Hello everyone, is there a good website to find a penpal? The one I found had a Badoo vibe lol

I loved it😍

I'm just into the aesthetic to be honest with you. Could never give up my personal tastes.

Every video that features your gorgeous teapot is an instant favourite of mine..!

Refreshing. Tillie Olsen's book *Silence* was as much about the lives we never hear about as the lives we do *Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,* as Simone Weil said, which might be the theme of Dark Academia. Lionel Trilling wrote a book titled *The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent* and he influenced a generation of writers such as Susan Sontag and Cynthia Ozick. I hope Ruby watches the movie *Starting Out Late in the Evening* where the elderly writer (Frank Langella) keeps writing no matter what.

*Starting Out in the Evening* (my error above) is a 2007 film directed by Andrew Wagner based on the novel of the same name by Brian Morton. The film led me to a rereading of *Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work* (1996) edited by Nicholas Delbanco which Ruby Granger will enjoy reading.

Okay but why does her voice honestly sound like Emma Watson’s..? Or should I say... Hermione Granger’s. :)

Dark Academia in general looks good as an Aesthetic but have you seen Asian Dark Academia? I might be biased because I am Asian but I think it becomes more elevated

I love this aesthetic so much. I have to romanticise studying or I fail

well, im southeast asian and im mainly dark academia-

I see you've got the Modern Jazz Quartet in your playlist. What about some other 50s jazz songs, like Dave Brubeck's "Take Five," or Miles Davis' first two albums?

i did half of this before i even knew what dark academia was lmao

My ADHD could never 😫 I love the aesthetic tho

as a person of colour i really appreciate the first bit about inclusiveness

ok am I crazy or am I valid for thinking this. Something that I also see that's a flaw in dark acadamia is it's kind of inaccessible for those with learning differences. I suffer from dyslexia (by extension dyscalculia / dysgraphia) and attention/ executive dysfunction, and those things makes dark academia look very intimidating. I think dark academia should be accessible to everyone, and that no matter what issues/differences you may have, you can still pursue knowledge. Sorry if this has bad wording, I'm just yelling into the void.

If you like anime I'd recomend to you Gosick. It's an anime about a young Japanese boy that's invited to a privated school in a fictional nation between France and Swiss(? where he mets a misterious girl at the top of the library. The girl is consider a magical criture for a lot of people in the school and no one had seen her (except for him). They quickly develop a friendship and he ends up helping her to solve crimes that are related to old horror stories of the country.

Omg where did you get your tea strainer from?

8:41 I LOVE HIS BOOKS

"mainly" eurocentric and white? That's sort of an understatement. You could just as easily create a dark academic look based upon the scholars of 15th century Japan, China, India, Indonesia, Africa, South America, etc. Of course, they didn't have cool Oxbridge accessories.

I see you also have brachydactyly type D!

This made me so happy and I don’t know why

I'm not sure but I think that maybe Enola Holmes as a film recommendation?

How is Dostoyevsky (especially his Crime and Punishment) not at the top of everyone's dark academia book list?

The film “An Education” is perfect for this.

Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Mozart are absolutely fine - but do not neglect Mahler, Barber, Bach, Shostakovich...

:smiles: So it seems my university days were well ahead of the aesthetic curve - I was fashionable for once ... just forty years early!

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Still can't understand why there is need to say that this aesthetic is problematic because is eurocentric. Of course is eurocentric, it's very core and origin are european!

She makes study videos, she sounds exactly like the cinematic Hermione, the English accent is just the one in Harry Potter, and after I realised this I noticed her surname, literally GRANGER. She's the closest real life Hermione we'll get, I think.

dark academia: harry potter for adults

When you talk about dark academia don't forget about Slytherin fanfics😎

Your voice is wonderful... i got goosebumps

What I have learned about this aesthetic is that there is no correct way to do it. I am for example a feral idiot but I still enjoy dark academia. :D

But the thing is i crave... To crave learning! Like i want to have that rush, that desire, that crave to always read and to learning and now what you want to learn and just love it, be able to take notes about anything and just finding what you want to learn. I want to be absord in learning but it only happens raley and it hasnt latley, pllsss help me, ho wcan i obtain this thirst for knowlege and learning!

This reminds me of the aesthetic of the game alter ego.

When you want to be a part of the Dark Academia community but you remember that the aesthetic revolves around intelligence and you're stupid af

Well you could read some easier books, you don’t have to go straight to classic Greek

Same😂

Hey Ruby! I really enjoyed this video, and I was thinking if you could do same kind of video about light academia :)

Great video!

How is it a bad thing that dark academia is Eurocentric? The aesthetic is just a bunch of European culture so it makes sense. If you aren’t European then is it not cultural appropriation?

You forgot to link them

Heres some daily poetry “You’re different.“ “How so?“ “Everyone here is merily words, but you are poetry.“ -anonymous

I had never heard of Dark Academia before this video, but now I love it!

You acknowledging the Eurocentric connotations made me instantly subscribe

You should read A Tale Of Two Cities!!!

When is your birthday?

Wtf? Why kids make everything historical or cultural they see as their freaking AESTHETIC? That’s so undervaluing and pathetic! This things existed for ages before your parents and grandparents even existed, why do you think you can invent something that is already existing and influencing people for ages??? Next they will “invent” medieval aesthetic or rococo subculture? 😂😂😅

two poc i follow on tiktok with this aesthetic: > @cozyfaerie - hijabi girl > @banaan - brown girl idk if this is offensive in any way(I'm brown) and if it is, please tell me so I can delete this comment. just thought that some of you might like their aesthetic.

"staining your fingertips with black ink" me: *looks at hands*

I just like the style 👁👄👁

Yet Another apology for being too white. You're smart, but not smart enough to realize you're being played.

You’re Hermione Granger in disguise. ☺️

So... It's a more stuck up goth?

5:40 made me thing that my fire alarm was going off!

I was knocked off my chair (figuratively) by the Britishness of your accent.... OR. MY. GOD😍

Ela parece mesmo a irmã da Hermione

Good thing I got a quill🖤

For music: I highly recommend Tchaikovsky but also Rachmaninov, his music is dark, brooding, elegant, and embodies his cynical and academic worldview growing up in music conservatories in a military family, studying under Tchaikovsky, etc. Piano Concerto 2, Vocalise, his symphonies, and his 24 preludes are great places to start

Also his music is very influenced by Russian orthodox church bells, as you can hear in the opening of Piano Concerto 2 and in some of his other works like Op 3 No 2

Careers in Health Care are so information dense that it turns into Dark Academia. Only wearing scrubs.

🍁🖤🍂

Hermione's sister

I would recermend interview with the vampires by Annie Rice it has that acedamia and the romantic elements also older fashions.

I love your version of dark academia much more than the ones on reddit... those put the dark in dark academia. Anyways, I graduated university in May but have been studying to take an exam to acquire a certificate. And this video helped me too much! I wish Dark Academia was a think in 2016 when I first started university...

Rich.

I think Dark Academia is about really love doing the activities that you mentioned, and really enjoyed learning new things, that you think that all the things are incredible, that poetry, music, art, and stuff like that is are awesome and you surprise with everything single new thing

Anyone here agreeing that dark academia is about moral decay and exploration of substance use and sexuality; where the main trope seems to be the existential questions of adolescence and morality mixed in with the art young academics are exposed to? Because its not about clothing or about candles, and its about elite institutions because the pressure of involvement with them creates a weight on mind and soul where usual plot lines flirt with the notion of falling into slight and temporary madness

this is completely unrelated, but throughout the video i couldn't help but notice that you're very beautiful :")

i feel like this is more of light academia rather than dark

So the fact that this "aesthetic", which is based on EUROPEAN culture, is mainly represented by people of EUROPEAN descent is a problem to you? Would you say that hip-hop culture has a "black people problem"? Of course not, because it's their goddamn culture. Would you say that Buddhism or Shintoism are "Asio-centric" religions? Well of course they are, because they're products of Asian culture. Stop appropriating white culture. Cambridge, Sorbonne, Shakespeare, Goethe, Milton, Homer, Dante, Beethoven, Bach, Schubert, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, turtlenecks, suit jackets/blazers; it's all our white European culture, and it is disrespectful to say otherwise. I can enjoy Persian art and history, but if I wanted to roleplay as an Iranian, people would frown upon me. But when non-whites try roleplaying as whites, people like you go out of their way to kiss their ass and call for even more non-whites to join, because we wouldn't like something European to stay European, right?

Amen I've seen so meny people apologise like its a problem to have places or ideas that gravitate towards white people and thay try to force in outher peoples like its a problem thay keep pushing for diversity but when is it enough diversity its diversity from what it is its devation from what it was into something else

Well said 👏

Omg thanks you so much you’re amazing🎞🕰🕯

What’s the best perfume for dark academia? Of course every person is attracted to a different scent and our natural scent works with some and doesn’t work with others.

Can I listen to the audiobooks of the books you mentioned instead of reading them? Will that still be dark academia?

Can you please do a video on Light Academia too?

I have to laugh, my life is now an aesthetic?

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I love the writing, reading and the clothing. I don’t like the study part, I rather draw or play tennis, also I love to watch movies. Or going to the museum if I’m in the city again. So my aesthetic might not be just dark academia but i love it.

The sixth sense soundtracks are just amazing

you're such a wonderful person addressing the problems with dark academia

your smile looks like hermione's smile you're sooo beautiful😱🥰

Hey.. Is 13 too young to be a dark academia

Is that where you live? Your house is beautiful :)

When I heard this girl speak, I thought, "Oh, she sounds like Hermione." And then I saw the name of the channel and GRANGER.

Im just realizing my mom used to dress me all academia for school from like pre-k to 2nd grade and now im in 9th grade and I rlly want to get back into it i think. Like I had all these sweater vests and collared shirts and pleated skirts and mary janes and i do remember absolutely hating it bc nobody else dressed like that at school but now i dont care what other people think. And i did love reading and writing, kids used to know me as the person who left the library with like 10 books and I’d read them all within the week and go back for more, but i havent had much time for it these past few years. I was one of the gifted burn out kids i think, by kindergarten i could read and write way above grade level, my parents taught me early. But now im kinda just stuck here lol

Thank you for this, I have been in such a slump this week and finding it really hard to be productive, which has drawn me back to DA as a way of romanticising studying. But since a lot of what I see online these days is sooooo look-based, it's been hard to reconnect to the emotions at the heart of it, the ones that make me strive to push forward. Hearing you talk in the first half of this video especially really hit home ❤

You should make your Dark Academia playlist public on Spotify! I would love to listen to it

i would love to know what kind of camera do you use? And do you color grade in post production? Your footage is beautifully textured and so visually pleasing and rich😍

you actually sound like hermione granger at points and it's strange since your last name is granger

This seems more "Classic Academia" but still very lovely ❤️

My friends told me that my aesthetic is dark academia, so I'm doing some research and my aesthetic is definitely dark academia. Thank you for your help with me research 😊💕

You are just a son of a rich family, enjoy 😉

forgot to mention the harry potter movies but regardless I loved this guide

Lovely video thank you! Glad I found this. Also, extremely loud and incredibly close is one of my favourite books. I cannot recommend it enough. It's absolutely beautiful and sad.

I lean more to the light academia aesthetic but I like what dark academicians study (English literature, Greek mythology, etc.) Anyone else that way or just me??

I thought it was some cult 😂

I think the most amazing thing about this trend/aesthetic is that I pretty much grew up in a dark academia loving household. I literally have a family full of librarians who are also workaholics. My house is full of bookshelves overflowing with old books, new books, textbooks, and so so so many encyclopedia collections. There are three typewriters in this house. We love tea (we're american, so this is a bit of a novel thing) we love greek inspired art and classical art in general. There are old paintings everywhere. Classical literature is quoted daily. I started reading Shakespeare and the count of monte cristo in the fourth grade. Studying isn't a negative thing in my house, we all genuinely love and enjoy school and learning and the process of learning. We all have and use a strangely large and complex vocabulary. We don't dress the way of the dark academiaaesthetic though, and I'm the only one that likes classical music. One of my siblings is into photography and another one is into calligraphy. Also, we don't go to private schools. I really hope this doesn't come off as to hipster or pretentious but... we were all into dark academia before dark academia was cool. I find it so fascinating that it's suddenly popular.

a concept: chaotic academia - being infatuated w something and learning about it nonstop for about a week before dropping to another hobby - mixing white shirts and sweater vests w leather jackets, combat boots and jeans ripped by use and covered in paint/ink markings. - saying you “hate school” only to proceed to study for the next six hours. - zoning off in school to think about your current obsession. - who is sleep? all i know is feminism and dark humour. - sarcasm sarcasm sarcasm.

Something is so Hermione about you.

So if I'm getting this right, white people can't "appropriate" shit, but please feel free to "appropriate" our culture as much as you want because inclusivity and because we're self-loathing white people who have no spine and everything we are and do is oppressive! Why is it a negative thing that dark academia reflects the culture from the UK? Are we not allowed to have our own culture to be proud of? If there was a gothic Kenyan style out there would I be surprised that it's comprised mostly of black people? No, and you'd probably say white people dressing in that way are appropriating black culture. It's just so backwards how young people think, or don't think, these days. And personally I think the phrase "cultural appropriation " should be dropped, and let people wear what they want to wear. I'm just trying to follow the new rules and they don't make sense, unless you hate white people and yourself if you're white then I guess I understand.

It's been pushed in the universitys and schools for a while now so now it's main stream it's to be expected when we let a buch or rich maxists tell us how terrible we are for existing and having "white privilege" telling that to a buch of poor white kids who if there lucky get a few fish figures for dinner while idoliseing rich football playing africans who tell them thay are so privileged while thay the rich African is so oppressed by bing supported by all Western governments and corporations

her voice sounds like hermione if you listen close enough

Golden Lanni is an awesome dark academia YouTuber! Also it's a pretty standard book but since you didn't mention it, I love If We Were Villains. This aesthetic is the only one I've ever found that fits what I've been my whole life: always absorbed in a book, learning about something, writing with fountain pens at school and dip pens at home, deep love of classical art, loving learning above all else. I got a degree in molecular biology and a degree in music performance and finally found out that my life's calling is to bring scientific rigor to musicology, which is the academic study of music (including music history, theory, etc.). I'm just overjoyed to finally get to leave the laboratory and dive back into dusty old books of music history and spend days in the library with a coffee and a pile of research books, just like I always loved doing.

This aesthetic is so raw and beautiful and it suits you perfectly Ruby! I loved 🥰 this video sending lots of love xxx