& procrastinator by night

[ lilly, she/her, xx ] -- publishing student >:]

[student-by-day]

wwi - wwii era postcards collected in germany [details below]

these recently came into my possession after my dad’s coworker found out my mom and i are native german speakers (now americans).

i’m currently transcribing, scanning, and researching these, hoping i’ll be able to return them to the families they belong to (since they were discovered in the rubble or looted from houses/post offices while the coworker’s dad was stationed in germany during wwii :|). feel like a historical detective rn, tho ^^

some interesting things i’ve noted:

abt half of the cards are from/to this pretty successful opera singer, amalie marianne merz-tunner (we have some cards from austria and italy too bc of her tours!) 

got some feldpost (military mail) from some nazis in the third ss panzergrenadier :[] ("division totenkopf"... extra yikes)

the oldest card i've come across so far is from 1919, and the newest is from 1945

i’ve identified at least three diff types of cursive over the decades: kurrentschrift, sütterlinschrift, deutsche normalschrift, and some hybrids

most of these were in german abt weather, vacation, or christmas greetings, but we did have two from an american soldier in english!

there was a girl/woman who went on vacation to "kempten" and sent a card back to her hometown of "kempen" sort of as a joke lol

[childballad58]

the “PowerPoint night” was a kind of early twenty-first century literary salon fashionable among the youth of the period

[ricardians]

“i asked chatgpt—”

well i asked the kind old friar and he told me to fake my death. immediately

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

new arthurian theory that the green knight was the grinch

[door]

learned about the “light academic” genre today. which i guess is just if you go to college and don’t kill anybody

[enlitment]

yet another unrealistic standard for students

[student-by-day]

it's the end of the second wk of uni, and i'm alr thinking abt next summer's travel plans... :'] i miss magical places like this that look as if they're straight out of a beauty and the beast scene.

[amwult]

my least favourite turn based strategy game is email

[student-by-day]

just finished my first wk of uni, which means it's abt time to return to studyblr after being on hiatus for years (?!?) 🥲

[student-by-day]

schedule tag!

now that the end of the school year is rolling around for most of us...

what courses have y'all requested or scheduled for next semester?

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it'll be my jr yr when i take ap u.s. history, ap eng lang + comp, ap phys, h pre-calc (pray to athena for me), h spanish iii, choir, and weight training

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tagging anyone who wants to share + @strangedftrm @em-hotep @sadcypher @adhyayana-v @coff-chee @the-abyss-gazed-back @seizethehistory @wolkenstudien

[mistressaccost]

i better catch up on the assigned reading (dracula emails) so i can partake in the class discussion (memes)

[student-by-day]

starting house of leaves after finishing my first final exam early... already in love

[amygdalae]

dude stop telling me to count dracula I only ever see the one

[student-by-day]

temporarily back from hiatus to show off my copy of tdc

[student-by-day]

another book tag game

thanks for the tag, @adhyayana-v <3 it's been too long since we've played a tag game!

THE LAST BOOK I . . .

bought: a whole library sale haul! most looking forward to HOUSE OF LEAVES by mark z. danielewski, though

borrowed: another haul! can't wait to start PLAIN BAD HEROINES by emily m. danforth

was gifted: i don't even remember bc I've stopped accepting books as gifts (got tired of receiving repeats of books i didn't like rip)

started: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by harper lee

finished: THE IVIES by alexa donne

gave 5 stars: THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS by micah nemerever (psychological dark academia masterpiece)

gave 2 stars: THE MAIDENS by alex michaelides (lovely concept but so so poorly executed)

didn't finish: ARIADNE by jennifer saint (couldn't stand writing style)

tagging @h4edes @sadcypher @em-hotep @the-abyss-gazed-back @coff-chee @seizethehistory @wolkenstudien

[immuno-deactivated20240319]

it’s sooo sad when u see all these research papers by the same 2 ppl and then u see 1 where only one of them is credited… where’s ur little buddy don’t tell me u broke up </3

[squiglylines]

[student-by-day]

Book recs?

BOOKS THAT WILL MAKE YOU THINK

mostly abt humanity/the human condition bc i have thing for psychoanalyzing shitty people/behaviors and romanticizing the process or questioning how it is that we call ourselves humanKIND

yes, there's also a lot of gay yearning and emotional pain involved in the first half of these. enjoy suffering.

frankenstein (mary shelley)

the secret history (donna tartt)

*these violent delights (micah nemerever)

the picture of dorian gray (oscar wilde)

animal farm (george orwell)

the little prince (antoine de saint-exupery)

*suffer the children (craig dilouie)

the hunger games (suzanne collins)

bonus: twelfth night (william shakespeare) bc it plays w gender and sexuality in such a comedic but also tragic way

asterisk = not crazily popular in the lit community (hope you haven't heard of it yet)

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BOOKS THAT AT LEAT SOMEWHAT HURT TO READ

but for different reasons (i.e. stupid, lovable characters)

all for the game series (nora sakavic)

the song of achilles (madeline miller)

if we were villians (m. l. rio)

romeo & juliet (william shakespeare)

the goldfinch (donna tartt)

giovanni's room (james baldwin)

the kingkiller chronicles (patrick rothfuss)

vicious (v. e. schwab)

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if you've alr read these books or like a diff genre, feel free to send me another ask and be more specific :)

[roundo]

13 college professors killed in horrific youtube autoplay incident