I’m looking for more DA blogs to follow, so if you got that dark academia aesthetic, poems, literature, and / or overly specific yearning please reblog or comment on this post so I can follow you, thanks!
*people choose to kneel during the national anthem to peacefully protest police brutality*
Some People™️: tHat’S uNaCCePtaBLe
*people march in the streets and harass passersby to protest safer-at-home orders*
Some People™️: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that’s their constitutional right
You don’t care about rights; you care about “your side” winning.
Spot the difference games are getting harder nowadays
achilles and patroclus / andromache and hector / odysseus and penelope
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.
Desi dark academia is just a group of multilingual STEM students with an extensive knowledge of history, who recite Tagore, purely out of memory
Posting on Tumblr is like talking to your cat. You don’t know if they are listening, and you don’t know if they care, but for some reason, it still helps.
“Untitled (Damayanti)”
Raja Ravi Varma | राजा रवि वर्मा (Indian, 1848–1906)
Oil on canvas
She submitted her master’s thesis!
Rome fell because every single emperor was a bottom