in my hobbit era

Cris | 27 | they/them | queer | Italy | bachelor's degree in history | currently working on my master thesis in historical sciences | aspiring hermit in the woods | (studyblr/bookblr sideblog)

[extremelyrottenflesh]

Touching grass is not enough; I need to travel far over the misty mountains cold.

[the---hermit]

Non so come sia possibile, ma ho scoperto solo oggi l'esistenza di gioia libera tuttə. Quindi condivido il link il loro elenco di fonti (letteratura di vario tipo, cinema, podcast e un sacco di tre cose) su femminismo, genere, parità e diritti queer.

[the---hermit]

18|07|2026

master thesis adventures #38

I am not sure yet I will get in a second writing session today, as I will be dogsitting in the afternoon. But this morning I got a couple tasks done. I did finish writing a big list with a bunch of information and quotes I want to somehow include in the last part of the chapter I am writing. I then decided to take the rest of my morning thesis time to reread what I have written so far. I had to edit some notes, and I also fixed the general form a bit. What I am left to do now is to create a good structure for this last part of the chapter, and then to write it of course. Ideally I will take one hour of writing time this afternoon to start at least with the structure, but we'll see how things go. The general goal is to finish this chapter next week and to email it to my supervisor. I will try to accomplish that before the middle of next week, so that I will also be able to actively work on the next chapter. Overall I have to say that this week was much better than the last, I feel like I am actually doing something with myself, and things are going much more smoothly than the past week.

[the---hermit]

I finally got my Fenrir tattoo!!!

17|07|2026

The end of July is approaching and I am scared about it. I want to make more progress in my thesis writing. Today I plan on:

having an initial untimed session to reread what I have wrote so far and give it a quick edit (35 minutes needed to accomplish the task)

one hour morning writing session (I mainly wrote down a big draft of the last thing I want to include in the chapter, I will add to it in the afternoon and then try to perfect it and add notes in tomorrow's writing session.)

one hour and a half afternoon writing session

I will update during the day to hold myself accountable and to record how the plan is working.

[the---hermit]

master thesis adventures #37

After doing a general round of editing of what I had written so far in the morning I wrote down a very rough draft of the last topic I wanted to include in this chapter. No notes, no citations just what came to mind. In the afternoon I started to go through it and decided that before polishing the writing and adding more information I needed to gather all the important stuff from my notebooks. So I started a new file with all the things I think I want to include. After a little over an hour I felt too mentally tired to finish that during this afternoon so tomorrow's first task will be to finish that list. Then I should be able to complete the first official draft of a chapter.

[the---hermit]

I finally got my Fenrir tattoo!!!

17|07|2026

The end of July is approaching and I am scared about it. I want to make more progress in my thesis writing. Today I plan on:

having an initial untimed session to reread what I have wrote so far and give it a quick edit (35 minutes needed to accomplish the task)

one hour morning writing session (I mainly wrote down a big draft of the last thing I want to include in the chapter, I will add to it in the afternoon and then try to perfect it and add notes in tomorrow's writing session.)

one hour and a half afternoon writing session

I will update during the day to hold myself accountable and to record how the plan is working.

[the---hermit]

15|07|2026

master thesis adventures #36 1/2

First daily update on how my thesis writing is going. This morning session was slightly less productive since I only wrote a new paragraph (a little less than a page). But I did do a big reread of what I wrote yesterday, fixed up a few sentences and typos and also checked the notes. I also went through the big list I made last week of things I need to include in this chapter, I crossed off everything I have mentioned already, and finally I reorganized the other informations I still have to include in an order that makes sense. So in my afternoon writing session I can just go for it since I already have the order in which to write things in. I imagine I will do a rough draft of that and then clean it up in the next session. Overall these one hour writing sprints seem to work well which is giving me a lot of hope. I will now go for a walk to wind down and I'll be back in the afternoon with an update after my second daily writing session.

[the---hermit]

master thesis adventures #36 2/2

I have just finished my second daily writing session. I have now 5 full pages of writing that I consider to be decent, and I know what else I will be adding to that to finish the chapter up. Tomorrow I will not be able to have writing sessions as I will be out for most of the day, but depending on my energy levels I might do a general round of editing of what I have wrote so far, once I get home. I am starting to feel a bit calmer about this whole writing process. I think it will still take me a bit to be fully in the flow, but once again compared to last week things are going great, so I am happy to continue this way. I also really hope to be able to send a first draft to my supervisor in order to get some feedback, to know if what I am doing is good, but that will still require a bit of work.

[the---hermit]

15|07|2026

master thesis adventures #36 1/2

First daily update on how my thesis writing is going. This morning session was slightly less productive since I only wrote a new paragraph (a little less than a page). But I did do a big reread of what I wrote yesterday, fixed up a few sentences and typos and also checked the notes. I also went through the big list I made last week of things I need to include in this chapter, I crossed off everything I have mentioned already, and finally I reorganized the other informations I still have to include in an order that makes sense. So in my afternoon writing session I can just go for it since I already have the order in which to write things in. I imagine I will do a rough draft of that and then clean it up in the next session. Overall these one hour writing sprints seem to work well which is giving me a lot of hope. I will now go for a walk to wind down and I'll be back in the afternoon with an update after my second daily writing session.

[the---hermit]

14|07|2026

Good morning folks, I have a big glass of water, my laptop is on and my notes are everywhere. Today's method to defeat the writer's block is to work one hour straight, just writing no deleating and starting all over again. I will report back in an hour with news on how it works out.

[the---hermit]

Here I am after one hour. It went very well. I used the free writing exercise I did last week as a general guideline, with additional support of the chapter plans I had made. I put on the Penny Dreadful season one soundtrack and locked in. I tried to write in a more polished way but without wasting too much time on citations, which I then fixed after my one hour alarm rang. I now have one page and a half of decently written stuff, and to be honest despite knowing I will have to polish it more I am quite proud of how I have written it. I plan on doing a similar session again in the afternoon, so I will write a final update at the end of the day. So far I can say I feel much better about this than last week, which is already a big win for me. Now I'll figure out what to do with myself to relax my brain a bit.

[the---hermit]

master thesis adventures #35

I have just finished an additional hour of writing, and I have officially written the first three pages of this thesis. Not a lot, but so much better than last week's experience. I am starting to get into the flow of things. Frankly even if I can only do a couple of writing every day it is good enough for me, it is much more than I have done last week. So I will keep this method up for the whole week. Hopefully I'll be able to turn up with something good. I am doing my best with keeping my mind on what I am doing, one task at the time, because I fear the overwhelm of seeing days passing is right around the corner. But I am going to fight the bad thoughtsTM.

[the---hermit]

14|07|2026

Good morning folks, I have a big glass of water, my laptop is on and my notes are everywhere. Today's method to defeat the writer's block is to work one hour straight, just writing no deleating and starting all over again. I will report back in an hour with news on how it works out.

[the---hermit]

Here I am after one hour. It went very well. I used the free writing exercise I did last week as a general guideline, with additional support of the chapter plans I had made. I put on the Penny Dreadful season one soundtrack and locked in. I tried to write in a more polished way but without wasting too much time on citations, which I then fixed after my one hour alarm rang. I now have one page and a half of decently written stuff, and to be honest despite knowing I will have to polish it more I am quite proud of how I have written it. I plan on doing a similar session again in the afternoon, so I will write a final update at the end of the day. So far I can say I feel much better about this than last week, which is already a big win for me. Now I'll figure out what to do with myself to relax my brain a bit.

[the---hermit]

14|07|2026

Good morning folks, I have a big glass of water, my laptop is on and my notes are everywhere. Today's method to defeat the writer's block is to work one hour straight, just writing no deleating and starting all over again. I will report back in an hour with news on how it works out.

[the---hermit]

I finished my death metal band inspired queer embroidery and I am so obsessed with it!!!

13|07|2026

The thesis dis-adventures have been paused for the weekend and will probably be haunting me from tomorrow again. In the meantime I got some reading time, some doggo time, and most importantly I went to my first concert ever! Yes I had to wait to be 27 to physically go to a concert because I do not deal well with crowds and loud noises. But with the perfect combination of earplugs, small festival, and emotional support big brother I went to my first live gig and it was so good! We saw Korpiklaani, a folk metal band we have been listening together for ages and we had so much fun. The festival was so chill and full of people who were genuinely so joyous, it was a great vibe. It also made me realise I am fully in my metalhead/alt person renaissance and I am embracing it so much. A couple of years ago I was struggling with my sense of self and self expression through clothing, which was a huge thing for me as a teen. And I feel like after I have started to come out as non binary to a few people irl I have been slowly finding myself on that side of things again.

[the---hermit]

Graphic novels I got vs graphic novel I had to leave in the bookshop because my bookish funds are sadly limited.

10|072026

Master thesis (dis)adventures #34

I had another existential crisis about writing and ended up wasting an hour doing basically nothing. I have genuinely never felt so stuck with stuff like this, I do not like it one bit. I really hate it here. So what I ended up doing was laying on the floor and then go at a friend's place who was in town for the day. So at least I drowned my feelings of unmotivated guilt with friendship time, which hasn't been that much lately.

[the---hermit]

Did did that lady just crossed herself while driving past me?

[the---hermit]

Currently suffering through the worst writer's block of my life

[the---hermit]

I don't like it here get me out

[the---hermit]

Recent reads and a little illustration board update.

09|07|2026

The heat is unbearable. I am struggling with thesis writing and all I want to do is lay on the floor and read.

Master thesis (dis)adventures #33 (I think?)

The writing should have been the easy part. And yet here I am struggling and deleting stuff before I even finish the draft. This afternoon I tried to follow the advice of trying to write everything I want to include in the chapter with no academic tone no references just to get things going and warm up. I wrote three pages. Hopefully using that as a starting point can be helpful to actually get some real writing done tomorrow morning.

[the---hermit]

Currently suffering through the worst writer's block of my life

[heavensenthousepet]

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old