I'll Get There Soon

Nice to meet you, I'm Zee, and you have stumbled upon my studyblr. I also share my art, writing and photography here. Feel free to have a look around! I hope you'll like my little corner of the internet.

[in--earnest]

(Long Overdue) Studyblr Introduction

5th January 2024

Hello everyone! I go by Zee on tumblr, and this is my studyblr account. I have gone by several URLs in the past three years, from mellowacademia to septemberstudies, and also somehow deleted my old account. Tragic.

So now I return to the community, hoping to keep old friends and make new ones!

Now, for my introduction: I'm a high school student from north India, and my fields of interest are animation, graphic design and architecture. As you could guess, I sketch every free moment I get. I'm also a writer and photography enthusiast. And I really, really like cats.

Over the next two years I will be studying English, physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science.

Also, my main account is @zeeistrying, so feel free to head over there if you'd like

I think that's all there is to say about me, now to honour some of my favourite folks this side of the internet:

@ben-learns-smth, @caramelcuppaccino, @yughostlavia, @notetaeker, @wecandoit, @frenchiepal, @upside-down-uni, @museeofmoon, @sadcypher, @oneardentstudybuddy, @learnelle, @the---hermit, @why-the-heck-not, @teacherstudiies, @medstudentblues, @darkmacademia, @loudemic, @galina.

(to all my beloved mutuals, i'm so sorry i never responded to your tags, i'll do better this time around)

I hope everyone who sees this has a wonderful week and a lovely 2024 ahead!

[leohtttbriar-deactivated2025082]

surprised no one on here is talking about the snoopy toy who they put in artemis i for the moon trip

[leohtttbriar-deactivated2025082]

he’s in a space suit y’all don’t worry

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!

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Starting She-Ra last night and having stellar productivity today may sound unconnected, but i know better.

09.08.22

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Hi! I haven't been active in quite a bit, since a fever resulted in my todo list absolutely choking this past week.

A lot of my work is finished now, and I'm thoroughly burnt out so i am not planning to be productive today.

Im in love with my Notion reading setup, im getting through quite a lot of reading lately so it's really nice to track my thoughts as i go. I've had a mindblock against Notion for the longest time but in feverish delirium, Notion provided my brain something to do, and now I'm very happy with how it's turned out!

26.08.22

🎧: my summer drive playlist

📖: The Witch Haven (Sasha Peyton Smith) & When No One is Watching (Alyssa Cole)

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The past couple of weeks have been hard, time flew by so fast i felt like each day spanned two hours instead of twenty four.

But since yesterday, I've been making an effort to slow down and create time for every single one of my priorities. We're leaving for a family trip this Sunday, so I've got a lot to do in advance, especially since we have like five tests a week nowadays.

We're organising a major event taking place on Saturday, and it brings me so much joy to be part of this kind of project.

My exams are also on their way, so I'm looking forward to some on the road study sessions.

Also here’s a lil sneak peak at a cultural photography project I’m working on.

I hope everyone's having a lovely September, and remember to make time to take time off.

14.09.22

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The moon in all her shining glory

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A cosy afternoon spent sketching outside with my cat.

Happy new year to everyone who sees this <3. May 2023 be filled with growth, happiness and an abundance of everything you seek

31.12.22

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I have so much to do and am having such intense anxiety about it and yet can't start.

The true student experience :)

🎧: Good Enough (Maisie Peters) & Better Friends (Abby Cates)

18.08.22

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[conspiring-literaries-society-d]

I am a terrible combination of “whatever happens, happens” and “If everything doesn’t go according to plan, I will vaporize”

[urgetocreate]

Sonya Sklaroff (American b.1970), Fireworks, 2018, Oil on panel - Happy New Year 2024!

[lyralit]

3.1.24 - writing resources for the new year

isn't lovely to feel like you have the opportunity to start fresh again? here are some fo the resources I'm using going into the new year!

flocus is a pomodoro app with pretty backgrounds, availability to be customized, and it also tracks your productivity streaks, which is definitely a motivational booster

in addition to this, flocus' newsletter, the flow, is a weekly email on how to be more productive! it's one of the things I like to tuck away in my inbox and read.

calmly is a blank page. all you need to do is bring the words.

medium doesn't necessarily focus on creative writing, but it's an interesting place to find similarly interested people and all kinds of articles

characterhub is a website community that promotes interaction among OCs (and is great for artists also!)

poetry foundation has an enormous collection of writing that's great to read for fun, or inspiration, or if you're in a slump

and not necessarily writing related, but here are other things that I've been trying out:

via li's youtube channel. something about it radiates warmth and I listen to her videos like podcasts.

baking! it's so comforting and I love seeing the results. smitten kitchen has the best recipes.

also knitting. not necessarily specific sites, but I have these ideas of all the things I want to make.

and that's all for now. however I did up my wordcount! I hit 15k today, so hopefully by next monday I'll have everything I need done. I'm working on deadlines for the first time for a project, and I can definitely feel the pressure.

tag any other websites below and I'll be sure to reblog them!

k.

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Okay so I want to add on-

Descriptionary - a website that helps with describing stuff in writing (appearance, emotions, mental health, etc). It also has writing tips like show don't tell and stuff in the foundational knowledge section. It gets pretty detailed and Im not sure if my explanation does it justice so do check it out - link

Reedsy - This website has a LOT of useful writer stuff like weekly writing prompts, a character name generator, and stuff about publishing. There is literally so much - link

For writing YouTubers I would recommend Brandon Sanderson who has awesome books but also awesome writing tips on his youtube channel, especially for world-building and fantasy writers

Also Study Bunny is a super cute pomodoro ish timer where the more you study the more clothes and stuff you can buy your bunny :)

Anyways

[headspace-hotel]

In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"

We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines

[headspace-hotel]

We will be feeding our grandchildren strawberries and raspberries we grew in our gardens, dragging them along to the farmers' markets for tomatoes and eggs and goats milk and pickles and pecans and salsa and sunflower seed butter and jars of honey, as they complain and drag their feet because Gramma always stands around talking to people for like an HOUR

and we will say "When I was YOUR age, fruits and vegetables came from a supermarket and they were bred to get shipped 1000 miles in a truck and sit on shelves for weeks, and they tasted so sour and watery it was like eating paper compared to these ones. It wasn't even legal in some places to grow your own food"

and they will roll their eyes like yeah yeah just because everything was miserable in the 20s doesn't mean I have to have a smile on my face standing in the hot sun while you listen to that one guy talk about his bees FOREVER

But they will go, because there might be baby goats.

[headspace-hotel]

Since I made this post, dozens and dozens of people have left tags telling me that it was the first thing today that made them want to continue living, that it was the first thing that made them consider that they might be okay years in the future, that they might grow old, that it was the first and only post of its kind they'd ever seen—the first post that boldly predicts a future where we make it.

And many other people have been just spitting, foaming at the mouth fucking FURIOUS. How dare I have the audacity to imagine a future where things get better?

Don't I know how BAD things are? Am I not aware of the TERROR and DEVASTATION of climate change and fascism and biodiversity loss? How dare someone be so bold, so callous, as to imagine something other than misery and suicide. How dare someone suggest it will get better. How dare a person propose that there is a future where we will be okay, in the face of so much terror. Hasn't she seen the abyss opening its jaws before us?

Well? What do you think?

Do you think I've seen the abyss?

[cuntyjugheadfromriverdale]

the idea that there is hope for the future is the only way we have this kind of future.

there were kids who stayed inside because of the black plague and went on to help cure it.

there were women who sat at home and cleaned the house and dreamt up a world where they could vote and have jobs.

there were kids in the mines who thought up a life outside of it. there were children who hid in annexes and wrote a diary where they prayed for a future without a terrible man in control

there were slaves who wanted freedom so badly and had hope that it would get better

there were gay people who hid in the corners of clubs and fought back for a future where they could walk down the street together

do you know what all of that has in common? they had hope that things would get better and they made that change. they looked at the world in its cruel ways and fought back.

so now, there are kids and teenagers and young adults and new adults who dream of a world so beautiful and the only amazon their grandchildren know is the rainforest

and it is in everything we do that we find this hope. wishing on dandelions, counting the stars, making our own clothes out of crochet or knit or sewing it, watching the sunset, going to the farmer’s market, feeding the birds, planting seeds.

step by step, we dream up, like our ancestors before us, a beautiful world

[headspace-hotel]

THE ONLY AMAZON OUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL KNOW IS THE RAINFOREST

[roach-works]

terrible years really make you understand the point of a new year. i know nothing much will have changed between dec 31 and jan 1, but we need to be able to partition off everything that’s happened to us, we need a moment to say, ‘that’s done, we’re done with it, it’s over’ and have a little hope that the future will be different. we need to be able to stop and take a breath and sing, in the middle of winter, and prepare ourselves for spring.

[saurons-pr-department]

2024 is the year we stop “consuming” and go back to “reading/watching/listening to/playing” things

[saurons-pr-department]

To everyone adding we also need to stop with “content”, you are so right. I actually meant to put it in the original post but forgot

[katriaraden]

my little art corner in Berlin 🌿🍓

[dostoyevsky-official]

take the 2024 dostoyevsky-official challenge: every month, learn one poem by heart. it could be in any language, it could be poetry you already know, it could be poetry you're reading for the first time, it could be a sonnet, it could be a ballad: go wild (but for this, i recommend choosing canonical poetry in your chosen language, not poetry in translation, nor something new). above all, poetry, language charged with meaning to the ultimate degree, is meant to be read aloud, to be felt with the tongue. by the end of the year, you'll have a better intuitive understanding of the poet's craft, of the possibility and beauty of language, an improved reading style, and, through the memorization process, a deep knowledge of each chosen poem—and you'll have committed 12 poems to heart, sitting around for any occasion, keeping you company wherever you go