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Accidentally Aestethic Things That I Do

my glasses are always a little crooked somehow. maybe my ears are just weirdly placed, who knows.

i sleep on a mattress surrounded by fairy lights. when my mum and i redecorated our apartment, my old bed broke and we kind of don't have the money to buy a new one so i just sleep on a mattress. the fairy lights are there because i don't own a bedside lamp.

i stack books all around my room. not because i own too many, but because my bookshelf is just too small and i'm too lazy to redecorate it to make space.

my nail polish is always chipped somehow because i never clean it till it's almost chipped off completely

my glasses are also always dirty. i've learned to see through it.

i'm gay which... should be enough explanation.

mismatched socks. i never purposely wear them mismatched, it's just that i don't care.

my hair dye is always faded because i can't bother re-dying it.

doodling on skin. that's it.

my alarm clock is an old nintendo ds, one of the really old ones from the early 2000s, because my phone alarm is complete bullshit.

i keep a jar in my room with a sticky note saying 'rot in hell dick-man' and every time someone says some freudian bullshit they have to put money in there.

What I want to say is, you don't have to follow some specific rules from the last tumblr aestethic you think is cool. Being human, and being yourself, is already aestethic enough. Don't let your life get dictated by expensive style choices, doesn't matter if it's clothes, decoration or furniture, and let yourself down because it's just not in your budget. Find aestethic in yourself. Being you is pretty aestethic might I say.

Feel free to add those accidentally aestethic things you do in your day to day. Spread some positivity. Let's be wholesome for a minute.

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New Aesthetic Idea; Earthy Academia

Messy, Wild Hair, likely filled with Leaves or small Yellow/Blue Flowers

Anything Tolkien-related (fits the theme of Nature-Filled Academic Life)

Very Sentimental and Curious Personality, almost Whimsical or Otherworldly even

Tea, however you like it prepared

Probably the type to put flowers or little sentimental items in their pockets until they’re full to bursting

Likely has interest in Mythology, Folklore, Religion, History, Psychology, Linguistics or any of the Humanity and History-related academic pursuits

Also probably has interest in things like Botany, Bird-keeping, Farmwork and other Nature-related pursuits

Foggy, Rainy and Snowy Weather are preferred

Interest in Classical Literature

Writing Letters, Keeping Journals, Creative Writing, really anything that involved Pen and Paper

A Wild Soul, full of Wanderlust, who feels out of place in a modern media-driven World, Really existential and just wants to focus on what Matters

Is genuinely considering running away into the forest and never coming back

Firmly believes in Science, but is undoubtedly fascinated by the Supernatural and Spiritual. The type to study and believe History and Science in school, but secretly collect Books on Witchcraft in their free time.

Treats the Supernatural less like a believer, and more like an Anthropologist. The type to try and document different Supernatural Creatures, or study the Culture and Ways of the Fair Folk. Wants to learn everything about things beyond the scope of Human Comprehension, particularly those related to nature.

Taking walks in the Rain and writing down your strange / friendly encounters you had along the way in your personal journal

Knowing a little too much about seemingly Everything

Being weirdly okay with Death, Burial, the Afterlife and the Concept of Decay

Loving Gothic and Classical Architecture, but also having a deep affinity for Nature and its inevitable Reclamation

Clothes: 

Glasses, Sweaters, Scarves, Large Book-filled Satchels, Flat-Caps, Beanies, Cardigans, Long (knee-length or ankle) Skirts, and the lik

Large, Cozy Jackets, particularly if they’re lined with wool (or fake wool, at least) or have especially large/numerous pockets

Dress Shirts, Dark Pants (especially with stripes), Suspenders, Plant Motifs

Neutral Colors like Browns, Blacks, Greens, Dark Blues, Whites and Tans

Hobbies: 

Studying, Taking Walks, Going on Adventures, Collecting Books Bones and Antiques, Writing, Painting, Sketching, Reading, Baking, Gardening, Embroidery, Wood or Soap Carving, Collecting Items with personal Sentimental Value (like the first gift that really meant something to you, or older letters and notes from loved ones)

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“If someday the moon calls you by your name don’t be surprised, because every night I tell her about you.”

Shahrazad al-Khalij

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no more discourse everybody shut the fuck up and eat some bread

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a master-list of dark academia posts

Dark Academia Moodboards

sometimes we all need to stay up all night, listening to classical music, discussing art and poetry, drinking red wine, while looking at the moon

took Dorian Grey to work with me today 

Study Motivations

The Picture of Dorian Grey

The Secret History characters

General Dark Academia

Dark Academia in various medias masterpost

Favourite love letters

Seeking employment

Perfume associations

Thoughts on writing

do you ever

The Dead Poets Society

Pacific Rim

Donna Tartt

Unintentional talent

i have the urge

adventure-core

reblog if

Guide To Dark Academia

three steps how to become mysterious and weird

become who you’ve dreamed of being

Why people are fond of Dark Academia

Dark Academia Lifestyle

How To Get Your Life Back Together

Dark Academia ask game

On limiting yourself to a single aesthetic

Cute date ideas

Getting into dark academia

Finding Yourself

Dark Notes

Little things to do

How to explore castles

Little ways

Improve yourself through DA

The Problem With DA

Aesthetic Text Posts

i want it to be fall again

Agatha Christie quotes

Work-class academic

i wanna be an anthropologist

Raw Florence & The Machine Quotes

i love wax seals

do we ever get the urge to

If We Were Villains

Date a boy who…

strange discoveries

future me

i deeply desire

the witch trials aren’t a gimmick

i’m sick of not having

keen on rural gothic

An excerpt

i want to write…

I’ve decided to practice witchcraft

hell hath no fury

dreaming about dark academia

regarding Frankenstein

i wish there was a checklist

excerpt

Philip Lombard

menswear

book club

ghostcore

poetry

something to think about

in the mood to be

does anyone feel like

Types Of…

types of academics

The Secret History characters

catholic art

Seasons Girls

decades

types of people as planets

as seasons

Music

Literary playlists

Dark Academia songs

Aesthetics/People as Queen albums

literature playlists

Great DA Blogs

@polymathwrath

@x-carpe-o-noctem-x

@sanguineoath

@thoughtcriminals

@thehistory

@sunkengardens-drowningbooks

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Dark Academia | WLW

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But consider this: women loving women in a dark academia setting

- long strands of hair that cling to a girls’ back as she emerges from the water of the lake, bathed in moonlight and the glow of the windows of the old stone buildings

- throwing around lines of Sapphos fragments, acting as though it is just a meaningless game 

- sleeves of white collar shirts rolled up to her elbows, hair falling into her face, glasses sliding down her nose as she sits over history books for hours on end

- wandering the halls at midnight 

- squeezing into small nooks to not get caught, she distinctly smells of the earth and rain

- her playing the male lead in a play because there simply wasn’t a better fit (and those clothes would fit no one the same way they fit her)

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Autumn & Dark Academia Things:

Heavy oxfords paired with your favourite dark trousers; the pockets filled with library and café receipts.

Black earl grey tea and coffee cups left on the window-sill as rain falls softly. A classical record plays in the background, crackling with the grains of time.

The golden September light falling gently on the campus buildings. A cold breeze slips under your tweed and wool as you notice new secret engraving on the stone walls.

The feeling of a new notebook, leather bound and with empty white pages. Your fountain pen rolling along the wooden desk.

Your shoulder aches under the weight of all the books you’ve brought home, perfumed with the ancient musk of the hidden library you’ve discovered for the first time.

The leaves swirling past as you sit on the bench on campus, filling your curious mind with secret languages and the sonnets of your most treasured poet.

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you chuckled at statues of gods as a cigarette hung dangerously from the corner of your lip, and i dared not tempt fate further when i began to feel your serpentine arm wrap itself around my waist in the halls of an empty museum // ig: rosenaufsuden

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detail The Lament for Icarus, 1898
Herbert Draper

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tender touch starved

“and if you had a bad week just let me touch your cheek” – maggie rogers, dog years

“i wanna be loved, i wanna be whole again, so tuck my hair behind my ears and touch my soul again” – gang of youths, the heart is a muscle

“in a crowd unfamiliar, i just want to touch your familiar face” – gang of youths, the deepest sighs the frankest shadows

“something gave you the nerve to touch my hand” – taylor swift, it’s nice to have a friend

that screenshot of the goldfinch (2019) where theo and boris touch foreheads in the amsterdam parking lot

“but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist” – richard siken, you are jeff

“don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?” – ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous

“hold my hand because i might disappear.“ – melina marchetta, on the jellicoe road

pride & prejudice (2005) carriage / hand flex scene

“the longing to touch / be touched. i feel gratitude when i touch someone— as well as affection, etc. the person has allowed me proof that i have a body — and that there are bodies in the world.” – susan sontag, consciousness harnessed to flesh

it (2017) when richie and eddie cling to each other during the clown attack

“i bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries in the universe in someone’s hand.” – benjamin alire sáenz, aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe

“it felt like a very specific sort of miracle, this hand holding. it felt good and necessary and gentle and real.” – katrina leno, summer of salt

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“One day you will Thank yourself for never giving up.”

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