#dark academia with no classism

[shhhitscoffeetime]

i love you open access libraries i love you sci hub i love you lib gen and all your pseudo names i love you zlib i love you second hand book shop with textbook section i love you friend from other uni who has access to their library i love you internet friend with PDFs i love you well orgnaised google drive full of books i love you internet archive i love you libby i love you state library with the only physical copy of my textbook i love you tumblr mutual with book hyperfixation i love you discord library pdf horders i love you anna's archive i love you friends who never clear out your downloads folder

[corpsebibliophile]

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."

- Franz Kafka

[the-readers-archive]

The one and only. She never disappoints me. Her works are great modern day classic literature in my humble opinion.

[aishy-photographer]

National Library of France. - Aishy

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[bbtris]

Ophélie, 1867, by Jean-Baptiste Bertrand

[el-tiempo-es-una-ilusion]

“I'll be with you soon”

“I'll keep waiting”

But soon and waiting can't be measured in numbers. It can be measured by patience.

soon and waiting

[inaloriel]

𝔒𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔲𝔭𝔬𝔫 𝔞 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔄𝔠𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔪𝔶 𝔬𝔣 𝔄𝔯𝔱

[burningvelvet]

re my lbr: it's so stupid that all the academic/studying/literary tags on this website are inundated with pictures of coffee and cafés. like yeah a lot of academics work in cafés and are addicted to coffee but c'mon just start a separate thing called cafécore or coffeecore or something. some of you really maybe don't like reading at all and maybe you should become one of those coffee bean enthusiasts and that's perfectly fine. i also think everything about the romanticization of academia/dark academia/etc is ridiculously stupid considering that academia is an extremely exploitative industry and anyone who has been in the education system should be thoroughly disenchanted with it and critical of the caffeine culture which perfectly illustrates how severely the people are overworked.

really a lot of dark academics on tumblr are just touting a nerdier form of grind mindset hustle culture. how is romanticising the drug addictions to nicotine and caffeine any different from finance bros or tech bros or jocks romanticizing cocaine or ritalin or steroids. depending on chemical substances to alter your brain because you physically cannot perform at the level you're holding yourself to (or being held to) is the perfect example of how patriarchal/hierarchical/capitalist cultures grind the lower classes into dust. note that i'm not talking about people who use these things responsibly to treat their disorders, i'm specifically talking about people who use substances to facilitate unhealthy 20 hour study/work sessions. stop glorifying being overworked & stressed out.

if you're a young adult or especially a teenager on these dark academia blogs please get out of that mindset quickly and realize that for a lot of people studying/work/output is just another form of self-harm/self-destruction. you should never tie your productivity or your grades to your self-worth. of course having good grades is a noble aspiration but there's also more to life and you must recognize that most educational institutions are not truly equal or just. seek accomodations if you need them, because any system that prioritizes productivity is usually pretty ableist and steeped in a hierarchical structure that promotes competition in unhealthy ways.

my wish is that we humans could all work less and instead live in egalitarian socieities void of hierarchies/patriarchy/competition - and the older i get, the more i realize how nefarious these things are and how they seep into every aspect of life, and how at odds i am with these structures not only as a female but as someone who has struggled from ableism and classism, both of which for me were manifested in educational difficulties from a young age which followed me into adulthood. anyway to clarify, i am passionate about academia (which is why i use academic tags on my blog) - but for me its a hobby, and i'll never glorify work, and i'll probably never monetize my passions, thereby avoiding having all the love sucked out of me. but i digress

[chinotsuki]

what if romeo and juliet

met in a museum

in são paulo

i once thought love would be black and white

but it's golden

this is me and my friend @dunkellheart in Pinacoteca, São Paulo city :)

[krvaciminos]

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.” ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[dykeinthedark]

i don't understand how the secret history is the staple of dark academia aestheticism. number one because i feel like the book is a very direct critique of the idea of curated subcultures based on elitism, exclusion, and aesthetics that put eurocentric prewar schools of thought on a pedestal and dismiss all others - everything that "dark academia" often slips into if unchecked. number two because of how many times the protagonist snorts coke in a parking lot

[aishy-photographer]

Red and Blue Versailles - Aishy

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[luckhaver]

Dark academia is CANCELED. From now on it’s pastel gas station bathroomia.

[el-tiempo-es-una-ilusion]

‘Cause I feel like time doesn't want me to move forward and I don't know why. I feel like time is moving fast and I'm just standing somewhere, not moving, lost. Like everyone and everything are moving forward and somewhere in time, I was frozen and left behind. I was lost in time.

—Ever, Timeless Love by cxfiwritxr

[venusjailedmywords]

"...and yet, look how she smiles at all, as if she's still got something to lose."

[burningvelvet]

difficult decision: spending lots of time and energy formatting my analysis into a slightly more proper essay style & making sure it meets various stupid criteria, then wracking my brain by submitting it a million times like some horrific job application process with a small chance of being published anywhere, so i can be validated by a few neurotic editors/critics and so a few other pedantic privileged people who probably have little in common with me can read it, and so someone will maybe cite it in an essay of their own one day which i probably won't know about — OR — posting my analysis here on tumblr, which doesn't come with wider societal approval or prestige & can't be put on any resumé, but which takes much less effort & allows me to have more creative freedom & control the entire "publication" process as my own editor, & which most importantly allows me to reach a wider & more accessible audience pretty much immediately and entirely for free, whereby lots of likeminded people can respond and hone actual conversation & connection with me, which is the entire point of writing to begin with. hmmmm