[vlog.021] fab fantasy dark academia reads, journalling, cosy days 🕯️🍂

Another day, another vlog! We have some fab dark academia reads in this one, some journalling and just your general cosy day to day life!
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[@latasharenay3890]

My brain is being a pain, I'm so ready for autumn. It's healing season.

[@Octobig]

there is nothing more healing than watching your vlogs with a cup of tea & the rain beating against the windows ☕📜🕯 LOVED seeing your journalling, too; it's so creative & inspiring 🤎

[@xalwaysreadingx]

I love watching your vlogs, so cosy! I always save them for a rainy cosy day to watch I love your vibes 😍🤩📚☕️🤍✨

[@AFrolicThroughFiction]

This is so wholesome 🥹

[@d.edwardmeade3683]

So satisfying watching you assemble your journal 😁😁

[@kaesinfinitelibrary]

All of your vlogs make me want to go read in a cute coffee shop but there are none near me 😭 ASHLEIGH TRAVEL JOURNAL CONTENT YAY!!!

[@allier1940]

Absolutely love your vlogs! They are so calming and inspiring!

[@d.edwardmeade3683]

Your travel journal from Turkey is gorgeous!! 😍😍

[@0bookhoarder096]

I am so ready for autumn and all the autumnal content 🍂🍁 Thank you for the book recs they're going straight on the tbr 🤩 (Also just wanted to say your journal spreads were very pretty!!)

[@campwriter9289]

🕯️📜 I’m always looking for dark academia books 🖤🤎 I’m excited to pick up A Study in Drowning 🍂🧡

[@myronemmaturner]

📜 i'm so excited for the books you read in this video

[@AFrolicThroughFiction]

You should be!

[@alorainautumn]

Love it! 📜 🕯 I am finishing up The Last Argument of Kings- it is taking me forever to get through!

[@ReadingNymph]

Vampy Dark Academia is such a vibe ✨️ 📜

[@Books_Anime_92]

Évocation sounds like my kind of story. I’m going to have to put in a pre-order for it on Barnes and Noble.

[@user-co8yb2yi7c]

📜I read juniper and thorn by Ava Reid as well and it was interesting..might pick up a study in drowning as soon as it releases! another great dark academia book is one dark window by Rachel Gillig

[@lisajayne3859]

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[@Bookchara]

📜 currently reading Mad Ship!

[@OnceUponATimeL]

📜🕯 Your travel journal is just perfect! So is the vlog💫

[@pamdavies6199]

hiya like the look of your book means its really good generally

[@ericapoe]

I wonder if “ A Study in Drowning” is similar to “Juniper and Thorn” which was a wild read.

[@readinginthecountryside]

A study in drowning sounds SO good! I’m in need of a new dark academic book and this one sounds very interesting 📖🕯✨

[@LisaK1075]

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[@katia_x_katia]

How strange to know l have been living 'Dark Academia' fully for decades not knowing that there is actually a name for it. Living in Edinburgh is a bonus as it's almost not possible to avoid the 'academia' mood. I often travel around west of Scotland which are very dramatic and l spend my days totally isolated in a one of the oldest farmhouse on a small island, with my activity like painting and reading. I believe l have seen you around. ❤

[@d.edwardmeade3683]

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[@JanAgaton]

omg still waiting on my arc! have you read oodd spirits yet? thats where those characters originate from!

[@anautisticreader2963]

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[@Lillyjoy]

Love your vlogs!! 📜 the books you read sound so good! I’m reading Witches In Brooklyn and I’m loving it ❤

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[@leeh4343]

I have read Odd Spirits by ST Gibson which is a novella featuring Moira and Rhys, I also have Robber Girl on my TBR. Can’t wait for next year for her new books to be released 😊

[@joannemain86]

📜 I'm currently reading Wayward by Emilia Hart can't put it down. Fab x

[@TheEarnestReader]

I was also a Literature Major and now I can't wait to read this one. Thank you for putting this on my radar. Love your vlogs so calming 😍😍

[@demeldapenkitty7937]

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[@chaptercarys]

Your journal is absolute goals 😍

[@wildatheart5180]

Oh my gosh, you're giving me all the autumn vibes .I've added both books to my list ✨️ ☺️

[@ChanelChapters]

*adds Evocation to TBR 💙

[@tine442]

Your journal is beautiful 😄 And your new yt banner, too! Its such a vibe 😍 How do you edit your fotos? I hate this foliage on books, it comes of the edges every time 😑

[@haleyhentze5621]

loved the dark academia vibes! I'm so ready for fall, and Oregon seems to be in the false fall season haha I'm currently reading One For My Enemy, which is my first Olivie Blake book, and I'm really enjoying it!

[@sabrinasstory4809]

I've read the novella Odd Spirits which is about Moria and Rhys and I've been so excited ever since I saw Evocation was coming out. It's definitley getting preordered so I'm glad you liked it

[@smolbookdragon6334]

📜 🕯 I'm still reading one dark window 🪟

[@anikamercier2651]

Loved this vlog!!

[@readbysarahjayne]

ahhh thanks for getting me hyped for a study in drowning 🕯also, I hope you're feeling better and not too overwhelmed with all your plans!!

[@GriffReads]

I'm so excited for A Study in Drowning, I've pre-ordered the Waterstones special edition and I can't wait to get my hands on it. Glad to hear you enjoyed it! 📜

[@moviegirlkatie]

📜I get so overwhelmed with dark academia books. I have so many to choose from and it seems like not enough time. I wish we could have a few more fall vibes dark academia months.

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

That notebook is so pretty 🥹

[@bookshelfmonaluffy]

🕯️📜 I'm reading A desl with the Elf King by Elise Kova. It is my first Kova book and it is ok this far

[@msellenandrea]

All of these books sound sooo good! :D

[@Sara75277]

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[@leahdouglas245]

so excited for both the books you read i just finished juniper and thorn so really need another ava reid fix 😅

[@Emiliemooles]

“Show the book!!” - “yay!” (My reaction to your conundrum about showing your battered copy of A study in Drowning.) I’m glad it is well-loved. You should see some of my books that I’ve accidentally ruined. Heathens united! 💙🩵 I loved this vlog! I’m currently reading Devotions by Mary Oliver and a non-fiction book called Around the world in 80 fish & other sea creatures. I need to start one of my many fantasy books but struggling to settle on one! 📚 📜🕯️

[@hannahblackwellbooks]

Oooo I junk journal too!

[@hannahblackwellbooks]

A study in drowning sounds like it might be a dark academia for me. I love the atmosphere, gothic vibes, school settings, and mystery plots BUT the pretension kills me

[@dolphinsrock09]

I am really looking foward to a study in drowning book 🕯

[@caitlyn.m.t9618]

I just read Juniper and Thorn and thoroughly enjoyed it. I cannot wait to read A Study in Drowning. I just started this new read, which is dark academia, called Sirens and Muses by Antonia Angress. It is all about artists trying to become artists and succeed at them while trying their identity in the art world, and by a review I watched it seems that they do lose themselves attempting to pursue success and being different from others around them.

[@CityGirlWriter]

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[@brandim1230]

🕯️📜 im reading a cozy mystery book. Im also reading the girl who drank the moon 🧡

[@MilenaReads]

📜 I love the way you painted the mountains, it looks amazing!

[@coraldavies2963]

🕯 - currently reading Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth. Only 20 pages in but I can tell its going to be overtly weird.

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[@Luumus]

I tried to read A Study in Drowning and ended up DNFing it at 30%. I got fooled by the admittedly gorgeous cover, which clearly catfished me with a Hermione Granger look-alike, and no one can convince me otherwise. Sure, the writing is competent and the atmosphere fairly compelling, though the world building felt quite hazy at times with a lot of talk about warring neighbouring kingdoms and a supposed second drowning that's not particularly well explained. However I found the main character Effy to be so insufferable I couldn't bare it anymore and had to DNF the book. The main girl has a one-sided hissyfit with the main guy because he's a half-Argantian who requested the books in the library that she wanted to request (I know. How dare he?!).And so she got so pissed at this completely irrational thing that as soon as she met him she had the most immature, racist, dumbass reactions. I couldn't. A concrete example, also tiny spoilers I guess: Effy had the brilliant idea to walk from the house into the town, without telling anyone, during a downpour in a clearly dangerously unstable cliffside, because she panicked she did a bad decision. And then when Preston had the nerve to save her ass, she goes: "" “Put your seat belt on.” He was trying to humiliate her, to treat her like a child. “My mother doesn’t even make me wear my seat belt,” she scoffed. “I don’t suppose your mother spends a lot of time driving you down half-sunken roads.” She couldn’t think of a clever reply to that. Preston had his seat belt on, and she was too cold and wet to argue. As she buckled herself in, she thought, You are so insufferable. She almost said it out loud. "" Who behaves in this manner? And where is this rivalry they speak of? The enemies to lover thing is a completely fabricated, contrived, one-sided idiocy. Anyway sorry for the rant, different strokes for different folk and all of that.

[@melanieandbookstacks]

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[@goddessvibes11]

I just found your channel when I was searching for dark academia content--subscribed so fast. 🖤

[@AFrolicThroughFiction]

Aw Yayy, welcome!! 🫶🏻🍂

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