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the main thing that puts me off of playing chess is that there is 2000 years of gameplay that hundreds of people with higher IQs than me have spent thousands of hours studying the history of, so much so that when i put the pawn forward they say “ah i see youre going for the bulgarian somersault” and then i try to take their bishop with my knight and they go “aw, rookie mistake, youve played the frenchmans cumsock, and in approximately 37 moves i’ll have won”

my favorite lesbian aesthetics are cottagecore, bog witch, and dark academia

essentially, I’d love to be a botany professor in some misty rural university where I hold class in a Victorian conservatory where there are so many forbidden doors that my students are not allowed to enter, and there’s a rumor floating around that I poisoned someone in my mysterious past but in reality all that’s behind the closed doors is a bunch of special flowers I’m cultivating to make the perfect specimen for my farmer wife

NATURAL ACADEMIA

Is sometimes called earthy academia or goblincore (but I feel like goblincore is more of a visual aesthetic while natural academia is more about a mindset)

Is a part of the academia aesthetic, focuses on learning and beauty, if you want to picture it try dark academia in the woods or aesthetic from any Hozier song

What to learn for natural academia:

Botany

Anatomy

Natural medicine

Use of herbs

Geology (rocks, minerals, crystals etc)

Technical sketches of plants and animals you can see in the forest

How to take care of plants

Different types of animals and their differences (snail’s shells, bird’s beaks)

Whose skull is it

History of natural burials

Ley lines (magical lines of energy and buildings that are connected by it)

Magical creatures you can find in the forest (have fun with it, academia doesn’t have to be 100% serious)

Types of mushrooms

The process of body decaying in the ground

Literally anything you can find about natural processes of death

How are bones found by archeologists

Natural academia can be easily mixed with witchcraft academia, some topics can be hard to classify as only natural academia so find which issues are more interesting to you and do research on these.

Natural aesthetic is less about classical art and literature but it shouldn’t stop you if you want to pursue those things. The academia is a huge aesthetic and always remember you can mix all different types of it.

Dark Academia aesthetics for science subjects

Physics

Chewed lips and fingernails. Coffee rings on your desk, and books, and pages. A sparrow pauses at your windowsill - it turns to you, and you have the strangest feeling that it understands something that you cannot. The atoms around you seem to communicate. Your eyelashes flutter, your fingers are stained. Who are you. What is this. What is this.

Astronomy

Lying on cobblestone in loose, flowey clothing. Your hands are cold, but something inside you burns, quietly - in your sternum, in your gut, behind your eyes, behind your teeth. Pinpricks of stars on a velvet night, glints of dust on a sun-streak, droplets of rain on a windowsill. All of this, and you, are the same.

Botany

A candle burns on your desk. Scrapbooks are filled with sketches, and pressed flowers, and dried leaves. Vines creep over a stone wall. You drink herbal tea with the bag left in. Tonight you press wax stamps to handwritten letters. You sit and drink the moonlight. You whisper to the plant on your windowsill.

Chemistry

Loose, giddy laughter. Two friends, shrieking and spinning, alone in a dark hall. Ridiculous, unfeasible ideas. Chicken-scratch notes. Walking the halls of an old university, gothic and dead and alive. You spent hours and hours in the lab, so consumed you don’t notice the time pass. It’s dark when you step outside. You tremble with excitement. Tomorrow.

Medicine

Macabre diagrams of skulls and human anatomy on yellowed paper. Your journals are cryptic: the scratched cursive look like clues, the symbols, code. Nights and nights and nights spent awake, exhaustion tugging at your clothes and your eyes and your neck, but your mind buzzes with an electric determination that teeters on madness. Clasped hands, and quiet camaraderie.

Veterinary medicine

Untamed grass on a misty morning, embroidered with wildflowers. You wear an old dress, or a white shirt tucked into loose checked trousers. Dew brushes your ankles. Your fingers card gently over fur. A kiss just barely touches skin. Your mind is sharp, but your heart is open. There is a breeze through the open window.

Technology

City lights. Ideas that swirl - no, prick at you, fine needle points of inspiration that kiss at the base of your neck, your jaw, your head, and you scramble to turn them into something real. Rusty gears turn on an old watch. A quirked eyebrow. You smell rain on the pavement. 

Psychology

A lone ballerina spins in an abandoned chapel; a streak of white against darkness. Tea in a vintage teacup, spoon left in, on a neat pile of books. Quiet gasps, soft hands and cursive writing. The echo of footsteps. A hand brushes through your hair. A mist rolls in. You think this dawn looks like a dusk.

Marine Biology

Waves heave and undulate, like a great ribcage swelling with breath. You watch it from a lighthouse, blank faced and austere in a long black coat. A small flame of fear quivers in the hollow of your chest. At the old wooden desk, you work.You lick your lips and taste brine.

click here for part 1: (aesthetics for literature, classics, philosophy, fine art, political science, and history)

Botanical Academia: you go off into the forest to sketch coniferous trees.

ugh plants <3<3<3<3

The science of beauty

Botanist mood board🌿

“i enjoy and participate in academia-aesthetic communities on the internet because it’s fun and helps me stay motivated with schoolwork”

and

“much of the predominant source material used in online academia content is european in origin, and worshipping at the altar of european intellectualism is harmful as well as exclusive, particularly to POC and other groups that have been historically shut out of european academic spaces”

are statements that can (and should) coexist. i don’t want anyone to think that because i post dark academia content i can’t also recognize it’s flaws! in addition i always do my best to respond positively and constructively to criticisms so please let me know if i post something exclusive or otherwise in poor taste.

have a lovely day everyone and i’ll get back to posting soon <3

dropbox containing linguistics textbooks

contains 34 textbooks including etymology, language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, & translation studies

dropbox containing language textbooks

contains 86 language textbooks including ASL, Arabic, (Mandarin) Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Modern & Ancient), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh

dropbox containing books about language learning

includes fluent forever by gabriel wyner, how to learn any language by barry farber, polyglot by kató lomb

if there’s a problem with any of the textbooks or if you want to request materials for a specific language feel free to message me!

today’s productivity tip:

i’m having a wild couple of weeks as i prepare for science olympiad and the SATs while keeping on top of the workload from my 6 AP classes, so i’ve been doing everything i can to stay productive and motivated. this is a trick i like to use to divide up my work and keep it manageable.

first, make a list of all the things you NEED to get done that day. i know there are probably 20 things that you could do or that it would be nice to have done, but those are a second priority.

now, sort your list into three categories: emails/upkeep tasks, small/low-energy tasks, and major/time consuming tasks. you want to have about the same number of tasks in each category, so don’t be afraid to split up bigger tasks into less overwhelming components.

ideally, you should be able to rotate through these categories as you work, which will help keep you from becoming stagnant since each category of task will use your brain in a slightly different way.

if you finish everything on this list, congrats! now feel free to do the same thing with those second-priority, i-could-do-it-tomorrow tasks that you set aside earlier.

anyway, i don’t know if this will be useful, but it helps me. happy studying <3

Do you have a list or something of your favourite academic/theory books? 🥺

sure! all of them should be available on libgen, so enjoy 🧚🏻‍♀️ i did focus on cultural histories rather than theory, though, otherwise it would get too long. virtually all of them are published by the academic presses, and well-sourced and peer-reviewed. no pseudoscience in this household, no sirree! (also, none of them have anything to do with my actual field of study. i’m just like that)

— Medieval Ghost Stories: An Anthology of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies, — Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages, — After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, — Darkness: A Cultural History, — Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris, — Angels & Angelology in the Middle Ages, — Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750, — Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science, — The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England, — Landscapes of Fear, — Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness, — The Severed Head: Capital Visions, — Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural, — Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, — When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, — Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History, — Religion and Its Monsters, — On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, — The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History, — Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages, — Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art, — Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, — From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, Or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends, — A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire, — Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females, — The Spectral Arctic: A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration, — Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds, — Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages, — Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, — Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers,

etc, etc, etc. 

Dark Academia Subjects : Botany

reblogging to find this later 

Earthy Academia Aesthetic ~~

(also called botanical or forest academia)

character traits

- windswept hair that used to be tied back perfectly, but has fallen out here and there due to exploring outside

- empathetic, cheerful, clever, earnest, kind, hearty, genuine, wise, strong

- overabundance of generosity, often giving small rocks, shells, cool leaves, or flowers as sentimental gifts

- very gentle nature as they often befriend animals and care for many plants

- can be naturally intelligent, but not always .. they work really hard in order to understand as many flora and fauna as possible

- can either be very orderly and neat , or on the other hand very chaotic and messy (two opposite ends of the spectrum)

- very resourceful and inventive, must be quick thinkers in order to successfully solve problems that may arise then exploring and tools are limited

interests

- great lover of tea and black coffee

- incredible plant parent , and they are know for having a large rare plant collection

- they befriend many creatures, but are selective about which ones they keep as pets as they believe that animals should be free to wander as they do

- can be humanities oriented (history, mythology, art, literature) or science oriented (biology, botany, geology, biochemistry)

- they either hyper-focus on one specific natural topic or are well-read in a large variety of natural topics , either way they are always open to understanding new things regarding any topic

- hand written letters that always include pressed flowers or leaves

- interested in the scientific aspect of astrology, and less the supernatural implications

- knows in their heart that nature will eventually reclaim the world, and they are at peace with that realization

outfits and key colors

- sweaters, overalls, comfy jackets, denim or corduroy in winter/fall/spring, linen in summer

- worn leather boots and gloves

- button up shirts, tweed jackets

- muted colors, greens of the forest, dark browns of the earth, pale yellow of worn book pages, black and dark blues like the night sky, occasional gray

- sometimes sage green and light tan if channeling a lighter vibe

side note:

heavily believes in scientific fact, and is extremely hesitant to place trust in people who don’t listen to science or remain ignorant to its teachings

(original aesthetic idea: @earthy-academia , additional developments from @tolkien-fantasy )