#dark academia these violent delights

[starlesswdz]

pauljulian but lesbians 🥰

[owoatmilk]

toast, tea + reading ☕️ 📖 ♡

[weltonboys]

“we’ve found each other, out of everyone else in the world. does that hurt, too?”

[pictureofdoriaaaaaangay]

chaotic book ramble so I can stop spiraling into the abyss: dark academia books you've heard of and probably already read edition

I need to talk about books I love to stay sane please stand by <3

Bunny by Mona Awad. I love this book SO MUCH. it's beautifully written, the characters are all unhinged women, there's murder, there's creation, there's a creative writing class. it drips with insanity and eroticism. reading it is like living a fever dream. you can picture the events of the book perfectly, but could never hope to explain it to anyone.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt. this book is the entire world to me. I love the characters [they're all terrible and irredeemable people], I love the story [they kill a man then they kill their friend and also worship Dionysus], and I absolutely want a friend group just like the Greek class [to reiterate: they are all walking red flags]. it's a book you have to read once, then again, and again, just to notice more and more so you can analyze it and make deductions. at the end of the day, it goes beyond the age-old "moral implications of murder" and delves into "moral implications of love". don't ask me how many times I've read it. that's my red flag.

If We Were Villains by ML Rio. it was only recently that I read this over the course of twenty four hours, and I honesty have yet to recover. I'm not a Shakespeare girlie, but I still loved the way his work was so inherently and intricately woven into the story of the iwwv characters. it was transcendent. it was a tragedy, it was a love story, it was a comedy. it depends on your perception of it, I suppose. but I digress - it's a really good bloody book. expect the ending to make you cry.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by our lord and savior Oscar Wilde. this, technically, can't really be classified under the textbook definition of "dark academia" since there's not exactly any academia (can Harry even read let's be honest here), but it goes in this list because VIBES. this is one of my favorite novels of all time, and another one I've read one too many times for it to not be a red flag. I mean, the name of my damn blog is my red flag. I love it so much. it's got everything, from art to obsession to murder to gay people to the most heartachingly profound lines you've ever read. I mean, why wouldn't you read it if you haven't already?

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever. this one snuck up on me. towards the beginning, I wasn't sure if I'd like it, but by the middle, I was hooked. by the ending, I was shooketh. reading the author note, I was sitting silently in abject horror. more gay people, more obsession, more murder - what else do I have to say?

this has been a chaotic book ramble. thank you for being here <3

[henrysmilla]

All they were-all they ever had been-was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.

[caxtev]

Reading These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever is such an interesting experience,because in the beginning you're so doubtful of Julian and whether he loves Paul. Because of Paul's unreliable narration you also question everything that Julian says and if it's true or not. But then you slowly start to realise that Julian is so madly in love with Paul that he's ready to sacrifice himself just so Paul can stop questioning his loyalty.

[wh1teswans]

thinking about how paul’s mum knew he killed someone (the bat) but literally didn’t mention it again or go to the police what an icon

[starlesswdz]

these violet delights is coming to my country woo hoo 🎉🥳 have this really old sketch to celebrate the polish translation announcement!

[lets-throw-bacchanal]

I can’t stop thinking about those tragic little gay men. They consume my every waking thought.

[owoatmilk]

"Nothing made you. You just are."

These Violent Delights | Micah Nemerever

[weltonboys]

i love you i love you i love you

these violent delights - micah nemerever / songbird - fleetwood mac / queen of air and darkness - cassandra clare / pink in the night - mitski / this is how you lose the time war - amal el-mohtar & max gladstone / i capture the castle - dodie smith

[arylleth]

He wanted to forget everything but the way Julian's blood ran a little hotter than this own, how the warmth of him pooled just below his ribs cage and the hollow of his thrat. "You could do anything to me and I'd let you" It didn't surprise him that Julian had asked, but he still felt a shock of shame - not at the desire itself, but at the fact that Julian could see him. He wasn't ready to be seen, not yet. He hadn't done anything to earn it.

[sorryforthebonyelbows]

Robert Browning, Porphyria’s lover

Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

Anne Sexton, Killing The Love Poem

Richard Siken, Crush (A Primer for the Small Weird Loves)

J. Summers, The Sound of Thunder

Yves Olade, Slaughterhouse (Beloved)

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

— Stephen King

[rachelgeo]

readers i need your help!!!! im currently debating on whether to read foul lady fortune or these violent delights first. i've heard so many good things about the former that i simply cannot wait to get my hands on it. and i know that you have to read the latter first but i just can't! so please tell me if I can read foul lady fortune even without reading these violent delights first!

[chaoticmiserablelover]

While I can't blame people for trying to market new releases, I would very much like to see them stop the comparison of every book with an academic setting to TSH. They truly are doing themselves a disservice since a lot of people will find the author making the comparison pretentious, or they will be overly critical because of that. And most importantly, people just get disappointed in the end when the tone of the book is completely different or it doesn't follow a similar storyline. 

Books about academia can exist without being compared to The Secret History and be just as good as TSH. 

This has been bothering me since I started to read more "dark academia" books. It just saddens me since, in the end, the most talked-about part is that the book is like TSH, which mostly ends up not being true, while the people who would like the premise probably miss it. 

I understand that comparisons are helpful, but at this point, I believe they're overdone.

[kindepilogue]

sometimes, i remember that julian was almost a theatre-kid, and everything suddenly makes sense