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I should be a nineteenth century detective, side by side with my charming enemy, solving crime and bickering. But also falling madly in love and becoming who I've always dreamed of being

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Art: The Eternal Farewell by Roberto Ferri

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Edgar Allan Poe

Here i opened wide the

door;— Darkness there,

and nothing more.

— Edgar Allan Poe

obsessing over all the books i want to buy, but being broke so can’t actually buy them

lmao posted this on ig, and someone started messaging me posts about jesus 😭

@ Zoe

See more like this.

You romanticised the melancholy of me and saw something far more exquisite

whoever is writing my life like a shakespearean tragedy pls stop. you have amazing skills but for the love of god pls stop.

"A room without books is like a body without a soul"

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ok ok Dracula is cool but what about goth lesbians who was written 25 years before Dracula?

If they aren't going to read books to me in the park during a picnic date I don’t want them

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first november read ☕️ ig: honeyedpaperbacks

Dead Poets Society, 1989.

“Do you believe in god?" “I’m fascinated by him and his unwillingness to give me mercy.”

Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

— William Butler Yeats, "The Stolen Child"

Location: somewhere near Zoar, Ohio

Vague Guide to Gothic Academia

Lebanon Hanover (totally not because they're my favorite to write to nooo)

Franz Gordon has some really beautiful piano pieces I highly recommend if you want more classical goth music

Danse Macabre

Hannibal Lector (NBC included)

Criminology

Law in general actually

Religious studies

Come on guys the catholic aesthetics are pulling through here

Victorian collars

Leather gloves

Menthols (this one is just a personal preference, don't smoke)

As much as I hate to say it, Schopenhauer and Roubiczek

I really dislike dark philosophy but it just lines up so well >:[

Moving on to something I like far more: Taxidermy

I'm thinking mostly bones or wet specimens

Normal taxidermy works too but I think it'd clash with dorm space

Leather, silk, and velvet are good staple textures in my opinion

Which does make this harder to style in the summer but tbf dark linens have such a nice flow

The moon, obviously

Astrophysics in general. The stars and the vast existentialism of space are such a good niche. Also I don't see as much STEM majors in these things as I'd like

I'm an arts man for sure, fucked up over literature and philosophy sure, but SCIENCE BRO

That shit is so dark especially going into death studies or psychology

Honestly being a doctor in general can fuck you up

Always smelling like a cadaver (perfume or otherwise...)

Long coats, heavy boots, ties, chains, trad and victorian goth gear both work here

I do like to lean more into dark academia visually with gothic academia, just because my wardrobe would have too much of the same shit going on

Dark sweaters, waist coats and corsets, well fitting suit pants, a well structured light colored blouse usually help balance out

Gothic academia in my opinion is balance between structure and loose chaos

Makeup can also be important for a look so I suggest, strong sharp contor, white accents and dark liner. A red/maroon lip is a good choice for dark makeup in general.

I got distracted by the visual elements woops

A lot of the staple dark academia books work really well

A good murder plot always helps

The Divine Comedies - Dante

The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux

Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu

NIGHT CLASSES!!!

I can't believe I forgot that one

Getting drunk on Absinthe and red wine like a damn vampire

Feminine rage in paintings

Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi | Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist by Caravaggio | Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio | Jael and Sisera by Alessandro Turchi | Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Louis Finson | Jael slays Sisera by Ottavio Vannini | Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by Orazio Gentileschi | La Douce Résistance by Michel Garnier | Timoclea Kills the Captain of Alexander the Great by Elisabetti Sirani | Salome Bearing the Head of Saint John the Baptist by un unknown copyist after c. 1631 originated from Guido Reni

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

—William Shakespeare, Richard II

I completely blame literature for my romanticisation of murder.

❝ So much of love is violence.

The desire to be split open, invaded, mangled and made new. ❞

— Erin Slaughter

happy to note that this particular enriquez is as characteristically weird as i expected it to be (and very good so far)

“you’re pretty” yes but am i hauntingly beautiful? if dracula saw me in the streets of romania, would he be so mesmerized by my beauty; that he would start writing a bunch of poems about how much he craves my body and my blood?

-Bloodfangs on tw

𝖈𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖘𝖔𝖓 𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖐 ; 𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖈𝖚𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 🖤🕯️

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Death, my darling, is a romantic theory I will never overcome

𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖕𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖆 🥀💀

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I live in you; and you would die for me, I love you so.

- carmilla