No One Mourns The Wicked//no, One Mourns The Wicked

I think the thing that makes me go feral in God Games is the fact that Athena matches the melody of every god she tries to persuade, except for Ares.

Ares, the only god Athena can never see eye to eye with, the brother she is by nature eternally pitted against, the guy she just fucking hates. She whips her own theme out to rebuke him and it is glorious

Alignment chart of dark academia books, emphasis on the academia. I have read them all and this is my take on it all.

Is the novel a dark academia because it takes place in a school and there are a lot of "dark" themes or is it a dark academia because the atmosphere is grim and the characters are pursuing knowledge.

Also book recommendations, I think people would like the books that fall in the same quadrant.

Books under the read more.

Top Left: My favourite corner where I just want the author to flex their niche knowledge.

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies - Heather Fawcett

Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo

The Raven Boys - Maggie Steifvater

The Secret History - Donna Tarte

Babel - R. F. Kuang

Bottom right: The intersection between lots of deaths and some niche knowledge. This one is a bit more hand wavey so here are some explanations.

Blood Over Bright Haven - M. L. Wang: Often compared to Babel but has way less niche knowledge and more transactional deaths.

Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir: This one is a sequel but the convoluted plot lives in my head rent free and it’s Dark (Goth) Academia.

Bunny - Mona Awad: Lots of allusion to literature and mythology. Also lots of dark, bunnies and swans.

Bottom Left: Takes place in a school that people are trying to survive.

The Magicians - Lev Grossman

Vicious - V. E. Schwab

Legendborn - Tracy Deonn

Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Atlas Six - Olivie Blake

Deadly Education - Naomi Naovik

Top Left: Happens in a school and pretty light on death but has “dark” themes.

The River King - Alice Hoffman

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson

The Initial Insult - Mindy McGinnis

A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath - Moniquill Blackgoose

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs - Janina Matthewson and Jeffrey Cranor

Telemachus as that one pic ft. Argos

In the bright spring sunshine adoring lovers recline against a white wall. A lonely stranger watches. Dusk enters the wisteria.

Yosano Akiko, River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko

I relate to Richard Papen only because I have an inauspicious need to be in-the-know about things it’d be better I didn’t understand and things that I’d otherwise have no desire to.

Unrelated,I also wasn’t included in things as a child.

Gigi's Legendary animatic brainrot.... I'm planning to draw more telecommunications frames that I liked from the animatic btw!

Ib mother @gigizetz 🩷💚

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(Did you guys miss me, lmao? I'm still in the midst of my exams but this gorgeous beautiful SUPERCALIFRAGILLISTICEXPIALODOCIOUS animatic took my breath away- GO WATCH IT NOWWW!!!!.....)

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Dazai official art redraw. I am faltering

People don't talk about how Richard's only fucking reason for involving himself in a murder witch was comited to cover up a different murder he had literally nothing to do with is because bunny was slightly mean to him

Like the one time someone actually clocks him for his constant lying he decides to go out of his way to help with and even suggested a method for his murder.

“Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think?”

– The Secret History