/lit/ - Literature

i want to fuck one of these vapid larping hoes

>>21008708
>empty mugs of bitter black coffee
How can they be both "empty" and "mugs of bitter black coffee"?

https://youtu.be/MC88ehQ14c4
Why are women like this? And why does my dick like women?

Carmilla is a neat book about a vampire

>>21008708
>staircase
Why? Wtf does that have to do with anything lol? Can someone explain what dark academia is? Is this just larping women with no personality pretending to be deep?

>>21008818
It is a nice staircase dumb moid, anyway read Carmilla

Is 30 too old to get a DA GF?

fucking hipster fadtrash

>>21008828
This post proves that dark academia is like those girls in middle school who wore band tee shirts but didn't actually listen to their music. Literature is a purely aesthetic exercise for women. The ACT of reading Keats at 3am while becoming an alcoholic is the aim, not actually reading Keats and appreciating him in a literary way. Fucking lol.

>>21008879
Ok incel

>>21008862
>he's not 40 yo
It's over for you

>>21008732
>doesn’t mention Harry Potter

Women have no balls

>>21008708

>>21008732
>why does my dick like women
because your not reconstructed enough yet. go to /gif/ and look at more dicks

dark academia is a fucking meme

>>21008883
age counts upwards dumbass

It is impossible to be Dark Academic unless one has critiqued Kant using Hegel and progressed into some kind of post-Hegelian position. Trying to attempt this via some non-sensical French idealism claiming to give Spinoza a handjob is unacceptable. It is Kant. Then Hegel. Then your choice of Special K, M=C…D…M’=A’, Nietzhous Oxide or Schopenhauer.

>>21008708
Seems like it’s a community of try hards and weirdo’s.

>>21008818

It's just some fancy Harry Potter-tier winding staircase vaguely suggesting Victorian/Edwardian/1920s-1930s aesthetics, which is what the whole aesthetic is going for.

>>21010674
That's a universal sociological statement about human groupings.

bumping this gem

>>21009007
>Women have no balls
this is an accurate statement, but might be problematic for some these days

>>21008732
very cute and informative

I'm a goth who finished his literature degree and I find this concept hilariously silly.
Have fun, I guess.

>>21011015
Saxons > Goths.

>>21008708
Is dark academia an entirely female thing?

>>21011179
No

>>21011139
>tfw living in Saxony atm

>>21011225
Waldun is more effeminate than those pre-teens simping for him

>>21011225
That looks like a female mate. And I'm pretty sure I could fuck it as one.

>>21011232
Good mmblep sir! I concede. Nice cade is nice.

>>21008882
>Ok incel

>>21010723
when academia was totally in control but also untouchable, the days of professor woodrow wilson not professor barack hussein obama

>>21011488
So you're into Annales instead of CPGB historians for your marxist historiography? What do you think about Northern French peasant family structures?

>>21011225
Waldun has to get on the Dark Academia wagon again, because it looks like it's coming back.

I thought it was just some recent meme but it even has a Wikipedia article. kek

>>21011285
Have another one.

Is this the new steampunk?

>>21011912
Its peek coincided with the Waldun era of /lit/. Arguably it was /lit/'s golden era.

>>21008727
It had coffee in it once but now it's empty and hasn't been washed since.

>>21009042
I went through this process in the 2000s already because i accidentally found tranny porn and thought i stumbled across something miraculous

>>21008708
Nothing makes me cringe more that the fucking cringe LARP that is dark academia. NO you are not just like an early 20th century intellectual, your a mentally ill faggot with a turtle neck, an inflated ego and average academic ability.

>>21008732
> why does my dick like women?
I’d go to a gay conversion camp at this point to end women’s presence in my life.

>>21008732
I'd like to have sex with her but you can tell she's absolutely insufferable in real life

>>21009034
Live a little, anon

Who here is on their third reread of L'Academie?
Remember... no double rods!

>>21008708
What are some of the most /dark academy/ cities, dark acabros? Please, say only cities that you have been to

For me it's:
>Cambridge
>Dublin
>Florence
>Paris
>Vienna

>>21012628
miami

>>21012637
Very good. I can't wait to dress my character dark academy style in GTA VI

This is just the latest end result of aesthetics-driven hipster simulacrom™ social mod for zoomers. In the early 2010's it was the faggot metrosexual hipsters with thick fake black glasses and polaroidand film cameras making whiny indie folk tapes and hanging out at anarchist book shops or pretend camping at occupy. At least they seemed to actually do something. This just seems like taking simulation to its extreme, yet almost feels more honest in a way, with how fabricated and artificial it is.

>>21011225
why are all the book man ugly effeminate nerd.
Is there untapped market for jacked handsome book man?

>>21012849
indeed, there is not enough Chad representation in the publishing industry

>>21008708
Sometimes I see things and the only feeling I have is abject disgust. This picture triggers that.

I have never once given a shit about fashion and I think this is based. I hope this starts to take over everywhere.

>>21011225
damn that's an odd facial bone structure if i have ever seen one

>>21008708
the pseud aesthetic

>>21008708
>dark academia
What the fuck even is that?

>>21013565
It's based is what it is

>>21013565
its pic related. Basically its 4chan

>>21013565
dumb women with nothing better to do who have no sense of history or culture making expensive pastiche outfits out of some blurred-together hazy idea of "The Past" which was apparently a solid undifferentiated state of things that existed prior to 1997 so they can justify continuing to play dolly dressup until they're 45 and spending 80% of the GDP

>>21013596
Why the fuck would anyone want to larp that?

>>21013627
Most of the pictures are male though/

>>21013791
externally perhaps, but they are catamites

it's like how the eucharist is essentially jesus and accidentally bread. instagram "men" are essentially women

>>21013808
You really need to get off /pol/. It's rotting your brain.

>>21008708
Chaotic Academia > Dark Academia

>>21013809
can you say something that doesn't relate to the social or interpersonal level, like a joke or something informative

*ahem*
Where do I find a Dark Academia gf, bros?

>>21013845
It looks like a lot of them have YouTube channels. Write them a nice comment.

>>21010581
>Hegelian
you are basic and simple, sorry

>>21013817
Did he hit a nerve?

>>21008708
>>21008732
Pure retardation

>>21012365
This stuff comes from teenagers and they will always do embarrassing identity crafting because that is what being a teenager is. No point in being mad about it, though I would be massively disdainful of anyone self describing as Dark Academia past the age of 20.

>>21008708
Jack Daniels is the most tacky whiskey: it tastes like shit as well

>>21014276
You just proved him right.

>>21013817
It's like when Constantin saw the Χ Ρ symbol in the battle of the milvian bridge, but instead of getting told that this symbol would help him win or whatever it's that /pol/ and misogynism eats your soul: Drop it mate.

>>21014579
i don't get the labarum reference, if you don't like misogyny or /pol/ shit say it in a funny or informative way, don't just cry and downvote

>>21014391
Ye basically.

This is from wikipedia page. Could be the onion or babylon bee.

"Dark academia has been criticized for a variety of reasons, including the aesthetic's perceived Eurocentrism, lack of diversity and encouragement of unhealthy lifestyle choices.[31][32][33][34][35]

Many of the literary works that feature prominently in the aesthetic were created by white men and feature little to no ethnic minorities among the lead characters, sourcing from the English literary canon to the exclusion of other writers.[36][37][38][11] Sarah Burton, a sociology fellow at City, University of London, has noted that the aesthetic contains little representation of "most women, working class, people of colour, fatness, people with low economic or cultural capital, disability, caring and domestic activities and labour (especially the enjoyment of these), motherhood, queerness, and the mundanity of academic life".[39] In response to the aesthetic's lack of diversity, efforts have been made to incorporate literary works from Black authors such as Langston Hughes into dark academia.[40][41]"

>>21008716
No you don't. I go to an elite university full of braindead midwit women larping as deep intellectuals, when all they do is read and think the mental equivalent of Wattpad and Twilight erotica.
Most women have nothing intellectual to offer.
Except my gf ... she's got some pretty good original ideas sometimes.

>>21015590
>gets pussy once
>thinks the woman is deep and profound
Do oofy doofy goyim really be like this?

>>21008708
Its a cool aesthetic. I really do like it, especially as a fan of victorian/edwardian lit.

>>21013565
Young people developing a consumer aesthetic around academic intelligence and the imagery of old prestigious colleges.

Completely unaware that they are the dupes and rubes that they always are, - being the genetically fallen children of middleclass parents. Failsons and faildaughters trying to justify the enormous investment their parents dumped into the sinking ship that is: yourself.

They might have progressive politics and have a gay friend or two, as they read the works of a dead historical figure who would've burned faggots at the stake.

They might try to genderswap or raceswap ancient figures. "What if Marcus Aurelius was a black queen? What if Zeus was actually just a sexist pig deadbeat dad archetype? What if Medussa and the Cthonic monsters were actually the good guys?"

Childish repainting. Like a rape victim trying to rewrite the past, pretend it didn't happen. Trying to steal history from the very same "old dead white men" that they claim to hate so much. Thrashing at "daddy's" dead rotting corpse, hoping to beat out some love, some recognition, just something. But the corpse just lays there, immovable.

And here, good ol' Uncle Capitalism comes to fill the void. To sell you an identity. Everything you loved about learning and education can be re-packaged and sold back to you by the technocapital singularity.

See? You're not some fallen suffering entity - a common human being. No, you're special, you're different. You collect rare books and dress in Autumn colours. You have thoughts, ideas. The rest of the disgusting lumpenproles are just automata - but not you though, you're "special."

God is dead. Literature is dead. Stop thinking, go outside, have fun with a girl at a carnival and just be normal.

>>21015643
I'm on my Schopenhauerian grindset nigga
I'm like an 80s movie bully on Lexapro nigga

>>21015652
HOLY BASED
how do I become this?

>>21015690
You need to be born to a mentally ill overbearing mother (like me) - who sabotages your success and makes bad choices constantly (like mine)
Then you eventually get the gist of "existence is not a good thing"

>>21008708
Dark academia? More like dork academia.

>>21015697
sorry to hear about it anon. I dont have the foundation for Schopenhauerian grindset. wish you luck.

>>21015712
I'm going to eventually kill myself. I have it planned out. I'm falling on a gladius sword in the center of Rome while shouting "Axios"

>>21012628
Berlin
>>21012849
There's China Mieville (pic related), but his aesthetic is more London punk. Good books though.
>>21013845
The little muffin shop inside Barnes & Noble, mostly

>>21012628
Rochester NY on a cloudy day

>>21008708
Had to read The Secret History for class last semester, was fucking kino.

>>21015633
It's not even cool.

>>21015730
Just do it already.

>>21008708
brain melted and i thought i was on /fa/ for a minute

these niggers are just modern day beatniks

If you don't fence, are you even trying?

>>21008708
>the chad surrealist dada goth flaneur
>the virgin Waldungus

>>21015593
Yes, Rabbi. Don't even bother understanding us goyishe kopf---it's not really worth it. Just keeping conniving against, and more generally, jewing us. We fall for it every time. We deserve it at this point.

>>21016194
there are dark academia threads on both /lit/ and /fa/. sometimes also on /tv/

>>21015871
saw a girl reading that on the subway stop last week.

>>21009007
Yes, that is generally true. It's kind of one of the primary traits of the prototypical member of the category 'woman'.

>>21012053
If you don't care for ordinary women as people you probably won't care for trans women that much either. Despite having been fucked up by being raised as boys, they're not actually that different. At least in my experience.

>>21008879
Hey, speak for yourself.
t. woman who brought her little red wagon to the library as a child more than once

>>21012515
Can't you just... not date?

>>21013814
I like it. Relate to it. Here's the full post.
https://classicsclique.tumblr.com/post/189138888404/concept-chaotic-academia

>>21013808
And yet I bet if one of them comes out as trans you will immediate turn around and insist that she is completely and irrevocably male, because you have no consistent beliefs beyond 'to own the libs'.

>>21015593
Hey, you haven't met the lady.

>>21015643
>They might have progressive politics and have a gay friend or two, as they read the works of a dead historical figure who would've burned faggots at the stake.
If you are living in the modern era, any given pre-modern person almost certainly believed some thing or another you'd find repugnant.

>>21012628
Mogadishu

>>21015643
>Stop thinking, go outside, have fun with a girl at a carnival and just be normal.
cringe

>>21010723
I thought the same thing, the whole aesthetic just reeks Harry Potter or Americans trying to be fancy and bri'ish innit m8 but their perception of England is Sherlock Holmes and having once taken a tour at Oxford.

>>21015593
yesssssss, hate women. never reproduce. don't pass on your values or genes
let [someone else] do it instead. yes...

>>21015643
>They might try to genderswap or raceswap ancient figures. "What if Marcus Aurelius was a black queen? What if Zeus was actually just a sexist pig deadbeat dad archetype? What if Medussa and the Cthonic monsters were actually the good guys?"
midwits have been doing this for centuries. 70% of poetry is just "bro do you have any idea how many cultural references I can make?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1BJ4U9cJFc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz-L15OuSRM

lol found this next level LARP

>>21011139
Normans > Saxons

>>21015590
>Except my gf ... she's got some pretty good original ideas sometimes.
I hate to break this to you: "She" is a man.

>>21011179
no its only for racists.

>>21012365
>your a mentally ill faggot with a turtle neck, an inflated ego and average academic ability.
so Im just like an early 20th century intellectual?

>>21017199
I think he would know that by now if it was true

>>21016751
this proves yet again that dark academia is for people that got bored of larping as Harry Potter characters

>>21016569
Even better, in twenty years time those progressive views today will seem unthinkably bigoted in one way or another

>>21012849
Yes, but they write "bap-esque" exortations and have fancy theology podcast with "friends", they're homosexuals!

>>21016574
>Imagine spending your vital years inside - reading books all the time, instead of finding love, or going on little adventures with your bros
You've been lost to logocentrism

for me it's either traditional or neofolk or whatever that military inspired aesthetic with woolen clothes
are there any parallels
what are some neofolk books

The British Library Tales of the Weird series was designed from the ground up for this aesthetic, complete with the judgement of Victorians for not making their stories about queer brown trannies.

>>21018647
Hermann Lons, Der Wehrwolf

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

>>21013627
>who have no sense of history or culture making expensive pastiche outfits out of some blurred-together hazy idea of "The Past" which was apparently a solid undifferentiated state of things that existed prior to 1997
You just described tradlarpers

i hate this vapid stupid meme

but i want to FUCK an arthoe/dark academia hoe so bad bros...

>>21018996
>natzee books
kek i knew this was going to happen but that's not what i'm looking for

>>21018952
reading this story for English class ruined my nofap streak

>>21015590
don't make stuff up anon!

>>21010723
You mean when women weren't even allowed in Oxford and Cambridge?

>>21021094
Which one?

>>21019923
welcome to being male

Desu I love autumn, it's the only time I ever feel dressed well.

what's the polar opposite of this

>>21023038
sexcore

>>21023038
Tateism

>>21008879
No shit. Move your braincells a bit more and maybe you'll realise what you said applies to basically everything a woman and even a man does. There's only a small percentage of the population that isn't like this.

>>21017554
As Proudhon put it, "My ideal of a society is one in which I would be guillotined as a Conservative".

Imagine being rejected by the coffee shop crowd and larping as Sherlock Holmes at the library.

>>21008708
women always do this. they shed the substance and wear the husk like a trophy.

>>21008727
not to mention

>vodka
>sticky

>>21008716
God same here anon

>>21023038
being in academia

>>21009034
His philosophy was complete garbage too, that's why he's all they teach in schools

>>21008708
What shoes do you guys mainly wear?

Can you be blue collar and still be /lit/

>>21012628
>Oxford
>Florence
>Vienna
>Cologne
>St Petersburg
>Copenhagen

>>21026730
Most of us dress normal. (Jeans tshirts hoodies sneakers) It’s just a few trannies and dykes who go for the Dark Academia faggotry

>>21013596
Except replace all the history books with Harry Potter and other retarded YA fantasy garbage.

>>21012637
after watching burn notice i realized miami looks fucking ugly

>>21008708
>turning everything into a fashion
Incredibly lame and shallow

>>21026730
a pair of reeboks I've had for 7 years
the tread is non-existent at this point

>>21023038
scruffcore - jeans, t shirt, sneakers chosen for comfort
aka geniuscore

>>21026730
Of course you can. The important thing is that you read and think about what you read.

>>21026730
>can you be blue collar and still be /lit/?

Hell yeah. Think Jack London working as a fisherman and later going to Alaska to prospect for gold. Think Eugene O’Neill working as a merchant mariner. Kerouac doing the same and later becoming a railroad brakeman.
And then there’s Colin Wilson. He had a so so education up in the Norf but was a voracious reader. After a brief stint in the army he moved down to London and slept in a sleeping bag on Hampstead Heath at night and during the day wrote in the Reading Room of the British Museum. He struck up a friendship with the novelist Angus Wilson (no relation) who worked at the museum and Angus let Colin use his own typewriter and room to type up his first book. Pic related.

>>21028780
Colin Wilson is the greatest undiscovered genius of the 20th century, a phenomenologist and metaphysician who didn't even realize his own talents because he was too damn English to put them in fancy highfalutin terms

>>21009034
Why do Schools teach his crappy theories like they are scientific or Biblical Truth

>>21028789
Because schools are useless and just use as state nannying

>>21008818
>Can someone explain what dark academia is?
It's an Instagram aesthetic that is essentially just autumnal prep/trade. Honestly it's what I general wear in the cooler months (tweeds, flannels, cords, sweaters), and it's annoying that it is now a 'look' that people go for.

In terms of /lit/, The Secret History is pure 'dark academia' core; the OG of it is the first third of Brideshead Revisited, but the LARPers never bother reading through to the parts about the redemptive grace of Catholicism.

>>21008716
Why?

>>21023038
sleazecore obviously

Is Piranesi a good read? I kinda liked the first few pages.

>>21030655
>sleazecore obviously
Can someone explain this? Are those guys really into reading Plato and Turgenev or is this a joke? (I got this from /ic/ but I guess it is from /fa/ originally)

>>21030841
Now that's an actual cool and based aesthetic. Nothing like the newt scamander lookin ass prissy faggots trying to look like 1890 cambridge autists

How to dress this way without spending a shitton of money?

>>21030910
You can't, that's the point

>>21030841
>Are those guys really into reading Plato and Turgenev or is this a joke
if they were to read, they'd read plato and turgenev, but that's not gonna happen

>>21011225
So yes?

>>21015697
Bro you are like literally like Schopenhauer

>>21023038
BAPtism

>>21031438
kek

>>21030910
Thrift shops
Ebay
Raid your grandfather’s closet when he dies

>>21010338
Nah.

>>21010581
Damn his good. Throwing so many mainstream thinkers, I couldn't even keep up. I already feel the darkness of academia invading my wardrobe.

>>21013814
This is just regular academia

>>21026730
>he wears shoes
ngmi

>>21031547
Thrift shops are based.

>>21008708
>empty mugs of bitter back coffee balancing upon a pile of musty obscure books, discarded love letters from fellow poets stained by sticky sweet drops of vodka
Jesus fucking Christ what an awful sentence.

>>21033879
Yeah and that "androgynous scholars..." is the gayest shit I have read in a long time

>>21008708
>sticky sweet drops of vodka
retarded

Tumblr:
>RREEEEEEE STOP STUDYING DEAD WHITE MEN
also Tumblr:
>omg i love philosophers and poets like, uhhhh...... *looks up names of a couple of dead white men* haha have you seen my sweater, isn't it totally dark academia?

>>21008708
I dress like this and get a lot of girls

>>21023038
Either Japandi or sleezecore

>>21030841
Probably more like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Melancholy of Resistance, Tokyo Vice, or grubby pulp fiction with booba on the cover.
>>21033879
what fucking vodka is "sticky sweet" this is shit a 17 year old comes up with

>>21013596
That's what it was 10+ years ago, before the label existed.

>>21008708
in italia non habito

>>21034292
what type of girls?

>>21018952
>The British Library Tales of the Weird series
almost every writer in that series is in public domain and on gutenberg, what's the point?

>>2102531302
Foucault was refuted by Socrates in the Gorgias 2500 years ago

>>21035080
Unless you are able to back this up you pulled it out your ass