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learned about the “light academic” genre today. which i guess is just if you go to college and don’t kill anybody

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it's the end of the second wk of uni, and i'm alr thinking abt next summer's travel plans... :'] i miss magical places like this that look as if they're straight out of a beauty and the beast scene.

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my least favourite turn based strategy game is email

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just finished my first wk of uni, which means it's abt time to return to studyblr after being on hiatus for years (?!?) 🥲

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schedule tag!

now that the end of the school year is rolling around for most of us...

what courses have y'all requested or scheduled for next semester?

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it'll be my jr yr when i take ap u.s. history, ap eng lang + comp, ap phys, h pre-calc (pray to athena for me), h spanish iii, choir, and weight training

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tagging anyone who wants to share + @strangedftrm @em-hotep @sadcypher @adhyayana-v @coff-chee @the-abyss-gazed-back @seizethehistory @wolkenstudien

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i better catch up on the assigned reading (dracula emails) so i can partake in the class discussion (memes)

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starting house of leaves after finishing my first final exam early... already in love

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dude stop telling me to count dracula I only ever see the one

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temporarily back from hiatus to show off my copy of tdc

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another book tag game

thanks for the tag, @adhyayana-v <3 it's been too long since we've played a tag game!

THE LAST BOOK I . . .

bought: a whole library sale haul! most looking forward to HOUSE OF LEAVES by mark z. danielewski, though

borrowed: another haul! can't wait to start PLAIN BAD HEROINES by emily m. danforth

was gifted: i don't even remember bc I've stopped accepting books as gifts (got tired of receiving repeats of books i didn't like rip)

started: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by harper lee

finished: THE IVIES by alexa donne

gave 5 stars: THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS by micah nemerever (psychological dark academia masterpiece)

gave 2 stars: THE MAIDENS by alex michaelides (lovely concept but so so poorly executed)

didn't finish: ARIADNE by jennifer saint (couldn't stand writing style)

tagging @h4edes @sadcypher @em-hotep @the-abyss-gazed-back @coff-chee @seizethehistory @wolkenstudien

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it’s sooo sad when u see all these research papers by the same 2 ppl and then u see 1 where only one of them is credited… where’s ur little buddy don’t tell me u broke up </3

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Book recs?

BOOKS THAT WILL MAKE YOU THINK

mostly abt humanity/the human condition bc i have thing for psychoanalyzing shitty people/behaviors and romanticizing the process or questioning how it is that we call ourselves humanKIND

yes, there's also a lot of gay yearning and emotional pain involved in the first half of these. enjoy suffering.

frankenstein (mary shelley)

the secret history (donna tartt)

*these violent delights (micah nemerever)

the picture of dorian gray (oscar wilde)

animal farm (george orwell)

the little prince (antoine de saint-exupery)

*suffer the children (craig dilouie)

the hunger games (suzanne collins)

bonus: twelfth night (william shakespeare) bc it plays w gender and sexuality in such a comedic but also tragic way

asterisk = not crazily popular in the lit community (hope you haven't heard of it yet)

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BOOKS THAT AT LEAT SOMEWHAT HURT TO READ

but for different reasons (i.e. stupid, lovable characters)

all for the game series (nora sakavic)

the song of achilles (madeline miller)

if we were villians (m. l. rio)

romeo & juliet (william shakespeare)

the goldfinch (donna tartt)

giovanni's room (james baldwin)

the kingkiller chronicles (patrick rothfuss)

vicious (v. e. schwab)

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if you've alr read these books or like a diff genre, feel free to send me another ask and be more specific :)

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13 college professors killed in horrific youtube autoplay incident

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temporarily back from hiatus to show off my copy of tdc

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professors be like "I'm swamped with grading right now" my brother in christ you made the assignments

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You have wine aunt energy

s tier compliment. thank you, anon.

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the hardest thing about being an LGBT person in the chemical or life sciences is refraining from making a shitty joke every time terminology contains "trans" "cis" "hetero" or "homo"