dark academia book tag, but i give myself a makeover ☕🕯️

tag creators:
emmie: / @emmiereads
carolyn: / @carolynmariereads
let's do the dark academia book tag while i give myself a dark academia makeover by doing my makeup and sharing some outfits. it's not a huge transformation haha i would wear these outfits on a daily basis. In this video we talk about bookstores, beautiful stories, mythology, art and more. Hope you enjoy!
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🌺 a b o u t m e
Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 23 year old girl who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave). I live in the Netherlands and go to university, but make booktube videos in my spare time :)
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[@MilkANDMagic]

0:19 the prettiest sock ive ever seen

[@kosanarmax4158]

Such a great way to describe the sound of a piano

[@stateofiction]

"I feel ready to ask my professor really annoying questions" hahahaha

[@elenathegreat]

saturn is one of the strangest paintings i've ever seen lol i had to study for a class and it was so interesting to hear the backstory behind it having it been painted on the walls

[@TheBookLeo]

yes it really adds another dimension!

[@aless.andra9620]

Leonie, you have to check out "Macbeth"! It has descent-into-darkness story arc, so if you loved "Picture of Dorian Gray"and "Vicious", you would love that one!

[@sofiapeeters6286]

I think the book series "His Dark Materials" fits very well into the dark academia genre, and you'd love them! Some of my favourite books ever

[@CarolynMarieReads]

I loved EVERYTHING about this!!! Your makeup and outfits came out AMAZING!!! Thank you so much for doing our tag! :)

[@lealanglands3875]

"My favourite characters are all very morally grey" that sounds like a V E Schwab novel to me 😂

[@mattkean1128]

You look ready to solve a murder and tell off that dismissive upperclassman.

[@rudig5698]

I‘m in love with this fall 🥺❤️

[@emmanarotzky6565]

Now I’m trying to think of biology dark academia. Frankenstein and Jekyll & Hyde?

[@ozzyb1995]

The mention of Jekyll and Hyde has summoned me.

[@darthbanana2110]

Duuuude you should write your own dark academia tag that's geared more towards sciency academics!! It'd be so cool!

[@theorichards9463]

I zoomed to get over here. I'm in love with this aesthetic :)

[@pendragon2012]

I wasn't aware of this until recently...definitely into Dark Academia. And "Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog" is one of my favorite pieces as well!

[@SnorriSnibble]

That language part resonated so much with me, lol. I'm german, so I speak german (and english obviously), I can understand a bit of dutch because like you said, they're kinda similar, I took french in school but also can't really SPEAK it because it's been 7 years, super basic level of spanish and I'm also trying to learn japanese right now. Also have to learn latin (and maybe greek) for university.

[@aerialtaprootanalysis6117]

i love your look, and your room decor is everything, so well put together and organized. :)

[@annaspitz6449]

Your makeup and outfits are awesome and you're so pretty!!

[@Emma-sj6wp]

I feel you on the poision thing. Lets be real its less messy, less work. Egyptain Mythology is so cool!

[@artlandforabettertomorrow1176]

Monalisa smile Vicious

[@CosaDeOcho]

I've been to Park Güell by Gaudí twice and it's like stepping on a fairytale... there are small details everywhere that makes it really special, I hope you can come one day and see it by yourself! Btw, I loved the look!

[@AnaluzMarinho]

I just love dark academia aesthetics! Loved your vídeo! I felt so close, like you were a friend and we were having a conversation. 😊

[@shrutstea]

I literally love this so much! Trying to get into spooky season vibes and this video helped a lot. :)

[@theeldritchfox]

They must have some pretty high-end socks in the Netherlands...

[@hannahblaha]

mona lisa smile is amazing!!!

[@theteachingromance]

That is actually a thing? Wow, I always used to simply see it as a part of why fall/autumn is my favorite season because it is also always the beginning of a new academic year lol Great to know that it actually has a name, though.

[@theteachingromance]

@@louisg7696 Dark Academia?!

[@caenerys]

loved this - I really want to get into dark academia more and this has some great suggestions 🖤🙌🏼

[@TheBookLeo]

ahh thank you cerys

[@valentineboudaud1887]

This video was really cool and original ! Love the outfits !! I make my way through Dark academia, just started with the secret history and I loved it so much I want to read everything now ! I'm also a big fan of the TV show How to get away with murder which is of course dark academia ;)

[@ivancalvetmanso4204]

i'm from Barcelona and I can tell you that Antoni Gaudí's work is absolutely breathtaking. (btw, i love that you know geography hahahaha)

[@flouee6513]

Nice video I love how you wear the coat on in slow motion lol

[@marieh5228]

I'm a French Canadian and you really cracked me up because we really do speak really really fast 😂 great video I would love to see you do more of that style !

[@lafemmegvantsa8154]

I'd recommend movies "cracks" -eva green plays wayward teacher in girls' boarding school and "tanner hall" with Rooney Mara, it's so autumnal

[@haydenward6750]

its prelude at the beginning for me

[@gustavogutierrez2709]

Your fashion sense is pretty underrated through all your videos 👌

[@TheBookLeo]

thank youu :D

[@danielle3308]

I love that this tag is a thing and you always give off dark academia vibes & I love it. The outfits are SO cute & peak dark academia. I'm a history major and would love to be an egyptologist except I would prob have to live in Egypt to actually have that career. So I teach myself in my free time lol. Audible has this great new thing called The Great Courses. They're lectures by professors and basically people who know what they're talking about. I'm listening to one right now called The History of Ancient Egypt and it's so good! It helps that each lecture is about 30 minutes, so you can listen to one at a time and there are 24ish hours in all I believe. Just wanted to let you know! It's like getting the quality information and lecture of a college course but the cost is a lot different haha. There are also many different subjects but you mentioned Egyptian mythology so I thought you may wanna know!

[@marconieadventures5734]

Love the plaid pants girly! Where did you get them?

[@teanlit2949]

I love DA and I'm glad you did this tag. I'm going to have to do it soon for my channel.

[@lunabeatrizmazur7345]

i loved seeing gaudí's architecture! i've always wanted to live in one of those buildings! also, i love your make up and outfits!! (and albert camus rocks)

[@TheBookLeo]

yes yes yes to everything!

[@paulac3228]

"Poison. Yes. It's just cool." hahaha I loved you! I'm subscribing

[@oliviapillinger7263]

yes come to Edinburgh!!

[@MissAikaterine]

That’s an inspiring tag and video😌

[@fivestripes897]

6:43 wonder what you think about "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

[@aimun5255]

I felt sooo represented when you talked about being really into dark academia and literature etc but irl my field is also science based 😂 specifically medicine so I'm also not familiar to a lot of poetry and stuff

[@KNaz500]

Love thiss!!!

[@sarahsperusals]

i remember seeing saturn by goya in madrid! i had never heard of it before but i remember how striking it was. stood there for a good 15 minutes just looking at it. there's a whole room of goyas. it was so cool

[@saketsharma2958]

Your videos are so aesthetic xd

[@ofglittersandblood3397]

omg i'm so early for once... love your channel!!

[@soymikleo]

spooktober is getting saucy

[@leoniesliberi]

the last outfit gave me mad victor vale vibes 😍

[@TheBookLeo]

this is the best compliment

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I LOVE THIS

[@autumndavenport9357]

Love this!

[@hera2593]

the ultimate dark academia book for me is The secret history by Donna Tartt, it's so so good

[@aliA-jz5ms]

I have seen that too in Kunsthalle and it’s called Der wanderer über dem Nebelmeer!!! If you see this in real life it’s another feeling and one seems to dive in the painting !! By Casper Friedrich

[@lillifeldeborn9591]

Woah where do you have that wonderful coat and the pants from?

[@dy4329]

i literally only recently found dark academia so this is so perfectly on time 🌚

[@gypsybond8651]

wow, i seen that misty mountain painting on the cover of a book by Nietzsche somewhere. that painting supposedly inspired Wenzel Hablik's own painting titled "Sunset, Montblanc"! the similarity is there but their styles are different. I prefer abstract (expressionist) paintings.

[@abookofspleen]

I'm Belgian (native French speaking) and even if I also speak Dutch I can hardly understand Dutch people because you guys are speaking sooooo fast and eating your words all the time ahahah

[@PutonaChicFace]

I could actually tell you had learned some Spanish because of how well you pronounced Barcelona xD There is another famous building by Gaudí in my home region. It's called "El Capricho" and one of my friends from Uni works there as a "historian tour guide".

[@gustavogutierrez2709]

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[@joenabethigloria2811]

Leonie i enjoy your reading vlogs so much and i think you are my fave booktuber now. I am currently on my 3rd year in uni and i major in biology. Im thinking of getting masters in neural biologyy in the future too and u inspire me so much! 😭

[@TheBookLeo]

ahhh this is so sweet

[@joenabethigloria2811]

@@TheBookLeo u noticed me! ily stay healthy ❤

[@clairemacauliffecarroll263]

Hi. Im a year late watching this video but if you're interested in Irish poetry, I highly recommend Patrick Kavanagh. Perfect for dark academia aesthetic xxx

[@angelinakira1491]

lol just found your YT channel. love your video editing! greatings from germany ^.^

[@TheHaggisHustler]

The painting of "The Astronomer by candlelight" (L' Astronome a la chandelle) by Gerard Dou seems to fit the aesthetic pretty well

[@TheBookLeo]

i looked it up and it's really pretty!

[@rubiebarker5152]

Just a note, when you said old English vibes about Edinburgh, Edinburgh is actually not in England, it is in Scotland:) such a lovely calming video

[@samsamuels8328]

you are so beautiful! 😊

[@patriciaa.schrotermorales8092]

when did you go to hamburg? :)

[@eryng515]

buzzfeed keeps telling me that my aesthetic is dark academia hahah

[@livinginsideabelljar6869]

The Mona Lisa Smile movie is a very clear example of the Feminine Mystique that took placed in the 50s, 60s and even 70s. Betty Friedan wrote about this phenomenon (The Feminine Mystique) in case you're interested in learning more about it! Loved this video to bits.

[@TheBookLeo]

that sounds super interesting!

[@adillaafiani6921]

What a beaut Leo!

[@readylisetteg0]

You should watch this movie called nocturne. Came out this year. about a pianist who goes cray. takes place in boarding school

[@flowerlaksman4919]

WOW!

[@axel945]

Hi Leonie seeing your other video, I see you played pokemon diamond on nintendo DS, and I'm wondering if you beat the game and caught the legendary pokemon dialga, the game is so fun I played it many times

[@andhiyam3912]

Never clicked so fast❤❤

[@luisjonatanolivaresperalta4461]

Could u send me a picture of that poster that talks about cáncer, pls?

[@thebookstamp9976]

As someone actively choosing not to get a PhD right now, I feel u.

[@AndreaMGC]

So.. for question 3 you misspelt painting and wrote "paining" and that has to be the most perfect Freudian slip possible for a dark academia video XD XD XD too perfect.

[@TheBookLeo]

hahahaha omg so true

[@aristocratic_nap]

I am from Spain and I think you will love my country, so come here when you can! Great video! 📜🖤

[@austinjohnbaker9521]

Would Alexander Theroux’s Darconville’s Cat qualify as “dark academia”?

[@lucialarrnd9365]

Come to Spain 💜

[@ohthankg-dforthebourgeoisi9800]

No body ever mentions the Lord Peter Whimsy and Harriet Vane murder mysteries. They are very DA like 😊

[@iremlekitaplar]

I found out that I love dark academia

[@rukmini4584]

Heyy could you maybe make a video about your favorite fictional characters

[@thesukhe]

Love from India😍😍🥰🥰

[@Lady95Jane]

In primary school, I had to wear blue tartan trousers as my school uniform. 🤢 Honestly, it looked so good on you.

[@riekebusch5374]

You should definitely read Richard the Third by shakespeare He is a really interesting anti heroic character you'd probably love reading about

[@fivestripes897]

2:23 who doesn't

[@josephmarshall6599]

All The Best From Austin Texas

[@stevelawrence8945]

A "lots of fun" video ........

[@lotteg7508]

Naar welke uni ga je? :)

[@TheBookLeo]

amsterdam!

[@jakekkkk]

I just realized that I dress like people from dark academia books, cool

[@softwarehardware9396]

Hello, from Brazil. You're beautiful!

[@doriangrae7236]

Those eyes...

[@playdoughcookie4749]

If you ever go to Spain do not even think about not going to Granada.

[@carloscamejo391]

I have tips on reactivating your French

[@giusleao]

You look like ginny weasley

[@katybyrne2691]

Patch adams is a beautiful movie highly recommend

[@mariamatedei]

when you destile it, dark academia is just prep gothic

[@rineshrrd2718]

Your very cute 😍👌

[@zimtwieseliest8654]

liebe grüße aus deutschland :-)

[@inkan0729]

How come you speak english fluently?

[@TheBookLeo]

learned it in school!

[@veerajakamthe3983]

I love Leonie and seriously, no offence to anyone, but I absolutely hate how westernized dark academia is. I mean, coats/candles/shakespeare blah blah it's all so western centric and I think that's so sad that people limit it to just that. Have you ever looked up indian dark academia on instagram or tumblr? It is mindblowing!!! Gorgeous saris/anarkalis, diyas, urdu poets/so many books, have you seen mughal architecture?!!!, henna, hindu mythology, chai oh my god there's so much i wish dark academia enthusiasts were more diverse with their love for DA.