I Was Having A Great Day Then This Appeared

so idk bout y’all but my otps are important to me bc they’re the closest thing to romance and love in my tiny sad little life. juST LET ME LIVE IN SOME FICTIONAL SHOES FOR A MINUTE AND EXPERIENCE SOME PASSIONATE HAND-HOLDING 

dark academia literary works: a masterlist

Hello! I replied to this post on Reddit today, trying to compile all the dark academia books I could think of, and then thought that maybe all of you here might find it useful too, so here you go. It is a very, very broad list, a mix of classic and contemporary literature, and there is no set criteria besides having a dark vibe (this includes murder and crime but could just be the way it’s written as well) and portraying an academic setting, most of the time from the student’s point of view. I haven’t read all of these myself and so I can’t judge on quality, but hopefully this will inspire people to add on to it in the comments.

Here you go!

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson The Secret History, Donna Tartt If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio Maurice by E. M. Forster The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Possession by A.S. Byatt The Truants by Kate Weinberg The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Vicious by V. E. Schwab The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (tangentially related) A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Likeness by Tana French The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (coming out tomorrow!) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman Oleanna by David Mamet Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Other classics that are not Dark Academia in content, but which I would include in a list of the DA canon: The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer Shakespeare’s plays (Macbeth, Hamlet are good ones to start with) A Separate Peace, John Knowles The Bacchae, Euripides Greek tragedies (a good one to start with is Antigone, very popular and staged many a time) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Beat generation literature Jane Austen’s books (light academia, anyone?)

I wish it was socially acceptable to lie in the ground while it rains.

This playlist means a lot to me. You can listen to it if you’re daydreaming or about to sleep. Or because you’re a deep feeler. I just hope you enjoy it.

introvert culture on social media is lurking for a few days and then post-vomiting for a bit

aww, lovely times

true or false, everyone should be making their best effort 100% of the time, it’s lazy to do otherwise.  

>see a pic

> goes “hmm”

> scrolls down

>it’s from picsthatmakeyougohmm

> got me

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Reblog if you've ever read a fic that was better than published books