the sun beneath the sea
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đ Autumn will bring prosperity.
đ Autumn will bring release.
đŚ Autumn will bring wisdom.
đŽ Autumn will bring peace.
â Marcel Proust, from a letter to Reynaldo Hahn.
Some REAL Dark Academia things:
Working real hard to actually excel at academics, because you realize that reading The Secret History or The Picture Of Dorian Gray once doesn't make you an academic.
Treating everyone, specially unfortunate people with kindness, because acting like an aloof douche doesn't give you Cool Points.
Holding yourself with dignity, instead of begging other people for scraps of attention and validation. No, really. Stop trying to act like a misunderstood serial killer, Susan, it's embarrassing.
Not falling into the traps of elitist racism, casual misogyny or anti-semitism, because you try to be intelligent and introspective, instead of following in the gross footsteps of some shitty, white eighteenth century writer.
Not having a superiority complex over the fact that you don't listen to pop music, because you are smart enough to respect art of all kinds, or at the very least, respect the fact that people are inherently different.
Okay now the fun stuff:
Short red nails
Reading to expand your mind
Flowy dresses or leather jackets or pajamas, because Dark Academia can be DIVERSE, babeyyyyy
Fluffy fat cats named Oscar
Toasting to Aphrodite and Persephone
Healthy friendships and relationships, because we need to STOP romanticising toxicity.
Handwritten birthday cards with pressed flowers
BLUEBERRIES
Lana Del Rey and One Direction. Hozier and Dua Lipa. The Shins and Nirvana. Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. Sam Fender and Coldplay. Taylor Swift and The Velvet Underground. Lorde and Florence. 5SOS and The Beatles. Zayn and Rihanna. Seriously, listen to whoever the fuck you want to listen to. Dark Academia is NOT a music genre. Listen to everything. To define is to limit.
Dancing at midnight
Fairy tales and horror stories
Falling in love
Only red lipstick on an otherwise bare face
Celebrating the birthdays and deathdays of your favourite authors and poets
Quoting Oscar Wilde to your houseplant
Ivory coloured notebooks
Watching Kill Your Darlings and Yearning
Watching Gone Girl and Yearning
Rock music in the shower
Constellations tattooed over your body, because you contain the entire universe in you babey
Doctoral programs and scholarships
Talking to stray animals like they're your old friends
Lying in the grass on a sunny day
Learning languages at your own pace, because you got nothing to prove to nobody
Studying to learn
Trying your hardest to live your life for YOU
Being who YOU want to be
Pushing yourself through dark times, because you try so hard to believe in yourself
Healthy sleep schedules, except the occasional all nighter to indulge your inner vampire
Happiness
Melancholy
Hope, and the desire to live forever
Studying with anxiety/depression
Today I wanted to share some tips on how to make studying easier despite mental illness. I chose to mention anxiety and depression specifically because itâs what I have experience with.
Give yourself time -I know this one is easier said than done, especially when your illness makes you procrastinate. But this will help you fight overwhelm so much I promise. Try to start doing things as soon as you can. Talk yourself into starting. Just starting, nothing more.
Divide tasks into smaller chunks -If you give yourself time, then you can work small piece by piece. Writing 10 page essay is overwhelming as hell but knowing you have to write a few words per day or just do research will help you dial the feelings down a bit.
Just start -Tell yourself you have to do this just for 5 minutes. Just 5 minutes. Nothing bad can happen to you in 5 minutes. This will get you started and once youâre in it and going, you should be able to continue for a lot longer.
Something is better than nothing -You might not be able to memorise all 20 pages or write the entire essay right now, but if you start and learn one page or write half a page, youâre already moving forward.
Done is what weâre going for -Just get it done. Not perfect, not even good. Just done. Because sometimes itâs the best thing you can do for yourself.
Itâs never as important as it seems -Things always seem huge and scary but ultimately, itâs never that bad. Hell, if you really zoom out youâll realise the most important thing is just staying alive and a bad grade isnât going to kill you.
Priotitize -Sometimes you just wonât have the energy to do everything, so pick the most important ones and leave the rest. You might come back to it later, you might not.
Ask for help if you need it -Ask teachers, ask friends. Know youâre not alone.
Be kind to yourself -Do not beat yourself up over failing things or feeling like youâre not doing as well as others. Just realise that unlike healthy people, youâre dragging this huge boulder. Sometimes lighter, sometimes heavier, but itâs always an extra weight. And yet youâre running the same race and youâre surviving. You should be proud of yourself.
Relax properly -Make time for yourself. Do things that doesnât involve mindless scrolling. Get all the rest you need.
I hope I helped and have an amazing weekend.
the little tin in which i keep my letter writing tools
2010-2011 pop was literally. katy perry doing that weird like candyland fantasy. nicki minaj queen of rap. LMFAO said 'male stripper rights'. rihanna giving sexy but make it tragic. pitbull releasing the soundtrack for like all-inclusive resort holidays to spain. ke$ha giving representation for girls who get too drunk to take their makeup off. lady gaga ended homophobia. and the cast of glee undoing all that hard work. justin bieber becoming to preteen girls what the beatles used to be for women in the 60s. 3oh!3 invented obnoxiouscore. jaaaaason deruulooo. we no speak americano
Sonny and Chad were my original enemies to lovers otp
Iâm such gay trash to the point where I canât officially join a fandom until I find a new ship to obsess over
Jack Dylan Grazer in We are who we are (2020)
Mike: *accidentally brushes Willâs hand* Will: *aggressively grabs Mikeâs hand* At least commit to it.
my mind says college but my heart says isolated sheep herder in Iceland
I just like to draw in this format. And I like drawing reddie.
anyway that yoongi guy? i like that guy
smooch!
Fanon Richie vs Canon Richie
Fanon Eddie vs Canon Eddie
the losers club + text posts i think are funny
Just doodles for now :')
richie and eddie doodles because i love them and would die for them