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so-i-did-this-thing · 4 months ago

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Someone just tagged one of my tweedy selfies with "dark academia is problematic" and I'm just dying over here, especially since I associate my look more with riding horses than archiving at the Mütter Museum.

Anyway, "vintage style, not vintage values."

#half of Dark Academia aesthetic posts are of men in waistcoats that make them look like Olive Garden waiters #I am sartorially offended to be confused for that aesthetic lol #this is what happens when an aesthetic movement is built upon pop culture cliches with no understanding of fashion or history #I chuckle at folks who imagine me on some archeological adventure #but what's really in my imagination is being called out to help with lambing season #“dark academia” vibe to me is that shitty couple who cosplay 24/7 as 1920s British Egyptologists #excuse me but I'm larping as a 1930s British country vet

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