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Ways to Shift the Angle || It's all about perspective.

1. Go outside ugly.

No makeup. No cute outfit. Just step out. Feel the wind. Notice the clouds like they’re watching you back. You’re not there to be seen, you’re there to see, aka you're right as a HUMAN.

2. Drink water with dramatic flair.

Pour it into your prettiest glass. Add lemon, cucumber, or mint if you’re extra. Sip it like it’s holy. Because it is. Hydration is a rebuke to the decay.

3. Unfollow the perfect. Follow the real.

Curate your feed like a gallery. If it doesn’t make you dream bigger or breathe deeper, cut it. You become what you consume.

My moto has always been See it, be it.

4. Romanticize something stupid.

Fold laundry like a French film heroine. Wash dishes like you’re in a music video. Make it art. You don’t need permission, you have free will!!!!

5. Make something and let it suck.

Doodle, paint, sing badly, dance worse, write shit poetry and convince yourself you're freaking Edgar Allan Poe. Expression is not a talent contest, it’s your soul stretching its arms. There so many ways to do that.

6. Touch grass... but like, really touch it.

Like fr. Sit with your bare legs on the ground. Let dirt under your nails(you can clean it l8r, it ain't gonna kill you) Be wild. You’re not a screen. You’re skin and blood and thunder.

7. Talk to yourself with tenderness.

You’ve survived every ugly day so far. That deserves softness. Praise yourself out loud like you would your best friend.

8. Write a letter to the girl you’ll be in a year.

Tell her what you hope for. What you’re scared of. What you’re trying. Then seal it. Hide it. Come back to it later and weep at your own growth.

9. Watch a movie you loved at 13.

Feel how it hits different. That’s -perspective- seeing the same story with new eyes, older eyes, wiser eyes.

10. Do something the algorithm doesn’t care about.

Learn to knit. Bake bread (!!!!). Read a dusty book. These aren’t for clout. They’re for soul.

You don’t need a full rebrand. You need a tilt. A reframe. A second glance.

Your life isn’t just a reel of wasted time. It’s a painting in progress. And even the mess matters. Every shade. Every smudge. Every layer.

Perspective is more than a trick of the eye. It’s a rebellion. A soft uprising against despair. It says, yes, this sucks right now, but it’s not the whole story. You are not the rot. You are the artist holding the brush, choosing what to do next.

So next time you’re lying there, staring at the ceiling like it holds answers, waiting for a sign, turn the paper. Turn yourself. A few degrees is all it takes.

And suddenly, what looked like the end… is just the start of something strange and beautiful.

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Study motivation ♡

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Sylveon paci by BeaniesBobos on IG!

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pink academia

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If you’re not American, don’t make jokes about our mass shootings or our healthcare system. These are things that actually affect people, that are literally killing us and terrifying the people who are still alive. They are not your tragedies to make light of.

If you’re British, Canadian, Spanish (as in from Spain), or Australian, don’t make jokes about how “at least we didn’t massacre our natives lmao” because guess fucking what? You did. Australia and Canada are on-par with the US in terms of how they have treated and are still treating their indigenous peoples. Britain and Spain both violently colonized countless countries and annihilated the indigenous peoples of those countries. Your countries’ sins are just as horrific and bloody as the United States’.

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Stormy Daniels out there doing god’s work

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Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

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022617 || don’t forget to smile today !! ♪( ´θ｀)ノ

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Hi!! Thank you for opening your inbox to our questions! I saw in your post on names that there are 3 different types of letters - Hiragana, katakana, kanji. How do you keep them all straight? For the name Ai you said there are so many different spellings, isn't that hard to understand? Do you ever come across a common word that is spelled in a way you don't understand or do you learn to understand it all early in life? Sorry if the answer is obvious XD Thanks!

Well, the English alphabet has 26 different letters and spelling/pronunciation is a mess because the rules all contradict each other and everything has about a million of irregular forms or exceptions. How do you understand it? You grew up with it, you learned how to read and write in English during your sensitive period for language acquisition. It’s the same thing. 

Hiragana and Katakana are the first things we learn in writing. They’re both actually the same letters, just written in a different way. Even foreigners who have just started learning Japanese can probably tell them apart at a glance because they are really distinct from each other. 

Check this out! Hiragana is on the top, Katakana is on the bottom. The romaji pronunciation for each letter is written underneath in the English alphabet. Look at how they coincide with each set of letters.

Another important thing to note about Japanese is that spelling isn’t a thing. Unlike English, our language is written phonetically. So take a look at the hiragana chart there; if you know how to read each letter, you can read basic words written in hiragana even if you don’t know what it means.

Kanji is what makes learning Japanese difficult. They look a little more like this, and this is just a handful of kanji.

There are thousands of Kanji in the Japanese language. We spend a lot of time in school learning new ones every year, and they get more and more difficult. Each kanji has a meaning, and a way it’s read. They often have multiple meanings and multiple ways it’s read as well.

We’re taught about a little over two thousand or so Kanji in school, and that’s generally considered to be enough for adult literacy. There are a lot of kanji that the average Japanese adult doesn’t know how to read, and it’s okay. As long as you know what’s used most often in day-to-day life, you’re good. Anything beyond that is just impressive.

We also have a certification program for kanji, where you take an exam to gain certification for a certain level of kanji proficiency if you’d like. The higher levels are extremely difficult to pass, and require years of dedicated study and practice to achieve.

With kanji, there are parts and meanings that you learn. So even if you don’t know how to read a kanji, it’s possible to glean the general meaning of the word and what it’s trying to say.

As for names… Most names are written similarly. Like in America, chances are you know a Kaitlyn, a Caitlin, a Caitlyn, a Katelin, a Catelyn… There are a ton of different ways to write it, but you generally know that it’s the same name. It’s similar to that, we recognize common names, and we know how to read Kanji so we can recognize it.

A recent trend in naming has been kira-kira names, which are names written with ateji. Ateji is just picking some kanji that you like, and assigning a way for it to be read. So for example, this kanji 桜 is read as Sakura. In theory, I could name my kid Ren, but have it written as 桜, even if that’s not how the kanji is read. This is actually a bad example, it’s not how its usually done, but that’s the idea behind ateji. Oftentimes what people will do is select a few kanji they like the meaning of and pick a name to be associated with it. Or they take the pronunciation of kanji that normally wouldn’t be put together, and use the pronunciation to create a word or a name.

It’s a cultural standard for all names to have furigana, smaller text written next to kanji that has the pronunciation of the word so you know how to read it. In most forms and contracts, you write your name the way it’s supposed to be written, and there’s a tiny section above it to write your name in hiragana or katakana to make the pronunciation clear.

API Heritage Month Q&A

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good news! i got into college after suffering so many hardships in the past months including being homeless and getting kicked out by my abusive family!

bad news! i currently dont have 350 dollars to pay the dorm reservation fee! 

ive got 2 interviews in the coming week so i can finally quit my shitty 8.25 an hour job but i really want to reserve this room asap so i dont have to go back to my parents house. if you wanna drop some coins as a graduation present that’d be sick, im starting off at 63 because thats what i currently have in my account and my paycheck next week will go to that as well.

i also take commissions too! i love writing and i love writing even more for money!

cashapp

google pay: noctxaelums@gmail.com

paypal: ajeanpierre110@gmail.com

63/350

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I haven’t done realism in at least 5 months ugh

Reblogs appreciated lmao

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thursday needs a meme, here’s my attempt to contribute. it’s thursday and i’m here to help. thanks

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not to be a downer but it rly bums me out that our planet may not exist by the time I have kids

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Day 1/100 days of productivity

today was a good day- i woke up late and didnt get my workout in, but i was able to get all the hw on my to do list done! i also found out today that even though i got 599 points in my history class as a final grade & needed 600 to pass, my professor rounded my grade up to a D!

hopefully ill be able to keep this going tomorrow. wish me luck!

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hello lovelies!

i’ve finally decided to make a studyblr! i plan on using this blog for 100dop, aesthetics, and the occasional socio-political commentary!

about me:

i go by bex!

18 year old enby

bi!

currently a freshman at community college

i hope to attend UTD this fall!

i’m a music major

but also super interested in politics

she/they pronouns

i play drums, guitar and keyboard

learning bass this summer tho!

i hope to get to know you all well & that we can motivate eachother to work hard!!

i’ll tag the studyblrs i follow currently (if yall could promo me thatd be great but if not thats okay too!) and if any other studyblrs like this i’ll follow you as well 😊

@letsdothis-procrastinator @booksandknowledge @bibliotheque-la-nature @pianoandstudy @bookklempt @studyblr @stubborn-studies @studydiaryofamedstudent @weststudies @pinkmangostudies @weststudies @pinkmangostudies @hannybstudies @en-autre-langue @sprouht-studies @trying-to-concentrate @saxblr