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Pink Floyd performing in Venice, 1989

(Source: OpenCulture) 

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L'Autre Côté (The Other Side) Dean Cornwell, 1918

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“I mean, this man was not /Voltaire/ we killed.”

Francis Abernathy

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i told my latin professor i picked up the oresteia and he got super excited and told me to the best part was when Klytaemnestra rejoiced in agamemnon’s death “how the earth rejoiced in his drops of blood like rain”!

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Who but the gods can go through life unmarked?

Aeschylus, The Oresteia (Agamemnon)

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— Aeschylus, The Oresteia (Agamemnon)

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Make your room like an old library! keep it dimly lit, have books in every corner, have a few marble busts, invite the ghost of a victorian woman who died in a tragic accident to be your roommate!

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The 20's are upon us, so let's bring back going to university in suits, smoking in cafés while discussing academia, wearing bold red lipstick everyday and getting absolutely drunk on weekends while listening to jazz

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Darkly academic research ideas for your time indoors (because you're not a heathen):

The lives of great classical composers.

Ancient Egypt's social hierarchy and attitudes towards women, homosexuality etc.

Poisons.

The tea trade, and how it became so important to British culture.

18th century fashion and the production of clothing.

How corsets aren't the terrible patriarchal torture devices everyone thinks they are.

The use of recreational drugs in the late 19th century.

The French revolution.

Methods of forensic investigation at crime scenes.

Controversy in psychological studies.

Matriarchal societies.

How nostalgia influences fashion, media, and literature.

The nature versus nurture argument.

The history of trains and railroads.

Symbolism in art.

Just a few research rabbit holes to throw yourself into if you're bored. :)

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— ophelia in paintings: moodboard

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What I thought dark academia would be: Shambling about in a dirty oversized blazer, dead-eyed and emaciated. Excavating dilapidated churches and abandoned ruins in the dead of night and the pouring rain. Pouring over forbidden texts in forgotten languages. Slowing going mad as one discovers things that man was not meant to know. Accidentally becoming a god.

What dark academia actually is: broke liberal arts students LARPing as rich liberal arts students.

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The Morning Post, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 29, 1898

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People are afraid of themselves, nowadays.

They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“she did not want to move or to speak. She wanted to rest, to learn, to dream. she felt very tired.” 

- Virginia Woolf 

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everyone who is into dark academia now used to either have an obsession with greek mythology, were really into poetry and philosophy, tried to be motivated for school, loved history or considered themselves either a ravenclaw or a slytherin

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Dark academia aesthetic inspo (x)