NO ZERO DAYS FOR ME

Grad student doing anything to motivate myself. (Trying to be) paperless

[beaucolics]

oh my god there are so many books to read and instruments to learn and languages to speak and poems to write and oranges to eat and ideologies to study and songs to sing and films to watch and people to kiss and

[enfant--terrible]

“A place of filth, ruin, and uninhabitableness…Hell on earth.”

— Engels, on Manchester

[mysterium-solis]

Minotauro (Minotaur) by Jordi Garriga Mora (2007)

[happybird16]

Reblog to give the person you reblogged this from flowers for Valentine's day 🌹🌷🌸🌼🌺

[adelstitel]

Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

[thatgpaismine]

🎵Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

First snow of the year and I’m stuck inside doing mock trial prep.

[ex-injuria-jus-non-oritur]

08•01•23// why did no one tell me all my posts this year were still dated 2022 hahaha!

We’re 9 days out from my first exam of the year and I am ready to be done with these exams!!!

[fidget-sinner]

En Anglais, on ne dit pas “quatre vingt dix neuf”, on dit “ninety nine” qu'on pourrait traduire comme “Hurr durr, regardez mois, j'ai un système de numérotation fonctionnel” et je crois que c'est magnifique.

[joeyclaire]

i fucking love tumblr on new years i scroll past a glittertext gif wishing me a happy 2002 i scroll past my mutual wishing me a happy 2018 i scroll past a gifset wishing me a happy 2013 i scroll p

[scribbleshark]

happy 1915 everyone!

[rustchild]

i cannot for the life of me find that essay about how sterilized, approachable, “nice” literature was used in victorian england to create a cultural imaginary that wholeheartedly ignored the atrocities being committed by the state, but every time i see someone sincerely make the argument that escapist stories are the only moral form of storytelling it rings in my head like a bell. it haunts me. some of y’all actually think that wide-scale erasure is better that attempting to grapple with messy reality in fiction and it’s honestly so exhausting

[rustchild]

ALSO can we stop evaluating stories solely based on their utility? Please? there is more to a narrative than whether it’s “harmful” or not, and it’ll be way better in the long run to be able to understand what the ideas being communicated are and how they’re communicated than sticking to just whether or not they’re objectively and universally Good. 

[titleleaf]

I’m sure people have already linked you this, but is it Gary Brecher’s “Amateurs Talk Cancel, Pros Talk Silence”? 

The real problem, the kind of thing that would make De Niro in Casino groan, “Amateur night!”, starts when people imagine that they can stop immoral behavior by policing immoral characters, phrases, or scenes in literature.

They’re looking for the wrong thing. They’re sniffing for depictions of immorality, when they should be scanning the silences, the evasions.

There’s a very naïve theory of language at work here, roughly: “if people speak nicely, they’ll act nicely” — with the fatuous corollary, “If people mention bad things, they must like bad things.”

The simplest refutation of that is two words: Victorian Britain.

Victorian Britain carried out several of the biggest genocides in human history. It was also a high point of virtuous literature. […]

[squderia]

seems like a good time to talk about this

[mapsontheweb]

A Map of the Continents in T-O Style

[captainofstudies]

Cosy Thursday mornings working from home

[josephines-thoughts]

31.10.22

It's very rainy and foggy in my hometown today. It gives so much halloweenvibes..🎃

Nevertheless, I have to translate a text for my latin- seminar📚

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: meshariver

[mushroomsandfullmoons-deactivat]

day 37/100 - 100 days of productivity

we’re back on campus, baby! had my first in person lectures in about 9 months

- started the day with yoga

- had three lectures today (IT contract law, IP law, data protection law)

- spent my lunch break running some errands

- made a hairdresser appointment

[konoko]