What is some dark academia literature?
What exactly even *is* dark academia?
>>24722099A style of dress
>>24722099A faggy performative fashion used to pretend you're into big brain intellectual stuff, but when you can't do basic math
>>24722099Something brown, apparently
>>24722099The legacy of Harry Potter
>>24722099Posh Harry Potter.
>>24722099A series of unfortunate events
>>24722096Edgar Allen Poe meets tumblr
>>24722099Judging by the image, when an angsty 13 year old doesn't grow out of it and grows up to be a faggot
>>24722096The Secret by Donna Tartt>>24722111Funnily enough, the wikipedia article had section explaining that it was racist because colored people are too dumb to get in college.
I wish I could actually go to college
>>24722096L'AcademieLearned Disguise
>>24722099a miserable pile of clichés
>>24722099it's a woman thing, you wouldn't get it (and neither will I)
>>24722096ProustSebaldBernhardLate 19th c French satanic, dark writers-huysman, baudelaire, lautreamont, etc20th c eastern europeans-krasznahorkai, nadas, schulz, gombrowicz, kis, selimovic, hrabal, etcpoets like anne carson, theresa hak kyng chaany ancient greek more obscure than aristophanesonly peripheral modern philosophy, like hans blumenberg, bachelard, sloterdijk spheres trilogy etcbourbaki texts on mathematicswalter benjaminsimone weilfrench annales school historiansany 17th century french dramaeconomics - henry george, leon walras, polanyioutdated work on mythology (including schelling but ignore all german idealism as its twitter-bro tier)georg simmellevi-strausszhuangzhifrank stanford
>>24722099A way of picking up hot artsy chick that will make you cum in ways you never imagined possible but will also ruin your life
>bro check out this underpants style guide for being an intellectualDo women really?
>>24722099/fa/ 15 years ago
>>24722399Sounds based, I'll get into it.
>>24722099a gay performative instagram "i am so smart" aesthetic, normies basically think they are this aesthetic after reading like one camus book
>>24722099HP Lovecraft stroking a black pussy while reading Neitzche
>>24722427Don't put this shit on us. Back then the board was mostly Raf Simons Rick Owens usually what I'm dressed in. There were menswear/ivyprep/trad threads but a lot of that shit was openly mocked for being too mfa.
>>24722723>Rick Owens usually what I'm dressed in.lol goofy faggot.
>>24722834>Doesn't know the linenewfag
>>24722834anon thats the joke...
>>24722879>/fa/ was probably the first board I started shitposting on a decade ago >still a newfag it's over >>24722891I don't remember.
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>>24722096The Victorians would be the thing to read. And I like Dark Academia. Its a cool aesthetic. I wish book stores and libraries, hell even coffee shops, would lean into it slightly. I also like the "frasurbane" look, although I dont know how it could be a while aesthetic movement but whatever.
>>24722897>>/fa/ was probably the first board I started shitposting on a decade agoSame here so I forgive you anon. I can't pretend like I don't own a pair of geobaskets either. Worst purchase I ever made.
>>24722898Most reddit shit ever >>24722928You can probably sell it to some retard on grailed dot com
>>24722099People trying to repackage things they’ve seen into categories
I've seen what happens when retards with no prior interest or skills in fashion try to adopt a niche, meme style and it's fucking hilarious. /fa/ was full of that 15 years ago and I doubt it's changed.
Dark academia is pretty interesting in my eyes. It's a lot like the steampunk subgenre of yesteryear in that it is glamorising something of which white people, and whiteness, make up a core (even chief) part. Steampunk always struggled with the idea of steam power without the colonial air (it could never escape the empire's shadow), and dark academia has the same problem. It's weird, and I can't explain it better than it being entirely about whiteness and a specific flavour of white, but with any cultural markers taken away. Same again with he regency era stuff (although ironically, there the cost barrier to entry excludes today the exact people in LaRP, who would have then been excluded anyway). It's like an elephant that isn't just in the room, but that is the room itself. Like a stripped-down phone, colonialism without the mess—Transatlantic-mini. It's just cultural appropriation, but I'm not bent, so I'm not going to cry about it. I like the style.
>>24722099It is yet another revival of the Gothic subgenre, and, quite fittingly, much like every time this genre has been brought back, it returns more grotesquely mutilated than the last time. Now the transgressive elements have been completely defanged, commercialized, even. The focus on higher education, the fashionably out-of-date clothing, a cigarette or two, some gender nonsense haphazardly thrown in there. It's safe edgy. The awkward meeting ground between the dark philosophy and aristocratic hedonism of the early Gothic genre and the inner-city punk rebellion of the more modern one. Imagine, if you will, a person drinking a couple sips of wine and then pretending to be drunk and going on philosophical ramblings. That is dark academia.
>>24722399>hot artsy chick that will make you cum in ways you never imagined possible but will also ruin your lifefucking hellthat was literally my own student daysapparently i was dark academia years before it became a thing. i'm such a trendsetter
>>24723183W-what are you wearing now???
>>24722099Men read books. Women establish a "fashion" for use when reading books.
>>24722096Harry PotterThe Outsider - CamusNausea FrankensteinThe Selected Works of Edgar Allan PoeFoucaultThe Song of AchillesWoolfBronteCrime and PunishmentAnna KareninaLittle WomenCaliban and the Witch
Literally this
>>24722096It is, in the literal sense, LARPing as a fin de siècle or Victorian intellectual. At best only cosplaying, but one of the two.
Since reading is considered the 1# most attractive hobby for men, why don't you /FA/ggots dress like it and get some fucking art hoes.
>>24722099Victorian era education.
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>>24722099A substitute for a personality
>>24723740personalities are overrated.
>>24723253Not emo, dark and broody enough. You also need explicit sex scenes.
>>24722096>Rules of Attraction (practically identical setting and characters; Ellis helped developmentally edit The Secret History and the book's dedicated to him in gratitiude)>Carl Ruck & Ammon Hillman's psychedelic Orphic Greeks literature>Mircea Eliade & Algis Uždavinys>Augustus, Stoner type shit>Flaubert to inter-world war period
>>24724007>Sex scenes.--No you don't. And suggestion is much more erotic than literary p*rn, silly. P*rn is of the devil. Come to the cross, brother.
>>24724086>that shirthell yeah
>>24723237I read in my underwear + a t-shirt. You can't beat the combination.
>>24724106are you a beautiful woman?
>>24723051I think you're right in that the x-core aesthetic interests of a certain part of the internet 5-7 years ago (cottage core for example) are rebrandings of historicaly white aesthetics so as to be more palatable. On a different note, I think there's something interesting about how Gen z engaged with fashion subculture as teenagers. Millennial/gen x fashion subcultures (emo, goths etc) and earlier tended to be singular, in that one person would dress that way every day and built an entire persona and field of interests around, where Gen z seemed to more selectively dabble, and be self aware that it's essentially performative. Overall I don't see a problem with this dilettante engagement in teenagers, it's just kind of how they are, and hopefully it encouraged some of them to try reading a book.
>>24722096harry potter
>>24723982I agree a lot with this sentiment. Something that people often forget is that your appearance shapes how people perceive your personality and yourself in all of itself.The unique reason I am interested in developing a personality is because I want to become a completely different person than I am right now but I have heard that that would be butchering who I am
>>24724086kino shirt
>>24724086Corny shirt
>>24722230>t.
>>24722399My experience of the artsy girls is that they mostly just lay there like dead fish. Get a sporty girl instead.
>>24722096Unironic answer>Harry Potter>The Secret History>Dead Poets Society
>>24724086kino, corny shirt
>>24725191How good are sporty girls? Are we talking about the classical fit athletic ones or girls with more curves but defined tummy and legs?
I simply love the Dark Academia aesthetic.
>>24725229NTA, but I've heard that anavarbies are freaks in bed
>>24722259Very good list, perfectly captures that 20th century eccentric elitist academic milieu the dark academia aesthetic is vaguely based on, although it is perhaps giving that style more credit than it deserves, considering its roots lie nearer to harry potter than Baudelaire.
>>24722096Codex Gigas
>>24722096I dress in this aesthetic and I like Descartes’ rules for the mind quite a bit.
>>24722099Handsome and smart white people in suits doing smart things in expensive and old buildings with a Gothic atmosphere while talking in purple prose.
>>24722099goth femboy clique
>>24724086Is that fucking DeS?
>>24725229The body type doesn't matter hugely for this purpose beyond personal preference. Just an athletic girl who is into competitive sports.
>>24722212>The Secret by Donna TarttAbsolutely
R F Kuang’s Katabasis”. Is basically “Dark Academia” mixed with fantasy. The author went to Georgetown, Oxford, Cambridge, and now Yale, so she has experience with “Ivy League” academia. The writing quality is closer to the later Harry Potter books rather than Henry James or Nabokov, although the writing quality may be a bit beyond the later Harry Potter books. There are a lot of references to various Philosophers and Mathematicians, etc., and theories about logic etc.
>>24725829Indubitably devilish, indeed, moi fellow dark academic. Muahahahaha!!~
