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one last percy jackson-themed November spread bordering on being Christmas-themed! I was inspired by the strawberry fields on camp half-blood 🍓 would you ever want to visit camp half-blood? (at Camp Half-Blood) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW9axV8BJCP/?utm_medium=tumblr

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a poseidon and athena spread for the og faves percy and annabeth 💙🖤❤️ gotta love percabeth, who was your first otp? (at Camp Half-Blood) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW7YHJBBDyr/?utm_medium=tumblr

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forgot to post the rest of my November spreads because it was a busy month but i gotta admit these PJO-themed ones were a fave ❤️ made my monthly overview poseidon-themed! do you have a fave Greek god/goddess? (at Camp Half-Blood) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW10dGLB8kZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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finally got back into bullet journaling and I high key missed this. been obsessed with percy jackson lately, so you'll be seeing that throughout my bovember set-up. any other demigods out there? https://www.instagram.com/p/CWKFSe5BRYJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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i’m back?

i finally graduated high school! and i missed bullet journaling, for some reason. am i about to enter my comeback era? 

#did anyone miss me #for realsies tho lolz #i miss bullet journaling #also i have so many questions to answer #missed u guys tho <3

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Handmade Teapots

Carters of Suffolk on Etsy

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i’m done crying about it, i deserve better

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I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. :)

stereotypical delightful classical music:

battalia a 10 in d major (biber)

brandenburg concerto no. 5

brandenburg concerto no. 3

symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)

if you need to chill:

rondo alla turca

fur elise

anitra’s dance

in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)

if you need to sleep:

moonlight sonata

swan lake

corral nocturne

sleep (eric whitacre) (added by thelonecomposer)

if you need to wake up:

morning mood

summer (from the four seasons)

buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)

if you are feeling very proud:

pomp and circumstance

symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)

1812 overture

symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)

american (dvořák)

if you feel really excited:

hoedown (copland)

bacchanale

spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)

la gazza ladra

death and the maiden (schubert)

if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:

dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)

winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)

symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)

symphony no. 5 (beethoven)

totentanz (liszt)

quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)

young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

symphony no. 5 mvt. 4 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

marche slave (tchaikovsky) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to cry for a really long time:

fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)

adagio for strings (barber)

violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)

aase’s death

andante festivo

vocalise (rachmaninoff) (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:

an american in paris (gershwin)

if you want chills:

danse macabre

russian easter overture

egmont overture (added by shayshay526)

if you want to study:

eine kleine nachtmusik

bolero (ravel)

serenade for strings (elgar)

scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)

pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)

if you really want to dance:

capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)

blue danube

le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)

radetzky march

if you want to start bouncing in your chair:

hopak (mussorgsky)

les toreadors (from carmen suite no.1)

if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:

hungarian dance no. 1

hungarian dance no. 5

if you want to hear suspense within music:

firebird

in the hall of the mountain king

ride of the valkyries

night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)

if you want a jazzy/classical feel:

rhapsody in blue

jazz suite no. 2 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:

introduction and rondo capriccioso

unfinished symphony (schubert)

symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)

canon in d (pachelbel)

if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:

st. paul’s suite

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

l’arlésienne suite

concierto de aranjuez (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:

symphony no. 40 (mozart)

cello suite no. 1 (bach)

polovtsian dances

enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)

perpetuum mobile

moto perpetuo (paganini)

pieces that just sound really cool:

scherzo tarantelle

dance of the goblins

caprice no. 24 (paganini)

new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology​)

le tombeau de couperin (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

carnival of the animals (added by shadowraven45662)

if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):

concerto for two violins (bach)

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)

violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

violin concerto in d minor (sibelius) (added by eternal-cadenza)

cello concerto in c (haydn)

piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)

and if you really just hate classical music in general:

4′33″ (cage)

a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!

also, thank you to viola-ology, iwillsavemyworld, shayshay526, eternal-cadenza, tropicalmunchakoopas, shadowraven45662, and thelonecomposer for adding on! if you would like to add on your own suggestions, please reblog and add on or message me so I can give you credit for the suggestion!

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This video cured every single chemical imbalance I had

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Hi there! I am in 6th grade and I'll take an entrance exam at PSHS this February. They said that the exam is all about essays. Do you have any suggestions for practice or essays used by your school?

Hi! Congrats on getting to the second phase! I'm so sorry for this late reply, but I'll get back to you with a full answer ASAP. I didn't do an essay for Pisay when I applied six years ago, so I don't actually have a lot to say. Regardless, here are five three general tips I have for writing essays for schools:

Read college application essays. A lot of schools abroad, especially in the USA, require their students to write essays as part of their applications. I recommend looking for some samples online, which are generally pretty easy to find, but I'll link you to some soon.

As a high school senior, I'm currently in the process of applying to some schools abroad, and from experience, five of the most common essay types would be the Personal Statement, the Community essay, the Extracurricular essay, the Intellectual Curiosity essay, and the Why This School essay. Pisay might take another route tho and ask about your interest in STEM and any relevant experience you might have, so prepare for those too.

Write a few essay drafts and get them checked, no matter how bad they might be! It's one of the best ways you can improve. Feel free to dm me your essays so I can comment on them - I promise I'm really nice.

I'm assuming you also asked the next question today, will get back to you soon! Please dm me for any of your more specifpic questions so I can help you out :) Best of luck!

#studypurple asks #studypurple asks! #pisay

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yo being black and depressed is hard as fuck. being black with anxiety is hard as fuck. being black with a chronic illness or disability is hard a fuck. everybody expects you to be ‘strong’ at all times and no one sees black people as complex or nuanced enough to be capable of suffering. no one ever thinks we could possibly need help. and if you’re a black woman, the moment you stop thinking about others and try to tend to yourself you’re a selfish lazy ungrateful bitch.

support black people, esp women, who need help. don’t just call us strong or tell us we’ll get through it, help us. protect us. uplift us. allow us to be beings capable of suffering. give us the same space you’d give white women to express our pain and be there for us like you would for anyone else. 

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In highschool I wrote a story about a middle-generation of stellar travelers. Their parents were born on earth and left as children, and the middle generation will not live long enough to see their destination. They live their entire lives on the ship and I wrote about them trying to find their place in everything. They will never know blue skies and warm beaches and open fields with warm breezes. They’ll never know birdsong or crickets or frogs. They’ll never hear the rain on the roof of a dreary day. I never could find the right way to end the story. I wanted it to be a happy ending, but I didn’t know how to do it.

I realize now that it was a book about me dealing with depression before I even knew it. Looking back at how blatant the projecting was, it’s obvious now. It wasn’t then.

In the story, the middle-generation people are lost. They’re apathetic. They’re just a placeholder. The only job they have is to keep the ship running, have kids, and die. As the middle generation of people began becoming adults, suicide rates were skyrocketing. Crime and drug rates were jumping. This generation was completely apathetic because they felt that they had no use.

In the story, a small group of people in the middle-generation create the Weather Project. They turn the ship into a terrarium. They make magnificent gardens and take the DNA of animals they took with them and recreate them and they make this cold, metal spaceship that they have to live their entire lives on into a home. They take what little they have and they break it and rearrange it into something beautiful. They take this radical idea and turn the ship into a wonderful jungle of trees and birds and sunshine.

And I realize now how much it reflects my state of mind as I transitioned from a child into an adult while dealing with depression. You always hear “it gets better” and “when you’re older things will be easier” and I was so sick of waiting for it to get better. I was in the middle-generation stage. And I was sick of it. I was so sick of waiting.

When I was in highschool I didn’t know how to end the story. I didn’t know how to have a happy ending. I didn’t have the life experience then to finish the story in a meaningful way. I didn’t know how to make it better for these middle-generation characters.

But now that I’m older, I’m learning. That if you sit and wait for things to get better, it never will. You have to take your life and break it apart and rearrange it into something beautiful. You have to make the cold metal ship into the garden that you deserve. You have to make your own meaning. You have to plant your own garden.

You have to teach yourself that being happy is not a radical idea.

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some self care tips

things i do on my lower days to feel less icky, from me to you:

brush or tie your hair; ponytails and buns are quick and easy, headbands are good too

clip your nails; grit gets me down, so clipping my nails makes me feel like i have a fresh start

bathe/shower; if you can’t get up the energy, at least rinse your feet and wash your face

try to use soap either way, good smells lift spirits

moisturize; have some lotion in the bathroom or keep some lip balm in your pocket

don’t wear baggy/loose clothes; t-shirts are fine, but slightly tighter pants/shorts make me feel less lazy and more mobile

put on slippers or socks

sit outside/open up a window for some fresh air or turn on a fan

clean your room; sounds hard, but even a tiny corner of it is good

put on some soft music

or put on the soundtrack to a musical and sing along

eat a light breakfast

heat up the food you’re eating if it’s usually eaten hot

keep a light snack handy; a small pack of gummy bears, some fruits, crackers, whatever makes you feel good, but try to cut down on grease or heavy flavoring

DRINK WATER! stay hydrated! add some honey if you like but please drink lots of water!!

feel free to add more to this list if you have any personal tips and tricks!

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So I used to have a Russian friend who had a pretty thick accent and like a lot of Russians tended to eschew articles. She would say things like “Get in car.” And stuff.

Well one day this asshole who had been kind of tagging along with us asks her why she talks like that because it makes her sound dumb and I still remember her response word for word.

“Me? Dumb? Maybe in America you have to say get in THE car because you are so stupid that people might just get in random car, but in Russia we don’t need to say that. We just fucking know because we are not stupid.”

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this book website gives you the first page of a random book without the title or author so that you can read it with no preconceptions!!! great for discovering new recs