“Why Are You Guys Being So Dramatic?”

“Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.” - Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea

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Really niche things I recommend to research when bored:

Judith Butler’s queer theory

Hofstede’s national cultures

Anne Lister

Creative nonfiction and Gutkind

The queer culture of Berlin in the early to mid 1900s

Stone Butch Blues

Geoff Ryman’s novel 253

A room of one’s own by Virginia Woolf

The effect of Ibsen’s play ‘The Doll’s House’ on Chinese feminism

Feminist economics

The history of the term “Spinster”

Lesbian pulp fiction

Queerbaiting in Marketing

Saladin

Islamic cultures and their scientific discovers in the 5th-15th century

Take this isolation as an opportunity to indulge in yourself and your interest but do not force yourself to do things, I know it’s an anxiety fuelled time. Please feel free to add to the list and stay safe!

I sexually identify as a dried out flower in the yellowed out pages of someone’s journal

don’t you fret, monsieur marius

i don’t feel any pain

a little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now

- a little fall of rain, lés misérables

Dark Academia community repeat after me:

“Dark Academia is an aesthetic that revolves around classic literature, the pursuit of self-discovery, and a general passion for knowledge and learning” NOT ELITIST SCHOOL SYSTEMS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE it means anyone if any class background, any ability can be part of the aesthetic/community as long as they has a passion for self education and knowledge

Personally I think the aesthetic is inherently about being poor and gay: it’s about entering spaces that were originally closed to us and wearing the clothes typical to the “educated rich man”. I could write literal books of essays on this topic in specific

Tosca, Ho amato tutto / Keats, Love Letters to Fanny Brawne / Hozier, Take Me to Church / Les Misérables, Finale / Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet / Richard Siken, Crush

Okay but like, just imagine you’re majoring in History, your unrequited lover in STEM.

The heated debates because you are both far too passionate about your major. But the giggly and soft atmosphere numbs the seriousness.

The shitty puns and jokes. However you both have to explain them, and that’s fine because anything to hear them talk about something they love. Eyes twinkling, wide smile, the lot.

And you both take a vow to use science as well as history to discover if Napoleon was actually short.

Then you both fall in love. Even more.

And. Yeh. Just a thought.

Spot the difference games are getting harder nowadays