#dark academia memes
Messy hair, smudged makeup, wrinkled clothes, chipped nail varnish, stained fingertips, chapped lips, mix-match socks, annotated books, clashing aesthetics, dried flowers, scribbled handwriting, voice cracks, bruises, acne, body hair, early mornings, late nights, unmade beds, loud music, soft touches
Very much in the mood to go to a bookstore carrying a warm drink in a stryrofoam cup whilst it’s raining outside
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.”
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
So I’ve decided to make a series called ‘An Artist’s Life in a Textpost’, which is basically a series of textposts paying homage to a certain artist’s life in a series of point forms. I’m not sure whether anyone would be interested, but I decided to do it anyways because 1) it’s really quick to write and 2) I love discovering new artists (not just painters, but also musicians, poets etc.) and I don’t want to spend time pouring over their 5,000 word biography on Wikipedia or some other website. So here goes nothing!
(If you’re interested in following this I’ll be tagging it with an artist’s life in a textpost so…zero points to me for originality but yes)
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Spoiler Alert: A girl’s blood is red. This is a bigger deal than the fact that she shoots lightning from her fingers.
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
Spoiler Alert: In a tale that warms and breaks your heart all at once, you will get more distracted by how much you want to eat the food that’s in it.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Kline
Spoiler Alert: A man with 10th-grade English teacher energy and a man with slightly baffled substitute science teacher fall in love while taking care of the son of Lucifer and other very normal children (and they get ice cream!).
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Spoiler Alert: Blue eyed blondie, perfect body, oh shit he’s killing people
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Spoiler Alert: A female archer trying to supply her distant parent and younger sister with food is sent away to a far-off place full of wealth where she is forced into a romance to survive, but ends up falling for him anyway.
What? No, this isn’t the Hunger Games. Why would you think that?
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Spoiler Alert: She’s not like other girls. She has tattoos and a friend who hurled himself off a cliff.
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Spoiler Alert: A well-read redhead with a red-hot temper is adopted by a woman with none of the above. Mildly-fatal hijinks ensue.
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Spoiler Alert: Do you ever feel like your love life is boring? Nothing like a centuries-long feud and your cousin getting murdered to spice up a relationship!
1984 by George Orwell
Spoiler Alert: A mildly pedophilic middle-aged man learns that being nice to people is a criminal offense.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Spoiler Alert: In a wild turn of events, rich white private school boys can’t deal with the fact that other people need to live.
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Me in my notes app at 3 am:
uwu you want to stwike me down fow my hubwis??? owo??? You say I hawe gone too faw with my staggewing dispways of awwogance and compwete diswegawd of mowals? Be qwiet pwease (✿^‿^).
Me: I can’t talk right now, I’m doing hot girl shit.
Me: *Accidentally killing a farmer while in the midst of Dionysian revelry with my friends because our charismatic classics teacher told us that Bacchanals are fun and cool*
DON’T CALL YOURSELF A DARK ACADEMIC IF YOU HAVEN’T MADE SWEET SWEET LOVE TO A TWEED BLAZER
I love how Ancient Greek philosophers were basically all sporty buff wrestling guys. Modern philosophers are unathletic dweebs for the most part… I want to see them wrestle… Bring back buff bicep philosophy!!!
OK I’M SERIOUS IMAGINE A JORDAN PETERSON VS SLAVOJ ZIZEK WRESTLING MATCH.
I love how Ancient Greek philosophers were basically all sporty buff wrestling guys. Modern philosophers are unathletic dweebs for the most part… I want to see them wrestle… Bring back big buff bicep philosophy!!!
Judy Poovey be like “I know a spot” then take you to a Burger King parking lot to do cocaine with her.
If I saw a group of pretentious-looking but very attractive nerds wrongly conjugating Greek verbs, I would simply not join their Dionysian murder cult. RIP to Richard Papen but I’m different.
Hozier fans: Imagine DECOMPOSING! in a BOG! With your LOVER! Hnngghh I YEARN to turn into MOSS!
Everyone else: wot
Imagine dying of CONSUMPTION.
My brain: Don’t glorify Henry Winter, Camilla Macaulay or Francis Abernathy. They are deeply flawed and they literally killed two people without remorse.
My heart: I LOVE CAMILLA, FRANCIS AND HENRY SO MUCH!!! I WANT TO BE EXACTLY LIKE THEM!!!!
Which dark academia character are you based on your zodiac sign?
Aries: John Keating from Dead Poets Society
Taurus: Oliver Marks from If We Were Villains
Gemini: Julian Morrow from The Secret History
Cancer: Basil Hallward from The Picture of Dorian Gray
Leo: Lucien Carr from Kill Your Darlings
Virgo: James Farrow from If We Were Villains
Libra: Wren from If We Were Villains
Scorpio: Allen Ginsberg from Kill Your Darlings
Sagittaurus: Judy Poovey from The Secret History :P
Capricorn: Henry Winter from The Secret History
Aquarius: Camilla Macaulay from The Secret History
Pisces: Francis Abernathy from The Secret History
Challenge:
Right now, yes I mean RIGHT NOW, fling yourself onto the nearest piece of furniture as a tribute to Oscar Wilde.
Any dark academic born after 1950 can’t write, all they know is make moodboard, be gay, go on tumblr, find homoerotic subtext, yearn and lie.
was just trying to type the phrase “deadly epidemics” and accidentally wrote “deadly academics” instead
You just summarized dark academia
I’m tryna become one of Donna Tartt’s characters. I mean I’m already gay and my life is already in a downward spiral, so now I just need is the aesthetic™…
patroclus and dorian gray were the original material girls i take no criticism
being mutuals isn’t enough we need to have a graden tea party
the tension between me and the thirty sixth book i’m about to start this week
i’m funny (mentally unstable)
