the claws are trying to strike me down,
cause they know that when you say
"i love you"
they become desperate to stay alive

#dark #love #originalpoetry #darkacademia #sad #lovepoetry

Come join us at Arcana Academy, University of Magics and Industry, Llyr University, or Scholomance. We're celebrating back to school season with a dark fantasy twist!

#booksky #fiction #reading #books #darkacademia #fantasy #YA

@naominovik.bsky.social

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"Students are returning to classrooms, coffees are steaming in the brisk morning fog, and the leaves are slowly smoldering into reds and oranges."
#worldbuilding #booksky #darkacademia #writing

if i were to be free of the stormy days that forever haunt me, what is left of the soul i inhabit?

#stormy #sadpoetry #poetry #micropoem #vss365 #darkacademia #dark #sad

Liking this brief essay on Donna Tarrt's THE SECRET HISTORY. Takes on the notion of the writing of #DarkAcademia as more than mere vibe. Tarrt gets this.

Pullquote: "...the aesthetic created is a work of [her] writing skill."

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#AcademicMystery ⚡️📚

When Harper's mentor turns up dead in what looks like a covered-up occult ritual, she makes an uneasy bargain with a stranger who can raise the dead for a single day—and finds herself bound to a man more dangerous than all the horrors haunting her university.
#PreDV #A #F #R #DarkAcademia

My current TBR is starting to look like a history of ideas itself. From Meditations to Crime and Punishment. Which classic should I tackle first?

#BookSky #ClassicBooks #TBR #DarkAcademia #BookCommunity

would it be enough
to find happiness
if i remain to be cursed
by my melancholia?

#sad #poetry #shortpoetry #darkacademia #dark #melancholy #originalpoetry

Out 1/12/2027: MG Turner's "City of Dark Dreams: Tales from Another New York,", short stories w/a literary horror bent. Unifying the tales is the setting, Manhattan's Upper West Side and a fictional college, Hudson University. #BookSky #LiteraryHorror #DarkAcademia philipsturner.com/mg-turners-c...

try as you might, you cannot change the will of the stars
#shortpoetry #originalpoetry #micropoem #darkacademia #poetry

In the mood for a little morning reading?

#books #authors #fiction #darkacademia #highereducation

The next #ukteenchat will be on Tues 22nd Sept 8-9pm BST with the fabulous @savitakalhan.bsky.social who will be chatting all about her new #YA - The Lost Name Society. All welcome to join in the chat, this one will be here on BlueSky 🙂

#writerslife #writingcommunity #folkhorror #darkacademia

If you're not actual, check out Re:Claim on KU and now in paper form!

#Booksky #DarkAcademia

Oh, have I mentioned Re:Claim is now available on KU?

#Booksky #DarkAcademia

how much do I have to bleed to know that my suffering matters?

#sadpoetry #darkpoetry #shortpoetry #darkacademia #micropoem

the all-encompassing essence of the hollow is a cutthroat beast

#darkpoetry #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #darkacademia #melancholy #sadpoetry