[watermelon-blossom]

your account is beautiful 😍

thank you so much <3

[the2headedcalf-movedagain]

if you've ever read a child's poem, you'll notice that it strikes you in a different way, often deeper, than that of an adult. the prose is simplistic, maybe clumsy, yet you know it's good. i think it's because children don't have the tendency of adults to use flowery language to conceal the truth. they have no one to impress but themselves. they do not create as if there is an invisible judge, they say exactly what they want to say, and this plainness is what makes their work so heartwrenching. it sort of reminds me of what that professor said in their creative writing class. "to resist metaphor is a difficult thing". it is. i think good poets write like children.

[watermelon-blossom]

Today was a chill day - I've spent it by deep cleaning the apartment.

8/100

[watermelon-blossom]

Today, I submitted 4 poems to a local literary competition. I've been writing to various magazines and submitting to multiple competitions... I really hope I will succeed at least once. Now since it's friday, it is time to play The Sims. I've spent the afternoon updating my mods folder. I always do that when I get a new EP.

7/100

[watermelon-blossom]

I've spent the morning at the doctor's office, doing crosswords and sudoku as I waited... and then in the evening I finally sat down to write something. I write poetry, short stories, and fanfiction. I love writing fanfics the most, but publishing something in a magazine or winning a writing competition could really benefit my future career so. Yeah. In between hurt-comfort moder coffeeshop AUs I am trying to come up with something print-worthy. 😳

6/100

[watermelon-blossom]

I got a few vouchers to use at a bookstore for my birthday... so I went to the city center and got a few (ie a lot of) books I had on my list for a while now, mostly about female divine power - by Pinkola Estes, Brinton Perera, Souzenelle (but also a few catholic books like Faustina's diary, Filianism is my religion, but studying Christianity is my hobby, to explain the mixture of books). Anyways, iced coffee is a must in this weather, Dea, bless all the baristas in these trying times 🥵🧋🍦

(Oh and I also did manage to read one book at the bookstore. It was super short and easy and tbh I am glad I didn't buy it, because for me it really is only a one-time read. It was:

Flynn, 21 Ways to Worship: A Guide to Eucharistic Adoration, 2012)

5/100

[watermelon-blossom]

On my last day in the countryside I picked some veggies and finished reading yesterday's book. Super glad I could manage to do that, since tomorrow I have some errands to run in the city so I can add returning this book to the library on my list 👍👩‍🌾

(Vidovan, Lenin in the 21st Century, 2021)

4/100

[watermelon-blossom]

A morning with my babygirl 💕

(Vidovan, Lenin and the 21st Century, 2021)

3/100

[watermelon-blossom]

Using flower petals to mark pages in a book is my favorite thing about reading outside during the summer. 🌼🌼🌼

(Baigent & Leigh, The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, 2001)

2/100

[watermelon-blossom]

Top 12 books of 2020

(from the list of 82 books I’ve read, 1 for each month)

The Edible Woman - Margaret Attwood

The Dressmaker - Rosalie Ham

Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Heroine’s Journey - Maureen Murdock

Bear and The Nightingale - Katherine Arden

Little Women - L. M. Alcott

How to be a medieval woman - Margery Kempe

Ritual - Marina and Sergej Dyachenko

The Chemist - Stephenie Meyer

Sirota Podhradských - Terézia Vansová

The Second Sex - Simone de Beuvoir

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Attwood

[watermelon-blossom]

Studying for the last final of this semester with a glass of ice cold homemade strawberry milk from our homegrown strawberries 🍓 🍓

(Lopez, The Story of Buddhism, 2001)

1/100

[whoooooisthis]

slavic academia but it's just my depressed ass in kraków

the village bus always comes in late

the new quiet tramways>>

visiting baroque churches after class for a history or polish assignment

kamienice. everywhere.

a pigeon shitting on the book you're reading

your school building is really old and has beautiful architecture

everyone has their own tea with them???

nerding around with your history professor, discussing pagan slavic beliefs and the medieval history

sketching columns in your notebooks

coffee, lots of it

biblioteka jagiellońska

class trips to wawel

sending your online friends endless pictures of buildings in the old town and kazimierz

wearing sherlock coats and oxford shoes just to feel better

owning folk costumes

and it being one hell of a flex

"przystanek na żądanie"

TRYING NOT TO GET RAN OVER BY PEOPLE ON ELECTRIC SCOOTERS

[raccocoo]

oh fuck oh no it has a name

[scifiseries]

[mugasofer]

Return from the Stars, by Stanislaw Lem, published 1961.

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

this is wild

[raskolni-kin]

may i present you

penguin pingu classics

[corkytheguar-deactivated2021122]

Grkljan, prst, vrt, krv, Grk, frktati, mrgud, crkva, reblog to scare an anglophone

[eightfourone]

us: how could the egyptians get by without writing vowels? even modern semitic languages use vowels in a way that is super fundamental

slavic languages: v is a word

[natache]

And r is vowel

[watermelon-blossom]

L Ĺ R Ŕ - my beloved