#dark academia things
Wine glasses and tiny teacups. Morning glass of water morphes into tears of your mortal enemies in a wine glass and into dew collected from the purest lilies on olymp when it’s in a tiny teacup. Apple juice tastes like made of the golden apples from the hesperides garden in a wine glass and like ambrosia & nectar in a tiny teacup.
How to feel like an ancient goddess
- Floral scented soap. Let the ghosts of roses, lilacs, lavenders or mint bloom on your skin and in your hair, let them be your flower crown
- Fresh sheets. Soft and clean like weaved of clouds, gently carresing your naked skin
- Shells. Singing into your ear about deep oceans and wild waves, songs like captured echoes of sirens luring sailors to their deaths
- Wine glasses and tiny teacups. Morning glass of water morphes into tears of your mortal enemies in a wine glass and into dew collected from the purest lilies on olymp when it’s in a tiny teacup. Apple juice tastes like made of the golden apples from the hesperides garden in a wine glass and like ambrosia & nectar in a tiny teacup
- Touching plants, flowers, trees when you go by. Feel the ancient connection you have with nature, your longest friend, your companion in eternity
- Flowing clothes. Dancing around you in the wind, there is no such thing as gravity for you
- Music. Play, dance, sing, feel, whatever you choose, let music wake up the untamable part of you, the part that can not be contained in mortal body, let it free, let it breathe
mmm the concept of having someone to exchange emails with and become close friends with tho
- Eating fancy dinner alone both at restaurants and at home – It takes a lot of balls to eat alone at restaurants but if you look like you know what you’re doing nobody will question pretty much anything you do. Besides, you want to have a lot of balls in life (it’ll get you a lot of places butbeing cocky will not so be careful to not cross to that side). Confidence like that will just boost your image to a whole another level, trust me.
- Women who wear men’s cologne – I don’t know how to explain why… I associate it with mystery and sensuality and intelligence for not reason whatsoever. However, please don’t go around smelling like axe, I beg of you. I use and recommend scents like Prada Luna Rossa Sport Eau de Toilette because it’s soft, mellow and just sweet enough, not at all heavy and doesn’t give me a headache. It says I-am-young-rich-and-my-own-boss-what-about-it. I’m certain there are also options that are more reasonably priced, so you can definitely do this on budget too – DA doesn’t need to be expensive!! And a second time for the back row: DA doesn’t need to be expensive!
- Belting out old songs in the shower – (+1) point if it’s Frank Sinatra, my dude. But you know what else is fucking cool? Old songs in your native language (if you’re from a non-English speaking country).
- Wanting to read a book but not being able to because you have unfinished schoolwork to do and before you complete it you can’t give yourself a break to do fun stuff – And then you always have schoolwork you haven’t finished and never get to read your books. But you know, that’s okay. You don’t need to read 6 hours a day to fit the DA aesthetic, you don’t even have to read weekly. You don’t have to read once every few months, at that. Learning happens outside of that, too. You don’t need to read a shit ton of books to love learning which is the core of DA. Get that degree, sis.
- Family pass downs – I’m talking rings and necklaces, dresses or basically anything from recipes to books to tableware. I love leaning about their stories and so on. Don’t you just look at old things and imagine the places they’ve been, the people who have used them, how meaningful they could have been to someone else?
