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Dark Academia
Dark Academia as a literary genre is a subgenre of the Campus Novel/Academic Novel with Gothic influences, and death always appears in the stories, in some form or another. As an aesthetic, it revolves around learning, the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake, and usually a general interest in the arts, literature, and humanities.
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I hope you looked west while I was looking east, and that for a moment you met my eyes without knowing it. I know you never look away, ever when your eyes are closed, but I'm never certain you can see what's really there.
I miss you to pieces.
Yours Always
- J
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― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights

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I still feel ghosts around me: the ghosts of the five Dalloway girls who defied the boxes and coffins the world tried to put them in. The ghosts of other women who attended or worked at this school, but whose legacies were forgotten instead of deified. The ghosts of every girl who came here and felt history beneath her feet. But I'm not haunted anymore. Maybe I never was.
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― A Lesson in Vengeance
― A Lesson in Vengeance

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