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TSH would have been better if there was a scene of them snorting caffeine powder.

Maybe it’s just me but it’s so hard to be all d a r k a c a d e m i a and aesthetique in summer

Important reminder that your field of interests don’t have to be solely classics and literature for you to be dark academia. Dark academia is about a thirst for knowledge, a desire to know and learn, regardless of what subject it is in.

Henry Winter not knowing about the moon landing has the same vibes as Sherlock not knowing about the earth rotating around the sun.

-The Secret History by Donna Tartt

-The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

-If We were Villains by M. L. Rio

-Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

-The Magicians by Lev Grossman

-Metamorphoses by Ovid

-Dead Poets Society by N. H. Kleinbaum

-A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

-The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

-Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

-The Bacchae by Euripides

-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

-Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

-Possession by A. S. Byatt

-Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire