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% |
Data
| 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 |