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never thought of the possible reasons why there is a demand for books with male characters who grovel but this reddit comment might explain it ahaha

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HR vs people of the philippines

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there is only a small list of publications on linguistics in the philippine scene but a bulk of them are inaccessible. like do you want this field to grow or not?

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torn between two prospective thesis supervisors.

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your girl is officially in her MA thesis era after two years' worth of coursework. i will be here vomiting my thoughts out the whole time.

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now and then (1995) - review-ish

have you ever had a friendship that saw through your parents' divorce, witnessed you almost drown, did seance at a cemetery at the middle of the night. and of course, it involves a treehouse, a constant in the equation of good childhood friendship films. this movie has that friendship shared among four girls who were more similar than they were different. they separated for years and begrudgingly reunited for one of the girl's delivery.

the treehouse is where they gravitated to. sad? go to the treehouse. celebrate? still, treehouse. film elements seems to agree to this. in more than one transition, it involves a tree, especially flashbacks or transitions from the now to the then, and vice versa. for instance, the scene at the treehouse where they are older. the camera pans upward to the branches to the twigs to the leaves and to the blue sky above. then it pans down and down to the roots and we see them younger. it's as if to say, the flashback is a way back to their roots.

the film is a must-rewatch. it's not oscar-worthy but so is every film in everyone's household that they go back to when seasons are changing and they could use a warm jacket.

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excited about UP’s bit mesh app omg

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When people learn I’m finishing my academic requirements for master’s in two years, they always tell me it’s so fast. But in my mind it felt like 10 years.

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What kind of editor-in-chief doesn’t even have the intuition to proofread an article?

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if you plan on inviting someone over at your house for a meal, maybe do not invite them 15 minutes before it starts? because that doesn't sound like a genuine invite at all. haha

neighbors, also my relatives, have set up karaoke and catering tables 3 hours earlier but i received no invite so i ate my dinner thinking i wasn't invited. when they came over to invite me, i just said i'll be coming but after ten minutes i closed the door and faced my laptop instead.

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13/100

Been reading all sorts of texts on film because it’s been becoming more apparent to me my shameful daring to dream of doing my master’s thesis on film criticism while only having watched approximately 50 films. Right now I’m reading a non-academic film criticism before I jump headfirst in journals. I like how it’s written, it sits between a film column article and one that’s informed by theory. Although in some pages I could find a term only someone who studied film criticism theory uses unsparingly.

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12/100

to simply hope like a child in this world could be our saving grace.

—rise by joshua hyslop

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11/100

when you’re a mess you’re not aware of it but you become oil in water. you would wanna keep your distance from people. suddenly, your hands are stained and you feel afraid to touch another human being. suddenly, happy people become too bright for eyes used to the dark.

but then i think that ideally, when you’re a ball of sadness it helps to be near optimistic people. they might transfer some of their light to you, if it even adheres to laws of physics.

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10/100 - skipped a few days because i was busy being an adult

i thought when i reached rock bottom and still i stood up and i lived on, every trying thing that will come my way will be nothing. what they don’t tell you about the rock bottom is sometimes it’s not a rock but a quicksand. when you think you’ve reached the deep end, you find yourself sinking lower.

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9/100

“Maybe it’d be a mercy to be ended.”

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8/100

had an elective on film criticism last semester but i couldn't say i know my way around talking about film as a cultural artifact. the course had been fun, forced me to watch and, consequently, enjoy watching films from a renewed lens (a confluence of my emotional and intellectual understanding of films). it did teach me to look at a film critically.

i recently did find a book that is a compilation of great artists and their artworks but have bad morals. on the cover was a question that we probably have unconsciously asked ourselves: what do we do with great artworks by bad people? when i read it i began to really think about the separate the art from the artist stuff.