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april of 2024

hey guys, April was such a full month for me. Last ten days of Ramadan, Eid, exams, lots of books were read and so much more.

#studyblr #academia #study blog #classic books #dark academia #chaotic academia #chaotic academic aesthetic #books #bookblr #coffee #classics #uni life

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The most valuable thing I learned doing a Masters degree with depression, anxiety and ADHD was to change my “things I’m bad at” list to “things I can’t do on my own.” Stop thinking of them as things I could do if I tried hard enough, and accept that I can’t accomplish them by effort and willpower alone; they’re genuine neurocognitive deficits, and if I need to do the thing, then just like a blind person reading or a mobility impaired person going up a storey in a building, I need to find a different method.

I’m “bad at” working on long-term projects without an imminent deadline or someone breathing down my neck? Okay, let’s change that: I can’t work on long-term projects without an imminent deadline and someone breathing down my neck. So let’s create an imminent deadline and recruit neck-breathers. Find a sympathetic prof who will agree that 3 weeks before the due date they expect me to show them my preliminary notes and bibliography. Get a friend I trust to block off an hour to sit with me and keep asking, “Are you working on your project?” Write a blog post about my progress. Arrange to trade papers and proofread them with another student.

Accept your limitations and learn to leverage them, instead of buying the neurotypical fairytale that they’ll go away if you just try hard enough.

#One of the biggest lessons I've learned last year is that I need help to stay accountable when it comes to long term projects and that's ok

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hello, my name is Nejj (21 – f – muslimah – bookblr – dark academia – sfw account)

born and raised in ireland but ethnically I am half ½ north african ½ slavic.

StoryGraph – AO3 – FF.net – Wattpad

I have the same pfp and username (alienejj) across all of my accounts.

My content is split into two main types of posts; reblogged posts and content I make myself. for every bookblr post i make, i reblog one bookblr post. NEJJ BOOKBLR is the tag for all of my original content.

Since I have a home library I take aesthetic pictures of books. My home library mainly consists of thrifted books across all kinds of genres.

Here are the main genres I collect:

history (middle eastern, north african, irish, african, asian) anthropology religion literary criticism psychology biographies & memoirs (of authors, world travellers, royalty) myths, legends & folklore classic literature modern classics fantasy science fiction historical fiction poetry magical realism murder mystery & crime fiction books about books

For you, dear reader;

I have a soft spot for bookblr/dark academia accounts that make their own content and would love to follow and interact with them.

I don’t mind like/heart spams, if anything I find them endearing.

I am not comfortable following accounts that post/reblog nudity, i run a 'safe for work' account.

Reblogs of my content are highly appreciated xx

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about to cry because of organic chemistry but at least the sun is finally out at 7 am

#studyblr #chemistry

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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love

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I've spent all afternoon thinking about the line from Wentworth's letter "you sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others" and about how that really is the most important part of the letter. Yes "you pierce my soul" and "I have loved none but you" and "I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago" are all more swoon-worthy. But the whole point of Persuasion is how Anne suffers because none of her friends or family acknowledge her needs or anything she says. She is made small by everyone around her. She is persuadable because she has been stripped of her agency; not by the circumstances of her life, but because the people in her life have talked over and down to her so much that she has stopped resisting. She knows that she won't be heard, so she just stops speaking. But then Wentworth hears her voice! He hears her, sees her, and he loves her for who she is, not what he wants her to be. I think Jane Austen knew exactly what she was doing by including that line. It's so subtle in such a purposeful way.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

#persuasion #jane austen

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Persuasion 1995 text posts

More: Pride and Prejudice 1995 text posts | Sense and Sensibility 1995 text posts | Northanger Abbey 2007 text posts | Emma. 2020 text posts

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It’s always I love you and never “everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.”

#the night circus

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I would like the world to know that someone wrote an entire 285K word sequel to the Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern and posted it on ao3

it’s called Fateheart: A Starless Seaquel and it’s a masterpiece that everyone needs in their lives Erin better see it istg

#the starless sea #erin morgenstern

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the night circus says what if every piece on a chessboard had a personality and a history all their own. what if the victor of the last game was still skulking on the board. what if the queens were imbued with unearthly magical power and aimed directly at each other. and what if they fell in love

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my fatal flaw is that I fall in love with books that have no fandom/ small/ inactive fandom.

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Night Circus tea is now available from Old Growth Alchemy! This blend has apple & candied ginger & cinnamon & clove & more, it's a little bit sweet & a little bit smoky & perfectly magical 🖤

#the night circus #books #tea

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Recent bookish endeavors <3

#academia #classic books #dark academia #chaotic academia #bookblr #books #the night circus #persuasion #jane austen #erin morgenstern

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“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”

— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

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no babe I still love you it's just the 400 pages about farming threw me off but we're still chill don't worry

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intelligent girls are attractive. believe in a good education. learn to speak in another language and know what's going on in the world.