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Untitled from the Formulation: Articulation, Volume I portfolio, Josef Albers, 1972

Color screenprint 11.31 x 11.69 in. (28.7 x 29.7 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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Pian Ran Portrait

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How did you make everyone like you? People might think you like me too. It's not impossible.

New Life Begins (2022)

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Entering my Cassian Andor era apparently

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she’s cute. she’s tall(er than you, which if we are really being honest is not saying much). she’s got genuinely massive biceps. she has made more “your mom” jokes in her one tragically short lifetime than everyone else who has ever lived on your shitty home planet put together. she is the previous owner of your mysterious sword with terrible vibes that you try very hard not to think too much about lest you pass out and hit your head on one of god’s hardwood floors again. i didn’t say her name, but ORTUS NIGENAD popped into your head, didn’t he? also you probably have passed out on the floor now so sorry about that

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T. Kingfisher's romantic subplot dynamics are almost always "middle aged practical woman with a major failed relationship in her past meets buff polite guilt-riddled hunk of a man", and ya know what I respect that

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The Miette pronunciation post remind me of a repeat situation I've had to deal with my entire life: assholes refusing to pronounce my name correctly.

I had a teacher who decided that my first name being a French name meant my last name is as well. They would pronounce my last name as though it's French, and would threaten detention anytime I refused to respond. Took my parents having a hard talk either them about this to correct her about it.

As often as not, I have to deal with assholes pronouncing my name like it's spelled, so now it has a long E (like in we) rather than sounding like a long A (like in yay). These people get angry when I correct them.

One uni instructor I had didn't like my name, so she called me Wren. She threatened to fail me if i kept refusing to reply to her or kept correcting her. I had to speak to a school official to correct her behavior. Apparently, she did this with any name that ends on a long A.

If you have a difficult time pronouncing someone's name, ask then to repeat it until you do get it right. I had a Chinese flatmate whose name was pronounced Roo-hway. I can't remember the spelling, but she said if I can't pronounce her name Ruth is acceptable. She was shocked when I practiced a couple times and got it right. My Japanese flatmate (I lived with several international students) introduced herself as Kiki, which us an easy name to pronounce, but stated my name is impossible to pronounce because of the R, and refused to learn it. She brought over several Japanese classmates for a study group once and I introduced myself. She said, again, that none of them could say my name...until one of them said she's full of shit and proceeded to pronounce my name correctly...along with the test of the other eight or nine classmates. She never brought them over again (I later learned she's just a spoiled brat), likely due to being called out in her bullshit.

So, anyway, names aren't that difficult. Some sounds I cannot say, like the inverted K for tl, so I just use a K sound instead. Some sounds are unique to specific languages, making them an impossible challenge for some. Still, do try, and stop being pissy about it.

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Grad school is lying to you. You can indulge fixations on obscure topics on your own time. You can sit in a library color-coding notes on articles printed from JSTOR for free. You can argue with dead philosophers in essay format whenever you like. Academia is a state of mind.

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if you're in one of the yes/maybe but I need guidance camps, may I offer a guide in this trying time?

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The wild thing about being obsessed with your own DnD campaign is that there's absolutely NO fandom content for it except the stuff that you make

Like, what do you mean only six other people in the entire world have heard of Dave the Ice Elemental whose job is Freezer at the Fantasy Starbucks?

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New Life Begins (2022)  Episode 40

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My Neighbor Totoro - Fan art by Julia Tveritina

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instagram | london_blooms

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