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LEONARDO DA VINCI, Grand Staircase, Château de Chambord La Rouchefoucauld, France, 1519

Dark Academia On A Budget Aesthetic

Thrifted/Secondhand books. Old t-shirts & jeans. Watching Dead Poets Society on 123movies. Printing sheet music from Google. Jacking your dad’s coats & sweaters. Sneaking your mom’s blazers & loafers. Cheap eyeliner & dry shampoo. Downloading PDFs of classic books. Using $1 notebooks for journaling. Gas station coffee & tea. Borrowing books from the library (and “forgetting” to return them).

A group of people lying in a drunken heap in a living room, 1954. Photographed by Kurt Hutton.

passing my time with some background practice

Sandro Botticelli, Madonna of the Magnificat (detail), 1480-81

Lucretia, 1664 (detail) Rembrandt.

State Library Victoria, Melbourne

Orpheus and Eurydice, Edward Poynter, 1862