#the aesthetic of aesthetic bloggers

[briar-rolfes-research-oubliette]

Well,,, I had my suspicions but, finally I am certain that the aesthetic of Dark Academia is the aesthetic of: racism,

Let’s do some probing here. A lot of people learn another language at school. Why is French “classier” than another language, for example: Spanish? Mandarin? We live in an era where art and history and philosophy are more accessible to working class than ever before, so why is it phrased like nobody studies them or cares about them anymore? How come the dancing we have in the 21st century isn’t “elegant?” What is the “aesthetic” of old money compared to new money? What was finishing school about finishing? What was it securing?

White supremacy. You’re yearning for a time when Mother Britannia ruled the fucking waves.

I will add that the aesthetic is clearly one of owning books and never reading them or reading about them because (I’m thumping my hands on my desk) they didn’t go to fucking finishing school in Pride and Prejudice! They were fucking poor!! That’s the point!! Lady Catherine doesn’t want Darcy to marry Elizabeth because her family is Not Our Kind!! They do not have the class signifiers of speaking French or knowing Etiquette, because look at her mother! Look at the mud on Elizabeth’s hem!

[morxwar]

[roseforviolet]

[thepoeticall]

[ohmanareyoucereal69]

[messy444chic]

[dolliexii]

i literally lost them yesterday

[ninarexic]

It’s so toxic

[cupid-angels]

[orpheusismefr]

[pinklavenderdoll]

[briar-rolfes-research-oubliette]

In Regency times it wasn't particularly common for girls to go to school, even super rich ones. So yeah it's not because they are poor it's because they're girls, sorry

Oh, sure, that’s a massive part of it—but we do see them compared constantly to “classier” women and that’s tied to the educational expectations for women, yeah? Like, Georgiana is so much better at the pianoforte than any of the sisters are. Miss Bingley and Lady Catherine are laser focused on how their etiquette is lacking. It is still about the education they lack, it’s just education in like, how to play music, how to do embroidery, and “nice girls don’t do that.” But you’re right, other than this quote unquote education (which as we see is limited pretty strictly to women of the middle and upper class) they wouldn’t have been schooled in like… biology or algebra by their governesses. But that’s all the more reason to not get 😍RETVRN 😍 about it, right?

[morxwar]

girls be like “i’m shy” then want the roughest sex

[roseforviolet]

[thepoeticall]

[dairyofateenagegirl]

black women as vampires