“Sometimes All You Had To Do Was Exist To Be Someone’s Saviour.”

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don’t hate urself, hate the system that made u feel insecure about every single aspect of ur life

“As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami

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dark academia literary works: a masterlist

Hello! I replied to this post on Reddit today, trying to compile all the dark academia books I could think of, and then thought that maybe all of you here might find it useful too, so here you go. It is a very, very broad list, a mix of classic and contemporary literature, and there is no set criteria besides having a dark vibe (this includes murder and crime but could just be the way it’s written as well) and portraying an academic setting, most of the time from the student’s point of view. I haven’t read all of these myself and so I can’t judge on quality, but hopefully this will inspire people to add on to it in the comments.

Here you go!

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson The Secret History, Donna Tartt If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio Maurice by E. M. Forster The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Possession by A.S. Byatt The Truants by Kate Weinberg The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Vicious by V. E. Schwab The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (tangentially related) A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Likeness by Tana French The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (coming out tomorrow!) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman Oleanna by David Mamet Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Other classics that are not Dark Academia in content, but which I would include in a list of the DA canon: The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer Shakespeare’s plays (Macbeth, Hamlet are good ones to start with) A Separate Peace, John Knowles The Bacchae, Euripides Greek tragedies (a good one to start with is Antigone, very popular and staged many a time) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Beat generation literature Jane Austen’s books (light academia, anyone?)

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Seven-year-old me:

Japanese learning tip for the new year: I highly recommend learning with a native Japanese speaker. As someone who is self-taught in Japanese, I used to just study with textbooks and online notes. While my Japanese was understandable, I was often told it sounded stiff and academic. It wasn't until I started regularly practicing with native speakers that people commented on how much more natural my Japanese sounded. So if you have the time and some extra pocket money, invest those extra hours spent at home this year in lessons with native speakers! My favorite tutoring site is italki.com, and my favorite teacher there is Elly, a native speaker from Kumamoto with years of experience teaching foreign residents in Japan. (All of the teachers on italki are wonderful, but please especially check out Elly because she's awesome!!!!)

Please leave me any comments or messages if you have questions about online Japanese learning!

So I was listening to Moves like Jagger by Maroon 5 and my mind was like 'this song is SO Gojou' 'Gojou dancing shirtless' 'I can totally see him enjoying the song and smiling like a bastard' 'GOJOU DANCING IN LEATHER PANTS AND SMILING WICKEDLY OMG!!!!!'