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doodling characters standing still in a whiteish void

theyre women. tits and pussy they do the devils tango.

like 99% ppl in this fandom make em some flavour of yaoi or straight im gonna be loud as fuck abt this

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the fun thing about writing a story is that you have control over everything. the downside is that you have control over everything

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Prompt #1414

“I like this.”

“Being close to me?”

The villain looked at them like they were stupid. “Not fighting.”

“Oh. Right. Of course.”

“…so I take it that this means you enjoy being close to me?”

The hero jolted. “What? No! Don’t be ridiculous-”

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Sorry, what is worm?

web serial novel about an alternate earth where people with superpowers exist and affect the structure of society. it's much more grounded in reality and on the "dark fiction" end of the spectrum than comic book or mcu-esque. i'd say it occupies a similar position in superhero media to something like the boys, although it's much more driven by brutal, mundane realism (at least on a character level; there's only so "real" a setting can feel when it deals in superpowers, alternate universes, and cosmic forces beyond comprehension) than shock humour and splatter horror.

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Beware!

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daily log no. 1 | 2.24.24

no academics done today since it's rest day. did a bunch of other things that I feel are productive though! tomorrow, we grind.

currently finishing vicious by v.e. schwab. i'm around 240 pages into it and I'm planning on finishing it tonight because it's such a nice novel! I love the characterization and dynamics of the characters this is definitely one of my top 10 books this year.

ate tacos! I love tacos but this taco wasn't the usual taco I get but it was nice

current favourite game is cult of the lamb it's very fun! I've been enjoying the cult aspect of it rather than the action/fighting since I hate dodging and I keep dying before the boss fight. my favourite weapon so far is the sword and the hands because they're easy to use tho i do love the axe for large damage. if anyone can send help my way for fighting heretics please do OTL

to do list for tomorrow (hopefully i'll finish most of these since i need to catch up)

memorandum meeting document

pre calculus exam review (5 topics to study total)

english essay outline

biology and history notes

activity proposal documents

that's all for now. happy weekends everyone!

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Another book rec/review:

The book is called She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick.

- It’s enemies to lovers

- Both main characters are lesbians

- One of them is a WOC, specifically Korean origin.

- It’s during college

The book is about two very different girls who end up studying at the same university. Alex had a difficult childhood, her mother is an alcoholic and she has to work to sustain both her and her mom. She has a girlfriend and considering how she is used to flirt with other people, she promises her gf she will gain her trust by not flirting with anyone when she goes to college. She’s more outgoing and confident.

Meanwhile Molly is the whole opposite, she’s very shy and insecure. She has severe anxiety which made her have only one friend during high school: her own mother. She has a crush on a girl named Cora (who is in the same college) who is her crush since middle school, the thing is that due to her anxiety and shyness she has difficulties befriending other people, let alone talk with her crush.

Both girls meet during a party in the beginning of the school year and they don’t like each other at first. However, when Alex notices Molly’s crush on Cora she proposes helping Molly on getting more confidence to finally ask Cora out.

My thoughts about it: I genuinely liked this book. It’s easy to read and for the most part it doesn’t have much angst. It’s pretty obvious to me how the author is a lesbian because she is not afraid to use the lesbian label throughout the story. I think it’s worth reading it.

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btw archive dot org is SUCH a treasury when it comes to out-of-print poetry anthologies… i am having the time of my life, truly ❣️

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The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

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Free to read now: FRACTURED MAGIC

A penny dreadful for the modern reader! A thrilling tale for the masses! Read all about a corrupted hero's hunt for redemption and an elven lordlings' quest to rescue his kidnapped King. The two estranged best friends are racing against time -- and long-lost gods -- to achieve their goals. Will they make up and work together before it's too late?

Fractured Magic is a queer fantasy webserial. New chapters are published on substack and at emrowene.com every monday.

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"this too shall pass" well can it fucking get on with it

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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academic resources⋆.ೃ࿔*:･📄

to be your best, pink academia, academic weapon, it girl self. this will be updated continuously ✨

PRINTABLES ;

TUMBLR POSTS ;

how to get good grades without excessive studying - by yours truly

ways to romanticize school - @4theitgirls

studying methods + tips - by yours truly

youtube channels to help u out this semester - @4theitgirls

creating a study schedule and routine - @prettieinpink

how to study like rory gilmore - @itgirldiary

my studying plans as an accounting major - @iluvprettygirls

citation resources - @workitgurl

APPS AND WEBSITES ;

forest - studying timer

quizlet - studying tool (flashcards)

khanacademy.org

coursera.org

annualreviews.org

google scholar - research

google calendar - organization

notion - organization

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to do list | week 5

academics / school related tasks to be done on Feb 18, 2024

filipino infographic contents and design draft

biology notes

biology powerpoint template

pre calc notes

econ notes (rewrite)

non academic / organization related tasks to be done this week

publication material design

memorandum document

will update everyday so I can track my things :)

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I saw a few folks talking about how they can’t write meta/analyze media and I have a suggestion—read some film theory. Not criticism—theory. Consider angles, philosophies, contexts, ways of analyzing media that's not about whether the media is Good or Bad, but how it works.

(Please note: I'm not saying you have to do this in order to write meta or analysis, but theory is an excellent starting point for close reading texts and a lot of the writing within film and TV especially is very accessible.)

A few recs:

Film Theory and Criticism, eds. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. This collects a massive amount of work, important essays, and important perspectives on various aspects of theory and critique. Really a foundational text that keeps on being updated.

From Caligari to Hitler. I believe literally everyone should read this book (or even just the introduction) to understand how film reflects and affects national character. This is specifically about Germany between the wars, but it is frightening how applicable a lot of it is to our current moment.

The Celluloid Closet. One of the seminal texts in studying queerness in film. There's also an accompanying documentary that is excellent.

Monsters in the Closet. This is specifically about horror film, but is one of the first to explore how queerness in particular is typed and exploited in horror.

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Laura Mulvey defined the male gaze for an entire generation of feminist film scholars and critics. Her essay is slightly dated but still essential and applicable.

The Dread of Difference. Collects a group of important feminist essays specifically about horror films. Again, a lot of the work is quite applicable overall.

The Monstrous Feminine. Barbara Creed's work is essential feminist film theory.

The Women Who Knew Too Much. Modleski is a Hitchcock scholar and her work is expansive and entertaining.

From Reverence to Rape. Very much a companion to Mulvey, addressing the way that Hollywood itself distorts female roles. Again, some datedness, but important and easy to read.

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies. bell hooks. Don't need to say more.

Any other film folks can add more, but these are the ones that I think are the most interesting and accessible as starting points.

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reading list | feb 2024

list of books I plan on finishing this feb! i'm not a big fan of romance so if you have any fantady/scifi recs for me, send them my way please :)

to finish

vicious & vengeful by v. e. schwab - finished on 02.25.24

the locked tomb by tamsyn muir

to start

babel by r. f. kuang

hench by natalie walschots

patron saints of nothing by randy ribay

relatively small reading list for feb since i started reading late but hoping to reach the goal! :)