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what i read in mar. 2023:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class, race, & labour

crime of the centuries

from a massacre in apartheid south africa to ‘feel good’ multiculturalism: the dark history of harmony day (australia)

the prison industry corporate database (usa)

how australia wrote the 'stop the boats’ playbook

the crisis of the intellectuals

gender, sexuality, & intersectionality

‘i know where the bodies are buried’ (uk)

is it too late for male friendship?

all true at once

of an age: a tender portrait of young queer love in 90s suburban melbourne

inside the secret working group that helped push anti-trans laws across the country (usa)

politics & current affairs

‘what was the point?’: freed after 9 years, refugees learn to live again (australia)

on the trail of the fentanyl king

the mercy workers

emboldened by israel’s far right, jewish settlers fan the flames of chaos

sas unit repeatedly killed afghan detainees (uk)

in australia, slot machines are everywhere. so is gambling addiction

history, culture, & media

the disabled villain

the lesser known history of the maralinga nuclear tests (australia)

a murder in berlin

baghdad memories: what the first few months of the us occupation felt like to an iraqi

will the ozempic era change how we think about being fat and being thin?

violent delights

at the kremlin in 1943

#masterlists

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On This Day In History

January 30th, 1982: Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code.

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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

#novels

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On This Day In History

January 27th, 1825: The Congress of the USA approves the Oklahoma Territory, resulting in the Trail of Tears as about 60,000 Native Americans (of the Aniyvwiyaʔi|Cherokee, Muscogee|Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations) are forcibly moved to make way. Thousands died during or directly after.

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Random midnight thought: I feel like reading a book with someone else's annotations is super interesting.

Like reading someone's book where they only highlighted things and left no writing.

Or someone who highlighted nothing but there are scrubbles of thoughts all throughout.

I wish there was a bookstore that took in annotated books where you could look at what the previous owner thought.

#dark academia #academia #chaotic academia #academia aesthetic #studyblur #books and literature #literature #litblur #bookworm #books #books and reading

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chaotic academia is learning latin on duolingo

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— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena (June 13, 1920)

[text ID: I can no longer write to you as to a stranger.]

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The point of history is not to sort people into good guys and bad guys. The point of history is to learn where we came from, how and why people come into conflict, and to avoid the sins of the past.

Making a demographic of people into The Bad Guy for you to blindly hate and blame for the world's ills is one of those sins.

I cannot count how many times wars and genocides began because people were convinced that it was morally righteous to treat other human beings like vermin.

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She’s a 10 but she lives off of academic validation while simultaneously procrastinating like she’s been promised immortality

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Reading at night with the soft glow of candlelight is such a heavenly feeling

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Apologies for this being a little bit of a vent post but I promise it has purpose here.

There is something so traumatic about being a Native American and having to write "the only good indian is a dead one" for my history class.

I don't know if I've talked about it here on this blog but I've had to sit in history classes where people made fun of the brutalities that Natives have gone through. And when I mentioned I was Native and told my classmates my tribe, everyone became silent.

I just wish that some of these classes would treat these topics with more...respect? Sensitivity? I'm not sure. I by no means want them to censor anything, it's history, we NEED to learn these things.

I guess I just want some support for those who feel triggered by what their ancestors have gone through in a learning setting.

#i'm just ranting #what do you even tag this as? #native american history #maybe??? #I wanna know if I'm the only poc who feels this way #poc #poc issues #history is fucked #stardust floating

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Enemies to lovers 🤝 it has always been you

Keeping me mentally in check

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“My problem isn’t that my favorite characters aren’t real; it’s that I’m not fictional. I don’t want them to be real. What I desperately wish is that I could be fictional with them. It’s not that I want them here with me in this mundane and ordinary world; it’s that I want to join them in their extraordinary one”

-unknown

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scared of not being loved is cool and all but read enough books and suddenly the prospect of your high standards not allowing you to look at anything below becomes a genuine concern

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The feminine urge to read to avoid all my problems and then cry about it before sleeping and then to get over it read again and be sleep deprived and cry again and read again

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I don't want a boyfriend,I want a hot academic rival who secretly loves my triumphant smile everytime I get a higher grade than him.