Dark Academia Is Basically What Happens When You Combine The Chaotic Energy Of Slytherins And Ravenclaws

finally using my desk to study. i plan to research on trauma theory in literature and finish my essay on poe. [x] 

Is iced coffee season over? (Say it’s not so) @warmhealer​

The Booksellers (D.W. Young, 2019)

Pianist (painting), 2017

by Valeria Lakrisenko.

Margaret Howell Fall 2018

ghibli academia: stem and humanities

ft. a potions witch and an archaeology professor

wishing everyone a productive week ahead of them!

absolutely will be using the dead rose as a bookmark

How you, yes, YOU, can be both PUNK and A PRETENTIOUS BASTARD (dark academic) at the SAME TIME.

(yes, I do recognise that making a 'how-to' type list is basically the opposite of punk, leave me alone.)

Read poetry (I highly recommend John Cooper Clarke).

Be angry all the time, not at people around you, but at capitalism, social injustice, the government, and societal constructs.

Read Marx.

Doc Martens should be your best friend. Yes, they're expensive. But they're also high quality and will last you a lifetime (I've had a pair for about five years now, and they've literally grown with me).

Ratty blazers are cool.

Drink fruit juice, don't take drugs. In the beginning, the punk movement was very anti-drugs, so gangs of them would get together to drink fruit juice instead.

Only quote the insults from Shakespeare's works.

Wash your hair in beer. (Just trust me. My great grandmother washed her hair with beer, and she had great hair.)

Berets

Black velvet (whilst usually more goth) can definitely be adopted.

Know that 'modern' or 'new' doesn't necessarily mean 'better'.

Go to protests, talks, lectures, anywhere where you might be able to make a difference. Say something about anything you feel passionately about, don't stand for things you feel are wrong.