#dark academia literature
hi everyone! I’m set to release an online zine shortly and I’m looking for additional contributors! you can submit art (of any kind), writing, poetry, articles, opinion pieces, basically anything you’d like.
the magazine is primarily concerned with the arts, aesthetics, philosophy, and literature. it intends to be a very gentle, dreamy zine so keep that in mind when you submit!
email [email protected] with an excerpt of your work and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
We have found out forever
That blood smells only of blood.
How slow life seems to me,
How violent the hope of love can be.
It should be enough.
To make something beautiful should be enough.
It isn’t.
It should be.
I- so imperfect, so weak,
So unbelievably lonely.
And if the devil was ever to see you,
He’d kiss your eyes and repent.
“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”
Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel Prize (2017) acceptance speech
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.
Madeline Miller, The Song Of Achilles
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Whatever our souls are made of,
His and mine are the same.
-Emily Brontë
“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
-Donna Tartt; The Secret History
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and I’m back here with another video about The Secret History, because my obsession with this book doesn’t seem to want to go away.
it would make me really happy if you looked at it, I’m new to this type of video <3 love u
“Injustice is in the natural order of things and I must begin to accept this fact.”
(Chapter V)
-Alessia Palmieri; The Chosen One
Fifth chapter out now on Wattpad.
“We angels do not need to sleep, much less to eat or drink, but sometimes we do it anyway for pure pleasure. The nights, therefore, for the guardians who watch over their protégés, when the latter are at home to sleep, represent the foundation of hours of reflection, reading, writing and intellectual growth.”
(Chapter V)
-Alessia Palmieri; The Chosen One
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I made this video to pay tribute to my favorite character from this book. I would be very happy if you looked at it <3 love u
! this is the Italian version of “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt !
Self-Portraits from 2020
I sure did look different in these photos with my short hair. I’d love to recreate these since I have longer hair after many years. Not the best photos but still living in my “grainy photo” era. I was inspired by Victorian literature again. Probably leaning into being a ghost in an abandoned manor.
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“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
Back to reading tarot cards, a book on occultism, candles, and quiet nights.
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“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world” — Dead Poets Society
Here’s a recently decorated study corner. I’ve been feeling a bit autumnal again, even though it’s the hottest week ever. I’ve started watching Mary Shelley last week which reminded me of how much I loved my old minimally chaotic study setups.
I’m still reading Piranesi and There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job because I’ve been in a slow reading mood. Although they’ve got completely opposite themes, the study of a person is the main connection between two reads. Both main characters deliberate over the approaching dangers.
Enjoy your Mondays!
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Some thoughts on Piranesi Ch. 1
If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty?”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
To my surprise, the book is completely different from what I thought it was going to be. I think all the posts I’ve seen never mentioned what it was about. Strange enough, I do love the narrator’s odd behaviours and obsession with over-collecting data in the place he inhabits. Like everyone else, I found the first few pages confusing but then got the hang of what was happening by the end of it. I’ve read a few reviews of my friends just to see their thoughts. I’ll start reading the second chapter tonight after I finish everything for today!
Oh and I’ve been watching the film Mary Shelley but I haven’t finished it, so that’s also on my to-do list. It, somehow, fits perfectly with this book.
“While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
This day when I went to a museum with my family allowed me to live my Dark Academia Dream in this lavish mansion embellished with pre-19th century art, furniture and ornaments. Could have been easily a The Secret History in Istanbul setup.
insta: @merueiledreams
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