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Dark Academia aesthetics by university major: part 3

Part 1 // Part 2

Languages and Linguistics

Old papers in foreign scripts. That place between sleep and wakefulness where dreams bleed into reality. Tea in fine china. Riddles. A crystal chandelier that catches the light and sends sunspots across the room. A haunting melody from a lone violin. Whispers in candle-light.

Law

Coffee rings on a newspaper. A confident swagger through grand, austere courthouses. Red lips, turtlenecks, trench coats. Old parchment. Ink smudges on fingers and face and clothes. Slumping piles of research in dim lamplight. A laugh that chimes like bells but hides something darker. Red wine. Trilling piano.

Criminology

A dream of a bloodstained dagger. Black coffee, wild eyes, shaking fingers. Excited whispers in dark hallways. Frantic notes and connections, chaotic and smudged and hardly discernible. Crosswords. Cold waves crashing against a cliff. Puzzle pieces fitting together. You spin until you’re dizzy.

Education

Passion that seizes your soul and locks your limbs and loosens your lips until the words come pouring out. Wild gesticulations. A Victorian office adorned with old maps, and books, and memorabilia. Secret passages. Clandestine lectures and secret societies. Giddy smiles and narrowed eyes. You hold hands and run.

Architecture 

Meticulous notes, calculations and drawings. Getting lost in other worlds. Measured breaths, hopeful looks. Precise footsteps that draw closer. A Greek statue that seems mournful, somehow, and you can’t look away. Dreams of spires, and and stone, and marble. Birdsong.

Theatre/Performing arts

A human skull upon a stack of paper. Collapsing dramatically into a fainting chair. Passionate love confessions with tragic ends. Shakespeare and Baudelaire. Dancing on tables in restricted rooms. Nefarious plots. Blood pacts. Violent string concertos. 

Business/Marketing

Tweed blazers, leather shoes. Fancy dinner parties, where everyone knows more than they’re saying. Fiery arguments. Gothic architecture. Brandy. Fingers tapping on a wooden table. A simple but meaningful pendant. A wink from someone you think you know.  

Part 4 coming soon

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ig: cottagehobbit

Think about this quote like all the time and how it really undermines so much shit in capitalism

Oncle Yanco (Agnès Varda, 1967)

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke

hey could u suggest some books regarding "ethical lessons or ethics" in general

Sure! This is one of my favourite genres:

1. The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene (best author of all time)

2. 101 Essays that will Change the way you think by Brianna Weist

3. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, by Immanuel Kant

4. Practical Ethics, by Peter Singer

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words by @starpeace

when hands touch

virginia woolf at her house, photographed by vita sackville-west