert—it won’t?
Why haven’t they achieved this goal yet?
What catalyst (or inciting incident) will cause them to get off their butts and start chasing this goal for real? 
Now it’s time to move on to the B plot. The B plot is about your character’s development and changing who they are as a person. This is about working out not what your character wants but what they need.
Remember all those flaws we gave our characters? This is where we need to ask the questions:
How does this flaw affect the rest of my hero’s life?
Do my characters flaws get in the way of them achieving their goal? 
How is the plot going to help them realise this flaw and overcome it by the end of the novel after their breaking point?
How is overcoming this flaw really going to make their lives better?
This character development is what gives novels their sparkle. The A plot is what makes your plot interesting, but the B plot is what makes your characters interesting. 
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