I Have Such A Love For Characters Who Descend Into Madness Or Villainy Out Of Deep, Deep Empathy. Characters

“I’m legally dead in nine different star systems.”

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Thor Ragnarok is really about how nothing brings together two siblings like ganging up on the third one

— Nikita Gill

wear a different perfume when you commit murder fuckin amateurs 

Prompt #1167

“What are you doing?”

“Dying. Duh.”

arcane videoessays bc i love arcane and i love videoesays so

How Arcane Crafted the Perfect Fight Scene (an analysis of the Ekko/Jinx fight in S1)

Jinx Most Mysterius Line Explained (Two Theories) (i cant sum up this video, just watch it)

How Arcane Writes Women (self-explanatory)

This is a Perfect Side Character (an Ekko analysis)

The Color of Fascism: Arcane, Aesthetics and Opressions (study of the usage and meanings of colors in the show)

the dance matters even more than you think (explanation of why S2 E7 was so important)

+little plus if you know spanish: El personaje que lo cambio todo: Isha (how Isha changed everything in Arcane)

if anyone has recs.....

Surround yourself with people who love you 🐰✨

Adrien Agreste has my full respect and love because his life sounds like a villain origin story:

Dead mom (?)

Neglectful, cold, abusive father

Girl he loves won’t return his feelings

Lonely and isolated rich kid

Powers based around rotting and destruction

But he’s not a villain. He’s not even the angsty, brooding antihero. He’s a pure, wonderful cinnamon roll who makes bad puns and is totally loyal to Ladybug and that’s why he’s wonderful.

You have the ability to see whether people will go to Hell or Heaven. You use this ability to to help the ones that are going to hell to become better people. 

The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip