When Will Someone Make A Sapphic Dark Academia Book WHEN??

ordered a customizable spotify plaque for more dark academia vibes

the way my academic arrogance manifests in me as harshly critiquing others' work but then lashes out when somebody else does the same to me

when will someone make a sapphic dark academia book WHEN??

Leah Raeder, Black Iris

that one day is going to happen tomorrow 💖

one day my bookshelves will be filled with penguin classics. one day.

"Christmas is a magical moment of glory; the birth of humanity."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

what r ur top books of all time

The Metamorphosis, The Castle, Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (no, it's not too long - if anything, it should've been longer)

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Samvel by Raffi

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao

Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend by Hermann Hesse

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Beautiful Latin phrases ~ part 3

•omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - everything which I used to say could not happen, will happen now

•poeta nascitur, non fit - the poet is born, not made

•qui dedit benificium taceat; narrat qui accepit - let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it

•saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - often, it is not advantageous to know what will be

•sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - he who feared he would not succeed sat still

•si vis pacem, para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war

•struit insidias lacrimis cum feminia plorat - when a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears

•sub rosa - under the rose

•trahimir omnes laudis studio - we are led on by our eagerness for praise

•urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit - he found the city a city of bricks; he left it a city of marble

•ut incepit fidelis sic permanet - as loyal as she began, so she remains.

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

You know what. I’m starting a new aesthetic, population me.

Romantic Science, AKA Dark Academia for STEM people.

Thrifting a lab coat and embroidering it with your initials and a little insignia, whose significance is known to you and your lab partner only

Watching The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game and Hidden Figures and basically every movie about historical scientists and mathematicians you can find

Decorating your desk with old slide rules and vintage lab equipment. Your prize possession is a set of vintage lenses you found at a thrift store

Wanting an articulated human skeleton far, far too much

Getting a set of (brand new, NOT thrifted, be safe ppl) beakers to drink from, and putting them directly onto your stovetop to boil water for tea or coffee, because borosilicate glass can survive anything.

Secretly relating far too much to Henry Jekyll and Victor Frankenstein, because you too want to do a gay little science experiment that challenges god.

Thunderstorms and late nights in the lab, the light of the Bunsen burner glistening off of your flasks and scribbled chalkboard equations

Papering your walls with vintage scientific diagrams; even if you know that our understanding of the world has evolved since they were made, looking back at scientific history is amazing

Writing code late at night and feeling, in some metaphysical way, as though Ada Lovelace herself is with you in spirit

Being far, FAR too obsessed with the concept of emergent ai sentience and how it has the potential to be Frankenstein irl

Looking through a telescope on clear nights, whispering the names of the constellations and stars, painting a star chart on your ceiling in a burst of creative inspiration

Collecting and mounting samples from everywhere you can think of to pore over in an antique microscope

Bringing a field journal wherever you go, learning how to draw and label botanical samples, preserving plants and flowers for study later

Dreaming of what undiscovered mysteries lie in the deepest depths of the sea, feeling the thrill of discovery whenever you learn about a new species and one day hoping to discover one yourself

Just. Romanticise STEM.