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One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.

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I'm pretty sure it's the millionth time I've said, "that's it im going to sink my soul into the world of the arts now" but after figuring out I probably have pmdd, at least I know this will last like two weeks for sure.

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No one does it like non-binary people do it

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Oh my gosh I feel like a celebrity from getting to sing in front of people, making them clap and asking them if they're having a good time. No photos.

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New aesthetic, math academia. We solve equations and puzzles.

Please I need to romantincise all this time I spend solving a trig equation....

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Guys. GuyS! I figured it out.

Sorry if this has been said before but it’s only now making sense to me and I need to share.

August.

Specifically, August in season 2 of Young Royals. His whole story arc shows the corruptive influence of the monarchy and I didn’t understand it until now.

We start the season with August bending over backwards to do what Wille says. Yeah, it’s because he massively fucked up and utterly betrayed his cousin. But he also tells Sara, he’s waiting for the other shoe to drop. He is on his best behavior in the hopes that by doing so, he can stop that other drop, the royal family will eventually forget about this, and everyone moves on.

We even see August going beyond acting out of pure guilt. He gets summoned to see the queen and he is freaking out. He thinks the jig is up. Before going to the Queen, we get that locker room scene where Vincent chews out Simon, and August actually sticks up for Simon. I’ve thought about this since I saw it. Why is he doing what I’d consider the genuinely right thing to do? He’s acting like a real leader here. I think he is not just defending Simon out of frustration, although I think there’s that too. I think he’s thinking “I’m doomed, I’m getting kicked out of the royal family, I might as well do the right thing here.” He has a whole new perspective on life, thinking the monarchy machine isn’t behind him. He is trying his hardest to make things right.

…And then he goes straight back to his seriously demented ways when he finds out that he’s actually being trained as Wilhelm’s backup. He realizes that no matter how hard he fucks up, that machine will protect him as a byproduct of protecting itself. (At least for now. Who knows, if the fact he filmed and posted that video?)

His relationship with Sara highlights this more. In season 1, he’s kind of bemused that she’s into him. Then in season 2, she’s a friend (who is lusting after him in secret), but her very real support helps turn things from friendship to relationship. We even see August as a very sweet and caring boyfriend to her, but the minute his position within the royal family is threatened, he goes right behind her back to try and sabotage her brother via her father’s drug dealing.

As August gets closer to power, he gets more and more corrupted by it. Whereas Wille never really wanted it in the first place and is stumbling his way through how to actually use it in a positive way, August is a case study in why powerful people do terrible things.

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I'm now very inspired to write an essay about young royals but I'm going to wait until it's finished, hopefully these improve my English grades lmao

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Damn girl, go for the jugular

Inspo here

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Genius writing of Pavitr Prabhakar

They made an ass of a spiderman in theory yet he's my favourite out of all of them and naturally I'm thinking why.

Ignoring the aesthetic aspects like his sick design and his distinctive web slinging style. I think it's most interesting how they do this through the writing, the way they tackle his fatal flaw, his fat ego and blind optimism by creating a really sharp interval logic and communicating this within the space of 15 minutes.

We understand that his big ego is all earnest and out of naivite rather than him putting down others. He just so happens to be the best and perfect, and therefore everything is great for him. He was given a blessing at a very young age to be a spider and he happens to be good at it of course he's going to be prideful how can it not be. And why would he not gloat, he's a perfect guy perfect grades perfect hair and he knows that makes him special. Especially considering the rest of the Spider-Verse, having a perfect one like Pavitr is unexpected so we're at least intrigued by him.

But why do we like him despite characters with perfect lives and a big ego typically being frustrated. Using his humour the writers made his introduction it as playful as possible so we laugh at how him you know. One of the first things he says is "being Spiderman is so easy" and knowing he's been at it for 6 months it's super funny. He's also relatable, the successes he points out, skipping working out because he has a perfect body, having a girlfriend her parents don't know about, doing well in school are all things that are relatable to us especially if you're Indian, it feels like a real student who's living their best like. Also playfulness is maintained when they go to unglitch spots thing the collider scene, he treating it with even less seriousness "just another easy day of being spiderman" he says and is subsequently blown up - it's funny. We also can't get annoyed during that scene really being invasive to Miles' attempts and channelling the electricity so he's not being frustrating to us or to Miles, just a little naive. We can get humour from it but we also understand this as a flaw too because of the dramatic irony, we're hinting that he's not supposed to think this way.

They also give him the nice internal logic making his mindset sympathetic by testing it within the movie. In the saving India scene, what's most notable is the line "I can do both" turning his idealism into tragedy when he's faced between saving his girlfriend and saving his girlfriends dad. The surrounding microelements and whatnot making the atmosphere feel dire which contributes to the tragedy. But it's that were seeing the life that he easily lives turning on its head. His mentality given definition as a this it will work out so long as I do it, a noble origin for his confidence. Though he knows he's special but he doesn't think he's any more valuable. "do both" showing no real bias towards to what directly affects him - he can empathise with his girlfriend and recognise loosing her and her dad would be devastating. He's not egotistical like thinking he's better than others, he's empathetic and values the people he saves as well as the people they value. The words "do both" colours his saving as this as being an overexertion, he's unaware of what he can't do solidifying his perspective of viewing this as easy coming from a place of naivite. Additionally he has to be the one to save people - "I can do both" - and this is why being Spider-Man is easy for him, it has to be. This all makes him more understandable and the fact this is clearly failing him and tragically makes him sympathetic. Moreover, we care about the love for his girlfriend and for his people because it was fun hearing him explain it earlier so its even more sympathetic that he's loosing what he loves. I think this also stops being a careful what you wish for where we could reproach him because of the scenery we understand him to have.

It seems more he does everything because he's so loving, and he just so happens to be blessed and stuff. Which is super enjoyable to watch! and this burst of characterisation happens in like 20 minutes so like wowowowoowwwowoowowowowow

Anyway, this isn't the greatest most insightful analysis but I just had to ramble about my favourite boy!!

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The fact that me a degenerate is starting project 50 today, well I don't know what that says about society.

Ratatouille did once say "anyone can cook".

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A spread i did back in 2021 about my favorite arc in mha, the Overhaul arc. But I was rewatching the show recently and idk? The Sports Festival arc is so so good. Like why was there so much drama. There were a lot of times where I was like ????

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i know not many people would want to read a 10,000 word article about the minecraft end poem and how the author, Julian Gough, was never fairly compensated for his work and has made it public domain.

But it's a very well-written and heartfelt read, and he makes it very clear that none of this is a cash-grab and despite the fact that he is essentially a starving artist in this capitalist society, he only mentions his financial struggles despite Minecraft's huge huge success at the bottom of this article and not in the tweets so as to not dilute his message.

Anyway, I just think it'd be cool if those who are able to could support him in some way whether it be subscribing to his substack or donating to his paypal (that's linked in the article, you can ctrl + F to find it easier), that's all.

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The simultaneous urge to be an aesthetic, humanities-loving artist or a hustling, productive, math-nerd, tech economist.

There's only 24hrs in a day...

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Today I learnt...

Maths AA HL is hard. Missing 3 months of school doesn't help.

Don't ever assume you're smart, there will always be an oncoming experience to humble you.

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⋆｡°✩ Vision board ✩°｡⋆

I ain't big on all this manifesting, affirmations mumbo jumbo but I though I'd give this a shot. Not very cohesive but authentic and very fun to make.

I say there's no harm in trying to make one for yourself. After all you can't improve yourself if you don't know the person you're going to become.

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Tips for playing catch up:

Make a list of the things you need to do along with an estimated time for each thing

Figure out how much time you have to catch up

Rank the things by importance. For example, a thesis statement for a research project is probably going to be more important than an hour long homework assignment.

Start on the long, important assignments and when you want to work on something different, pick a short thing to do. Take a break from that 8 page paper and go wash the dishes type deal. If you exhaust yourself on one thing, you won't get anything done.

Recognize that you most likely won't get everything you need to done. And be ok with that. Don't stress about it. Look at your list and ignore the least important things.

See if you can get an extension. Most times people are willing to help if you communicate!

Focus. This is buckle down time. It's hard and sucks but you can get through this I promise. It's ok to cry. We all cry.

Take plenty of breaks and don't panic. Focus on the important things. Just because something is lengthy doesn't mean it's more important.

You got this love!

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It took me a month... but the first writing project I've ever finished... was a screenplay for bakudeku.