Of Course You Have Blood All Over You. And Pronouns

Children of Dionysus laugh hysterically. Head thrown back and eyes watering. Once they start, it's hard for anyone to not share their euphoria.

Children of Aphrodite laugh like a loved one. They sound like your first love, laughing at the table next to yours.

Children of Hephaestus laugh with their bodies. Shoulders shaking and hands clapping together or hitting their thigh.

Children of Zeus laugh loudly. When they burst into laughter it can be startling, but it quickly becomes pleasant, like a summer thunderstorm.

Children of Athena laugh quietly. It's more of a chuckle, often hidden behind their hand. But even so, you can see their eyes sparkling.

Children of Apollo laugh like they're singing. Eyes closed and mouth open. People usually quiet down around them, because it often is the most beautiful sound they've ever heard.

Children of Hades laugh in deep tunes. And sometimes you can hear the dead sharing their joy.

The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

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Imo kinda problematic to worship Apollo :/ I mean he brings the plague upon people and shoots them with arrows

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OBX CHARACTERS: youtube edition!

I think if you asked Percy what his favorite animal is he’d be like ‘oh! definitely my buddy jeff! :)’ and then pull out his phone and show you a selfie of him in the fucking midnight zone smiling next to the most terrifying and fucked up deep sea creature that scientists literally haven’t discovered yet 

It’s always ‘The di Angelo mystery!”, “The re-appearance of Thalia Grace!” and never “Percy Jackson - legendary federally convicted teenager” or “The disappaearance of Gabe Ugliano - Sally Jackson’s surprisingly real-looking statue donated.”

Alpha brain: Aphrodite should be played by multiple different actresses to showcase how diverse beauty can be.

Sigma brain: Aphrodite should be played by the wives, daughters and mothers of the camera operators, so it is accurate to their perspective of beauty.

Had an absolutely INSANE void state experience last night.

So basically I was in bed and was affirming stuff like “I am void” and “I am pure consciousness” and then I get this idea that I should talk directly to the universe. So I ask the universe to give me a sign if it is listening to me and I shit you not that I suddenly feel like I’m floating and raising out of my bed.

So then I ask the universe to take my hand and guide me out of my body, and my hand just starts to move outwards completely on its own?? Like I had no control over it at all. Then I feel like my soul is being sucked out of my body and if floating away from me.

I was so massively freaked out that I completely lost focus and ended up putting my hand down by myself, but oh my days it was the weirdest experience I’ve ever had.

I’m obviously going to try again tonight because in all the time I’ve been attempting this I’ve never had such visceral results. Has anyone else experienced something like this??

hotch only knew 5 minutes of peace in his entire life and it was when morgan and reid were stuck in that elevator