#ohmyphd

[snowhitesarchive]

make me choose edits: eowyn or arwen resquested by @ohmyphd

“I am no man.”

want one?

#tolkien #tolkienedit #eowyn #eowyn edit #lotredit #lotr #my stuff #mmc #mari's 1.5 k #minetolkien #ohmyphd

[commonorgarden]

Mourning Dove and Crane :)

What do you do to cheer you up when you're sad?

Leave the house, get on a train, go somewhere by the sea, stand on a pier, buy a new book, have a coffee, look at houseplants, go for a long walk and take the train home, hopefully in a better mood.

Where is the farthest you have been from home?

I can tell you exactly because I get excited and make a note of when I go further than I’d been before

Furthest north: Helsinki Airport, taking off from the northern runway

Furthest south: arriving into Atocha station, Madrid from Barcelona

Furthest east: stood by the Katajanokka ferry terminal in Helsinki

Furthest west: standing in the Pacific Ocean in Port Orford, Oregon

Furthest by distance: Cameron’s English Pub, Half Moon Bay, California

#ohmyphd

[thehumanfront]

Hello, could you recommend some interesting tumblrs focused on philosophy?

It’s a good question which we would like the answer to as well. Many accounts don’t do original posts; and, of those, a high percentage mostly produce existential quotes. Nonetheless, we enjoy these: @scientificphilosopher, @philosophybits, @philosophybitmaps, @ohmyphd, @socraplease.

[kahvi-studies]

quarantine tag game

thank you @studyingfilms for tagging me - I’m sorry to hear you have to cancel your anniversary plans, but I wish you a happy anniversary nontheless! 

1. Are you staying home from work/school? yep.

2. If you’re staying home, who’s there with you? My parents.

3. Do you have pets to keep you company? No, sadly not :( I’d love to tho.. so pleeease feel free to send me pictures of zour pets anytime! I’d love to see them!!

4. Who do you miss the most? My best friends..

5. When was the last time you left your home? About two weeks ago when I helped my mom go shop

6. What was the last thing you bought? blue hair color lol

7. Is quarantine driving you insane or are you finally relaxed? I’m getting a little down from time to time, but when I call my best friends or go out for a little I already feel much better. Over all, I’m kinda productive!

8. Are you a homebody? yes, yes & yes.

9. What movies have you watched recently? The Name of the rose & The Breakfast Club!

10. An event that you were looking forward to that got cancelled? I was so excited for pride parade this year :(

11. What’s the worst thing that you’ve had to cancel? I’m happy to say everything I had to cancel wasn’t as bad - actually I’m realxed I don’t have to attend a few things!

12. What’s the best thing you’ve had to cancel? It wasn’t canceled but all my deadlines have been postponed, which is great!

13. Do you have any new hobbies? not really, but I enjoy having more time for reading, drawing & making music!

14. What are you out of? hugs & physical closeness!

15. What music are you listening to? piano/lofi for studying & folk, rock and more the rest of the day!

16. What shows are you watching? I’m watching Human for the first time & I started watching pokemon because I started drawing them hah!

17. What are you reading? Make It Stick & il piccolo principe!

18. What are you doing of self-care? sleeping in, calling loved ones & getting lost while being creative

19. Are you exercising? more or less regularily, yes.

20. How’s your toilet paper supply? hahaha! totally fine.

21. Have you made any changes to your hair during quarantine? cut it, bleached it, went green & now blueish-green ^^ but I swear this also would’ve happened without th pandemic!

I’m tagging: @just-ruddy-study-already @phdead @bashful-berry @ohmyphd

#studyblr tag #tag game #studyingfilms #kahvi-studies

[nealc25]

Quarantine tag game

Tagged by the lovely @ohmyphd​! Here’s how my Quarantine looks like:

1. Are you staying home from work/school? Yes, since the 9th of March.

2. If you’re staying home, who’s there with you? My parents and my sister, since I went back to Naples.

3. Do you have pets to keep you company? No. But as soon as it gets warmer I’ll have a basil plant I can hug. 

4. Who do you miss the most? My aunt and my friends. The fact, that they are spread between Italy and Germany doesn’t help.

5. When was the last time you left your home? Two weeks ago, when was my turn to take out the trash.

6. What was the last thing you bought? Books! Still ordering online. I’m waiting for an amazing German Literature by Anna Chiarloni, yum.

7. Is quarantine driving you insane or are you finally relaxed? At the beginning it was highly affecting my mood, now I’m cooping with it. I’m still somehow upset, since I miss the library so much.

8. Are you a homebody?  Somehow. But I can be very social, if I’m in the mood. 

9. What movies have you watched recently? Mmm I’m afraid, I haven’t watched a whole movie since months (apart from some rewatching). But yesterday I watched the end of “The young Marx” by Raul Peck. A great Film. 

10. An event that you were looking forward to that got cancelled?  Celebrating the Pesach Seder with my Uncle, then Easter with the reunited family in the country house. I was also thinking on throwing a little graduate party but it’s all postponed.

11. What’s the worst thing that you’ve had to cancel? My Plans of researching for a phd. I’m trying to do it from home, but I NEED A LIBRARY GOSH!

12. What’s the best thing you’ve had to cancel? Mmmh nothing particularly. 

13. Do you have any new hobbies? I’m trying a fitness app just for a change, near my yoga practice. 

14. What are you out of? Meeting people, doing things outside, also... did I mention the library, yet?

15. What music are you listening to? A lot of Neal Young, lately. And some Anton Weber, but in small doses. 

16. What shows are you watching? I recently finished watching The Handmaid’s Tale, forced by my radical feminist mother. We also watched Unorthodox, nice one. We’re probably going to try also “shtisel”, just to stay on topic.  

17. What are you reading? Loot of things, in particularly “This Side of Paradise” by F.S.Fitzgerald, “Althenopis” by Fabrizia Ramondino and Cesare Segre’s “Anthology of modern and contemporary italian poetry”. 

18. What are you doing of self-care? Whenever I can, I read outside the balcony and sunbathe.

19. Are you exercising? I was consistently doing more workouts but since 10 days I’ve skipped my yoga practice and doing just a small workout session. I intend to do more.  

20. How’s your toilet paper supply? Always lacking...we need supplies! 

21. Have you made any changes to your hair during quarantine? They are growing so wild, they are awfully messy but I’m happy that nobody can see me. I already intended to let them grow. Positive sides of quarantine.

I’m tagging: @surfrookie,  @northerndownpour182, @mychemicalclaudia, @ilastudies, @the-literaryowl.

#thanks for tagging me! #tagged #quarantine tag #quarantine game

[liberalartssociety]

What do you think about the studyblr community?

I knew one day someone would ask me this

firstly one of the things that really attracted me to starting a studyblr was the idea that trying is cool. all through my schooling making an effort was seen as a bad thing, something to be shunned and mocked. then I came across studyblrs where people seemed enthused by the idea of doing the best they can at school and sharing tips on note-taking and revision techniques and how to get into university and I thought that was good and cool. 

where I’ve ended up, several years later, is only following a handful of postgrad students who sit in this friendly and good group on the edge of the studyblr ‘community’. one of the reasons for that is that I came to realise how much artifice is required to be a successful studyblr. I do take time to set up a lot of my shots and I do very selectively ‘curate’ my studying experiences. a couple of years ago I decided to be upfront with that and I have made many mentions in asks and posts to the inevitably artificial and curated nature of my blog. I hope people have found that refreshing rather than off-putting.

I find that a lot of the asks I get are focused around people trying to emulate me as if I have all the answers because I do well in class and I have a nice pencil case. the truth is that I’ve never been good at studying and that I am blessed with an ability to understand things quite readily and then be able to write about them quite well afterward. when people ask I almost always say that what works for me won’t work for other people and that they should just do what comes most easily to them. what worries me is that people see these beautifully written notes or perfectly notated books and it makes them feel inadequate and anxious because that doesn’t work for them. you have to acknowledge that over-organisation and prettifying is a form of procrastination. that’s not to say it is de facto a bad thing, but it’s not exactly helpful.

what I have struggled with is the way in which the ‘studyblr community’, in its scramble to be super helpful has become very prescriptive and unrealistic. if your notes aren’t pretty enough or if you can’t afford the best stationery or if you don’t fit the mold in some other way then it’s unlikely your post will pick up traction or that you’ll get tens of thousands of followers. the ‘studyblr community’ therefore not only mirrors the ableism and classism of wider youth culture but it can also exacerbate and amplify it without meaning to.

all this is to say that even the most well meaning actions, if done uncritically, create an unhealthy environment. what the studyblr community needs is a big dose of self-awareness and internal critique if it is to avoid the traps which it so readily falls into. I could go on here about this being a trait of liberal capitalism but I will save you that.

I have often thought about closing this blog down because I feel like a fraud and someone who is doing exactly that thing which I recognise and dislike. I have kept it going so that I can say things like this and so that there is a critical voice in the community. I have also kept it going because people do genuinely seem to be inspired by my posts and I do get a little kick knowing that my life is #goals to someone out there.

I’d be really interested to see what people think of all this, I have written it off the cuff and it is not intended to be read as an academic critique as much as an answer to the question asked. @ohmyphd @howtophd @nealc25 @post--grad

#Anonymous

[grangerous-study-endeavour]

answer 8 彡 tag 8

I was tagged by fellow ex-yu, newbie studyblr @baklavastudies, thanks! Happy one month studyblr anniversary by the way! And: Hi. :)

last movie watched: Limitless (2011, dir. Neil Burger)

last song listened to: Truth by Alexander

last book read: finished: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan; currently reading for pleasure: Diary of Anais Nin, 1931-1934 and Zero K by Don Delillo; currently reading for uni:  Politiques de la nature: comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratie by Bruno Latour

last thing eaten: Radishes.

if you could be anywhere rn, where would you be: I am quite happy where I am right now! 

time travel destination: couldn’t (and wouldn’t!) choose between Bosnia in the Middle Ages, Neptun in 200 years and my childhood.

fictional character to keep you company for a day: This is cruel. Most of them. Nowadays probably Remus Lupin because he reminds me of my best friend whom I couldn’t see so much throughout the year so far. (And potterhead stays potterhead, after all.)

tag: @starcrossedstudying, @medkip, @ohmyphd, @rhubarbstudies, @emmastudies, @briellestudies, @jstor (why the hell not, their tumblr is the BEST) and @studiesstudy

#dznta #tagged

[snowhitesarchive]

Is it too much to ask 🌺 Arwen or Eowyn?

here darling

#mari answers #mari's 1.5 k #ohmyphd

[commonorgarden]

@ohmyphd tagged me and she picked a good time because I’m not doing much right now

last movie watched: Goodbye Lenin

last song listened to: I’m listening to Lorde’s new album right now

last book read: reading Moby Dick and Compass by Mathias Enard in the fiction department right now, been reading quite a lot of political and architectural books too

last thing eaten: some rye bread and taramasalata.

if you could be anywhere rn, where would you be: would love to get back to Berlin and Warsaw again this summer but quite happy where I am right this second

time travel destination: 1950s Britain so I can travel around on the railway lines they closed in the 1960s.

fictional character to keep you company for a day: the tiger from The Tiger Who Came to Tea

[snowhitesarchive]

Hi! One of my favourite books is Hyperion by Friedich Hölderlin and according to Pottermore, my patronus is a wild rabbit. 🌷 Arwen pleeeease!

i don’t realy have one of my own for her but one of my favorites is this one: “I have a little head-canon that Arwen met Aragorn when he was injured and in Rivendell. Arwen sang to him, not realizing he might have been awake. This, to me, is justified because when Arwen asks him about how they met, and he says “it felt like a dream” he could have been hazed and confused. It’s silly, but it warms my heart to imagine this.”

#mari answers #mari's 1.5 k #ohmyphd

[nealc25]

I was tagged @ohmyphd,  and I´m going to answer it straight away before I forget it.

last movie watched: song to song, the new film by Terrence Malick (and I found it pretty shallow, so I´m not recommending it ).

last song listened to: Won´t get fooled again by the Who.

last book read:  The gentle spirit by Dostoyevsky.  I won´t list my readings for my next papers but the novel Q by Luther Blisset/ Wu Ming definitely deserve a mention for the best history novel on the Reformation. 

last thing eaten: cous cous salad with basil almond pesto and cherry tomato. 

if you could be anywhere rn, where would you be: on my favorite beach in Naples, swimming in the gulf and sunbathing.

time travel destination:  1975, Mailand. I would hang out at the Libreria delle donne / women´s library and see the beginning of Italian feminist movement. I´m so deep into feminism right now that I´m really wanting this.     

fictional character to keep you company for a day: What a question... If I were in a bad mood, I would let Peregrin Tuc cheer me up. If I would an inspiring conversation, I’d go for Dr. Faust or Ivan Karamazov. And eventually, I would date the brilliant scientist Victor Frankenstein (but before he lost his mind trying to seek revenge from his Creature) for a romantic dinner or Sirius Black for a crazy night. But I would marry Jo March or Jane Austen because marriage is forever (just kidding but maybe not).    I’m tagging @skaterookie , @northerndownpour182 , @mychemicalclaudia , @thelogicofthetrance , @liberal-art-ist , @mathematicool , @ilastudies , @starfish-muffin , @weightlessian , @catestudies , @thefoxhuntingman and everyone else who wish ;) 

#getting out of topic #thanks for tagging me #ask games #studyblr community #litblr #litblog #litblr community #books #bookbl #bookblogger #fiction