Daily Reminder that studying and working isn’t always aesthetic. You can do your work however you please.
currently trying to do a semester-long project in one night
if i finish it im gonna go to church
if it gets accepted im opening my own
Pronouns dy/dx
Gender neutral title F(x)
people who don't need 'inspiration' to do simple everyday tasks what it's like to know you're better than me?
the only problem with my asexuality is that i would make such a perfect slut
i’m so sorry westerners but whoever told you that russian lit is ‘hard’ and 'complicated’ was probably illiterate
just saw a post complaining about how hard it is to find adhd resources for adults and one of the comments said “tiktok has a lot of adhd tips” as if telling someone with adhd to enter the algorithmic quicksand of perpetual dopamine hits isn’t the most insane thing you could suggest for someone with adhd
Dark Academia ? Light Academia ? I bring you F-in-the-Chat Academia aesthetic :
- Website of the database you need to use right now is down
- The library does not have the book you really, really need
- Emails that go : "Subject : Your submission to our journal. We regret to inform you..."
- Coffee machine being restocked when you desperately need caffeine
- Grading season but it's 70 essays on the same topic
- Emails that go : "Subject : Conference - CANCELLATION"
- Coffee spilled on yourself right before the lecture
- 4 different forms to fill to be reimbursed of your train tickets to a conference
- Classroom is closed and no one has the keys
- "Has... anyone done the readings ?"
- Emails that go "Subject : Today's class cancelled" when you just arrived to the room
- Internet down in the whole University.
reading a textbook for class and i’m going insane. why is this just poetry. what. this is a STEM class what’s going on.
HELLO????? HELLO?????
word of advice: retaking exams sucks so consider not failing :)
presented without comment: the covers of 6 books that released within 3 years of each other (!) by the same NYT bestselling author, and then two quotes by said author.
make of this what you will.
actually fuck it i will comment: this has less to do with the author and more with the industry. the tiktokification of fiction is actively harming not only publishing but also the audiences who seek this shit out. major publishers are prioritizing fic tags and shorthand tropes for the sake of sales, and it's rotting the literary landscape from the inside. when you pick up a book from a major bookseller that has one of these stock-image-ass covers, you're not so much reading a work of literature as you are a corporate-concocted combination of buzzwords. authors deserve better, and you as a reader deserve better. and if you say something like you prefer the pre-bottled story-by-committee stuff, then i really just don't have all that much to say to you.
been reading a lot of conversations about space since the james webb images were released particularly wrt to light speed and the fact that we are technically "looking into the past" because the light that actually reaches us is millions or billions of years old, and so we only see these places as they were when the light left, not as they are right now. cool & fine & very interesting
but i just saw someone (shoutout sylverthewordsmyth in the tiktok comment section) reframe this as "the future can see us" and despite this being a natural and logical extrapolation from us seeing the past, it has shaken me to my core. if there's anybody to look at us from far away, millions and billions of years in the future, they would look at us and see... us. they would look and see the same planet we live on right now, with the same continents and oceans. and it will be already long gone but to them it will be as alive as it is to us right now, the same way we see still see stars that have already gone out. i have to lay down
my current inspiration: studio ghibli characters working hard at what they love
“Airplanes Are Flying” by Fyodor Malayev (1950)
wow, seven decades later it’s me when i see airplanes :D
“The Chick” by Kornei Chukovsky, illustrated by Yevgeny Charushin (1934)
sometimes i wish i were a film major or smth so i could just watch movies for hw or sm shit
but then i remember i don't even like movies nearly enough to tolerate them as smth obligatory and i'm also in fact doing my most favorite thing in the world rn
it's good to remember once in a while that i chose this shit with my heart and soul
Hi, hope you doin' well. I want to ask. I am a baby of learning russian and I want to immerse myself with that language so my ears will used to it. I recently found a song called осеан и звезда by Deep Red Wood and already fall in love with this song. Can you (or maybe your followers) recommend me other song that similar with Deep Red Wood? Thank you for that
Ps: If you find my english sounds weird or grammatically incorrect, please let me know. I am so nervous
Hi~
I cannot think of a similar song in my playlist but perhaps you can listen to the songs i have saved and see if you enjoy something else?
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLobopgfuzG6RQ9_iDOntg_mgMHMj-x5Y-
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2cnFPTZlRia5Ldt57ntPeR?si=kiHwR5HtRfmxrvzZmLBmKQ&dl_branch=1
Maybe my followers have more song recommendations. @lipwigvonmoist perhaps you have suggestions?
P.s. your English is alright, no need to worry about that 🐼
okay so i made this.. short, lyrical, and not too obvious (i hope) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUBKjYcBuUxkwkBauIHK5E-Ur_v6fc_pX (im not sure its exactly what you looked for but i asure you its worth checking out)
приятного прослушивания))
How to choose a book in your target language
Note: This post is about books for reading when you want to improve your reading skills in your target language.
First thing you need to do is to figure out what your level is. If you are a beginner or an advanced learner because the classic “choose a book you know” won’t really work for both. (well, it might, but someone will get bored at some point)
For Beginners
Books for children They use basic vocabulary and they are also pretty short. When you are a beginner too many new words will make you tired pretty fast and also frustrated because after 10-15 minutes when you have already 1 page of new words you lost motivation to finish that book so these stories for children are perfect. Children’s Digital Library has books in various languages so if you ever need books for kids, this is the perfect place to choose one.
Books you know You know the story already so you can focus on learning vocabulary. If you decide to read daily 1 chapter or 1 page, it doesn’t matter too much because in the end you’ll still be learning and you will enjoy studying that book since you decided to read again.
Classics I kept debating if i should add this or not so i added it but i’ll warn you about something. Since last year i didn’t find Danish books to read, i started to read some stories by Hans Christian Andersen and when i started to ask a friend of mine questions, he told me that no one uses those terms anymore because they are too old. And then i remembered that even in my native language people don’t talk like they do in classics so this choice is risky since you might learn vocabulary that isn’t in use anymore.
Advanced learners
I hope i’m not the only one who gets bored easily and can’t focus on books i know. I love them but after a couple of chapters i can’t focus anymore and in this case, new books are a better choice. You keep reading because you find the story interesting and you want to know what happens. However, if you are reading a serie of books, read your next book in your target language instead of the one you usually use.
How to deal with unknown words
If you are lucky, memrise might have a course about your book, if not, you have to make digital flashcards (or paper ones if you prefer them; or maybe just write in a notebook)
For verbs i’d suggest to write it down as you found it, then the translation and right next to it with another ink, the infinitive
e.g. dormirai = to sleep, dormir
Reading methods
I have 2 methods because i can’t use the first one always so, the first one.
I just read and try to guess the meaning of a word and if i can’t, then i search it. It’s easier somehow to do this and i can guess very well the meaning. Sometimes i even highlight words and search the meaning later just to analyze them more.
The second method requires more energy because it’s for languages that you don’t “master” too well. For such languages i have to read once the entire paragraph and then see what i understood from it. If there is a certain word that it’s unknown, i’ll search it. I tend to use HiNative to translate what seems unusual or sounds like an expression because normal online translators aren’t good for these. After i have all the unknown words, i will look over the paragraph again.
With all these unknown words, i usually make flashcards on Quizlet and practice them from time to time.
Also, if you want to be sure you understood everything, write a summary after a page/chapter and in this way you practice your writing skills too.
How to figure out what words you need
The most common question when you want to read is “do i translate everything?” and the answer is no. I have never met a single language learner who bothered to check out every single word. Usually i translate the key words or those words i see a lot. If a certain word appeared 2-3 times, then i’ll translate it. I’ll also translate it if i don’t understand the sentence because of it.
How to learn this new vocabulary
- You can be an angel and make a Memrise course for everyone.
- You can make flashcards on Quizlet.
- You can make mnemonics.
- You can use them in various sentences, maybe write a short story using as many new words as you can.
- You can write them on sticky notes and place them everywhere in your house.
- You can write them in a notebook and read them every night and every morning while staying in bed.










