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23.9.21 | Reading about animal vulnerability for my English literature class.

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Another day, another coffee shop. Cheers y’all

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i was insanely unproductive and undisciplined last week. hopefully i can make this week different

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so last month i started creating weekly spreads on sunday’s versus creating it all under one day before the new month started. im doing the same thing for this month and i absolutely love it because I became more creative, more excited, and more wanting to use my weekly spreads.

do you create your weekly spread ahead of time or the day/week before?

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reviewsium Some updates regarding my current reads; Letters to a Young Poet is such a lovely collection of Rilke’s responses to Kappur, a student at a military academy who asked Rilke for a writing assessment. His words are lovely, full of creative insights. I’m enjoying this little book so much! I’m also enjoying Ecce Homo by Nietzsche, he is one of those big authors I was scared to approach, and in this biography he is completely out of his mind but still an intriguing and eccentric personality. I’ve found some quotes “relatable” somehow. At the same time I started reading Notes from Underground by Dostoevskij and I’m loving it! It is like a previous work that lays the basics of all his next novels. I could see the same elements and symbolism I’ve found in C&P, so I can’t wait to read further.  I’m almost done with Woolf’s selected short stories and I love it, of course because I’m biased. I’m happy to add this tiny penguin book to my Virginia Woolf’s collection. So far, so good.

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“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”

~ Homer, The Iliad

Currently reading The Iliad, I’ve slowed down during this past couple of weeks but I am now determined to find a more regular pace, even though I’m still not sure how I feel about this particular Italian translation. Meanwhile, every now and then I also sit down to learn a bit of the ancient greek language.

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I’m curious what do you have against the MCU?

completely took over an industry that was already restricted by nepotism and wealth and privilege and made it even harder for any new or creative or diverse ideas to be made and convinced millions of people that having lots of cgi is good cinema so now everything is so polished and shiny and ugly and soulless but still has this unearned cult of worship surrounding it so NOBODY can dare point out the military propaganda or bare minimum diversity or frankly bland filmmaking because if you do you're just a loser and it doesn't matter if you're a movie lover who just wants new and different content or martin scorcese because marvel has completely taken over cinema and criticism is not allowed because how DARE people not give a shit about iron man or loki and there's no need for decent characterisation or complex themes because it's easier to just make villains that are like "capitalism is bad...and also MURDERING CHILDREN IS OKAY!!!" so you can put out your sloppy storylines and make people think it's the morally righteous thing to do to pay money to watch every single one of your sequels and spin offs and reboots and whenever people start to complain about how the film and tv industry is becoming a husk of repetition you just shove benedict cumberbatch in the next spiderman movie or whatever because how can people be mad that we're making sure we're slowing sucking life out of the moving image when we're doing such fun crossovers? and of course all these crossovers are SO important so you have to watch all fifty movies and twenty shows and thirty spinoffs to understand anything else in our universe and you're damn sure we're going to be releasing the next thing as soon as the other is out of theatres or is out of episodes because we CANNOT have people straying and finding media that isn't owned by us at least not until our parent company has bought out that media as well because absolutely everything has to be disney and WE'RE the powerhouse right now and you are never going to escape it and if you want your work to get any kind of support or funding then you better hope you're lucky, know someone rich or with connections, or it features captain america because otherwise you can get fucked but don't worry sometimes we have movies abpout women too so we're actually a #girlboss cinematic universe and if you don't like the stuff we make then you HATE WOMEN and you HATE CINEMA and you HATE PEOPLE BEING HAPPY and originality and creativity is a myth and you're either with us or against us but if you're not with us prepare to find us following you all the fucking time anyway because you are NOT allowed to have interests outside of the MCU we are everywhere and either you will watch spiderloki 58: captain marvel: the revenge of environmentalists or we will fucking kill you ourselves

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i am emotionally unstable but at least that means my spotify wrapped will be interesting

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thrift shopping for books - the perfect sunday activity

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march 26, 2021

weekend reads and some mary oliver poems in my reading journal. happy spring!

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dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight

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Studying quran,Mali

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💫 Studying statistics vocabulary in german 💫

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march 26, 2021

weekend reads and some mary oliver poems in my reading journal. happy spring!

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Snippets

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14.09.2021 ~ I also passed the second exam of this semester, which means that I will officially never ever have to write an exam again!