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graveyard-greenery
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sioltach

I love learning about ancient humans in particular because u can learn so much about humanity and what we are naturally inclined to do with our lives. all this info leads to the obvious conclusion that capitalism is UNGODLY anti human. it goes against our bodies, our family structures, our need for tight-knit communities, harvest sharing, art, music, storytelling, rest and feeling fully valued as a person with the inherent gifts you bring to the table and not as an easily replaceable employee whose worth is determined by how far you allow people to deny your needs. so uhh anti capitalism is pro human 

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metuospero
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thatfunkyopossum

Hot take everyone needs at least one creative hobby to accompany their consumptive ones. I don’t mean just art and writing I mean literally anything where you create something. Embroidery, cooking, knitting, gardening, wood whittling, trap making, needle felting, instrument playing, bug raising, fandom analysis writing, ANYTHING where you do work and can hold the fruits of your labor in you hands. Anything where you MAKE something else.

Something that isn’t a career choice. Something you don’t have to be good at. As long as it brings you joy.

Please get hobbies, they enrich your life.

another, possibly hotter take for creative folks: you should have consumptive hobbies to balance out your creative ones too. not having these will limit what media you draw from for your own work and can give you burnout not being able to focus on anything but pumping out content.

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mylkdew
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cremedelacoeur

going into second hand bookstores and seeing the worn out paperback you’ve been trying to find for months and finding an odd bookmark inside the musty pages feels like divine providence

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elistudies
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princesskuragina

Imagine if female antagonists and morally grey women were written as people instead of as props for male character development I don't think we'd survive the power

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inkblue-computerhead

some things i’ve learned while studying in quarantine

  1. drink more water instead of more coffee.
  2. weekly goals are bullshit. set yourself 3-day goals. you’ll be less laid-back.
  3. don’t just mindlessly stare at words. before you start studying, know your approach to it. have a plan.
  4. summarizing the concept in your own words is the key part of taking notes. don’t just copy things down, convert them into your own way of talking, your own vocabulary, no matter how dumb and unprofessional it sounds.
  5. don’t let the “studyblr aesthetic” fool you. studying doesn’t have to be pretty. summaries and notes can be messy as long as they’re comprehensible. you can always rewrite and reorganize them later. (honestly, you better do. and you better keep them.)
  6. don’t throw away the papers you’ve solved your problems in. staple them to the fucking textbook. you need to see them constantly. cause you’ll need reminders of how far you’ve came, when you’re feeling discouraged.
  7. don’t be an armchair analyst for your issues. if you have an idea then act on it.
  8. remember: the exact point where it becomes difficult, is where your growth begins. take a deep breath, and try to focus on the paragraph in front of you.
  9. get off your high horse and understand that if you’re a zero, you won’t go to 100 in a couple of days. first, you’ll need to reach 30, then from 30 to 60, and then from 60 to 90. nobody is 100 everyday. that happens very rarely.
  10. you need to have fun everyday. you need to have peaceful time every single day. even on exam night. especially on exam night, actually. so make sure you’ve studied enough so you can have some time to yourself.
  11. once you’re on a roll and in need of some challenge to stay on track, start writing down your studying hours. tell yourself you’re not allowed to do less than 80% of what you did yesterday. whatever the hell it was, even just one hour. so if yesterday you really studied for like, say 8 hours, today your goal is to study for at least 6 and a half hours. if you can’t keep up with that, make it 70%, or 60%. 
  12. be forgiving of yourself. be kind to yourself. even if you bounced back and lost your streak. start again. as slowly as you did before. take your time. it’s okay, you were there once you can get there again.
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sleepdeprived-dumbass

Do you ever just have a breakdown over the fact that there are too many books to read, too many movies to see, too many poems to memorize, too many plays to watch, too many artworks to stare at and that you will never be able to consume all of it or is that just me

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of-foolish-and-wise

oh, to be the owner of a small bookshop on a cobblestone street with roses climbing the front of the building, where books are stacked about in piles and there’s always coffee brewing and a sleepy shop dog lifts his head at the sound of the door’s bell and thumps his tail against the hardwood