dark academia - 2024 ACF Winter at UBC

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 Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	22.00	90%	80%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	7	20.00	100%	86%	14%
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	9	28.89	100%	100%	89%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%

Data


SFU	UW B	10	10	10	30
UBC B	UW A	10	10	10	30