#boarding school aesthetic
boarding school babe
Ways I want to incorporate dark academia into my life
- listening to classical music and hymns in Latin
- devoting myself absolutely to my studies, writing, reading, playing viola, and love
- stopping to appreciate small things
- wearing vintage, academic, menswear-esque clothes found mostly at the thrift store and my grandmother’s closet
- drinking tea in excess and mulled grape juice from wine glasses (because I’m not 21 lol)
- (accidentally) staying up too late and getting up too early
- reading more classic and gothic literature
- playing viola and piano late at night
- studying Latin even more than I already do (I was a Latin nerd before I was a dark academia fiend).
- expanding my vocabulary
- studying french, italian, and german
- Aspiring to go to a small school on the east coast (something I was already doing)
- Taking IB and all the classes/research involved purely for the love of knowlege
- Wearing dark lipstick that makes my lips look winestained (or bloodstained) and darkening my brows without tidying them up
- wearing ribbons in my hair
- getting my books from secondhand shops or checking them out from the library (this not only fits the aesthetic, but is also better for the environment and way cheaper!! Plus it helps libraries stay up and running if your government sees that they’re still popular!! I could make a whole post about this but yeah. I recommend this to anyone who loves books, especially if you tend to spend all your money on them).
- reading/studying by candlelight at night or natural light during the day
- drinking black coffee at all hours of the day
- wandering around antique shops, libraries, small bookstores, historical sights, and local forest trails
- reading books in their original language (if they’re in Latin)
- finding old, clothbound books on obscure subjects from the library or antique/secondhand shops
- wearing fragrances that smell either of book bindings or musky scents
