Sunday 10 January 2021

The 20's are upon us, so let's bring back going to university in suits, smoking in cafés while discussing academia, wearing bold red lipstick everyday and getting absolutely drunk on weekends while listening to jazz

you’re either mentally stable or your favourite comfort movie is Dead Poets Society

dark academia but it’s online school

- waking up early in the morning to watch the sunrise, even though you don’t actually need to

- staying up late to read or paint because you don’t have to get up early

- handwriting assignments that should be typed and submitted digitally

- having a coffee cup with you, rather than a thermos because you don’t have to take it anywhere

- still getting ready and dressed so that you can feel focused on your work in the mornings

- emailing your teachers to see if they have any extra reading related to the topic

- turning in all of the assignments for the week earlier than the rest of your class because you wanted to finish them early

- not doing any assignments for the week because you were too interesting in researching about different planets or the deep sea

Slytherclaw Book Recommendations

because I’m basic. But also because I keep getting Sytherin and then Ravenclaw and then Slytherin on house quizzes. If Slytherin and Ravenclaw were a venn diagram, I would want whatever falls in the sliver where the two circles overlap. Books that are a beautiful mix of ambition aided by unprecedented wit, calculated cunning abetted by strange wisdom. So here goes. (Also, goes without saying, but fuck J.K. Rowling)

The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes: Suzanne Collins- prequel to the Hunger Games the protagonist of which is Snow. A lot of people hate this book and I think thats really invalid. It is the PERFECT slytherclaw book. It examines power, control and authority, and the route of wit, charm and intelligence that the mind can take to get to those ideals. Just an overall great work on the nature of the State, fascism, nationalism, dissent and its cost, brutality and human nature.

Macbeth: William Shakespeare- it is Shakespeare’s shortest play, so its a breeze to read but also is just so clever in the way it is written! I don’t need to point that out about Shakespeare but my god if the writing and structure and meter isn’t something to make a ravenclaw absolutely lose their minds over it. For the consideration of your more slytherin side, it has a hot lady villain. No but seriously, Lady Macbeth is such a fierce character not to mention, the whole play is fuelled by her ambition for power through her husband. So try it.

Silence of the Lambs: Thomas Harris. Yes this is that cannibal novel on which that cannibal movie was based and that other homoerotic show with the really handsome dudes. Anyways, its about two people who are intrigued with each other’s psyches but are also trying to outsmart each other. I enjoyed the book more than the movie actually.

If We Were Villains by M.L Rio: Dark Academia tumblr ate this shit up. Its a bunch of friends in an elite arts college/Shakespeare conservatory thing. It has Shakespeare and murder. The things that we really do love here on tumblr dot come. Its just really beautifully written and over time I’ve come to appreciate it more than The Secret History so.

The Queen’s Thief Series: Megan Whalen Turner: this book series has possibily the most slytherclaw protagonist I have ever witnessed in literature. Saying anything about this book series is too much. It needs to be jumped into blind so allow me to give you a synopsis that justifies it being on this list and gives you an idea of what it is about. I can’t. Suffice it to say, its a series based around political intrigue, court politics, war. It is funny, witty and cunning. Amazing foreshadowing. Amazing worldbuilding. Morally grey characters making morally grey choices. Just………*chef’s kiss*. Pick it up on a whim it will not let you down.

That was that. Also, fuck J.K Rowling✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽

when you try to romanticize school and studying by thinking of yourself as an avid scholar who's passionate about learning and exploring the world's knowledge but in reality you're just a tired student with an addiction to coffee trying to finish assignments

I made another video - people on twitter wanted to see me do a week in outfits video and sometimes I get people on here telling me they like my outfits so I thought I’d share it here too !

Enola Holmes, 2020

ignoring politics is a privilege