Wide eyed

wrocław/manchester || 20 || BSc Chem 2nd year || doing everything as @wrappedinchocolateblanket

[sunlitsuggestions]

make the best of what you have, flourish where you are planted despite the boots stomping you down, survival is the bravest form of resistance 

[lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223]

I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back

[user87262893]

working out your brain is a must!!

• hydrate it by drinking lots of water

• eat dark chocolate and blueberries and walnuts and salmon and other foods high in antioxidants!!

• play little brain games on your phone; I like wordconenct! anything that makes you think!

• read books. It’s simple but necessary. Even better - join a book club, or read with a friend, so you can have discussions after. This will improve your reading comprehension.

• do puzzles - it doesnt have to be sudoku, I love playing Beat Saber on the Oculus Rift because it makes my brain have to match colorful patterns to physical movements very quickly!

• learn a new dance - even a tik tok trendy dance. Learning new dance moves are proven to strengthen synapses!!

• go bird watching, or foraging, or anything outdoors that requires you to explore pattern recognition and visual searching

• watch a movie with the intent of analysis - this is best done with a cinephile friend!! talk about tropes and symbolism and character growth

• cross stitch, or sew, or do anything that requires matching nimble hand movements to patterns

• play or learn an instrument!

• develop a consistent sleep schedule (or as close to consistent as you can get!)

• when eating, try to identify the ingredients and flavors you’re perceiving!

I hope this helps :)

[officialjiggly]

I JUST PUT MY SHIRT ON AND THERE WAS A SPIDER IN IT!!!!!!!!

[thetowndrugdealer]

or did you just put a shirt on that a spider was already wearing?

[biphoenix]

thats so rude

[zoobus]

I don’t think it’s indicative of anything meaningful, but it is sort of fascinating how frequently we assume certain experiences are culture/demographic-specific when there’s no reason it would be, you just naturally assumed your ethnicity was the only one saving grocery bags, that women don’t know what it’s like to imagine single handedly stopping an imaginary robbery while waiting in line, that northerners don’t know about dipping fries in a Wendy’s milkshake. Even when shown evidence to the contrary, you’ll see people dig their heels in further for what are mostly benign, simple, or non-issues, insisting no you’re wrong, my group must have taught you that, or no no we do a special way, nothing like your kind, it’s totally different, as if this is a stronghold and you lose ground if you accept that this is probably just a thing people do.

It’s rarely a big deal but I always find it funny how much people will resist the idea that we’re all more alike then we are different

[afloweroutofstone]

I’ve seen the “my grandma keeps sewing equipment and stuff in this old tin container of Dutch cookies” meme get attributed to like three different cultural/ethnic groups, none of which included my grandma, who definitely keeps sewing equipment and stuff in an old tin container of Dutch cookies. Sometimes, people just do things

[chalksoul]

Fun thing when you start getting a lot of international friends/partners is that you realize half the thing you thought was “your culture” is very universal, and half the thing you thought was universal turns out only people in a five mile radius ever heard of.

[kyraneko]

Sometimes things are really suited to being done. Those cookie tins make GREAT sewing-supply storage, and people recognize that with great regularity all over the place.

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was.”

— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin, 2019)

[ligeia-of-the-rhine]

““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”

— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.

[newblogisjacindaelena]

[jacindaelena]

New Orleans by Laura Steffan

[maorisakai]

Travel journal 🇬🇧 London / The churchill arms

illustration:@maorisakai_illustration

[galina]

Mornings and their objects—

[themoonontheirwings]

Lynx in the Harz National Park

[sadcypher]

playlists for professional procrastinators pt 02

you are chasing discomfort: mostly movie scores, instrumentals, unsettling aura, perfect for spacing out, feels like sitting on the floor while the room around you is spinning 

silver mist: movie +gaming soundtracks, instrumentals, also really nice for falling asleep, feels like mornings in february

you are cramming for exams at 3am: calm instrumentals, actually helpful for deep focus, piano, occasional lofi of course, perfect to listen to when you are the only one still awake

purple neonlights: lofi, minimalistic beats, mostly instrumentals. apologising in advance for the amount of lofi anime openings but the aot brainrot got me bad

mint chocolate: feels very similar to purple neonlights, but with vocals. mostly korean chill rap/indie/rmb, feels like summer evenings and dozing off in the sun 

maths fuelled anxiety: feels like you have chugged a litre or two of coffee, drum and bass, electronic, more for low stim tasks and for waking yourself up, created this playlist out of irony but now i listen to it unironically 

bloodsworn death: this too is more for low stim tasks, mostly nordic folk, ambient and dark folk, soundtracks feat. vikings, game of thrones and skyrim, makes you want to forge a sword and raid a small town in england 

bayek: playlist based on bayek of siwa, the main protagonist of AC: origins, a game i love to pieces. only instrumentals, can feel like a fever dream, gives you the feeling of crossing deserts and exploring tombs 

viktor v: another character playlist based on victor vale from vicious by V.E Schwab. has lots of vocals and more distracting tracks, makes you feel like a villain or at least an antihero. feels like the colour grey 

[crowsnotvultures]

is this nOT WHAT HAP-

[silentridercaps-blog]

“In the beginning woman was the sun. She was a true person. Now woman is the moon. She depends on others for her life. And reflects the light of others. She is sickly as a wan, blue-white moon. We, completely hidden sun, must restore ourselves. We must reveal the hidden sun-our concealed genius. This is our constant cry and the inspiration of our unified purpose. The climax of the cry, this thirst, this desire will impel the genius in ourselves to shine forth.”

— Raicho Hiratsuka, In the beginning woman was the sun

[timotaychalamet]

Dreams (1990) dir. Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda

[cmorga]

Summoning spring Przywołując wiosnę

[booknerdstudies]

the starless sea - erin morgenstern

A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.

[misscrawfords]

"A girl lost in the woods is a different sort of creature than a girl who walks purposefully through the trees even though she does not know her way."

Erin Morgenstern, 'The Starless Sea'