November Aesthetics: 'Eros' By Ludovico Einaudi, Black Coffee, Chaotic Notes From The Previous Night,

“I love you. You’re deliciously uncotemporary; you belong to a mystical past and also to a very remote future. For you, time isn’t money, it’s a precious essence, delicate, full of mystery. Just to breathe with someone like you does me good.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Richard Howard, from “The Rock Garden,”

types of dark academia

classic academia: beige trench coats, wool sweaters. plaid skirts. think femme fatale, but educated. sobbing in bed late at night over the secret history or dead poets society. tea with milk and sugar. subsequent tea stains.

darkest academia: running through the rain, dimly lit by streetlights. brown tweed jackets, dress shoes. cold fingers and colder gazes. french-pressed black coffee, piping hot. dark, candlelit rooms with ancient wood floors/walls. 

light academia: white cable-knit sweaters, sparkly eyes and foggy glasses. going to art museums and falling in love with every portrait, every sculpture. caressing the petals of a rose, hearing the crinkle of leaves underfoot.

witchy academia: burning candles while reading or doing homework. black turtlenecks, velvet skirts. walking through the forest in autumn. passing a graveyard and feeling a greyish presence. waiting anxiously for samhain.

romantic academia: writing flowery poetry about someone you’ll never speak to (guilty oops). a cozy alizarin sweater, pleated skirts. slow dancing around your room to the beatles. curling up with warm, pallid cups of tea and a book.

scholarly academia: impeccable notes in class. leather bound bags crammed with textbooks and pens. lots of coffee with scones, and even more late nights. a wide vocabulary (that people constantly comment on). lives in the library.

theatre academia: shakespeare, all the time - quoting, reading, praying for a school production of a midsummer nights dream. or the crucible. memorizing lines in the wings. taking on your character’s traits, even outside the theater.

Autumn Reads

Catte Street in the fog.Oxford,UK

— James Elkins, Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

Masterlist: Vocab lists

Octobre

Yoga

Cheveux

Mer

Le marché de noel

Le bricolage

La mort

Le tribunal

La voiture

Ecriture inclusive

Space

La guerre

Vocabulaire du jour 1

Vocabulaire du jour 2

Vocabulaire du jour 3 

Vocabulaire du jour 4

Vocabulaire du jour 5

Vocabulaire du jour 6 

Vocabulaire du jour 7

Vocabulaire du jour 8

Vocabulaire du jour 9

Vocabulaire du jour 10

La Mante S1 E1

La Mante S1 E2

La Mante S1 E3

La Mante S1 E4 and 5

La Mante S1 E6

Workout

Recap Vocab verbes

Recap Vocab adverbes

Recap Vocab adjectifs

Recap Vocab nouns

Study Vocab

Hockey

La casa de papel/ Money Heist

La casa de papel/ Money Heist season 5 episode 1

Random Vocab

Random Vocab 2

Télévision et film

Faire du camping

La cuisine

L’île mystérieuse part 1

L’île mystérieuse part 2

L’île mystérieuse part 3

Le tour du monde en 80 jours part 1

Le tour du monde en 80 jours part 2

Voyage au centre de la terre part 1

Voyage au centre de la terre part 2

Vingt mile lieues sous les mers

Le Horla

Science et recherche

Bel Ami chapitre 1 

Bel Ami chapitre 2 

Bel Ami chapitre 3 

Bel Ami chapitre 4

Bel Ami chapitre 5

Bel Ami chapitre 6 

Bel Ami chapitre 7

Bel Ami chapitre 8

Bel Ami 2.1

Bel Ami 2.2.

Bel Ami 2.3

Bel Ami 2.4

Bel Ami 2.5 + 2.6

Bel Ami 2.7

Bel Ami 2.8+2.9+2.10

Flaubert: Un coeur simple

Flaubert: La légende de Saint Julien

Flaubert: Hérodias 

Nautical vocab in French

Au travail

L’environnement

La parure - Maupassant

Words I didn’t know in le Musée d’Orsay

Halloween

Les instruments

Les vêtements

Song translation masterlist/ Expressions masterlist / Grammar masterlist

attention !

as my soul longs for another's company, I subsequently am looking for one to converse with, a pen pal of sorts, ideally sharing an interest in the following:

• dark academia

• classical architecture

• roman & greek classicism

• latin (in lingua)

• the secret history

• classical literature

• an interest in reading in general

• open to the possibility of exchanging letters ?

• a passion for music

• a love for the obscure and esoteric

• a proclivity toward sesquipidalianism

• a tired soul confined to the body of one in their late teens

any (or none) will suffice, I am simply looking for someone to talk to and in turn who is willing to talk back 🖤

you don’t need to go to a prestigious university or an exclusive boarding school to get dark academia vibes. you can be a pretentious brooding scholar at your local public high school as well. leave books on renaissance paintings and ancient rituals open on library desks. write ominous notes in the margins of textbooks. quote byron on the bathroom stall door. wear an unmistakable scent of perfume, so when you enter a classroom, everyone knows that you’ve arrived. cut your hair in the sink of the science lab. slip roses into random lockers. surround yourself with a few number of close friends and form your own secret circle. gain a reputation. have whispers follow you down the hallways. I would, however, advise against murder.