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mantr-a

‘The more intelligent, the less sane.’ -George Orwell

lockzinhas

nameless-thief

Magicians Characters as John Mulaney

Quentin:

Julia:

Eliot:

Margo:

Alice:

Kady:

Penny:

Josh:

Fen:

Dean Fogg:

ifyouloveyourself

absorb this

this vibe, this vibe right here

baptizm-deactivated20200524

She gives off “Really Cool and Eccentric Auntie Who Lives in a Secluded and Scenic Area and Gives the Best Life Advice” vibes

cutecultleader

Writing tips from Donna Tartt

Don’t expect perfection on your first draft. “You don’t know what you’re doing for a long time. It seems like a huge mess because it is a huge mess. If you looked at the notes from early on in the writing of this book, you’d think, “This person is crazy. This could never be a novel.” That’s how all my books have felt when I started writing them. Trying to explain them to people was like trying to explain a dream.”

Read - a lot. “I read a lot while I’m writing. If I’m feeling dull or uninspired, I’ll often reach for a book of poetry: often an anthology of British and American poets of the 20th century that I’ve had since high school and am superstitious about. At night, I like to read something completely different from what I’m working on, to get my mind off my work–Ivy Compton-Burnet is always bracing and fresh, and so is P.G. Wodehouse.” Refine your technique.

“To be good at anything, whether dance or painting or Olympic diving, you have to be really, really attentive to detail. And you also have to be able to forget about technique in the heat of the moment – you have to know your technique so well that it’s second nature. But you never stop trying to refine it.” Stick to the routine that works for you - even if it makes you antisocial. “I try to avoid social engagements. It’s hard for me to socialize or see people while I’m working. I sleep irregular hours and eat irregular hours and don’t like to be interrupted to go have dinner with someone if my writing is going well. Sometimes even knowing that I have a dinner engagement in the evening will keep me from working well during the day. I DO have a number of exuberant email correspondents though–writing letters to people at the end of the day is often my way of winding down from a day of work.”

Write at your own pace.

“There’s an expectation these days that novels—like any other consumer product—should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years. But it’s for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.”

Use your writing to escape from the real world.

“Staying with the same characters for so long is fun, it’s fun seeing how they evolve over time, being in the same world for a long time. Once I’m there I like to stay there. It’s an alternate life, it’s wonderful. Of course it’s escapist.”

Drink. “I like a glass of whiskey in the winter, I like a gin and tonic in the summer, I like a glass of champagne anytime.”

thebrothersjonas

writing conclusions in papers is like the stupidest thing ever though like what’s the point of dedicating an entire paragraph to “so yeah i know you just read my paper but this is a summarization of what you read in case you need to be reminded about what you just read” like why can’t the paper just end

field-thistles

I keep seeing this post and similar ones, and if y'all’s teachers and professors have left you with the idea that a conclusion is a summary, they have failed you in a big way.

Your conclusion is your “so what’s the fucking point” section. You’ve given you’re reader a lot of info and now they need to know why they care. Depending on the type of paper you should be giving a plan of action, explaining how this knowledge changes our understanding of the topic, link your paper to other disciplines, suggest further areas of study, etc.

One of the best pieces of writing advice I’ve ever received is that if you can’t envision yourself dropping the mic and strutting off stage at the end of your conclusion then it’s probably not strong enough.

inspirelocked

“So whats the fucking point” is more helpful than all 6 years I’ve probably been writing papers

elodieunderglass

Listen up, chucklefucks: I have a point to make.

Some shit went down. Here are the receipts.

Here is the tea.

^ Introduction, supporting paragraphs, conclusion: a basic essay structure.

bri-ecrit

There are three major things to put into any major essay:

The What

The “So What?”

And the “Now What?”

Your conclusion is the “Now What” — you’ve convinced your readers that they need to pay fucking attention to something, and now you tell them what to do next. It’s not just summarizing and wrapping up your main points for the sake of repeating yourself. It’s like the last five minutes of class where I’m reminding students of the big takeaways about what we learned and giving them the homework that reinforces it in a way that holds their attention while they’re trying to pack up their shit and get out.

belle-and-bowties

Would’ve been nice to know this while I was in school!

niambi

I’m????

alarajrogers

Oh my God this actually explains so much.

So there’s a known thing in the study of human psychology/sociology/what-have-you where men are known to, on average, rely entirely on their female romantic partner for emotional support. Bonding with other men is done at a more superficial level involving fun group activities and conversations about general subjects but rarely involves actually leaning on other men or being really honest about emotional problems. Men use alcohol to be able to lower their inhibitions enough to expose themselves emotionally to other men, but if you can’t get emotional support unless you’re drunk, you have a problem.

So men need to have a woman in their lives to have anyone they can share their emotional needs and vulnerabilities with. However, since women are not socialized to fear sharing these things, women’s friendships with other women are heavily based on emotional support. If you can’t lean on her when you’re weak, she’s not your friend. To women, what friendship is is someone who listens to all your problems and keeps you company.

So this disconnect men are suffering from is that they think that only a person who is having sex with you will share their emotions and expect support. That’s what a romantic partner does. But women think that’s what a friend does. So women do it for their romantic partners and their friends and expect a male friend to do it for them the same as a female friend would. This fools the male friend into thinking there must be something romantic there when there is not.

This here is an example of patriarchy hurting everyone. Women have a much healthier approach to emotional support – they don’t die when widowed at nearly the rate that widowers die and they don’t suffer emotionally from divorce nearly as much even though they suffer much more financially, and this is because women don’t put all their emotional needs on one person. Women have a support network of other women. But men are trained to never share their emotions except with their wife or girlfriend, because that isn’t manly. So when she dies or leaves them, they have no one to turn to to help with the grief, causing higher rates of death, depression, alcoholism and general awfulness upon losing a romantic partner.

So men suffer terribly from being trained in this way. But women suffer in that they can’t reach out to male friends for basic friendship. I am not sure any man can comprehend how heartbreaking it is to realize that a guy you thought was your friend was really just trying to get into your pants. Friendship is real. It’s emotional, it’s important to us. We lean on our friends. Knowing that your friend was secretly seething with resentment when you were opening up to him and sharing your problems because he felt like he shouldn’t have to do that kind of emotional work for anyone not having sex with him, and he felt used by you for that reason, is horrible. And the fact that men can’t share emotional needs with other men means that lots of men who can’t get a girlfriend end up turning into horrible misogynistic people who think the world owes them the love of a woman, like it’s a commodity… because no one will die without sex. Masturbation exists. But people will die or suffer deep emotional trauma from having no one they can lean on emotionally. And men who are suffering deep emotional trauma, and have been trained to channel their personal trauma into rage because they can’t share it, become mass shooters, or rapists, or simply horrible misogynists.

The only way to fix this is to teach boys it’s okay to love your friends. It’s okay to share your needs and your problems with your friends. It’s okay to lean on your friends, to hug your friends, to be weak with your friends. Only if this is okay for boys to do with their male friends can this problem be resolved… so men, this one’s on you. Women can’t fix this for you; you don’t listen to us about matters of what it means to be a man. Fix your own shit and teach your brothers and sons and friends that this is okay, or everyone suffers.

dollbeshop

The next time a guy says, “What? You don't want to be my friend?” I’ll text him this and then ask if he really wants to be friends or just have another potential girlfriend.

sounddesignerjeans-deactivated2

y’all I am living for these analyses where the new way to fight the patriarchy is to teach men to love each other and themselves

astronomically-androngynous

Im a communication student and can confirm the above is absolutely 100% accurate and it’s called agentic vs communal friendship theorized by Steven McCornack

altonin-deactivated20180325

the real regions of europe

crystal clear tapwater

everyone eats dinner at 10pm

slav squat

brexit

useless-switzerlandfacts

How Europe is classified by the United Nations

systemic-dreams

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

summoning a god in a motel bathroom with a candle hastily purchased from a questionable occult store & set up on a wet & sticky bar of hotel soap while drinking wine straight out of the bottle has a distinctly Holly Black protag vibe to it but I think if you’re an adult you can’t be a YA protag anymore so someone assign this a new author with the same vibe but for adults thanks

winterherny

edits alphabet ◦ ━━ Aphrodite

ancient Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, identified with Venus by the Romans. Aphrodite was, in fact, widely worshipped as a goddess of the sea and of seafaring; she was also honoured as a goddess of war, especially at Sparta, Thebes, Cyprus, and other places. However, she was known primarily as a goddess of love and fertility and even occasionally presided over marriage.

slowspinningredemption

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new ask game send me a 🌻 and ill just tell you whatever the fuck i want

sincerely just dedicating my life to the aesthetic was the best decision I’ve ever made in terms of living life. it’s so much fucking fun. like honestly I have so much fun doing even the simplest of shit, and it’s also encouraged a lot of surprisingly healthy habits because I want to look and feel my best for those aesthetic pictures or even when I’m just out and about in public. it’s made me a lot friendlier and a lot more social; it’s made me less afraid to make mistakes and more eager to try new things. it’s so refreshing to be able to honestly say I want to do something because I just like the idea of being the kind of person who does it, because somehow I missed the memo growing up that if I do something, I am the kind of person who does it, regardless of initial motivation. I don’t know why, but we’re taught growing up that there has to be some deep reason for doing everything we do, but… there doesn’t have to be. you can do something simply because you want to. because you like the look of it. because you want to say you’ve done it. you don’t need any Deep Reason for it.

I see people worried that it means they’re faking, or that they’re just doing it for the look (like… yeah, that’s kind of what being an aesthetic hoe is all about lmao), but sincerely who the fuck cares what other people think. who the fuck cares if it’s something you do in the moment and then never want to do again. who the fuck cares if you pick up a subject or a language or an instrument or a hobby because your favourite character or historical figure or whatever did it. life is too damn short to hold yourself back. I have had so much fun and had so many new experiences and learned so much since I accepted I’m a dramatic aesthetic bitch and that’s the tea!