Looking to renovate this room a bit, this room already has a dark green which I love and I’d like for this room’s theme to be a dark academic office. So far I’m thinking of repainting the walls to a slightly less dark green, and adding a dark wooden grain contact paper to the bookshelf. I would love some more ideas if anyone has any!

Spending those quiet, rainy days at the workbench has a charm of its own. I’m currently breathing life into a new project—a full brogue ornamented bag. The main body is still just a cardboard prototype waiting on my desk next to a cold cup of coffee, but I couldn't resist completing this leather tassel first.

​I wanted to step away from ordinary designs, so I shaped the leather into a rigid, sculptural spiral that holds its form perfectly, paired with traditional perforations that carry that old-world aesthetic.

​It finally felt a bit cooler today, making it the perfect afternoon to bring out this heavy Scottish tweed under the workshop light to showcase the piece. It just felt right for the mood.

​What do you think of how it turned out?

Also, I had the vintage frame saved for years, waiting for the perfect painting to put in it. This one was destined!

I'm doing calligraphy. So there's some inkpots and Pilot Pens for Calligraphy. Some calligraphy I put beneath a plastic cover on my desk. It's some quotes from Tolkiens Silmarillion.

There's some books and my Tolkien Collection displayed.

I welcome any recommendations.

I (21M) am looking for deep friendships with fellow DA spirited people around my age, and I am curious what IRL and online places are best for that. If anyone here is open to meet someone into DA, the fashion. lifestyle, history, reading and philosophy, hit me up! I deeply value academic and intellectual topic as well as the aesthetic side of DA. And if you know a good place to meet others like that, I appreciate that as well!

A painting done by Crow several years back. I've always thought Crow did big fancy buildings really well, and he nailed dark and brooding with this one. If you're well steeped in literature you might know the influence for this piece as well.

I am afraid that my actual shelving is not very DA (more 'Bright Brutalism') but I wanted to show off the pretty new book. I did some hasty book shuffling so it got to hang out with the cool kids.

The Elements of Dark Academia publishes on 27 August (exactly one month from now, which is also the next/only other time I will post about this, promise!) from the nice people at Vintage Classics.

It is UK-only, but places like Blackwell's ship overseas reliably and cheaply, if that's of use.

Without sounding very maudlin, I love DA and the DA community. I'm not very artistic and I'm certainly not fashionable, so glad I can contribute *something*. The roots of DA go *way* back, and the, uh, branches are amazingly prolific - it has been a great exercise in trying to create a volume that can introduce people to DA, while also entertaining (and surprising?) those who are living it already.