anon who asked abt the reason why you left the cw programme and… that’s so true. the fact that arts is considered a privilege means that those who enter such courses are of a different lifestyle than your normal average joe. i can’t put my finger on it but the art schools from where i’m from have such different vibes from your regular art schools not just because it’s an art school but because there are so many people who just… aren’t normal. not to say they don’t have normal/relatable problems or they are entirely different from society at large, but the subtle difference will always be there because the lifestyle is different.
yeah! i genuinely hold no personal grudges against them because the circumstances that they’re in (and that i am in) aren’t their fault but i just... don’t feel like i belong in the field. and that’s fine.
curious! but what about studying / pursuing cw made you realize it may not be what you want to pursue?
(it got long again so… sorry!)
i’m going to be completely honest now because i think i’ve been skirting around my actual reason for my prev. answers hahahah but it was largely because of the people i was working with and surrounded by while i was in cw (i.e. other students, class and block mates)
the professors are GREAT, i’ve never had a bad professor and my absolute favorite one still was from cw (i miss him dearly he was amazing) so i never had any problems with that. other students weren’t unkind or mean or anything but i just didn’t… vibe with them?
when you’re living in a 3rd world country that does not value the arts and humanities, art and the pursuit of it are difficult when you don’t have the privilege (and i believe that shouldn’t be the case honestly. i wish it wasn’t.) and spending two years in cw made that sink into my soul deep lol i’m not very privileged and there was a clear gap in that among my peers in the program which made it hard for me to keep up and relate to the people i spent the most time with. in no way do i harbor any grudges for them or have bad beef with them but i realized that i don’t see myself being in the same situation and working with the same type of people 5, 10 years from now. to add to that it just felt too lonely, being there and writing graphic non-fiction essays about my goddamn childhood trauma hahahahah 😂
this is definitely a very personal experience and it does not reflect how the cw program as a whole is. i just had trouble finding “my people” in the program. i had also guessed that my passion for writing wasn’t enough to push through, yk? bcs if it was i would’ve stayed. and that’s fine! i’m happy with how things turned out and now i feel much more at ease when i write stuff for silly, sexy fictional people
oh yes. because of the movie release, i have been into haikyuu as of late. i don't mind the recs! also, that is a course i've never heard of before but it does sound interesting. is there a reason why you switched from creative writing to that course? why that course? happy to hear you enjoy what you're learning! i think that's the most important haha
i actually have a notion link of my recs! it’s here. there’s not a lot there yet, since i’ve only really started logging in my recs recently. i haven’t added the rest of my reads from the past years!
blis is also something i’ve only heard about recently, tbh, which is funny because that’s the program i shifted to. i think i mentioned my reasoning for program changes on this blog before but basically, while i was 100% sure i wanted to take up cw when i was applying for uni, over time i just felt like i wasn’t growing. it’s a me-problem, actually. i genuinely enjoyed and learned so much from cw but i never felt like i fit or belong in that field? i love it, sure, but i just can’t get myself to feel like i /want/ it seriously. and with that internal conflict i felt like i would just come to hate literature in general when i force myself to push through, and i didn’t want that. i love literature.
i was certain that i wanted to shift out but i didn’t know where. just went through our university’s shifting/transferring guide document and saw blis. it’s the first time i’ve heard of it hahaha then i just researched about the program and felt like it was perfect! especially since i found out that there’s still “literature” in the program in the form of librarianship (i’m taking up children’s and young adult’s literature as my specialization!). so it’s a win, since some pieces of cw/literature was still there, but i wasn’t feeling so oppressed because blis is so interdisciplinary and i could do so much with the program!
drop the ao3 recs!!! and also, if you're alright with answering, what is your major?
i’ve been reading haikyū fics actually! i haven’t read much genshin yet recently but i have a few bookmarked ones from when i was actively reading some months (years?) ago. lmk if you still want the recs!
my current program is library and information science, i shifted after my 2nd year from creative writing! it’s a really great program and i love it 🫶
happy to see you on my dash again! how have you been?
hi! i’m happy people still think of me 🥹 i’m doing fine, my semester ended exactly a week ago so i’m now in i’m-finally-free-but-i-don’t-know-what-to-do mode hahah it’s been a long time since i last had free time! (also since it’s my first year in my new program hahah)
writing-wise i have no news about myself (yet) but i have gotten back into reading (just cried myself to sleep last night over an ao3 fic) and some good reads are what i need to finally be enthusiastic about writing again 🫶
what is the borderless window option for genshin you’re talking about? i’ve never heard that before
i was talking about the borderless window option in the display mode, in the graphics section of genshin’s settings! i always use this option in the many, many games i play since i use two monitors and it makes switching through tabs and windows easier.
