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(English student)

[somerabbitholes]

some essays to fill your time

Just a bunch of things I've read recently.

The Authoritarian Roots of India's Democracy by Tripurdaman Singh

Why is Everything So Ugly?

Casual Viewing by Will Tavlin

“You are Next”: Unmarried Urban Women in India and the “Marriage Talk” by Shilpa Phadke

Crossing Days by Thomas Dai

Inside the Indian Manosphere by Lhendup Bhatia

Optimism and Desperation by Camilla Grudova

Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College by James Walsh

Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility by Som-Mai Nguyen

When My Authentic is Your Exotic by Soniah Kamal

The discontent of Russia by Joy Neumeyer

On anti-political projects by Kat Rosenfield

'Correcting' historical wrongs is a slippery slope by Manu Pillai

[somerabbitholes]

some more:

Social media and the collapse of ritual

Where are Lucy's friends in Materialists?

Sociologism Literature by Harry Schiller

Passion and Palestine by Derek Penslar

New TV Novels by Lisa Borst

From Progress to Catastrophe by Perry Anderson

The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser

The Trouble with Friends by Weike Wang

[somerabbitholes]

and more:

Is There a God-Shaped Hole at the Heart of Mathematics?

How China Carved up Myanmar

How the Left misread Gramsci

Wildness: Feminism, identity, and the willingness to be defeated

There are no pure cultures

The desperation of the Instagram photo dump

Rethinking maps

[aastha-t]

december mornings featuring a festive read, my current crochet project, a great yogurt bowl, an orange, and peppermint tea💌

IG: a.readss

[gailcarriger]

[aastha-t]

First weekend of 2025- going to spend it a bit like this. Fresh coffee and strawberries (tis the strawberry season) and reading and deciding my January TBR🍓☕️

IG: a.readss

[literaryvein-reblogs]

When are you updating the masterlists? No rush tho! 😊

All edited :)

Word Lists

Writing Basics. Grammar. Refreshers.

Writing Notes & References

Writing Prompts

Writing Worksheets & Templates

Character ⚜ Plot ⚜ Worldbuilding ⚜ For the Poets ⚜ Tips & Advice

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing References: For the Poets

A List of: Terminology Part 1 2 3 4 5 ⚜ Genres

Forms: Tercet ⚜ Quatrain ⚜ Cinquain ⚜ Sixaine ⚜ Septet

Forms: Ottava Rima ⚜ Spenserian Stanza ⚜ Sonnet

Hamartia & Hubris ⚜ Mood & Motif

Imagery ⚜ Irony ⚜ Common Metaphors ⚜ Mixed Metaphors

Symbolism ⚜ Theme ⚜ Tone (Examples)

How to Write Poetry ⚜ How to say, "I love you"

Famous Lines

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice (T. S. Eliot)

He was my North, my South, my East and West (W. H. Auden)

"Hope" is the thing with feathers (Emily Dickinson)

I wandered lonely as a cloud (William Wordsworth)

She walks in beauty, like the night (Lord Byron)

‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all (Tennyson)

To be or not to be: that is the question (Shakespeare)

Poetry Prompts

Poetry is... ⚜ Last Lines Pt. 1 2

List Poem ⚜ Persona Poem ⚜ Poetic Map ⚜ Portrait of a Poet

Lemons ⚜ No Words ⚜ Rewrite ⚜ Untitled

Talking to Art ⚜ The Invisible ⚜ The Persona ⚜ The Same Thing

Writing Notes

Fossil Words ⚜ Palindromes ⚜ Writers' Sleep Habits

George Orwell: On Poetry ⚜ Nonsense Poetry

Virginia Woolf: On Words

Symbolisms: Colours Part 1 2 ⚜ Food ⚜ Numbers ⚜ Storms

[literaryvein-reblogs]

A Writer on Writing: Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury:

The time we have alone, the time we have in walking, the time we have in riding a bicycle — [these] are the most important times for a writer. Escaping from a typewriter is part of the creative process. You have to give your subconscious time to think. Real thinking always occurs on the subconscious level.

I never consciously set out to write a certain story. The idea must originate somewhere deep within me and push itself out in its own time. Usually, it begins with associations. Electricity. The sea. Life started in the sea. Could the miracle occur again? Could life take hold in another environment? An electro-mechanical environment?

A writer’s past is the most important thing he has. Sometimes an object, a mask, a ticket stub — anything at all — helps me remember a whole experience, and out of that may come an idea for a story. So I’m a packrat — I’ve kept everything I’ve ever cared about since childhood.

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scenery.

I’m a storyteller — that’s all I’ve never tried to be. I guess in ancient times, I would’ve been somewhere in the marketplace, alongside the magician, delighting the people. I’d rather delight and entertain than anything else.

[felixcosm]

I missed my friend.

Langston Hughes // Richard Siken // 67: ramifications. // Michele Leigh // Ernest Hemingway // 60: Ready To Die // inanotherunivrse // Clementine von Radics // 72: council. // Haruki Murakami // bloomingtrans // Hanya Yanagihara // Unknown // avainblue

[drunk-werewolf]

[somerabbitholes]

i found the nicest bookstore tucked under a building at assi ghat in varanasi

[aastha-t]

✨️my current read, some notes and coffee✨️

[aastha-t]

"name one hero who was happy" You can't.

🏹

[aastha-t]

Few of my January reads. The Eighth Life was long time due and it was a good day when I read it.

[bluerotundas]

Do you have any advice for young women?

In general? Sure. Read whatever you can get your hands on, but especially work written by women. Put your hands in sticky things at least once a week (clay, paint, dough, soil), don’t date anyone for a few years, travel when you can where you can, learn the skill of listening to your body— rest when you are tired, eat when you are hungry, drink when you are thirsty, and move when you are anxious. Swim as often as you can. Try to live alone at least once. If you can’t live alone, make time to be alone often. Carry pepperspray and do not learn to hold your tongue. Learn to sew, or weave, or knit. Unlearn the impulse to apologize for things that are not your fault. Pleasure yourself. Every once in a while, remind yourself of how loudly you can yell, how quickly you can run, and wildly you can dance. Allow yourself to cry for your mother. Spend as much time as you can in female-only spaces. Spend even more time with older women. Listen to their stories. Memorize their gray hair and lined faces, their swollen joints and sagging breasts. Cherish the gradual appearance of these things in yourself as an inheritance. Hold hands with other women. Spend some time naked in your home. Adopt a cat, or a fish, or grow some caterpillars into butterflies on your window. Eat heartily and drink to enjoy it. Go hiking and scream from a peak somewhere. Sometimes, allow yourself to act like a child again— climb a tree, scrape up your knees, and lick cake batter from the spoon. When you clean your home, open all the windows and beat the dust from all the curtains. Laugh loudly. Do not become self-deprecating to encourage others to laugh with you.

[philcollinsenjoyer]

fucking hate thar when you go to uni you have to actually do and turn in work like some kind of seventh grader. you should be able to just listen to the lecture & vibe

[flowerfieldsofelysian-deactivat]

She’s a ten but anytime she’s going through a hard time, she automatically reads and listens to music all day because she would rather escape this world and focus on other peoples sorrow and problems than her own.

[virginiewoolf]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.