Dark Academia

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion."

- Democritus

No one:

'All art is quite useless.'

– Oscar Wilde

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

p a p e r b a c k: folded pages, tangled earbuds, bitten nails, messy sheets, fluffy throws, windy and rainy days, overrun gardens, creased spines, glasses, oversized hoodies

h a r d c o v e r: diy bookmarks, underlined words, highlighted quotes, early grey tea with honey, soft classical music, knitted sweaters, fluffy socks, mood lighting, candles

Angry - Wagner, Stravinksy, Beethoven, Brahms

Calm - Faure, Chopin, Liszt

Cheerful - Mozart

Depressed - Debussy, Beethoven

Dreamy - Debussy, Faure, Saint-Saens, Chopin

Focused - Shostakovich, Bach

Groovy - Dvorak, Gershwin

Melancholy - Faure, Debussy, Dvorak, Elgar

Patriotic - Sibelius, Smetana, Dvorak

Serious - Bach

Reminiscent - Elgar, Barber, Schumann

Reverent - Bach, Brahms

Whimsical - Rimsky-Korsakov, Holst

- waking up early in the morning to watch the sunrise, even though you don’t actually need to

- staying up late to read or paint because you don’t have to get up early

- handwriting assignments that should be typed and submitted digitally

- having a coffee cup with you, rather than a thermos because you don’t have to take it anywhere

- still getting ready and dressed so that you can feel focused on your work in the mornings

- emailing your teachers to see if they have any extra reading related to the topic

- turning in all of the assignments for the week earlier than the rest of your class because you wanted to finish them early