Dark academia things I do in my everyday life/ things in my life that give off dark academia vibes
Do I like the dark academia aesthetic? Yes. Do I also make fun of it endlessly? Yes.
Drinking a nice cup of tea
Listening to classical music(specifically romantic because we all know that gives off hella dark academia vibes)(… or baroque but only baroque opera)
Watching/listening/researching operas
Researching composers(Tchaikovsky/ composers I am singing)
Shopping for fall fashion in the summer
Writing my fanfic feels inherently dark academia(boys/boarding school/ 19th century what more can I say)
My music school building( from the 19th century the rest of the buildings on campus are like weirdly like 20th century modern)
Cafe Nero and I hate saying that
Forever enjoying chai lattes
My boyfriend reading me his poetry
Visiting my boyfriend in providence( he goes to brown)
Discussing literature/ old French and Italian movies with my forever lover(yes with my boyfriend who goes to brown)
My layering in the winter
Going to the music building late at night and practicing on the top floor(especially if it’s a clear night or during a blizzard) (yes I have gone to practice at 9 at night in a blizzard)
Being a vocal performance major/ training to be an opera singer
Singing coloratura pieces
Singing any of the following that are in my rotation: Handel(especially Handel) Mozart, Strauss, Schubert, Purcell(kind of) Reynaldo Hahn
French opera/ French art songs
The song Psyché by Emile Paladilhe (go listen to it I love it, I sang it for juries last semester)
All songs from the black composers anthology
Visiting and taking pictures at the MFA Boston
Jesus lord have mercy my fucking wire rim circular glasses
The list goes on and on and I’ll probably be adding to this. This is partly to poke fun at dark academia but also clue y’all into my life more/ prove I am ever so slightly an intellectual/ I could never be fully dark academia I am too chaotic