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Straight ahead. That is who we're fighting.

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This makes me release endorphins 🤌✨

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I'm listening to Full Speed Ahead from Epic: the Musical and it's hilarious that what's-his-face is literally singing about how they're running out of food and asking what they should do and Odysseus is just like "LOOK! BIRDS!!" I mean, yes, he explains himself later, but it's a complete non-sequitur and it's hilarious

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R.M. Rilke, The Man Watching // Euripides, An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson) // Oscar Wilde // Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life // @bitsbyt3s // Mary MacLane, "January 20", The Story of Mary MacLane // Trista Mateer // see 4 // @kafk-a // Olivia Laing, "Loneliness: coping with the gap where friends used to be"

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Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.

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“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.” -Jane Austen

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continue please with your over-the-top utterly obsessed and passionately entertaining ways. this feels safe.

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averno - louise glück

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whatever was left, that was ours for a while.

sunrise - louise glück

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Hello and welcome!

This blog is co run by Haleth and myself, Asra.

We love being pretentious together (read as we are both absolute nerds who enjoy rambling on about multiple topics together) so we decided we'd do something with our combined knowledge and are making a podcast (Sciolists' Libellum).

This blog serves as our home base so feel free to contact us here or send an email to twonerdsmakinnoise@gmail.com, we'd love to hear suggestions and questions!

Our main focus is literature and poetry. We are both very much humanities kids, but I love biology and torturing myself with attempting to learn programming and Haleth has developed an appreciation for physics, so we may have some STEM girlie moments once in a while (just don't ask us any hectic math questions please, we will both cry).

Stay curious! - Asra and Haleth

As we add more original posts here, this About and the Navigation will be updated so our work is easily accessible. If there are broken links, please let us know so I can fix it asap.

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All 13 full moons of 2023

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Haleth || 22 || tries to handle the tech side of things but Asra is better at it. I do the organising and handling of the admin.

BA || LLB || Undergrad. Send help

If you wanna partake in the shenanigans you can find me @rangerofthesouth

Areas of Interest:

- Right now, a severe obsession with Greek Mythology because of the PJO series and I'm also reading the Iliad after reading Song of Achilles (no, i cannot under any circumstances be normal about him and Patroclus.)

- Classic literature and poetry : I wanna read as many classics as I can because why not and also school didn't allow me to read so I'm making up for lost time. (I'm still trying to finish Pride and Prejudice, but my adhd keeps saying noooo)

- Film : I watch a lot of films, movies and series, sometimes I watch mainstream stuff. Not just to space out, but because i enjoy complex storylines and excellent directing.

(currently watching Gossip Girl and... I have my reservations but..it's actually pretty interesting). I'm a fan of period dramas, fantasy and anything that has to do with magic, sci-fi and psychological thrillers.

- The Old Guard and books by Neil Gaiman : recently graphic novels have become something I'm completely obsessed with... I can't explain how much i love graphic novels and comics right now!!!! Just *high pitched scream*

- Also non-western literature:

I'm a firm believer in knowing where you came from in order to know where you're going.

gimme poetry about the indentured Indians, gimme stories about the poc who have had to fight to be seen, gimme gimme oral tales from ethic tribes, let me see the diaspora of your people around the globe

i wanna hear about everyone's history. Where you came from, why they chose to step onto the ship, whether they had a choice. Tell me about your aunty's recipe for a certain dish, i bet you there's a story behind it.

- I'm really into fashion rn after spending my entire adolescence wearing the same tshirt and jeans. will i be normal about it? Absolutely not.

- queer theory and history and law even if i don't wanna admit that out loud. But wow, is the law actually interesting...

What else am i interested in??

- Food. Especially Asian foods and the absolute wonderful variety every culture has to offer. So far I've had a good intro to Korean foods such as gimpap and baobuns, I've tried Chinese oudon noodles which i would happily die for oh and i tried ramen too.. But i needa know more so please gimmmmme gimme your favourite Asian dishes, especially if they're spicy.

- Music : i play the guitar and piano and cannot be normal about jazz, blues or classics. Yes, Asra is right, Pop music is my area of expertise until you ask me about relevant songs. ( BUT classical music is Asra's area of utter and complete expertise. Seriously any questions on classical music and composition send it to Asra)

-Art: i freaking love art ( Van Gogh my love, Fauvism my detested, animation because of Abu (a friend not the monkey from Aladdin.) my painting skills are something to be worked on but i can draw!

- I'm very normal about Cate Blanchett in any of her films.

- i enjoy reading and listening to explanations on different beliefs, cultures and psychology, i really like understanding how the world works.

-physics even though I failed math and never did physics but wooow do i love applying it to Formula One.

- Oh yeah, formula one 🏎️

- i love animals, i will befriend your pets.

-Travel : honestly i wanna see every inch of the world and eat alllll kinds of foods and leave a footprint in a German forest. The ocean beckons, the sky will carry me gently, the mountains sing for me to join them.

My areas of Interest will change as i grow and my brain decides what my next hyperfixation will be. There's a good chance imma inflict it upon everyone here😗

beautiful paragraph dividers are the works of @saradika

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Hello, may I request dividers labeled with the words Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How? I would like each divider to feature one of these words. It would be very handy for news and event announcements. Color scheme would be red and gold. Thank you!

Ooh this is such a cool idea, yes!!! I did three styles, with different fonts and using the red and gold color scheme. I hope these will be useful for your events and announcements! ❤️💛

[Free] Masterlist Headers & Dividers!

Please consider liking or reblogging if you use 💕

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May we please get some red and black lacey/floral 18+, navigations, & reblog dividers? Youre create them so amazingly.

hi anon! 🖤❤️ thanks so much! I couldn’t figure out how to do both black & red on the same image, and have the text stand out enough. So I did separate ones - hope this is close to what you were looking for!

[Free] Masterlist Headers & Dividers!

Please consider liking or reblogging if you use 💕

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Asra // 22 // handles the tech side of things here

MA English Lit. (Almost done, so so close [to fighting my university])

Areas of interest

○ Non western literature (esp African lit)

○ Classics ( Shouldn't have read Hardy or Plath during lockdown)

○ Poetry (nature poetry, my beloved)

○ Vampires 🧛‍♂️ ♥️ (Pls talk to me about Carmilla, I can be normal, I promise)

○ Horror (I'd like to fight Stephen King)

○ there are others but I'm blanking now :/

Other things I am completely normal about

○ Languages (currently learning Spanish and Japanese and trying to not forget Afrikaans)

○ Anime! Feel free to give me recs ( currently watching Apothecary Diaries)

○ My dogs (most beloved ever, my precious children)

○ Growing things (I have illegally downloaded a plant before and will do so again :3)

○ Food! (Measure spice with your heart)

○ Coding and Programming (extremely amateur)

○ Art ( Van Gogh my beloved, Picasso my beloathed)

○ Music (Please don't ask me about pop music, that's Haleth's department)

○ I want to say gaming, but I have only really played Hollow Knight

You can also find me @anime-academia

Feel free to come say hi!

dividers are from @saradika

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HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ハウルの動く城 2004, dir. Hayao Miyazaki