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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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Here’s the tragedy of the situation, I’m too busy looking for God in all the wrong places.
I wander the shady streets, looking into the eyes of the lost or in the laugh of a strangers sharing a cheap beer.
I’m looking for salvation at the bottom of a glass & in the gutters and in the love of the hookers.
What a terrible, poetic excuse for procrastination.
He ain't here, motherf*kers…
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― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
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My hand shakes, and I jerk the blade away from his throat. He must have been a little tense, even though he hid it well, because he actually loosens a breath in relief.
But his relief is short-lived when he sees what I’m doing instead.
“Would you prefer an open or closed castration?” I say evenly, my eyes narrowed, now pointing the scalpel squarely at his crotch. “A scrotal or pre-scrotal incision? Take your pick, Briggs— I’m well trained in all the methods.”
He swallows hard, and I give him a s
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― Strange Familiars
― Strange Familiars
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Leemos en castellano y a veces en inglés, pero siempre comentamos gritando.
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