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I wanna be a story teller when I grow up. I wanna travel and call all the children of the village around me and sit by a fireplace and tell them stories they’ve all heard before but want to hear again. I want the adults to line the back of the room and pretend like they aren’t equally as enthralled and I want the village crazy lady to come up to me after wards, while I’m having a warm bowl of soup and she’ll tell me her story that I’ll retell in the next town I travel to. I want my stories to be the highlight of a cold winter day and I want elderly men and women coming up to me after saying “I remember that one from when I was a kid”

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kevin and satan by vanessa stockard

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A (fake) Manacled movie poster!

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every bitch is always in their lana phase because the absence of a lana phase is only a shadow of its presence

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“you‘re so quiet” baby i’m not even here. i’m fantasizing about a book i read weeks ago. move on.

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No one deserves depression and unhappiness. Evgeny Lushpin Fine Art

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Don't worry if your life is in chaos, you are like the universe itself and its law of entropy. もの久保 on Pivix

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saw a movie

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Dragon Fairytale AU ⚜️

Arts 2020(21)

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Mothers & Fathers

@heavensghost | Jasmine R., “Untitled” | Berthe Morisot, “The Cradle” | @honeytuesday | Unknown | Alain de Botton | Léon Lucien Goupil, “Motherhood” | Chen Chen, “Poplar Street” | Ella Wilson, “Take Care: Mothers, Daughters, and Inheriting Self-Hatred” | @maiabaia | Kazuya Akimoto, “Mother and a Child in the Mirror” | Li-Young Lee, “Folding a Five-Cornered Star so the Corners Meet” | Aaron Smith, “Primer” | Catherine Lacey, “Cut” | futngina | Jules David, “Vice and Virtue: Misery” | Rupi Kaur, “The Sun and Her Flowers”

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some things i’ve learned while studying in quarantine

drink more water instead of more coffee.

weekly goals are bullshit. set yourself 3-day goals. you’ll be less laid-back.

don’t just mindlessly stare at words. before you start studying, know your approach to it. have a plan.

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.

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.)

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.

don’t be an armchair analyst for your issues. if you have an idea then act on it.

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.

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.

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.

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%. 

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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All I’m saying is there’s 7.6 billions of us and only one God. We could take him out if we want to.

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it’s so awkward seeing people online make fun of christians for stuff like modesty and waiting for marriage because they’re literally islamic values as well. I’ve seen ‘woke’ people laugh at christian women who talk about modesty like haha why would you ever wanna do that... people preach about empowerment but apparently modest dressing is only cool & acceptable when it’s practiced by a non religious person like billie eilish

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long has paled that sunny sky

echoes fade and memories die

autumn frosts have slain july