dark academia in computer related courses:
spilt coffee on messy arithmetic and algorithm notes.
continuously pressing alt + tab to read classics on your computer during class.
code blocks reflected on your anti-radiation glasses.
black sweaters because it's cold in the computer laboratory.
coding websites with dark academia color palettes.
encrypting and decrypting secret letters written in codes/ciphers.
lowkey creating a game which is actually a murder plan (and which is actually inspired from fyodor dostoevsky's crime and punishment too).
sketching and editing your secret society's logo on photoshop.
messy scribbles of java codes on paper.
listening to classical music on spotify.
hacking your principal's computer to retrieve documents that you can later on use against the school system (especially because you're hoping for a change in cafeteria food).
downloading free pdf or epubs of your favorite classic books because you are on a budget.
creating groupchats where you all discuss the possibilities of a bacchanalia.
lowkey sending trojans to classmates you don't like and think of it as a modern trojan war in and of itself.
achilles as your wallpaper.
eyebags from sleepless nights trying to find the error in the code.
joining forums where people are pretentious and anonymous (oooh, you mean reddit?)
purchasing oxford shoes online.
creating collages of your favorite greek gods, mythical creatures and heroes.
editing aesthetic academia look books on your editing application of choice.
suggesting revolution through digital arts.
animating little-known histories from around the world.
learning a language on duo lingo.
binge watching documentaries on youtube because learning is a principle.
borrowing chemicals from the stem laboratory to stage a suicide of your classmate's murder inside the computer lab.
staying up all night in the library reading shakespeare's hamlet or plato's the republic instead of making your capstone project.
starry night
Albertine Bookstore, NYC
Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
“the literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself”
- Albert Camus
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Morning Star (Lucifer) // by Paul Fryer at Holy Trinity Church
Oppressit in tricliniis versatilibus parasitos suos violis et floribus, sic ut animam aliqui efflaverint, cum erepere ad summum non possent.
painting and details of The Roses of Heliogabalus // by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
"Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day."
virginia woolf
from eileen by ottessa moshfegh
musings on poetry Anne Sexton, Victoria Chang, Carl Sandburg, Carl Sandburg, Richard Blanco, Henrik Edoyan, Anne Sexton, Czeslaw Milosz, Richard Blanco, Mary Oliver
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Albert Einstein