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college is college-ing

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being 25 is like: im dying. im living my best life. im a failure. my life hasnt started. everything interesting has already happened to me. im achieving my dreams. im cutting my hair with kitchen scissors. im starting a skincare routine. im a corporate professional. im a sellout. im out of groceries. i have too many groceries. i am never going to be successful. i am going to win a hugo award before im 30. im crazy. im boring. i need to finish this essay. i need to finish this story. i need to start a newsletter. i need to start tweeting more. i need to stop tweeting. i need to ghost all my friends. i need to tell my friends i love them. i need to find a new apartment. i need to take out the trash. i am the trash that needs to be taken out. 

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has this been done before?? probably yes but im too scared to check since i already drew this out

so anyway here's finally some non-phantom art

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alright for the millionth time I'm seeing yet another author I admire talk about how they literally can barely afford to live & yet there are people openly admitting to pirating their books so, like

i guess it needs to be said again

pirating books is not the same as pirating your favourite Disney movie or whatever. book piracy kills author's incomes and can genuinely ruin someone's career

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I think it’s time for us to all collectively return to the library. Get a card, go to a club meeting, volunteer on an off day, rent some equipment. You don’t even have to read a book. But since the digital world is rapidly becoming a subscription-only hellscape requiring a criminal amount of private personal information to use even CASUALLY, the library has become our last safe haven to just exist with information present and not have our labour or information exploited for money.

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• An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

• A question mark walks into a bar?

• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."

• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

• A synonym strolls into a tavern.

• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

• A dyslexic walks into a bra.

• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony

- Jill Thomas Doyle

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Welcome!

Hello!!

Welcome to my tiny corner of the internet! I��ve been needing motivation lately so I thought I’d start a studyblr to journal my progress and make some friends while staying on top of the game.

But first, 10 little somethings about myself!

The name’s Ashley (but some prefer to call me giraffe)

I live in HK and I’m currently at the start of my second term of form 5. I will be taking the DSE (the local public exam/diploma) next year at around March (eek >.< scary)

My electives are Literature in English, Information and Communication Technology - elective A database (known as computer science in some other places) and Geography (weird combo I know)

I don’t really believe in having a “personality type” because everyone is unique but if I must have one then I’m an ENFP

I have been horse riding for 6 years. Horses=best friends ever

I am a singer/choralist/soloist and I especially love singing in madrigals

I used to be a competitive gamer but now I’m just a filthy casual :( rip 1000+ hours of game time

I like EDM/trap and occasionally pop (Chainsmokers!)

I’m not much of a reader these days because I don’t have TIME™ but a dystopian or fantasy series now and then is nice (please recommend something! I miss reading)

Fandoms (ships): Splatoon, Life is Strange (Amberprice!), Overwatch (Lenily/Widowtracer), Marvel (Ironstrange!), Sherlock (Johnlock!!!), Star Wars (Reylo!), Harry Potter

General goals:

to have a steady schedule instead of studying in random bursts of energy - it’s not efficient at all

stay healthier and quit staying up late until 3am and getting 4 hours of sleep on a daily basis

use this tumblr to journal my studying progress and related things ONLY. I will refrain from following too many people or being online for too long - I don’t want to turn this into a distraction, so sorry if I don’t like or reblog as many posts as other studyblrs

make some nice friends and help others ;)

Lastly, I’d like to thank  @literarystudies  @ravenclawstatus  @universityandme  @charlystudies  @timetogetafirst  @adria-studies   @adelinestudiess  @studyquill  @emmastudies   @studysnooze for the inspiration. Without you lovely people I won’t even know this heaven existed.

Stay tuned for yearly/monthly goals, 100 days of productivity, FINELY SELECTED™ reblogs (lol), motivational quotes once in a while and lots more!

If you’ve read till this point, you’re THE BEST I LOVE YOU THANKS FOR PUTTING UP WITH MY AWFUL RAMBLINGS I’ll see you around ;)

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Florence and The Machine, from 100 Years Mary Oliver, from Sleeping In The Forest

Vincent Van Gogh, The Sower (detail)

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"Credit to the original artist" is not credit to the original artist

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I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.

The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.

Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”

She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”

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I completed an art journal in ONE DAY here’s some of my favourite pages

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02•12•22// obsessed with this space ☕️ such a cozy little coffee shop for studying!

I’m off to get ready for work and then check out the Christkindl Markt on my way to work ✨🎄

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Strawberry Hill House—a Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London 1749

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quiet