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I Wanted to Be Profound
A Lesson in Balance started one hot summer with a very general idea: I wanted to try writing a dark academia story. At the time, I didn’t have the whole plot yet. I had the atmosphere first. A prestigious school. Fancy students. Academic expectations. A little mystery. A little danger. The usual dark academia ingredients were there, but the story itself was still loose. My first instinct was to look up philosophy quotes. Which, honestly, feels like a very normal starting poin
Marigold Uy
Jun 105 min read
A Novel Scored by Classical Music
Mozart & Mayhem is the first book of 'The Capybara House Quartet', a duology about four Classics-obsessed brothers, who are trying very hard not to live in a sitcom... and failing spectacularly. Mikhail, exhausted Philosophy major and terrifyingly competent eldest, runs the rota with Aristotle in one hand and tea in the other. Riven and Terrence, the literature twins duel over whose story is better, while Halden, youngest and self-appointed court painter/music director, score
Marigold Uy
May 122 min read
I Wanted to Be Profound
A Lesson in Balance started one hot summer with a very general idea: I wanted to try writing a dark academia story. At the time, I didn’t have the whole plot yet. I had the atmosphere first. A prestigious school. Fancy students. Academic expectations. A little mystery. A little danger. The usual dark academia ingredients were there, but the story itself was still loose. My first instinct was to look up philosophy quotes. Which, honestly, feels like a very normal starting poin
Marigold Uy
The Room Has A Story
I recently added floating shelves to my room. Three of them. I do not know if “floating shelves” is the right term, but they are shelves, and they function without a whole architecture of wood. I saved a little more for my hobbies, had extra money specifically for myself, and decided that the wall needed more drama. This, I think, is the danger of having a dark academia room. You add one small thing, and suddenly the room begins developing plot. A minimalist aesthetic
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A Sustainable Amount of Aesthetic
I have a habit of romanticizing my life. Not in the grand, dangerous way where I pretend everything is beautiful and nothing is wrong. I am, unfortunately, very aware that life is often inconvenient, exhausting, expensive, humid, and held together by caffeine and spite. I still touch grass, if you know what I mean. And I still know the world can be deeply unreasonable. But I have also decided that if I must wash the dishes, I may as well do it while Bach plays in the backgrou
Marigold Uy
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