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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien

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Cecília Meireles, from a poem titled "Silk and Ashes," featured in Antologia poética

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The Eastern Window.

Church of St Andrew, Suffolk.

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Alignment chart of dark academia books, emphasis on the academia. I have read them all and this is my take on it all.

Is the novel a dark academia because it takes place in a school and there are a lot of "dark" themes or is it a dark academia because the atmosphere is grim and the characters are pursuing knowledge.

Also book recommendations, I think people would like the books that fall in the same quadrant.

Books under the read more.

Top Left: My favourite corner where I just want the author to flex their niche knowledge.

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies - Heather Fawcett

Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo

The Raven Boys - Maggie Steifvater

The Secret History - Donna Tarte

Babel - R. F. Kuang

Bottom right: The intersection between lots of deaths and some niche knowledge. This one is a bit more hand wavey so here are some explanations.

Blood Over Bright Haven - M. L. Wang: Often compared to Babel but has way less niche knowledge and more transactional deaths.

Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir: This one is a sequel but the convoluted plot lives in my head rent free and it’s Dark (Goth) Academia.

Bunny - Mona Awad: Lots of allusion to literature and mythology. Also lots of dark, bunnies and swans.

Bottom Left: Takes place in a school that people are trying to survive.

The Magicians - Lev Grossman

Vicious - V. E. Schwab

Legendborn - Tracy Deonn

Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Atlas Six - Olivie Blake

Deadly Education - Naomi Naovik

Top Left: Happens in a school and pretty light on death but has “dark” themes.

The River King - Alice Hoffman

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson

The Initial Insult - Mindy McGinnis

A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath - Moniquill Blackgoose

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs - Janina Matthewson and Jeffrey Cranor

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"White Nights", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by O. N. Shartsé)

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I am Back

With the TikTok ban looming, I am returning on my roots and will begin posting on this account again

I also started a new account @thelockedt0mb where I will focus primarily on the locked tomb series, but also feature content around reading as well as fantasy and sci-fi books

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"fuck you my child is completely fine"

your child reads classic literature for fun

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casual wear (splattered with blood) vs. evening wear (drenched in blood)

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Chapel of the Immaculate Conception - Reims Cathedral

Photo by Charles Reeza

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‪kafka was like no one understands me and today we’re like kafka is the only one that understands me‬

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“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.”

- From “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

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Brotherly Charity. 1865. Edouard de Conny French 1818-1900. marble.               http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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Manuscript of Bram Stoker’s Dracula playscript, from 1897.

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this site definitely doesn't allow you to paste the link to any article blocked by a paywall (say, a NYT article) so that you can read it free of charge! that would be illegal and would benefit broke college students too much. it definitely does not do that. promise.

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Primavera (detail), Sandro Botticelli, tempera on panel, late 1470s or early 1480s.

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—The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde