sophielovesbooks

[sophielovesbooks]

Aw, good to hear from you! And I'm well, thanks! 🤗

Haha, yeah, I really enjoy it too, to be fair. And I'm not even a massive fan or anything. Now the funny thing is... I have this weird habit where I don't listen to new albums all at once. I start out with a small pool of 2-3 songs, then subsequently feed new ones into that pool. So I've only actually listened to, like, 10 of the new songs. But out of those I also really love Who's Afraid of Little Old Me and My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys. Others I currently love are Down Bad and So Long, London. But I know that eventually, I'll get through all of them and discover new faves. It's a nice process. ☺️

Also saw that you're going to Edinburgh, right? Yayyyy, Edinburgh is literally so gorgeous! I hope you'll have the best time. Also you HAVE to go to the Waterstones on Princes Street!! Thank me later. 😉📚

Hey Mary! Somehow you never show up on my dash anymore... I hope you're doing okay! ♡ Anyway, thoughts on The Tortured Poets Department? Favourite songs?

PS: I'm doing a readathon today! Hope you're having a lovely Sunday, too. 📚

Hey Sophie! 🤗 i'm not around much, but i'm doing well, i hope you are too!

I love the album so much, i think it's so personal and devastating and heartbreaking and it solidifies just how good of a songwriter taylor is 🩶 she outdid herself 🩶

I'm currently loving Who's afraid of little old me, My boy only breaks his favourite toys, The prophecy, Florida, Fortnight, But daddy i love him, Peter, The Black Dog, Smallest man who ever lived (which has the best bridge on the album). I actually love most of the tracks 😅

Happy readathon and happy Sunday 🩶🤗

#taylor swift #thanks for replying <33

[sophielovesbooks]

I'm almost convinced at this point that Taylor Swift has made a deal with some sort of dark entity. Something about her music career just seems... supernatural.

I used to think her music was... okay. Generic pop songs. Some were fun, but I didn't get the hype.

Anyway, a while ago I started listening to her songs more and they, like, drew me in? It's the strangest effect? Suddenly I couldn't stop and sequentially got obsessed with them?

And, like, it's totally Orwellian double think! The strangest thing! I still think they sound like generic pop songs and are not all that special and her lyrics aren't that revolutionary, but at the EXACT SAME TIME I absolutely adore some of them and they do weird things to me and the lyrics seems so different from everything else out there?

That is to say... despite myself... I was very excited when Tortured Poets dropped today. ♡

#taylor swift #the tortured poets department #music #swifties #this is a post of appreciation overall #swifties pls don't come for me!! #(scared)

[sophielovesbooks]

I've been on Tumblr since 2018 and I believe I just got anon hate for the first time?

I'm... so confused. Because, you see, the insults spanned the whole spectrum, yes, but the ask also included specifically transphobic insults? And I'm literally cis?

Are the transphobes just targeting cis women now on the off-chance we're secretly trans? 😂

#tw transphobia #cw transphobia #hate #anon hate #obviously i can laugh about this #but i'm of course so so sorry to every actual trans person having to deal with this bs #sending positivity to you ♥️

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A shocking realisation during the first year of my PhD was that there are many, many different ways to theoretically frame the same empirical study. 🤯

#i'm currently revising my manuscript #somewhat reframing my prior work #and it makes me look at my own findings differently! #putting them in different contexts and all #kind of overwhelming tbh #phd #phd life #phdblr #gradblr #grad blogging #psychology #child development

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After being on annual leave for a week, then on sick leave all of last week, today it was finally time to get my head back in the game. Happy to report that I reached today's goal by reading and summarising four articles. ✨️

#phd student #phd life #phdblr #gradblr #grad blogging #studyblr #studyspo #academia #psychology #dev psych

[sophielovesbooks]

Published papers can be so funny

I mean, did we really need stats for that?

#phdblr #phd life #gradblr #grad blogging #phd student #academia #psychology #developmental psychology #dev psych #do you get it?? haha

[sophielovesbooks]

I'm 60k into my WIP and I'm starting to really struggle. 😩

I mean, I think I probably love these characters more than any I've written before? But it's also my first time writing crime/mystery, and sometimes I feel like I'm in over my head with this plot...

#wip #my wip #writers on tumblr #writing #on writing #writeblr #creative writing #the fact months can pass between me writing two scenes DOES NOT HELP #i need to keep in mind what each character knows at each point and it's so hard #this entire project is an exercise in advanced theory of mind i swear

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A few days after making this post, I'm on sick leave for an entire week and my throat is really sore, so I can't talk much.

Why does this feel like some sort of corrupted wish situation? 😭😂

I need, like, a week in a remote place without the expectation of talking to anybody. Genuinely.

Isn't it kind of mental how we are expected to converse with people literally every single day?

#careful what you wish for i guess? #lol #personal

[sophielovesbooks]

I need, like, a week in a remote place without the expectation of talking to anybody. Genuinely.

Isn't it kind of mental how we are expected to converse with people literally every single day?

#and before you ask... i am in fact neurotypical #i just need a break from all this chatter #(and i talk a lot myself so i'm not even throwing shade here) #(if i'm not removed from people i'll continue to talk but i am so jaded jfc) #personal #to be deleted? #whining on main

[sophielovesbooks]

Goddamn. Finding this old post now (because somebody liked something from back in the day and it was in my notifs) is a trip.

Little did I know... 🥲.. that 4.5 years (!!) later... 🥲🥲... MY FOOT WOULD STILL BE FUCKED. 😭😭😭

It was much worse than a torn ligament. The bone was actually implicated (essentially bleeding and bruising inside the bone). Doctors refused to give me an MRI ("too expensive") so only realised this 5 months later, when I insisted on an MRI because I was still in pain.

Anyway. I should have given the bone time to heal during those 5 months. Instead I was advised to put as much weight on my foot as possible, which I did. And now it's permanently fucked, I use a wheelchair on longer trips and nobody can even really tell me why! Like, I still don't have a diagnosis that doctors can agree on and that makes sense. 🙃

So sorry for whining on main, but it's actually the number 1 source of sadness in my life and seeing this old post again just now did things to me.

2 weeks of sick leave. 2 weeks. Try 5 fucking years. My boyfriend is now my husband and my foot is still fucked. Wild.

Life Update: Injury

Hey everyone! Sooo… on Friday, I was playing frisbee with some friends in the park. After jumping really high to catch a throw, I landed in a hole in the ground!! (Like, where did that hole even come from? Whyyy was it there?) 

I twisted my ankle really badly and landed on it with my full body weight. The pain and swelling got really bad throughout the next few hours and I couldn’t walk anymore. After spending half of Saturday literally bum-shuffling through our apartment (which immediately eviscerated any shreds of dignity I had left, lol) I decided to go to hospital to get it checked out. Thankfully, my boyfriend could take me and help me into the taxi we called. 

Anyway. Around three hours later I came out with a diagnosis of a torn ligament, a cast and crutches. The crutches are a great help (no more bum-shuffling or hopping, yay), but also… who knew crutches were so exhausting to use??! A five-minute walk took me almost 30 minutes today! I needed so many breaks and my hands and wrists hurt so much! Mad respect to anybody who uses crutches as a mobility aid in their daily life! 

Oh, and perhaps the worst part is that I now need daily injections to prevent thrombosis (potentially deadly blood clots). I’m supposed to inject myself, but it freaks me out so much, I really can’t do it. So far, my boyfriend has been doing it for me, which I’m really thankful for! (But I still hate it)

So, bottom line: I’m on sick leave for two weeks. I’ll have more time than usually. But getting to my latop is hard and I’m much more tired than normally. I may either be posting a lot more or a lot less than usually. Not sure which one it’s gonna be, but you are most likely going to see a change in my activity! 😅

PS: I just saw that I am now only 100 followers away from 1,000 and that number… is just so insane to me? I would love to hit 1,000 so badly?? 😍😍

#to be deleted? #i'm so sorry i guess i needed to get this out #kind of wish i hadn't found this #the thought of how naive i was in thinking i'd be fine after two weeks is so painful jfc #anyway #i need a moment #injuries #medical #tw medical #disability #chronic pain #cw medical

[sophielovesbooks]

Pls reblog to spread and tell what specific word count in the tags!

#almost 54k??? #damn i totally underestimated how many words i have already put out into the world even just on ao3 #i was gonna click 9000 to 20k lmao #then i went and counted #writing #creative writing #my early 20s were my most prolific phase i think #like damn girl when did you find the time?? #writers on tumblr

[sophielovesbooks]

Hi! I hope this isn't too weird because I don't even follow you I literally just randomly saw your latest post about your hair, but I just wanted to say: the side by side or the pics is not nearly as "brutal" as you think, you're super pretty!! don't let Hollywood make you think you need professional hair and make-up to be pretty.

Oh my gosh, thank you! That's not weird at all, made my day actually. 🥰 You're right, I hardly know what to do with my hair and I wear very little make-up. But I guess I was more focused on the... facial features? So aspects I can't really change? Because Maisie is so so gorgeous and I would love to look like her, haha! But the fact you think I'm pretty means a lot and that you went out of your way to tell me is so sweet! xx

#asks #anon ask #maisie peters

[sophielovesbooks]

Not sure I love my hair right now, but doesn't it look so much like Maisie's in 2018? I mean??

#maisie peters #dressed too nice for a jacket #or not?? #tbf that side by side is actually brutal 😅 #god i wish i was pretty like her 😭 #this is about the HAIR okay?? #lmao

[sophielovesbooks]

Ahhhh I am obsessed with Penance by Eliza Clark, it's sooo good. I'm almost done with it though and I don't want to be. 😩

#booklr #books #reading #book rec #penance #eliza clark #feels a bit ironic to post about this book on tumblr #bc the dark sides of tumblr feature heavily!

[sophielovesbooks]

OH GOOD HEAVENS

It's March.

#i mean... we even had a bonus february day this year!! #still... i wasn't prepared #i realise january somehow lasted ages for all of us #but still i can't believe we are already so far into this year? #2024

[sophielovesbooks]

Okay, I was super uninspired and tired today, so I absolutely had to brute-force it. But in the end, I wrote 997 words within a little under 2 hours. The draft is not... great. But it will have to do for now. (I have until Friday to get this done.)

I never normally work in cafés, but I realised recently that I am actually... absolutely allowed to do that? 😅 And it's so nice?

So I'm giving it another try today. I have a really delicious blueberry banana bread (already half-eaten, oops!). And I'm posting here for accountability. Because the goal is to write 1000 words within the next two hours!! 💻🍰☕️

#gradblr #grad blogging #phd #phdblr #phd students #studyblr #phd life #developmental psychology

[sophielovesbooks]

I never normally work in cafés, but I realised recently that I am actually... absolutely allowed to do that? 😅 And it's so nice?

So I'm giving it another try today. I have a really delicious blueberry banana bread (already half-eaten, oops!). And I'm posting here for accountability. Because the goal is to write 1000 words within the next two hours!! 💻🍰☕️

#gradblr #studyblr #students #phd students #phdblr #phd life #phd #developmental psychology