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Keith scuffed his boots on the snow-littered ground. He knew he was standing a little too near to the edge but it was the closest he could get. There was a guitarist basking just across the opposite platform and he wanted to go closer, but the train was arriving soon. He couldn’t afford to take a detour.
Keith kept darting his eyes onto parts of the clothings. A hoodie. Washed out jeans. 
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He tried not to be obvious, but it was frustrating. There wasn’t enough of a crowd to explain staring. He could tell the guitarist was tan, but he couldn’t catch a clear view of his face. The snapshots hovered in his head, but it was like trying to piece together a puzzle that he had never seen before. 
He could just make out the song to be Little Drummer Boy, and he usually thought it was a stupid song, but it actually sounded…nice? Keith exhaled a puff into the frost air. The cold must be getting to his head.
The music was punctured by the distant harsh rhythm of the railway tracks. He felt a small flutter of panic. There was no telling when he would come across the guy again. He was going to take a good look across the cabin windows once the train reached him. It was his last chance.
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He felt a blast of icy wind as the train entered the station. Keith quickly lifted his head and stared at the guitarist through stuttering planes of the metal walls.
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Oh…a sharp face, but smooth. Long fingers too, on the guitar.  He had…..blue eyes. It was dark, but definitely blue. Pretty.
And it was looking at him.
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Keith froze. The train slowed to a stop, and so did his world.
It was 5 degrees, but it burned.
And he still had a train to catch.
If only he could move.
Merry Klancemas! Let’s get that xmas mood on /blowstrumpet
My piece for Klance secret santa, my giftee gave me alot of options, and I picked pining keith/guitar lance. I wanted to make something special to end the year and celebrate s2!! Vld and fanworks by the comm has given me so much happiness  ❤
It was rly fun working on the animation (although gif ate like half the quality?!! my god/ cries / also it helps if you click and enlarge it)  
sorryformynonexistentwritingskillslol
UPDATE*****
TheOppositeOfAmnesia wrote a BEAUTIFUL fic for this please check it out!!! http://archiveofourown.org/works/9101359
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It is not the prettiest but here is a little chart I made of skin tones.
The idea is to eye-drop anywhere on the chart to get a unique skin tone instead of getting stuck in the loop of “white, tan, dark”.
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Getting done with some maths practice!
Revising stuff is boring but really important so I push through it. I like watching live study with me’s just because it prevents me from procrastinating.
Can’t wait till college starts haha. I really want to study more interesting and in-depth stuff. I’m tired of re-reading the same material over and over again T-T
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hi!! i want to get into writing horror but i want to get a feel for the genre.... do you have favorite short horror stories that help fuel your creativity?
Hi, yes I love short stories! I have so many! The ones that are bolded are my favorites!
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
It’s Warm in Here by Yah Yah Scholfield
The Resling-Bowe  Manor is Haunted by Yah Yah Scholfield
A Girl Walks Alone by Yah Yah Scholfield
What Mira Bore by Lydia Knowles, @dreamieegf​ ( my iconic cousin … i’m biased but homegirl is also stupendously talented!)
Vivienne by Lydia Knowles
The Cycle by Ashley Davis, @rosegoldcherub​
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colbyby Donald Barthelme
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The Land Lady by Roald Dahl
It’s a Good Life by Jerome Bixby
Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker
The Yattering and Jack by Clive Barker
In The Hills, In the Cities by Clive Barker
The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes by Margaret St. Clair
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Yesterday, I studied a lot. It was probably the longest I’ve studied with no deadline or obligation to do it. I felt proud.
Today, I didn’t study much at all, I just completed a few small assignments that I had to get done today, and mostly laid around watching YouTube. But I still feel fine. You don’t have to beat yourself up about not always performing at your top, taking some days off is fine, healthy even.
But ngl watching so much YouTube for so many hours straight has given me a headache 😅But tbh that’s good, because now a part of me really wants to work hard and study tomorrow. I feel like you really need a break sometimes, not just to recharge but to also give yourself that longing to get back into studying. I never realised it before but thanks to this long lazy day, I’m starting to miss the feeling of being absorbed into my own work and just listening away to some lo-fi tunes.
Point is: take breaks, it doesn’t mean you’re being lazy, it just means you’re feeding your brain the same mental energy that you feed your body. Being mentally healthy is just as important as being physically fit :)
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Book Recommendations 📖
~ If We Were Villians by M.L. Rio
~ Persepolis 1,2 by Marjane Satrapi
~ Heartless by Marissa Meyer
~ A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
~ Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
~ The Unseen World by Liz Moore
~ The Silence Of The Girls by Pat Barker
~ The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
~ Crocodile On The Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
~ Beauty by Robert McKinley
~ The Book Of Lost Things by John Connolly
~ City Of Ghosts by V.E. Schwab
~ Snow Flower And The Secret Fan by Lisa See
~ Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
~ The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
~ Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
~ Kafka of the shore by Haruki Murakami
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I’ve been asked a couple of times now what is my approach to self-study, and this is my messy attempt to answer that question. All of this is true for me, and might not work for someone else; still, I hope it may help somebody!
1. Getting acquainted with the language
When you’re learning a language with a different writing system than your own, that’s the first thing you have to tackle, of course; but I usually try to get some background information even when the alphabet used by my target language is the good old Latin one. One thing I pay extra careful attention to is phonology: you want to get the sounds right from the very beginning, before you develop any bad habits (also, learning IPA changed my life). Having an accent as close to a native’s as possible is not necessarily the goal (I do like to work on that, but to each their own), but being understood is! And incorrect pronunciation can sometimes hinder comprehension, in some languages more so than in others. So don’t obsess over it, but don’t overlook it completely either. Getting to know the sounds of a language right away can also help you understand what people are saying a little quicker, and figuring out how new words might have to be read. Wikipedia is usually not bad when it comes to phonology, and Omniglot is a good resource as well.
2. Finding a good textbook
I’m a free spirit so I often find myself not looking for a textbook right away, and just chaotically absorbing information from different sources (see immersion below). When I do set my mind to choosing, though, I try to stick to one well-made textbook that I like, which should possibly contain clear grammar explanations as well as exercises. The temptation to hoard resources is strong – and I’ve succumbed to it myself more than once haha –, but I usually try to steer clear from using more than one textbook at the same time (although I do have separate, more thorough grammars on the side more often than not). I’d rather use a physical book if I have the chance, but if that’s not your thing or you don’t have money to spend on that, that’s okay: you can find loads of perfectly good books or websites online!
3. Compulsive translation
Anyone who’s been following my blog for a while probably knows that I love translating virtually anything: from songs to poems to short stories. It’s something that has always been a part of my life, and I thoroughly enjoy doing. It’s also an awesome language learning technique, which will help you enrich your lexicon and teach you tons of new turns of phrase in your target language. It works both if you translate from your native into your target language and vice versa: find a good bilingual dictionary (I prefer paper dictionaries because they provide more examples of usage, but again, you do you) and look for equivalent expressions, don’t just translate word for word! It might work sometimes but not always. When it comes to translation, Reverso Context is a great resource for some languages, because it provides translation in context, taken from a massive corpus heavy on subtitles – which you shouldn’t trust all the time, but will help you as long as you put some critical thinking in.
4. Immersion (you don’t say)
What a surprise, right? I usually start listening to music / watching video content right away; I wasn’t that big on YouTube before but language learning has made me change my mind. You don’t have to get everything: even if you understand 3 words out of 20, this will help you grasp the rhythms and intonations of the language. This depends on how many similarities my new target language shares with the ones I already know, but as a general rule I use Italian (or English) subtitles in the very beginning, then move on to subtitles in the target language and finally get rid of them entirely. Some people will argue against subtitles of any shape or form, but I can only speak for myself and they’ve helped me quite a lot in the past. The way I see it, reading is also essential: if I don’t have time to leaf through novels, I usually check out at least an article a day in my target language and write down the words I don’t know, plus their Italian translation.
5. Routine – the good kind
In short words, I strive to make the new language a part of my life. There are a thousand things you can do: change your phone settings? Great! Check out the news? Even better! If you’re out of ideas, here are a few suggestions. And don’t worry if you struggle at first: in fact, the start of this process is a bit rocky for almost everyone. Consistency, however, is the key: once the early, most difficult days are over, all of this will start to come natural and stop feeling like a chore! The more you do it, the faster this process will be.
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“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.”
- Oscar Wilde
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✨ Literature student falling in love with a male architectural student ✨
Moodboard for @poeticxpersephone
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some pics of my current afternoon reading; catching up on Fitzgerald this time!! ✨
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happy november! i’m stuck at home catching up on readings and notes, but i’m determined to finish it all so i can have a relaxing sunday! what are you up to today?
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I just started reading Pride and Prejudice on eBook, and I’m surprisingly very into it (I’m reading it for free on a site called Gutenberg!). Today was more of a spontaneous study day. I started a new online course, learnt a lot of new words and dissembled a clock and figured out how each part works. While I didn’t exactly progress much in a studying aspect, learning doesn’t always have to be related to algebra or Newton’s law of motion haha
Also I finally figured out how to send that email, so yipee for that ^_^
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I’ve got to send some emails but I can’t figure out how to put my signature in the form digitally and I’ve tried everything and tomorrow is the due date ;-; I’m so stressed
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𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓊𝓃𝒾 🍑 
In this post, I list 7 of my all-time favorite apps / chrome extensions that I use daily.  I hope I can help out some fellow uni students who are struggling.  This might help make studying less painful and a tiny tiny bit more enjoyable. 
love, edith 🌾
ig.: @fivestarstudy_
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