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[annaveriani11]

conquer the winter blues II

I have a lot of bad associations with Christmas. While I can’t change the entire culture that creates those associations, I can try to get through the winter without turning into an uncharacteristic sad sack for reasons unrelated to my actual daily life.

The best way I can think to do that is by mindfully doing joyous stuff in December. Stuff that brings me joy, which may or may not be related to the Big Christian Holiday.

Here’s my list so far:

1. Read and comment on fanfic most days in December. Inspired by:

2. Get an advent calendar, except mine will be for all days in December, because hell no I’m not counting down to Christmas. I’m buying an advent calendar and then adding secret extra days to it myself, but you can also make your own. Mine is for teas!! 

3. Make your New Year’s Resolutions to remind yourself what you have to look forward to. 

I feel like I’ve mastered the NY’s resolution. In 2019 I watched more Studio Ghibli movies. 2020, I tried a new kind of cheese each month. 2021, new teas. 2022′s was to read books about non-people creatures. (I especially loved Fathoms: The World in the Whale, Spiders: Learning to Love Them, and The Overstory.)

I like resolutions that add cool stuff to my life that I wouldn’t have made room for otherwise. It’s a decision to make room in your life for good experiences.

4. Get a paper calendar.

More on this in a different post, but for 2023 mine is a Jackuchu calendar because I love his art.

5. Go to a garden at night.

Because they tend to be open! And lit up! The gardeners know: We need trees and night and novel things to truck through December.

6. Swim in cold water.

More on this in an upcoming post.

More to be added to this list later. Am very open to suggestions.

How do you plan to beat the S.A.D.?

[wordtothewizard-blog]

Whale Weekly!

[the-eunuch-general]

My first quiz!

Which obscure character from Call Down the Hawk are you?

[just-shower-thoughts]

If they made a spin-off of Avatar: TLA called “The Dragon of the West” and featured Iroh’s backstory, I would watch the shit out of it.

[ibibibi]

Let’s be real here if they made an ATLA spinoff called “My Cabbages” featuring the backstory of Cabbage Guy we’d all be watching every week.

[avatrashh]

We just want more

[wordtothewizard-blog]

Read the comics!!

[wordtothewizard-blog]

so apparently Sherlock imagines Moriarty being even gayer than he actually was (like, he imagined Moriarty sneaking into 221b and going into Sherlock’s bed) and also his head is like a deeply feminist place? and in his most private moments he secretly thinks all of the women in his life are brave, feminist inspirations who would have been suffragists in the 19th century?

[medicinis]

Sexual orientation: Moriarty licking his gun

[micdotcom]

[emeliarae]

So take a deep breath. You don’t need to have everything figured out yet.

[laurkf]

I don’t think you know what this post means to me right now.

[familyfriendlycryingpoems]

this is my senior page

[anarcho-kitten]

okay but why do you have to include that picture in the top left corner like “Oh don’t worry I’m sort of pretty/normal most of the time but look at how funny and ironic and COMFORTABLE I MUST BE WITH MYSELF LOLOLOL BUT SRSLY I PROMISE I DON’T LOOK LIKE THIS” commit yourself bruh bruh COMMIT

[familyfriendlycryingpoems]

i had no choice my school formats the yearbook so that ur senior portrait is on the corner of ur senior page

go back to ur psych 101 class

[lunarbaboon]

[dialnfornoir]

Journalist and author, Anne Scott James pictured in a pub in 1941 for her article entitled ‘Should women wear trousers?’ for Picture Post magazine.

[lunarriviera]

UH WHY YES YES THEY SHOULD ANYWAY THAT ONE SHOULD ALWAYS

[wordtothewizard-blog]

doctor: nurse, please hand me my medical kit.

nurse: *hands her a baby fox wearing a little nurse hat*

[martymcphly]

[topshotpicks]

[psyducked]

bout to take the ride of my life

[marlocruz]

One year, I taught this (Sociological theory) class and only used female writers. The journals were written by women, the textbook was written by females. Do you know what kind of responses I got on my student evaluations that year? {…} That I was biased, that I was only looking from one point of view… that I was basically a man eater. That’s the kind of things I’d get from the students… The semester before, I used only male writers. Do you think I got any kind of feedback like that then?

"Not a single word."

Dr Rebecca Erikson, my professor, in her introduction of epistemology and challenging the main narrative

(via marloscruzin)

I like this quote because it underscores not only how important it is to create a counternarrative to the dominant ones, but how much opposition, backlash and pushback there is to even the simplest challenges to the status quo.

My position? That just means we need to push even harder.

(via medievalpoc)

[thejediramblings-deactivated201]

[dovsherman]

[mythosidhe]

Although I have to point out that there was a piece of speculative science fiction called The Blazing World published by one Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1666, slightly predating Mary Shelley.

[naamahdarling]

This is the thing. Women have been doing awesome shit since there was awesome shit to do, we’ve BEEN THERE, if anyone bothered to look.

[youmightbeamisogynist]

Oh, they looked. And then maliciously and willfully erased us from the books to keep anyone else from “getting ideas.”

[gehayi]

Hell, the first named author in history? Enheduanna, a Sumerian high priestess, poet and lyricist. She’s known as the Shakespeare of Sumerian literature.

[maryrobinette]

The first American mystery novel was written by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, as well as the first dime novel, and the first crime novel..

[wordtothewizard-blog]

I still remember one of my high school history teachers telling us that the first person who wrote fiction based his book on "his" life. He used male pronouns over and over again, while I sat there thinking, "Yes. Lady Murasaki - SHE did base it off her life experiences!" erggghhh

[humansofnewyork]

“I haven’t liked to sleep indoors ever since I got out of prison. I’ve visited almost every state—only five more to go. And once I finish, I’m going to start over, so she can see them all too.”

[humansofnewyork]

“I’m an artist just like my mom.” “What kind of art do you make?” “Ninja Turtles and helicopters.”