dark academia - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

A 2021 post by “vegetablerights” summarizes this aesthetic as “mum, dad… im……. im revisiting brideshead.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this gloomy Tumblr aesthetic inspired by neo-Gothic institutions like Oxford University and Hogwarts.

ANSWER: dark academia [prompt on academia]

[10e] This influencer community has helped prolong the dark academia aesthetic by promoting novels like Piranesi and The Atlas Six. Many brick-and-mortar stores now stock tables with novels popular in this TikTok community.

ANSWER: BookTok

[10h] This dark academia novel was disqualified from Hugo consideration in the 2023 Chengdu scandal. A 19th-century Oxford society acquires magic powers through translation in this R. F. Kuang novel.

ANSWER: Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	67%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	24.29	100%	100%	43%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	23.33	100%	89%	44%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	25.71	100%	100%	57%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	21.25	100%	75%	38%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	29.00	100%	100%	90%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	22.00	90%	80%	50%

Data


Stanford L	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Stanford M	Stanford A	10	0	0	10
Pitt A	CWRU B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Durham B	Bristol B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Bristol A	10	10	10	30
Durham A	Imperial B	10	10	10	30
LSE A	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	Auburn C	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Emory B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Emory A	Georgia Tech F	10	10	0	20
South Carolina A	Tusculum A	10	10	0	20
Tennesse A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Penn State B	10	10	10	30
Penn State A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	Rowan A	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins B	Penn A	10	10	0	20
Lehigh A	Princeton A	10	10	10	30
Haverford A	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers C	Bard	10	10	0	20
Kenyon A (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	Michigan C (UG)	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
CWRU A (UG)	Michigan State A	10	10	0	20
Michigan State B (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	10	10	10	30
CWRU C (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Colorado College	Vassar B	10	10	0	20
Texas B	McGill E	10	10	10	30
Missouri	NYU B	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Vassar A	10	10	10	30
Texas D	Ole Miss	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Mississippi State	10	10	0	20
Oregon State	Texas C	0	10	0	10
Iowa	WUSTL A	10	10	10	30
SFU	UW B	10	10	10	30
UBC B	UW A	10	10	10	30
WashU D	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	Miami	10	10	10	30
WashU B	Northwestern A	10	10	10	30
UChicago C	Notre Dame	10	10	10	30
Purdue C	Indiana A	10	10	10	30
Purdue D	UChicago B	0	10	0	10
SIUE A	UIUC A	10	10	0	20
UIUC C	UChicago D	10	10	0	20
UChicago A	WashU C	10	10	0	20
Florida Tech B	Florida Tech A	10	10	0	20
UCF B	UF E	10	10	0	20
UF B	UF C	10	10	0	20
UF A	UF D	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Manchester	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Oxford A	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Cambridge D	10	10	10	30
Edinburgh	Vanderbilt	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Birmingham	10	10	10	30
Warwick B	LSE B	10	10	10	30
A Brandeis Supreme	Yale B	10	10	0	20
Amherst A	Clark A	10	10	10	30
Boston University A	Bowdoin B	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin A	BU B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Brown A	10	10	10	30
Tufts B	Carabrandeis	10	10	0	20
Williams A	Diamond Brandeis	10	10	10	30
Brandeises Brew	Northeastern A	10	10	10	30
Harvard A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Yale C	MIT A	0	0	0	0