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Whatever your thoughts on the bbc les mis adaptation, those final scenes when Valjean tells Cosette he’s not worthy of her love, of anybody’s love, are heartbreaking. His expression destroys me (“do you truly love me?” Ughhhhh)

#les miserables #bbc les mis

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#🥰 #cosette #les miserables

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                                                     "    More of a lark than a dove.  "

#ANGEL #cosette #les miserables #I don’t know if it’s because I watched the disney cinderella a million times when I was little #or if it’s because she’s an easy character to project onto #with enough setting her apart from the ingenue type (see: the quote in this graphic) to give her a bit more grit #or more of a suggestion of depth #but I love love love Cosette

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#LMAO #les miserables #victor hugo #is this as funny out of context? #it’s during the convent digression wherein Hugo writes 60 pages on how austere a place it is #mary reads les mis

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Carol (2015) dir. Todd Haynes

#carol #I rewatched this the other night #even their smallest interactions sizzle with tension

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Resource is from victoriaalxndr on Twitter!

#black lives matter #books #resources #what’s happening in the US is also speaking back to structural inequalities in the Australian justice system #I want to put together a reading list of Indigenous Australian fiction to educate myself better

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“Dorothea had gathered emotion as she went on, and had forgotten everything except the relief of pouring forth her feelings, unchecked: an experience once habitual with her, but hardly ever present since her marriage, which had been a perpetual struggle of energy with fear. For the moment, Will’s admiration was accompanied with a chilling sense of remoteness. A man is seldom ashamed of feeling that he cannot love a woman so well when he sees a certain greatness in her: nature having intended greatness for men. But nature has sometimes made sad oversights in carrying out her intention; as in the case of good Mr. Brooke, whose masculine consciousness was at this moment in rather a stammering condition under the eloquence of his niece. He could not immediately find any other mode of expressing himself than that of rising, fixing his eye-glass, and fingering the papers before him.”

George Eliot, ‘Middlemarch’

#dorothea brooke #such an important character #I live for Eliot’s satire of the thoughts of her male characters who cannot handle women #who don’t fit in with their prejudices and preconceptions #george eliot #middlemarch

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every writing tip article and their mother: dont ever use adverbs ever!

me, shoveling more adverbs onto the page because i do what i want: just you fucking try and stop me

#writing #reference

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hades x persephone 09.07.18

#greek mythology #art

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wow the ending of Wuthering Heights was pretty fricked up

#more accurate than most of the adaptations #wuthering heights #emily bronte

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Milan Cathedral.

#photography #milan #wonderlust

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I thought I’d share a few ideas for busting procrastination which I’ve picked up over four years of self-guided PhD work--it’s been a struggle to motivate myself during self-isolation without my usual network of fellow-PhD candidates, academic folk to chat to, etc. Hopefully this is helpful to some other grad students out there! 

- do a short block of work as soon as you wake up, or right after you eat breakfast/drink coffee/whatever your usual morning routine is. The worst thing (for me anyway) is to start by procrastinating or doing something fun, because that throws things off for the rest of the day. I’ll just want to continue doing the “fun” thing. 

- plan your day: this doesn’t have to be a super detailed schedule. I usually write out one or two big-picture goals (e.g. ‘write three paragraphs’, or ‘develop outline for my Dickens chapter’), then break these into tasks which you can work into some sort of schedule. Don’t forget to keep in mind the big picture, e.g. if you’re trying to finish a chapter in two weeks, take that into account in the amount of work you allot to it each day (I am most definitely Not Good at this but struggling my way towards improvement)

- I usually aim to do about 4-7 hours of work per day, and I break this down differently depending on how motivated I feel. For the past couple of days it’s been a real struggle to be productive, so I’ve been doing 30 min work/30 min break to keep things moving. Some other combinations which have worked for me: 

4 x 25 mins (with 5 min breaks) + 30 min break (rinse and repeat)

3 x 30 mins (with 5 min breaks) + 30 min break (rinse and repeat)

If you’re feeling brave, 4 x 60 mins (with 30 min breaks) - I do this if I need to get through all my work in one half of the day.

If anyone else has tips to share, please do!

#academia #gradblr #grad school #procrastination #study

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#I watched six hours of this in one night don’t look at me #the book was Not For Me but something about how it was translated to screen hit somewhere deep in my id #it’s melodramatic and cringey in places but some of the performances are outstanding #I feel a bit yikes at myself lol #the thorn birds

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I have a theory that Jaime/Cersei shippers like Wuthering Heights while Jaime/Brienne shippers prefer Jane Eyre, hmm!!

#asoiaf #jane eyre #wuthering heights #I love wuthering heights for the way it breaks not just the literary conventions of its time but also moral conventions #but I’m a Jaime/Brienne shipper and jane eyre will always own my soul #narratives with thematic echoes of beauty and the beast win out over claustrophobic (pseudo)incestuous narratives of transgression #however complex and fascinating

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Haunt me then be with me always take any form, drive me mad but don’t leave me

#oh wow #wuthering heights #emily bronte #literature

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May God save this chapel by Jérémy RONDAN

#architecture #photography #wonderlust

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Figuring out how to deal with problems in my personal life by re-reading the scene in Middlemarch where Dorothea fights against her (totally justified) anger at Casaubon, and is ultimately able to see beyond herself to *really grasp* what he’s going through, and to feel genuine sympathy for him. There are discomfiting undertones of female self-sacrifice and submission, but it’s also about so much more than that - there’s still a space, I think, for us to learn from it - learn to transcend pettiness and the urge to hurt people who have hurt us, to understand and pity the impulses which motivate small cruelties.

#middlemarch #george eliot