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desi dark academia set in south india

"girlhood was as ephemeral as a drop of water on a lily pad." // chitra banerjee divakaruni, the forest of enchantments

bipoc in (modern) dark academia 1/?: black girls

models/sources: [row 1] chanel mckinsie, subanbrn, unknown, [row 2] moonymaps, chocodamix, karly loyce, [row 3] donniedarkage, anok yai, unknown

mod reaux

“An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us. It isn’t that to have an honorable relationship with you, I have to understand everything, or tell you everything at once, or that I can know, beforehand, everything I need to tell you. It means that most of the time I am eager, longing for the possibility of telling you. That these possibilities may seem frightening, but not destructive, to me. That I feel strong enough to hear your tentative and groping words. That we both know we are trying, all the time, to extend the possibilities of truth between us. The possibility of life between us.”

— Adrienne Rich, from On Lies, Secrets & Silence (via violentwavesofemotion)

it’s a very greek idea, and a very profound one.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov. via twitter

how morally corrupt is your 19th century love interest on a scale of “aloof rich guy who doesn’t know how to express his feelings” to “has a secret wife in the attic” and “tries to dig up your grave so he can embrace your dead body”

a little less lonely with euripides. 

bonus under the cut

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dark/light academia moodboard

[ moodboard for an oc in the novel i'm working on. she is interested in vintage bollywood and mughal history. ]

Desi dark academia: medical student living in Chennai

(For this anon). Reblogs and comemnts appreciated 🥰🥰🥰

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oh to be a scholar during the islamic golden age using mathmatics to create incredible art

hi , can you please do a desi + dental student mood board🤩

dropbox containing linguistics textbooks

contains 34 textbooks including etymology, language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, & translation studies

dropbox containing language textbooks

contains 86 language textbooks including ASL, Arabic, (Mandarin) Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Modern & Ancient), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh

dropbox containing books about language learning

includes fluent forever by gabriel wyner, how to learn any language by barry farber, polyglot by kató lomb

if there’s a problem with any of the textbooks or if you want to request materials for a specific language feel free to message me!

do you have any favourite love letters from the past?

“You have fixed my Life – however short,” Wilfred Owen to Siegfried Sassoon

“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia” / “Throw over your man, I say, and come,” Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

“Love is my religion – I could die for that, I could die for you,” John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“I know Hyacinthus, whom Apollo loved so madly, was you in Greek days,” Oscar Wilde to Alfred Lord Douglas

for @desi-dark-academia​ 

“desi dark academia” i have to laugh

Some old gems from Bangalore

Do you have a list or something of your favourite academic/theory books? 🥺

sure! all of them should be available on libgen, so enjoy 🧚🏻‍♀️ i did focus on cultural histories rather than theory, though, otherwise it would get too long. virtually all of them are published by the academic presses, and well-sourced and peer-reviewed. no pseudoscience in this household, no sirree! (also, none of them have anything to do with my actual field of study. i’m just like that)

— Medieval Ghost Stories: An Anthology of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies, — Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages, — After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, — Darkness: A Cultural History, — Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris, — Angels & Angelology in the Middle Ages, — Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750, — Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science, — The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England, — Landscapes of Fear, — Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness, — The Severed Head: Capital Visions, — Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural, — Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, — When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, — Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History, — Religion and Its Monsters, — On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, — The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History, — Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages, — Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art, — Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, — From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, Or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends, — A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire, — Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females, — The Spectral Arctic: A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration, — Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds, — Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages, — Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, — Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers,

etc, etc, etc. 

@ this motherfucker on Twitter who put into words what I couldn’t

Arabic dark academia consists of drinking black Arabic coffee while listening to um Kalthoum and learning about constellations.

Light Arabic academia is wearing white loose conservative clothing, sipping sweet mint tea, and humming 'ahwak' to oneself in a sunny garden.

aesthetic for @mathemaphia

the glide of a fountain pen across paper

wanting to understand the world and your place in it

an organized desk, everything in its place

finding satisfaction in the precision of mathematics

a freshly steeped cup of tea with fragrant steam

your favorite tea mug set out on your desk

splotches of ink on your hands, worn like badges of honor

always hungry for knowledge, eager to know more about everything

books that make you contemplate your own existence

novels by kafka by your bed

using math as a lens through which to decipher the world and its rules

gazing out the window on long car rides

language textbooks - french, german, korean - stacked by your desk

finding order and patterns in the world 

a contemplative soul, mulling over big philosophical ideas

pages filled with long strings of calculations

muttering verb conjugations as you work on memorization

wanting everyone to see beauty in math the way you do, even though it’s considered a frightening subject

researching your favorite authors

studying language, shaping your mouth around unfamiliar words

reading on the floor as the rain rains very erratically

bipoc in (modern) dark academia 1/?: black girls

models/sources: [row 1] chanel mckinsie, subanbrn, unknown, [row 2] moonymaps, chocodamix, karly loyce, [row 3] donniedarkage, anok yai, unknown

mod reaux

Do you ever think about how many of the items now considered priceless artifacts were once commonplace items? The coins we now marvel at from behind the glass at a museum were once tossed around, stepped on, and traded around. The pottery painstakingly pieced back together was somebody’s favorite wine jug. The decorative pin now rusted and bent once held together the shoulder of someone’s chiton. History is simply a trail of ordinary people going about their day, and I think there’s an odd sort of beauty in that.

i've seen this sometimes so i told myself yeah, why not. most of this are chaotic academia but still :)

dark/chaotic academia in my life:

waits for everyone to fall asleep and then opens the window and writes in the moonlight

no blood in their veins, just coffee and tea

writes letters at 2am

switches between hozier and dubstep

wastes hours while studying and then wonders why they always finish studying on late

greek gods as vines

is studying but than starts wondering about their next story

studies everywhere but not on the desk

sleep schedule? what is a sleep schedule

100 books to read but it's always "no i need more books"

pressed flowers between novels

homemade bookmarks

their life without candles would be a mistake

lights their room only with small lamps

wants to dress DA but always ends in black and white clothes

messy as fuck

poetry + badwords (chaotic academians only)

lies on the balcony and wonders about life

"shit i have the exam in four days i need to study" and ends up wasting the whole day claiming they "know almost everything, btw can study the night before the exam day"

selfish but not that much, just focused on writing, reading and their 2 friends

sniffs books

wants to take care about their mental health but ends watching the dead poet society

wants to take care about their mental health but then they remember they write

kills the best character they have ever created in the most suffering way possible

tons of jewelry

dirty glasses always

has 5 subject to study but ends up learning spainish on duolingo

watches their social life falling in the most passive way remembering they always had two friends while listening to achilles comes down and getting ready to read jane austen

empty cups everywhere

"what an amazing day to burn a church"

"what an amazing day to poison my aunt"

relates their relatives to book characters

wikipedia's list of cospiracy theories stan

starting desiring to take an horse, their lover, their books and run away from their family

still in love w the version they created in their mind of someone they met last summer because he was intelligent loved rock music and astronomy and they imagined a relationship with him doing stuff like reading together while laying in the grass

no insta because is antisocial

always goes to the royal palace of their town

books and sheets ruined by tears

sheets with coffee spots

black ink everywhere

tries to have a diary but it's just a notebook filled with flowers, pics, quotes, and pages with reflections about literally everything

scribbled books

when your boyfriend is being an annoying know it all

sol a: gosh, he’s so annoying joon hwi: 😍😊😍

joon hwi: wait a second i need to look at sol a lovingly

RYU HYE-YOUNG as Kang Sol GO YOON-JUNG as Jeon Ye-seul

LAW SCHOOL (2021)