"I Have Grown To Love Secrecy. It Seems To Be The One Thing That Can Make Modern Life Mysterious Or Marvellous

Love is so exquisitely different, how can we possibly claim to be familiar with it? Each type a whole new season. Catagorizing a thing beyond words waters it down.

Love can be slow and sweet like honey. It can be flames of fire. It can burn you and warm you together. It could be low embers you sit around long after flames have left. Love can cool you, someones touch can calm you. Love lights sparks in the dullest places and brings butterflies or wild passion.

If one can fall in love with love it self I have done so.

dark academia / autumn

• lighting a scented candle & reading curled up in an armchair

• browsing the bookshelves at your favourite library while the rain is knocking on the windows

• making a hearty butternut squash soup & baking an apple pie for dessert

• drinking vanilla tea while being wrapped up in a cozy blanket

• reading russian classics as the fresh autumn air is blowing in from the open window

• taking a long walk after it has rained, smelling the air rich in oxygen, watching the leaves in autumn colours fall & listening to them crunching at each step

• having a warm hot chocolate & leaving a stain of your burgundy lipstick on the edge of the cup

• wearing your favourite turtlenecks & oversized sweaters under a long wool coat

• visiting a museum with your secret lover, holding hands and enjoying the art in the silence of the old galleries

• sitting in a small café, drinking warm coffee & looking outside at the pouring rain, pulling the sleeves of your knit to protect your palms from the hot cup

• listening to dark, romantic classical music as you sit in front of the fireplace, watching the flames dance & crackle

• writing letters & poetry onto thick, cream paper, black ink staining your fingertips as you feverishly try to find the right words & expressions

• taking a bite of bitter yet sweet dark chocolate & a sip of high tannin red wine as you read plays aloud with friends, cooped up inside while it is storming

hello! I’ve spent way too long curating spotify playlists instead of studying for exams so I figured I’d at least share them:

an unnecessarily pretentious and dramatic dark academia playlist

you’re making breakfast with the love of your life on a beautiful sunday morning and everything is finally okay

evil sexy villain making evil sexy plans

really pissed-off punk playlist to overthrow the government to

sitting in your room and reliving your angsty emo phase

it’s the middle of summer and you’re laying outside on the lawn and staring up at the sky, no thoughts, no responsibility

getting horribly reminiscent and sad about the fact that you will never be nine years old again

i don’t know how better to describe this than just ‘Dad Music’

another dark academia playlist, but this one’s less pretentious and more fun

it’s raining at 1am and everything just feels sad and horrible

sea shanties to shake ur ass to

a playlist for hopeless romantics creating daydream scenarios in their heads

feel free to rb this and add your own!!

“Beatrice, look at this!” Ava holds up a hat for her to inspect. It’s a hat, navy blue, with the words ‘Women want me, fish fear me’ sewn neatly across the front of it. Beatrice bites back the smile that threatens to spread across her face.

“That certainly fits you,” she says, because it does.

“Look, I found one for you, too,” Ava says, digging around in a pile of similar-looking hats. She pulls another one out, this one a dark red color and slightly more raggedy than the first, and Beatrice squints to read the worn text sewn across the top.

‘Cooler than you,’ it reads, with a cartoonish printing of a pair of sunglasses directly underneath. The smile tugs at her mouth again and this time Beatrice isn’t able to smother it completely. Ava looks entirely too pleased about that.

Beatrice says, charmed against her will, “I’m not too sure that’s my style.”

/ /

OR:

The Ensemble RoadTrip AU

A path down

To walk down a path with your love interest as you recite poetry with the trees

Mare: So are you the big spoon or a little spoon?

Evangeline: I’m a knife. Deadly, unpredictable, a danger to both you and your red rat friends-

Elane, from across the room: SHES A LITTLE

Evangeline: BABE

Classical music to listen to based on your interests

(yes, I made another list.  sue me.  i’m all for spreading classical music awareness.  feel free to add to this list.)

If you like facts and logic - literally anything by Bach

If you like roasting people - “Leck mich im Arsch” by Mozart

If you like politics - Sinfonia Eroica (Symphony No. 3) by Beethoven

If you like invading other countries - “Ride of the Valkyries” by Wagner

If you like showing off - “Caprice No. 24″ by Paganini

If you like nature - “Finlandia” by Sibelius

If you like dancing - Slavonic Dances by Dvorak

If you like art - anything by Debussy

If you like reading - Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov

If you’re classy - “The Blue Danube” by Strauss

If you like history - The Water Music by Handel

If you’re religious - A German Requiem by Brahms

If you like Star Wars/Star Trek - The Planets by Holst

If you like “All By Myself” - Piano Concerto No. 2 by Rachmaninoff

If you like crying your eyes out - “Nimrod” by Elgar

If you like the zoo - The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens

If you like jazz - Jazz Suite No. 2, “Waltz No. 2″ by Shostakovich

If you’re patriotic - New World Symphony (Symphony No. 9) by Dvorak

If you like satanic rituals - “The Rite of Spring” by Stravinsky

If you like the burning flames of hell - Requiem in D Minor by Mozart

If you like New York City - “Rhapsody in Blue” by Gershwin

If you like sleep - “Sicilienne” by Faure

If you like Halloween - “Danse Macabre” by Saint-Saens

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