I Wanted To Make An Animation Based On Lenore And Annabel Lee, But I Lost Confidence And Strength Because

I want to see you in my dreams but then forget

We're meant to be but not yet

god i love it when gay people are in evil toxic codependent love with each other

Golden hour Chuuya could cure me

(ADA Chuuya/ PM Dazai)

Alignment chart of dark academia books, emphasis on the academia. I have read them all and this is my take on it all.

Is the novel a dark academia because it takes place in a school and there are a lot of "dark" themes or is it a dark academia because the atmosphere is grim and the characters are pursuing knowledge.

Also book recommendations, I think people would like the books that fall in the same quadrant.

Books under the read more.

Top Left: My favourite corner where I just want the author to flex their niche knowledge.

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies - Heather Fawcett

Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo

The Raven Boys - Maggie Steifvater

The Secret History - Donna Tarte

Babel - R. F. Kuang

Bottom right: The intersection between lots of deaths and some niche knowledge. This one is a bit more hand wavey so here are some explanations.

Blood Over Bright Haven - M. L. Wang: Often compared to Babel but has way less niche knowledge and more transactional deaths.

Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir: This one is a sequel but the convoluted plot lives in my head rent free and it’s Dark (Goth) Academia.

Bunny - Mona Awad: Lots of allusion to literature and mythology. Also lots of dark, bunnies and swans.

Bottom Left: Takes place in a school that people are trying to survive.

The Magicians - Lev Grossman

Vicious - V. E. Schwab

Legendborn - Tracy Deonn

Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Atlas Six - Olivie Blake

Deadly Education - Naomi Naovik

Top Left: Happens in a school and pretty light on death but has “dark” themes.

The River King - Alice Hoffman

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson

The Initial Insult - Mindy McGinnis

A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath - Moniquill Blackgoose

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs - Janina Matthewson and Jeffrey Cranor

I haven't seen the Odyssey movie but everytime i see this clip I just can't stop laughing why is he posing like that

I don’t think I’ll write another poem about far-off azure skies or refugee clouds…. You stand at my side in noon’s bleaching light.

I simply fix my eyes on you, thinking it’s enough if I believe — not in either flowers or birds but in your fathomless love.

- Tachihara Michizō, “Noon Again” from Of Dawn, of Dusk

If Cass is the narrator, but it's Naja's story, it got me thinking:

Richard is the Narrator, but it's... Henry's story...?

Hm.

“Morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs” is such a banger line. Need that engraved on my tombstone.

Odysseus playing a guitar ANGRILY at his wife

Penelope playing a violin EVEN MORE ANGRILY at her husband

Hot take.

Maybe I’m just a history nerd but I feel like we don’t talk enough about how the nevermore cast are all from different time periods. I don’t know but isn’t that just so fascinating?

Not only can you used it for comedy (Lenore gonna have an aneurism if she finds out about ww2) but you can also explore how this affects the characters. Imagine finding out your friend is from like 30 something years in the future. Imagine finding out your buddy is old enough to be your grandparent. Imagine the interesting conflicts that can arise as different decade’s cultures and values clash.