Aspiring to Inspire

carina / 25 / enfp / studyblr

[avicecaro]

for as much as studyblr may have its faults, it’s a pretty sizable online space that tells young girls that the absolute coolest thing you can do is be smart and work hard and believe in yourself and i think that’s pretty great

[mournfulroses]

Ema Saikō, from a poem titled "Forbidding My Sister Sake," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology

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[bachelorgirl]

Logging onto here is like walking through a bead curtain

[sorrrowfull]

[juney-blues]

heartbreaking:

girl has sooooooo many ambitions and ideas for projects but can only get 1.5 basic tasks done per day

[random-brushstrokes]

Leonid Pasternak  (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work

[caressthosecheekbones]

oh leonid, we're really in it now

[wintersmitth]

Leonid, you really understand it.

[alexaloraetheris]

Save me Leonid, from my empty Word document

[elodieunderglass]

Leonid what should I do about the emails

[letitrainathousandflames]

Babe are you okay? you reblogged Leonid Pasternak's Torments of Creative Work again

[magiccarpetman]

Leonid Pasternak is the best! My favorite of his is The Night Before The Exam (1895).

[alexaloraetheris]

My man Leonid continues to be relatable

[somisi]

[princesssokphanny]

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕

[kosmogrl]

"find something that doesn't feel like work to you" so close! everything feels like work because I just want to be at home doing nothing and to go on walks

[wizardnaturalist]

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours

[mindfulstudyquest]

gentle reminder you can rise up from everything. you can recreate yourself. nothing is permanent. you are not stuck. you have choices. you can think new thoughts. you can learn something new. you can create new habits. all that matters is that you decide today and never look back.

[angelicdewdrop]

[thegeekgene]

Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

[snarpreplies]

[sprinkledsalt]

So many people who love generative AI don't have a creative bone in their body and can't imagine anyone actually enjoying the time and effort it takes to write something or draw something.

[therkalexander]

Can you, as a writer, imagine NOT experiencing the joy and terror of having your own characters drag you by the collar of your shirt in the direction THEY choose?

And you’re sitting there like no No NO you little cumquats!! Get back here! GIMME that! to fruitlessly try to wrestle your carefully planned plot back out of their greedy little fingers?

And you sit there as they’re doing their own thing with a small part of your head going goddamnit goddammit while their words and actions flow out of your callous covered fingertips and onto the page?

And suddenly you read it, and your shit ass little muses actually made something amazing that you can sculpt and bend into the very thing you actually meant to write?

I would give up the craft if I couldn’t have those moments.

I certainly wouldn’t surrender them to a machine.

[sigeel]

This! all of this! writing is like trying to heard cats.its frustrating but also a blast at the same time.

[lynati]

Some people can't wrap their mind around doing a thing because you enjoy the process, not just so you have something you can use to milk money out of other people.

[taraljc]

there are an awfully lot of people out there who don't want to be writers they want to have written.

[seananmcguire]

Stephen King used to talk about how he didn't remember writing Cujo because the cocaine had done most of the work, and to be honest, that was the best anti-drug PSA I ever received. Don't do drugs, kids, or you'll forget doing the thing that makes you happiest in the world world.

[caffeinated-bibliophile]

I must not look at books to buy,

I must not "add to cart,"

For there're too many near at hand that I have yet to start.

[tofublock]

the nights have never felt this bright