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8.12.18 

A new coffee bean just opened and I just love the interiors and the lighting! And it’s just right across from where I live. Finally, a new study place! Idk why but I’m not a huge fan of their coffee though. 

I will be trying my best to be active again. I’m now in my 3rd year of law school. I started my studyblr during my first year and it has helped me de-stress from my law school life. 

Super duper thankful of the upperclassmen and seniors who willingly share their notes with us! You are the real MVPs! Wouldn’t survive law school without you guys!

silence, ERLING KAGGE

i post my study space every year because it changes drastically but for now this is my basic 2020 setup: a window near my desk, some semblance of organization, and always, always some coffee.

“desi dark academia” i have to laugh

Hi! Love your page, what are some Indian dark academia movies/TV shows? Would love to hear your recs!

Hi! Thank you so much :) I can’t think of any academia TV shows except Stories by Rabindranath Tagore (and arguably Malgudi Days), but here are some movies I like and, in my opinion, fit the mood -

Maqbool - an adaptation of Macbeth fit to the Indian context as a story unfolding in a crime family; really well done

Haider - same director as Maqbool (Vishal Bhardwaj), this time an adaptation of Hamlet; set in Kashmir, also really well made. Also check Omkara (adaptation of Othello), although I have only seen bits of that one

Fitoor - an adaptation of Great Expectations; didn’t do well commercially, but it’s such a good movie zskjdbjsbk

Elizabeth Ekadashi - it’s a Marathi movie about these four kids who get together to earn enough money to save their cycle ‘Elizabeth’ from being given to a moneylender as mortgage for a loan; really, really sweet movie; shows financial strain and the lives of children during the strain; 14/10 would recommend

Killa - coming-of-age story about an 11 year old boy coming to terms with his father’s death and his mother’s job transfer which takes him to a new town and new school; the cinematography is *chef’s kiss*, shows coastal Maharashtra; about the boy adjusting in school, the friends he makes; the melancholy of knowing that his he will have to move soon; so dark academia it’s crazy

Aligarh - a Philadelphia-esque story about a gay professor who is accused on indecency; also about privacy and sexual morality

Udaan - coming-of-age story about a small-town boy who wants to be poet while his father wants him to get into the family business; really well-made; explores small-town aspirations really beautifully

Aankhon Dekhi - about a man who decides that he’s only going to believe something once he sees it for himself, and the implications of this philosophy on his family life; very fine movie

Pyaasa - about a poet in early post-independence India and his struggles with getting his work published; explores hypocrisy, redemption, tensions in 1950s India

Kai Po Che - based on a book (Three Mistakes of My Life by Chetan Bhagat; I have not read the book); on the lives of three friends as they start a sports shop and how their lives are caught in multiple upheavals of their time; kind of political drama, shows the friendship of 20-somethings in very poignant ways

Masaan - parallel stories of two people in Varanasi as they seek to break free of barriers of caste and gender; shows how their lives are governed by a strict moral code; very sublime in its depiction of tensions; really uplifting in the end

Kalyug (1981) - an adaptation of the Mahabharata set as a conflict between two rival business houses

Shatranj Ke Khiladi - based on a story by Premchand of the same name; historical drama set in Awadh in 1856 (right before its annexation by the British); shows two nobles who continue to play chess against the background of the schemes and intrigue happening at court regarding the annexation; shows the relationship between the political and the recreational areas of late nobility in 19th century India

Junoon (1978) - historical drama; based on Ruskin Bond’s A Flight of Pigeons; set around the rebellion of 1857; explores the lives of people differently placed in the social hierarchy and their response to the rebellion and its differing impact on their lives. (I highly recommend the book as well)

That’s all from me, head over to @papenathys for more Indian academia recommendations. Hope you find something you like in these :)

17.05.2020 / 22:33pm

i have to start my actual studying for my finals the day after tomorrow and i am not ready

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

1 / 2 (unknown) / 3 (unknown) /

'blossom' - daniel gerhartz

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.