soupieMaggie

[kosmogrl]

the day is gonna end anyway and your warm bed will be waiting so you might as well do the hard things and not let them ruin your day

[kosmogrl]

this is unironically how I push myself to do everything I dread

[soupiemaggie]

wow thank you, this actually makes sense to my black & white brain

[soupiemaggie]

at the edge of uprooting my life again

[transiting]

don’t make other people’s decisions for them. apply for the job you don’t think you’ll get. let them decide if you have the skills they’re looking for. tell that person you like them even though you think they’re out of your league. let them decide if they like you. stop trying to predict and control everything. bring what you have to the table. let the rest go.

[soupiemaggie]

i love this. i needed this.

[soupiemaggie]

my two cents on the dichotomy of the haves and have nots - it doesn't matter how morally/intellectually sound and righteous a person is - when it comes to their ego, they would not feel an ounce of hesitation or righteousness to make your class and your poverty their instruments of bringing humiliation upon your entire existence. let that sink in.

[soupiemaggie]

"Books are artful objects: crafted matter, they have a body, carry weight, unfold in space and emit scent, touching and moving their readers by being manipulated."

Liedeke Plate, Amnesiology

[soupiemaggie]

I have never known stress like the kind I'm experiencing right now. Stress about securing a PhD seat and getting my academic career back on track and finding ways to earn a living, meeting basic needs of myself and my family's, ease it up for them after so many years of suffering and struggling to meet basic needs. but it's so much of pressure and I'm absolutely crumbling, my body is constantly scared and jittery, my chest is tight and I don't know if it will get better anytime sooner. I am trying but my god I need it to get better sooner

[soupiemaggie]

grieving an actual loss is tormenting. but grieving the possibility of a loss - the engulfing fear?? the disappointment at the approaching disappointment???

[soupiemaggie]

my god I'm completely shook at the cruelty

[soupiemaggie]

inspired by @notmydivision221 I am also starting an weekly update thingy about the books I'll be reading this year, preferably one each week or two!

I've been in a really bad slump since last year, in terms of reading books/articles/interesting blogs etc. I have almost fallen out of the habit of reading, but I would love to start one from the 15th of this month (since that's when it's feasible for me to start a streak) to keep myself accountable and also keep the excitement of updating my Tumblr diary heee!!!!!

if anyone else is interested, do join here!

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Oh shit. Sally Field kinda went off here. “The garment you knit for yourself as a child.” Might have to read her memoir now.

[Chris Dennis]

[soupiemaggie]

got consecutive goosebumps thrice reading this WOW

[somethingtocallmine]

[soupiemaggie]

I do❤️

[the-reconciliation-of-all-things]

i kno its not rly a popular statement and it sounds dismissive but you'll be miserable for as long as u deny ur own agency in ur own happiness

[tendercherie]

forgive me lord for I have imagined a life far more soft and tender than the one you created for me

[tendercherie]

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[eagans]

[soupiemaggie]

It's my 3 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[ghostflowerdreams]

List of Research Resources

Research resources are usually thought of as primary sources and secondary sources.

Primary sources are firsthand accounts of actual events written by an eyewitness, either at the time it occurred or even well after, as in memoirs and oral histories. They may also be letters, official records, interviews, photographs, video, survey results, or unanalyzed statistical data. These sources contain raw data and information, such as the original work of art, fiction or music; or immediate impressions.

Secondary sources, on the other hand, are works that analyze, assess or interpret an historical event, era, or phenomenon, generally utilizing primary sources to do so. They often offer a review or a critique. Secondary sources can include books, journal articles, speeches, reviews, research reports, magazines, newspapers, and more.

Down below is a list of research resources for not only academics, but writers too. There’s so many out there that I know I won’t be able to list them all, but I do hope that what’s already on here can help you in some way.

Keep reading

[soupiemaggie]

the problem with us people with clinically diagnosed GAD is that we feel when something is coming at us. we always do. even when it's not coming.