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My first concertina! A series of 14 feminist poems by @agest about the way women become myths (where an asexual girl is a unicorn in the same way the moon is a silver mirror, where being a people pleaser is not unlike being a demon and howling at the moon is quite popular with those who have it really rough when menstruating).

This was the last book of my Binderary, sent to the author with lots of love.

#insp #reference

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She’s a 10 but she lives off of academic validation while simultaneously procrastinating like she’s been promised immortality

#not as much anymore #leaving uni was a blessing #but like #im in this picture etc

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#words

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#oh fuck #the bad thoughts #personal

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“the poem begins not where the knife enters but where the blade twists.”

— Hanif Abdurraqib, The Prestige

#words

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28.1.2024 | Planning lessons.

#studyblr

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hi! I lvoe your studying posts and was curious what photo editor u use/if you happen to have any tips for taking well -lit study photos like yours? Thank you!!

Hi! Thank you for your ask, I'm glad you like my posts, but I don't think I can be of much help. I don't do a lot of editing of my photos, and the minimal editing I do I just use the editor in my phone.

I don't really have any tips for how to get good lighting or taking good photos in general. I made this blog while I was having a really shit time at university, so the goal for me was to make studying feel less awful by paying attention to the cosy and aesthetically pleasing parts of it, but actually taking pictures/running the blog had to be as low effort as possible, so I had no ambitions about how often or how much I wanted to post, which meant that I only took pictures if I happened to be studying somewhere that looked nice, or on days where the light happened to be good. So that would probably be my only tip? To be patient and keep an eye out for when you're in a nice location or happen to hit a moment of good lighting, and to take some quick photos when it happens.

#studyblr #ask #birdbrainstudies

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Jason, having seen Medea kill and dismember her brother and also kill Pelias for him: Probably I can just divorce her

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Achilles (detail) by Alexander Rothaug (1930)

#Art #Reblogs

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Cosmic Overture, Daniel Martin Diaz, 2022

#art #reblogs

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The Rose, Nr4, by Hilma af Klint, 1907.

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Dust Motes Dancing in Sunbeams, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1900

#reblogs #hammershøi

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excerpt from Antigone by Jean Anouilh (trans. Lewis Galantiere)

#words #reblogs

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Sunday shelfie, featuring vintage Modern Library and Penguin Books.

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Whisper of the Heart (1995) dir. Yoshifumi Kondō

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#baldwin

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“I have graded more than 500 undergraduate papers about why Plato is an idiot and no one would ever behave in the Republic the way he has the people behave in the Republic. I have graded maybe 15 brilliant undergraduate papers about why Plato thought people would behave that way in the Republic, and the differences between Plato’s worldview and Plato’s psychology and our own, and why he thinks this thing that to us seems wrong.

That to me is the much harder kind of critical thinking, the empathetic kind of critical thinking that doesn’t criticize but reads carefully, critically, prudently and with empathy and connection to try to understand the other side, which I think is something that doesn’t just apply to the academic world, doesn’t just apply to how we write a paper in a class. It applies to how we read a blog post, how we judge a New York Times article, how we evaluate when someone has posted something on Twitter that they want us to hate or like to hate, as Twitter often is, whether the empathetic reading, which is the really challenging critical element, is there.”

– Ada Palmer [x]

#words #reblogs