"Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red."
– Kait Rokowski
“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
— Franz Kafka
What dark academia gave me:
- Eccentric yet easy to buy, classy yet comfortable style
- Courage to buy the shoes I always liked but never knew how to wear and what to match with - now I use them all the time
- Renewed passion for my studies at the university
- Motivation to read
- Renewed love for the history of art especially the ancient times
- Courage to be eccentric and not to care much what others think of me
- Classical music especially piano pieces
"Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived."
-Niccolò Machiavelli
Dark academia is the aesthetic for people who:
Had a tense emo phase that matured into dark academia
Had an unhealthy Harry Potter obsession and now hates J. K. Rowling
Played games revolving around mythical creature as a child
Was able to read at an adult level at age 8 and spent their childhood reading
Parco Durazzo Pallavincini, built between 1840-1846 in Pegli, a town to the west of Genoa, Italy.
Abandoned somewhere in France.
📸Julien Harlaut