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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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...that means we’re in love,” His eyes were never leaving her lips, “madly so.”
The spirits waltzed across the leaves, enclosing two lovers, singing their own melody as the bodies became one.
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― Curse of the Stars
― Curse of the Stars
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Antiseptic Awakening by Stewart Stafford
See the rainbow spattered
With dark blood moon juice.
This creeping haemorrhage,
A lacerated spectrum merged.
Bruised trickles not halting,
Violations in crimson stealth.
Impotent, alleged lifeforms,
Ashen foot-dragging below.
Casually surrendered hues,
The arterial strain's zenith.
No colour in cheek nor sky,
Bleached by antiseptic snow.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.
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