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Hello, all! I am always looking for recommendations of Dark Academia works (novels, short stories, films, television series) based on true crime. I just updated my working list. I would be grateful for any suggestions for it Thank you!

I am intentionally casting my net widely, defining the Dark Academic genre (as opposed to the aesthetic) as one that focuses on an academic setting and educational experience, employs Gothic modes of storytelling, cultivates a dark mood by contemplating the subject of death, and offers critique for interrogating imbalances and abuses of power.

Here is a link my current list of Dark Academia Works Inspired by True Crime Cases. All suggestions are welcome!

southernmedicine

Life is pretty chill, for the most part.

Blair was hit hard with the flu and is way behind in almost everything. She graduates in May and is looking down the barrel of having to find a career in her field, though that's looking to be quite difficult these days (national parks and whatnot are being defunded, after all).

I need to do my taxes. I've been doing everything BUT.

Mostly between the two of us, we've been working, sleeping, and cuddling on the sofa watching youtube. It's a listless time, as the season changes over. We got a LOT of snow this last weekend, so much so that my work was closed down on Monday. Keeping things tidy, running errands, and trying to keep up with my shows. I'm not a very interesting person these days, haha.

We've got a small local convention we're going to, the weekend of May 1st, so we're going to have to get our cosplays out and clean and patched up if anything needs patching. We're concerned about Blair's, because, well. Since starting T, she has gotten quite buff, and there's a very good chance that parts of her costume won't fit now. We're also futzing with our hair, because neither of us are much interested in continuing to use wigs when we don't have to. Los Angeles Comic Con also FINALLY dropped their dates for this year, and I've submitted my time off request. It's going to be over Halloween weekend this year, which should be interesting. And a lot of fun.

Trying to finish this week's episode of The Pitt before I gotta get ready to go to Blair's mom's birthday dinner.

Current Mood: lazy

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As usual, true scholars, please forgive my dilettante's sense of discovery over things you have always known.

When searching for some examples of "pleasing the heart" as erotic joy, as per

sovay's information, I arrived at this (in the ETCSL).

( A love song of Shu-Suen )

§rf§

1. Well, a balbale, but the immediate internet is of limited use in defining this except as a form that uses variety in repetition.

2. For those interested, the transliterated Sumerian given for this phrase is ^dcu-^dsuen cag₄ ^dmu-ul-lil₂-la₂-ke₄ ba-ze2-be₂-en-na-ju₁₀.

I assume the subscript numbers refer to different versions of the cuneiform character. I dunno about the superscript d.

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Thank you to everyone who took part in the 2026 Mini Promptathon! A masterlist is available below and on tumblr; if there's anything incorrect or missing, please just let me know.

As usual, you can still create fills for any of the prompts for this event. If you feel inspired, please share! We won't be including any later fics in this masterlist, but we'd love to see what you come up with.

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Banner art by Loar Tev

( Mini Promptathon 2026 Masterlist )

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This comes from Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora (2025, Ed. Holly Mason Badra), which I am reading and getting much from.

Object Exercise

First you must gather the objects.
Open the polish and polish each object
until every object is coded in polish,
a thin film that takes on the shape
of the object. Then dissect every
object with a circumstantial blade.
When the object is fully dissected,
remake it, but more in your image.
Then use concise scissors to prune
the object, removing what wilts
or yellows. Turn up the object
sound. Then dissect again. Hold
each piece to check for resistance:
if it withers, it's an object.
If it's shudders, it's a subject.

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Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

southernmedicine

If anybody frequents these places (or wants to!), let's connect.

Pokemon Go: If you still play, or have been thinking of shaking the dust off your account and getting back into it, my friend code is: 7398 3892 5609

GoodReads: I just signed up, I don't really know how to use it, and I feel slightly overwhelmed by the thought of cataloguing every book I own and rating every book I've read. There's a lot to undertake. Still, I understand it is technically considered a sort of social platform where friends add each other, so if you'd like to be friends on GoodReads I can be found HERE.

Finch: If you haven't heard of this one, Finch is a very cute little low-stakes self-care app where a little bird helps you keep track of daily goals and tasks. You essentially earn points for taking care of yourself and accomplishing goals each day, that you can use to dress your bird up and decorate their home. There are tiny pets involved, and traveling to different places where your bird learns new facts about the world as they grow and explore. I'm really liking it, as it is a fun way to keep me on track each day and remind myself to check-in emotionally and productively. My friend code is: E6FPB66RHA

Current Mood: working

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The raccoons are fight-dancing, upright,
with outraged, horrible noises.
The night is illegible,
the streetlights dead staves.
You move into each orbit of darkness
like an extinction.

Time the storyteller is tired.
She begins many stories
but loses track of the endings.

What will happen to the angry raccoons?
In the morning, count the cats,
count the birds, count the worms,
count the earth.

No doubt we will find all the endings
in the end.

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Just a Sci-Fi Kid Like Me

i'm a digital brat with an insect mind

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Dark Academia Inspired by True Crime (Updated!)

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Mini Promptathon 2026 Masterlist

Poem Post: Tracy Fuad, "Object Exercise"

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