/lit/ - Literature

>>20983563
>slytherpuff
whatever this is, i want to rape it

>>20983563
I've always dressed in this style, but I resent the term Dark Academia. It's simply good taste.

fuck Brooke, marry Vivian, kill Sylvia

>>20983563
>thrifts all clothes & books
>drinks coffee 24/7
>intp
literally me

>>20983563
Are those real booktubers? I'm assuming not since I can't find any of them

>>20983563
As someone that knew about it since basically the beginning, I loved it until people began to say that it was problematic and bs like that .
Love the aesthetic but the majority of people there are insufferable and illiterate.

>>20983563
Except for the fact I am an intp I'm literally Vivian the heck

>>20983572
pics or it didnt happen.

>>20983606
Like the kind of people that consider themselves sophisticated and intelligent because they read but the only thing they have read are YA and Donna Tartt

>>20983563
If you are a Sylvia with short curly hair and glasses and freckles PLEASE BE IN NASHVILLE

>>20983563
>procrastinates a lot
yes, that's me

>>20983572

Same as any scene. Goth had a whole ethic to go along with its aesthetic and music, but it caught on, and it’s not that it became popular, it’s that it wasn’t understood beyond the surface level by these pseuds. It became just a Halloween costume. But who cares really?
What does dark academia stand for even? Dress how you like, listen to what you want, read widely.

>>20983563
The style is really cute on girls. The problem most girls who dress like that are insufferable

>>20983712
imagine going on /lit/ and pretending you talk to girls

>>20983572
I need inspo send pics

Idk brother I'm not in academia so I dress exclusively in athleisure. Currently reading The Naked and the Dead by Mailer

>>20983563
bougie romantic garbage

>>20983563
Do you think that if I man dressed this way he would get laid easier?

>>20983563
I want to say middle, but I bet she's debate about every little thing.

>>20983804
Only with other men, since you will look like a fag

>>20983804
Yes unironically. But only by tumblr femcels.

>tumblr pseudointellectualism
Why can’t people just like things without it being their gender?

>>20983935
Yes but at the same time it was initially created to make a space to talk about certain subjects

>>20983804
yeah if you’re on tinder or go to an art school
all you need is
turtlenecks
wool pants
dress shoes or boots
and a coat nigga
if you’re well read these bitches be wet for you
i’ve slept with 12 art hoes out of the 50 i matched with
i’m still autistic as shit but dressing good gets you in the door

I used to think dark academia was a retarded meme for pseudes until I heard it was racist. Now I think dark academia is based.

>>20983979
how is dressing nicely racist? is everything nice and decent racist now? or is the larping part the racism?

>>20983979
The only people that say that Dark Academia is racist are the ones that want to appear the wokest of the land on social media. It never was

>>20983572
post feet

>>20983563
>Darc Academia
What does dark academia stand for even? Dress how you like, listen to what you want, read widely?

>>20984001
Dark academia is based mainly on The secret history by Donna Tartt and since in that book there was zero black and poc representation people began to say that Dark Academia is racist because it was for white people only.
I can go on with all the reasons and explanations and with all the bs Tumblr & co said about it since I was there when that happened but it is kinda stupid and long and it would be a waste on everyone time

>>20984032
look intellectual, aloof, and edgy. read "highbrow" stuff. larp as intelligentsia, pretty much.

>>20984032
just a general subculture and aesthetic of reading Dracula and acting like it makes you smart and cultured, zoomie amalgam of hipster, nerd and goth

>>20983563
REJECT ROASTDEMIA
EMBRACE HOMOFASCISM

>>20984062
It is gay because this style of clothing is so shit no woman would want you or am I missing something?

>>20984062
uhhh based?

>>20984071
>no woman would want
>want
Shut the fuck up roastie

>>20984092
Finally, this is the only answer I can respect

>>20983606
All of these Tumblr mood board inspired anesthetics were basically various flavors of white people fashion (cottagecore and dark academia being good examples) and now that people figured that out teenagers have moved on. At the end of the day fashion can be fun, and reading for the aesthetic can be the punch in the arm teenagers need to get into heavier literature, but eventually that won't sustain you. At a certain point you fall in love with it or you give it up.

>>20983563
Lame
Not even a subculture, just an aesthetic to sell clothing and books that never get read

>>20984177
Wrong, these people don't actually read

>>20983606
How is it problematic in the slightest? It’s just privileged lesbian larping intellectual gothy. Why do these people always eat each other alive to be the most victimized?

>>20984186
What you said didn’t contradict what the other guy said?

>>20984192
>Why do these people always eat each other alive to be the most victimized?
I'm asking myself that same question since the beginning anon.

I would actually French kiss with a Vivian for 30+ minutes...

>>20984053
That sounds like 80% of the girls in english literature.

>>20983563
Vivian come back to me!!!

>>20984053
>look intellectual, aloof, and edgy.
I really love this stereotype in movies but it seems like it doesn't have a specific name.

>>20983563
god I wish I was vivian

Wing collar + trench coat ala Schoepie instead.

>>20983563
>LGBT only authors and poets
Imagine limiting yourself solely to works by perverts

I'm dark....and im academic..

>>20983743
I do. I am just blessed with natural good looks. I'm still autistic as hell and just kind of an ass but they tolerate it somewhat.

>>20983563
I wish to marry Sylvia.

>>20983979
These "aesthetic" fads are always some form of European pastiche (cottagecore for the English countryside, dark academia is Gothic era Catholicism + Oxbridge classics department) even though they are obsessed with decentering whiteness or whatever.

>>20983563
I've never dressed in this style, but I adore the term Dark Academia. It's simply good taste.

>>20984438
Catholics do it all the time

dark academia but I'm wearing a dashiki and giving a lecture on sanford and son

Dark Academia would be cool if it was just a thing between a close-knit group of college friends you occasionally see hanging around on campus, I don't like the fact that it became a subculture. I'd guess most of the new "followers" of this trend barely read anything and are just in it for the aesthetics.

>>20983606
>>20984192
Because it idealizes the centuries old institutional classist, elitism of institutions like Oxbridge and Eton while also privileging wealthy white, usually male, WASP sensibilities of beauty, intelligence, and superiority and is hence, also racist.
Please, if you have the time, I encourage you to read these posts/essays/articles:
> https://post45.org/2022/03/too-dark-for-dark-academia/
> https://dailycampus.com/2021/03/17/decolonizing-the-dark-academia-aesthetic/

Ok, but why is Vivian literally me?

>>20983563
It's faggy and dumb.

>>20983563
Why are the people who hate "whiteness" and imperialism such fetishists of Victorian England

>>20983563

Reminds me of why I hated university and the people who staffed it so much.

dark academic is wack when it comes to /lit/ chicks i prefer the one with a german army surplus jacket and doc martins.

>>20983563
does brooke eat ass?