Dark Academia Guide

falling in love with life

•discovering comfort in grey skies and storm clouds; your morbid sense for beauty fulfilled with the acceptance of where you stand now from where you've came

•the sensation of the crackle on your favorite classical record drifting in the air, and you, unafraid, waltz with yourself and the shadows on the walls

•the magic of smiling at the ancient faces and names in your coursework, as you breathe a sense of life into the souls that laid dormant for centuries, waiting for you to open the page

•slipping into the tweed jacket you had saved for autumn, as you excitedly walk to the class you waited in anticipation for all summer, as the calm found as the late autumn wind nestled against your neck

•reciting medieval love sonnets to yourself and digging your hand into the library book sales, as you let your hair down in the eeri mist in the walk home

•the scared quiet as you sip on your tea in the early hours of the morning, before the sun rises as you are left alone with your favorite author, the sky is lavender and time is nothing more but the steam of tea gently floating around your lips