55 Dark Academia Activities 🕯🕰📚
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2022
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In this video I will be sharing 55 Dark Academia activities you can partake in to make you feel as if you are the main character in a DA book. These activities consist of simple things you can do at home and more adventurous activities that require you to leave home and explore a little.
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I'm learning French from a record🤓- now that's dark lol lol🖤
That is the most DA thing I have ever heard of!! I didn’t even mention playing music from a record but dang that is a good idea
@@justlanchen I light my candel and try to learn lol🖤👍
Bon courage !
Heureux de lire que des anglophones veulent apprendre la belle langue de Molière ! ( Happy to read that English speakers want to learn the beautiful language of Molière ! )
Mais, C'est bon
I’ve been living the dark academia way my whole life and I didn’t even know it
Lol me too!!
Same
I’m jealous. But good 4 you :D
Me too lmao
Me toooo
0:00 intro
1:26 writing with quill and ink (writing in cursive is a plus +)
1:50 drink tea out of a porcine tea-cup or vintage, or not even a fancy one, just drink tea more
2:00 drink coffee
2:13 read your local news paper
2:44 read more books
3:20 learn a new language
3:34 DIY coffee or tea stained paper! For writing letters or art!
3:46 write a letter to a friend, your past self, or your future self (I’m adding this or your future love 😏)
3:56 visit your local library
4:14 join a book club
4:29 visit a poetry reading
5:00 : go yo a poetry reading but read something you like
5:11 go to a jazz club!! Or band club
5:39 go to a drive and movie!
5:51 go to a movie at a symmetry or at a park seeing an older movie is preferred
6:12 have a picnic
6:24 when you have your picnic go and pick flowers to dry out at home or to display
6:33 visit some book store
6:47 see a classic play at a theatre
7:02 start sketching anatomy, people, or history, or anything related to all that, just sketch in general
7:20 participate in a nude middle painting class
7:40 visit your local art museum
7:43 when you go to an art museum bring a sketch pad and start sketching your favorite art pieces
7:50 go to a gallery opening
7:54 visit your history museum
7:58 go to opera!
8:01 learn piano
8:06 read very book by your favorite philosopher
8:14 learn to play chess
8:18 visit a chess club, compete for fun!
8:23 write a book for fun
8:35 start studying something new in History
8:29 go to a café and study, read, or just grab a coffee and people watch
8:37 visit your locale antique shop or any antique shop and find something special, talk to owner and ask for history behind them, too
9:08 go take a walk at a park or forest and just look around, think, have your head in the clouds, notice things, if that’s boring go to a park and people watch or spark up a conversation with someone that looks interesting
9:30 drink wine or sparkling cider out of a wine glass, because it’s very fancy and elegant
9:39 start writing poetry, for fun, start doing it daily
9:44 host a dinner party and invite some friends over
9:48 start studying poetry
10:02 learn about philosophy
10:13 practice writing cursive
10:25 light candles and live by candlelight at night,
10:45 play classical music
10:54 next time it’s raining pick up a book, read, or go outside and walk in the rain
11:95 tour historical buildings within your area and actually learn about them
11:11 sketch the historical buildings
11:19 memorize quotes by your favorite philosopher
11:25 learn about Greek mythology
11:26 annotate your favorite book
11:41 start taking polaroids
11:44 invest in a film camera
11:55 learn to develop the film in a dark room
12:08 see a black and white movie
12:18 group of friends together to go watch meteor showers and contemplate our place in the universe
12:30 watch Shakespeare in the park
Hope this helped! Took my and eternity 😊
Edit: this is the most likes I’ve gotten in my life so TYSM! Also I mean took me an eternity not took my and eternity
Other Edit: I’M SO HAPPY I HELPED ALL OF YOU! ALSO TY FOR ALL THOSE LIKES AGAIN!
thank you so much!
did you actually just name that many activities- AND TIME STAMPS?!
@@-T3KKN0- yah lol
@@pandaitis4157 no problem!
Omg thanks for this!
I just now realized i've been living DA my whole life. Living on the highest hill on town, rain is the common weather. I love to read (I study mostly French, Social Studies, and the Victorian Era) love designing old ball gowns, and love everything in between.👀
omggggg youre living such an aesthetic life and you didnt even know it
I love literature, I'm Greek and obsessed with mythology, I love paintings, especially the Italian Renaissance ones, I'm learning Italian, I speak French, English, Greek, I listen to depressing music, I love watching TV series, I love rain and clouds, and I drink way too much coffee. I love philosophy, photography, I write sometimes. Life's perfect
My Yiayia was teaching me Greek when I was young, but she died when I was three and no one decided to teach me Greek alongside English
@@mysticmagicsmurfdarklord6844 ohh, Greek is a beautiful language. You can always try yourself, but it's a difficult one. Not trying to dissuade you, but make sure you want it before you try it.
@@v.a.l.i.a It would make it easier to understand those conversations my dad and papou have where they switch between Greek and English, and if I ever want to visit Greece someday I’ll probably have to have some amount of knowledge of Greek, so I want to learn. I can ask people if they want salad already!
Aesthetically speaking some of these can also be light academia. And I so appreciate you for saying that "learning" is the main component of DA. Being an Indian, I can't follow the clothing and colour aesthetic of Western DA. But it's the thirst for knowledge, I understand very well . Recently I did something. I rode a traditional Tram car in my city that had a small built-in library! How cool is that! It's definitely a Dark Academia thing to do imo.
yea exactly! you dont have to dress in the style to live an academic life at all, its optional :) OMG that sounds soooo delightful!! I am about to google that right now
@@justlanchen thank you so much. Search for Tram with Library in Kolkata, India. You'll find it. I also posted a shorts on this channel about that Tramcar. I'm not a youtuber but I do have some plans ;)
One of my coolest DA moments in life was when I was walking around in Budapest heading to a litterature gala hosted by the magazine where I published poetry and in the old city center I heard someone playing debussy on piano while I was daydreaming about buying some antique dumas books I just saw and I was wearing some pinstripes and Oxfords while smoking a cigar
😍😍😍 that sounds sooo dreamy. seesh!!! I'm so happy you shared that because memories like that dont get shared often
I find walking city, or town, streets and looking around reveals entire adventures down alleys, into shops (never noticed before), and tons of historical bits.
Every night I write short stories, it’s so relaxing and I would definitely recommend.
short stories are hard for me, thats super impressive. maybe i should give it a go
Sometimes I think to live DA in tropical countries such as Brazil is hard. It's hot all the time (mainly in north and northeast's states), it's not easy to find DA stuff to decorate, and even if we find is so expensive. Well, I do what I can, lol.
Waa same here!
I’m about to be right there with you because I think I’m moving to Hawaii so I will definitely have to think about new ways to incorporate it in a tropical place. I know I can keep a room that’s aesthetic but as for dressing that way all the time will be hard
Ahh outra brasileira por aqui 🎉 Realmente é difícil ter esse aesthetic vivendo aqui :(
"How to be dark academia using tank tops and shorts" pesquisar
@@RhebeDraws honesty yes! That exactly haha
I just realized my aesthetic is a cross between cottage core and dark academia!
Ah I love that for you🥰
I cant express how comforting the DA aesthetic is and how much i love it. Thank you for this video, subbed
So happy you like it! Right now Epictetus 🤍 what about you?
@@justlanchen I love Epictetus too, and I love the neoplatonists also. I use to read Plotinus, but also the Renaissance neoplatonist, like Pico della Mirandola and Marsilio Ficino. But I must confess I love reading Cicero and Marcus Aurelius too.
Wait, I recently discovered dark academia but I was living dark academia and I didn't even knew 🙂🖤
Rainy weather most of the time, love for books , candles, walking through forest observing things like a dumb, just feeling good to know that I choose the right aesthetic 🖤
Welcome to the gang :) we are happy to have you
@@justlanchen Aww I am happy too ❤️
My best DA advice: wear nice elegant clothing when you attend the theatre. It shows a respect for the culture, the performance and the art form. I’ve been asked if I worked at theaters before when I’m attending shows, I never go in anything less than elegant.😅
I LOVE THIS. Thank you for that advice, any excuse to dress elegant I’m there🥰
Dark academia is so peaceful and elegant, I really love it. Thanks so much for making this!
Enough good activities to do one each week of the year! Thank you. 2024 is going to be good fun.
Glad found a recent comment 😊 I love DA lifestyle, the way I live it its through listening to DA music, watching movies,etc. I love being by candlelight since I can remember and currently studying a 3rd language(japanese)which is one of the DA subjects. Hope you enjoy ur DA life as well😊 cheers
Ah, dark academia... I feel I have finally learnt to love learning
Thank you for compiling this :)
There aren’t a ton of *new* DA videos so I’m glad someone is still making them in 2022
happy you like them :)
The picture from #35 is a place in Llandaff,Cardiff, Wales called the Bishops Palace. It is the ruin of a medieval palace that was used by the Bishop of Llandaff that was adjacent to the Cathedral. It has been a Christian place of worship since the 6th century. The ruin is now a garden where local people sit and eat lunch, walk the dog or rest. I love this place. I live very close by
I'd recommend getting a copy of the Einstein - Freud Correspondence, painting watercolor landscapes and studying birds' names, also in Latin.😊And let me not forget, kissing under a tree in the park.
I also consider baking a dark academia activity. Especially when using wooden or dark stone cookware.
Loving your list of Dark Academia things to do. As for cursive writing, Calligraphy comes to mind. It looks so elegant.
Ohhhh yes that is a good one 🥰🥰🥰
Great list! I would add some lawn sports such as lawn bowling (pétanque), croquet, or badminton. They'd go well with the picnic.
As a local news reporter, and someone who lives and embodies DA I loved #2 on this list🖤📰
Omg I love this!
I love this so much!
Some really good ideas, thank you for this list! I came across your channel yesterday and started bingeing all your DA videos (instead of writing my term paper on Robert Burns, but there you go lol) My personal style is something more like 60s/70s hippie, but I love dark academia as well. Maybe I'm hippie academia, who knows?😂 I went back to uni in my late 30s to study communication science and English literature and I'm loving it!
This sounds like being a hardcore weeb but for Europe.
whats that?
@@justlanchen Weeb is a person who really likes Japan or some aspects of Japanese culture.
The algorithm suggested this video, and I am glad it did. Great ideas! I'm sitting in a coffee shop, listening to this, sipping a London Fog latte, and writing a letter.
I got a quill pen for my birthday... One of the best gifts I've ever gotten
I have been learning a new language which is German, writing poetries, listening to classical music and sketching. I want to learn a classical instrument, learn about Greek mythology cause I've heard about it a lot and in my country they don't teach about Greek mythology. Now that I think about it I should also learn about Indian mythology. Learning chess was on my list already. I want to buy a camera. Damn I'm interested in these things more and you gave such good recommendations. Thanks a lot
OOoOooO yay I’m so happy you liked them :))))
French Horn is a really good classical instrument that you may learn. I love ittttt
Such a good video!!!! Thank you so much !!! ❤️❤️
#41 10:13 I am so thankful to have learned writing cursive in school in Germany. We learned it at around age 7 or 8 in the '90s, and we had to use fountain pens. As kids we hated it because the ink got everywhere. The thing I love about fountain pens is that they are refillable and you pay more attention to them than just a ballpoint pen. I've used the same fountain pen for 19 years. With it I have written my homework, finals, memo lists, love letters, diaries, applications, birthday cards, put my signature under my theses and contracts. This pen became a trusted companion who has seen everything in my adult life. But I gotta say, as a male, learning cursive was a fantastic introduction into the world of arts and mindful writing - I didn't experience much fun with arts as a kid, but learning cursive with a fragile pen really struck me.
I just found your channel and your implementation of Dark Academia looks so warm and homey to me. I live in Freiburg, Germany and the beginning of autumn outside my window goes so well with the mood of your videos.
It's so nice to hear the positive effects learning cursive with a fountain pen had on your adult life. Something that may seem small can have such a large impact.
I'm so glad you like the autumn vibes with the dark academia aesthetic too. I think they really complement each other 🥰
what a great list! 🖤
I'm a person who was kinda raised into living DA style (my family is full of musicians and teachers, with my direct ancestors from one side of the family all being musicians for 3 generations), then had a bit of teenage rebbelion against it, just to come back to it full force and become the most vintage-y person in the whole family... Now I spend half of my free time talking about poetry, literature and teaching with my grandmother while drinking tea or crotcheting together ^^
this channel is waaaaay underrated
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12:29 I love Shakespeare in the Park! I was in a younger group of actors and we did a camp and did our own production of a Shakespeare play multiple times! soooo enjoyable
OooOo that sounds so lovely 🥰🥰🥰
My entire life (and I mean since I was around 3) I have been fantasising about this lifestyle. My biggest one is being in London and putting on a plaid ivy cap along with a brown leather overcoat and walking in the rain in silence until I reach a loud pub, where I walk in and there are groups of people smoking cigars and talking and reading and drinking whisky from the finest glasses. Then I whip out a big leather notebook and sit alone in a table in the corner with my own glass of whiskey and start drawing. When I finish sketching I read lord of the rings or Sherlock Holmes until I get bored. This fantasy made me learn that I was DA🤎
I’ve developed film in a black light for high school! It was so much fun!
I’ve always wanted to do that!!
Another person who lives in the same area as me! There aren't many people here who are part of this aesthetic here, by I'm glad that I've met someone!
I realize this is a necro-post but I just learned about DA 30 minutes ago and found my tribe. I would humbly add to the great list above, learn Latin, read H.P. Lovecraft, and discover the joy of fountain pens and their corresponding world of different papers. I work on my penmanship daily with new words and quotes I find interesting.
Awesome video as always 💕 you gave me so much new ideas
Yay!! Happy to hear it!
I've done all but five. I don't drink coffee and a dinner party during the plague isn't likely. I would probably have to move back to a city to see an Opera. Still fun to read the list and see how many things I have participated in before I knew Dark Academia was an aesthetic.Oh and I just bought a vintage copy of Jane Eyre.
look at you, participating in those fulfilling activities. youre perfect
Very nice video. Warmed my heart ❤️
You are so kind
Your voice is so soothing and the activities v inspirational. Thanks
🥺🥺🥺 omg thank you
Create fancy formal professor inspired clothing, take pictures of them, and then put them all into a photo album. You could use a Polaroid camera, develop the film, do it completely digitally, or get them printed through the photo printing machines. another option is just using your home printer. A big part of dark academia is dressing like professors and for some of us it is hard to come up with ideas of what to wear so it can be a lot of fun to be creative and see what you can make. You also can go on a separate shopping spree for this but I think it’s even more fun to challenge yourself and see what you already have from your home wardrobe. Of course I’m shopping for this type of outfit is another activity.
Omg I have that same leather notebook✨
I live in a latin American country but that hasn't stopped me from living my DA life😊 I am totally hooked on the music❤Not to say I don't listen to anything else but mainly classical I fancy. Currently learning a 3rd language and of course I watch DA movies; being HP and Dorian gray portrait my favorites. I am also a witch by birth so I fit perfectly with the culture. Glad to have found a community of intelectuals❤❤
Can you do a video on "beach academia decor"? Like dark academia but apropriate for a study in a beach house if that makes sence?
I used to go to cafes and sketch poeple walking by or sitting it’s really fun and since they don’t pose they re really natural
that sounds like the most lovely activity
This would be a lot more fun for me if I lived close to anything. My nearest art museum is an hour away, and my local library is inside my high school.
I've been to lots of poetry readings.
I suggest the first 15 minutes of the movie "So I Married anb Axe Murderer".
Just an amazing video! Maybe you can do light academia one if your not to busy of course!
that is a great suggestion, ill def write that down :)
I don't know if this fits, but I build radios made from parts from the 1920s and homemade parts that I've made myself.
I can hear stations 300 miles away on these radios powered only by the radio waves
Anything vintage as must be the case with your radios definitely belong over here. Reminds me of all the inventors from Leonardo da Vinci to Marie Curie.
"Read more books"
me already reading at least 3 books per week...
I will happily read more!
🤎all of the ideas were amazing📜
Thanks love
Oooooo i'm a piano teacher, i like to draw (anatomy and botanics), love my tea and coffee. I have a thing for greek mythos. I'm currently learning italian and i'm always reading, all the time ahahah i'm almost there!!!
dont forget the whole gloomy reading in a cafe while listening to piano
Oh yessss. This!
@@justlanchen thats cause i was doing it while listening to you 🙏
Idk why I feel that I found my favourite channel
Omg you’re so nice 🥺🤍
you are going places. you remind me of darling desi. Love your work ;)
thats such a compliment, thank you 🥺🥺🥺🤍🤍🤍 She is my aesthetic inspiration, I wish there were more channels like hers
coffee in the morning tea in the afteroon
I am so Dark Academia it’s in my blood!📚
SAME!
Croquet might belong on your list.
I'm learning Albanian.
It fun. Pershendetje!
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I would recommend the typewriter.
I set my computer to slow the keys and make typewriters sounds. I write more
It reminds me of the beat generation
6:28 this is a book in Ukrainian 💛💙
Epic
Love from Scotland Xx
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I suggest the Russian novelist Gogol.
Diary of a Madman
The Two Ivans
The Overcoat
3:10 - Actually, I'm a Brazilian and I'm watching this video in English with English captions to learn more about the language. I understand the words written (although I don't have an extensive vocabulary and I'm using the translator right now because I'm lazy to try to write), but my hearing is terrible, because it's not my usual language I feel like they speak very fast and "quiet". Probably because Portuguese is a language with a more open sound. Honestly, I didn't like the English language, so I started learning more out of necessity, so, knowing English, I can travel to "low of the mare" (the translation must be terrible, but we really mean this in the sense of a distant, geographically unknown place) as we speak here in northeastern Brazil, and I'm still starting to like the sound of that language, it's being fun.
Something funny, the "low of the mare" really exists, it's the name of an old town in Bahia, we usually use it in the sense of sending a person who doesn't like to go to a place that is far away and bad
Change your major in college from Political Science to anything else, e.g., English or Sociology. One of my few good decisions. btw, the best classical music piece ever composed is "Scheherazade" by Rimsky-Korsakov.
You should start a book club… I would join :)
I still really want to...I just dont know the best way to go about it yet
I've been dark academia and didn't know what I was untill I knew what this was 😭
I like your necklace
51- go out at night and Wacht the stars
I've been going through different aesthetics to try and categorize sort of my style I guess. I still haven't found one yet. Dark academia is cool, but it's just like, so "dated" feeling you know. I wish there was something like dark academia but like more modern style.
business casual? maybeeee. is that more modern?
You could try chaotic academia then? It takes the love for learning and all that comes along with it (like reading books and spending most of your time studying), but puts it in modern times - the color pallette is less strict (sometimes I read that there is no recommended pallette for this aesthetic, sometimes I read that it's neons), people drink energy drinks instead of tea and coffee, and the whole culture is much more... Well, as the name implies, chaotic - in a sort of punky way.
Buy all-leather (grounding) shoes and go for a walk in DA kinds of clothes 🙂
In my school you can only write in cursive and thats what they tought us in first grade
Hey anyone of you familiar with any website from where we can get short video clips for editing purposes?
Yes there is a website called story blocks for that :)
@@justlanchen wym?
3:20 Oh! I'm already reading a new language cool
you are officially DA now 😘
Okay, i need the name of the song from the intro, please-
ua-cam.com/video/Axm7gDGswyE/v-deo.html all the songs I use in my DA videos are on my playlist 🤍🤍 hope this helps 💋💋
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Никакого негатива к создателю видео !
Девушка очень красивая, обворожительная, занимательно рассказывает💕
I luv Dark academia but I hate coffee 😅
Who is your favorite philosopher?
Epictetus🤍
It’s funny. I’ve kinda been some kind of academia my whole life as well and now they are aesthetics. Also in germany we have to write cursive until 5th/6th grade in school with a fountain pen and ink (no others are allowed). So it is an easy one to write that kind of style for me and having inked hands always been part of my daily life. 😅
And with being a total “nerd” and fancying physics and now studying it at university, makes me feel kinda dark academia as well even though most of the people are talking about the history and literature niche. :)
いいなぁ、日本にはこんな洒落た文化ないよ
We don't have dark academia our culture😢
Kinda awkward knowing I'm living in dark academia without knowing there's a term for that lol
Right?!😂
Duolingo be like:no 2nd language no life IM COMIN TO GET YA
I would add:
Join a wine tasting club
Enjoy blues music
Dance!
Travel and connect to people all over the world
Volunteer!
Have interest in science
Take care of the Earth
Be funny!
they dont teach cursive in class anymore!!! i dont believe im that old
I know :( it’s so sad
Playing chess is fun.
Learn the Sicilian Defense.
You look like Scarlett Johansson
oh wow thank you. I've never heard that before 🥰
Love Dark academia with all my heart but it’s so problematic lol
Haha yea I feel that
For all the People from 2024 beyond:
Careful with the owl language app as they’re starting to shift into using purely AI language models instead of actual humans
Reading your local newspaper would probably make you more dumb. Wouldn't it be more dark and more academic to read conspiracy theorist popular science pages on the internet? They did not have the internet back then, but if they had, they would have used it.
Larping is not real experience.
Imagine living your life based on an aesthetic and not to your real true self 😑🤣
I'm sure thats not the case, but whose to say
Me loving the dark academia aesthetic so much but whenever I ask my parents to take me to a library or buy me a book( I am a broke high school student)
they will just hand me my biology,physics and chemistry books since I am preparing for my pre-med exms(I want to get into a prestigious medical college) and will say
"FIrst finish off these books and then buy other books."🥲
I applaud you for your venture into the medical field 👏🏼👏🏼 next time you want a book just for fun, Go to a little library and grab yourself something you really want to read. They are free!! 🤎🤎
Ive been doing alot of these activities year ago i feel dark academia community is very special 🤎🤎 i dont really have friends that share my same interest, except one that loves in cairo and i live in Alexandria which is uhhhh very annoying😬 i wish sending letters is easy but its actually not here in my country😭