Dark academic media because it’s autumn
Films
• Harry Potter: boarding school, magic, cozy
• Dead Poet Society: boarding school, forlorn, rich
• Twilight: bitter, terrible, autumn-y (mock it loudly whilst watching to make it worth while)
• Good Will Hunting: deep, cerebral, engaging
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream: classic, dreamy
• The Spiderwick Chronicles: monsters, childhood
• The Black Cauldron: disney classic, creepy, fun
• Kill Your Darlings: Murder, university, morality
• Hocus Pocus: witchy, nostalgic, light-hearted
• Coraline: trippy, weird, childlike, buzzing
• The Corpse Bride: drab, gentle, strange
• Dorian Gray: rich, ben barnes, terrible mentors
• Sleepy Hollow: grim, ghostly, casually haunting
• Crimson Peak: creepy, strange, dim, opulent
Shows
• The Queen’s Gambit: intelligent, new, riveting
• Peaky Blinders: dark, illegal 1910s shenanigans
• Sherlock Holmes (BBC): cerebral, mystery, witty
• Gilmore Girls: nostalgic, private school, literature
• Criminal Minds: mystery, crime, casual viewing
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch: nostalgic, light, witchy
• Scooby Doo Where Are You?: cozy, mystery, kids
• The Haunting of Bly Manor: dark, creepy, engaging
Books and short stories
• The Secret History: university, murder, morality
• Jane Eyre: classic, ghostly, romanticism
• Frankenstein: classic, gothic, sci-fi, morality
• Dracula: classic, gothic, horror
• Stalking Jack the Ripper: gothic, horror, victorian
• Sherlock Holmes: classic, mystery, cozy
• Ninth House: horror, necromancy, morality
• The Yellow Wallpaper: psychologically haunting, short story, morality
• Murder on the Orient Express: classic, mystery, whodunit
• Harry Potter: cozy, magic, boarding school
• The Night Circus: whimsical, magic, romance
• A Deadly Education: boarding school, magic, horror
• Rebecca: psychological, morality, relationships
• Crime and Punishment: classic, heavy, morality
• War and Peace: classic, opulent, heavy
Podcasts
• Spirits (Multitude): drunk mythology
• The Bright Sessions: audio drama surrounding fictional therapy sessions with magically gifted individuals
• Critical Role: DnD with famous voice actors
• Welcome to Nightvale: paranormal small town audio drama told in the style of an evening radio show
• Crime Junkie: true crime
• TEDTalksDaily: short TEDTalks posted each day about a wide variety of topics
• Potterless: grown man reads the Harry Potter series for the first time
Songs
• Master & a Hound - Gregory Alan Isakov: soft, indie, bittersweet
• I Know Places - Lykke Li: heavy, indie, sad
• Since I Saw Vienna - Wilbur: soft, indie, sad
• Cherry Wine - Hozier: bittersweet, cozy, indie
• To Be Alone - Hozier: heavier, entrancing, indie
• Who Will Carry You - Adam Jones & K.S. Rhoads: hopeful, soft, sad
• Scotland - The Lumineers: self-sufficient, indie, bittersweet
• Falling Water - Peter Oren: heavy, sad, deep
• The Night We Met - Lord Huron: soft, kind, nostalgic
• Ms - alt-J: soft, surrounding, nostalgic, dreamlike
• Oh My Dear - The Head and the Heart: soft, lulling, gentle
• Blood Bank - Bon Iver: soft, bittersweet, snowy
• September Song - Agnes Obel: soft, instrumental
• Gnossienne no.4 - Erik Satie: spooky, instrumental
• Golden - Riley Baron: light, rich, juvenile
• Murder Song - AURORA: eloquent, upset, fairylike
• Ella - Myrkur: nordic, elemental, raw
• If I Had a Heart - Fever Ray: dark, roaming, sure
• Who’s With Us - Current Swell: sad, lonely, soft
• Sleep on the Floor - The Lumineers: textured, lazy
• Helvegen - Wardruna: nordic, echoing, thunderous
• Jenny of Oldstones - Ginny Di: old, soft, sweeping
• Nothing Arrived - Villagers: so, so sad…with honey
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