250424 • I GOT MY DEGREEEEEEEE

i FINALLY finished my undergrad studies, defended my thesis and am now formally a textile engineer!!!!!!!!!! i'm gonna give myself three days rest and then... it's job huntin' time 🙃 should i just get my masters degree while im at it?

so i've been getting myself back into lord of the rings

(inspired by this post by @lotrreactionmemes !!)

Turtle lock its a turtle lock y'all!

the color pink has always been there 4 me

I'm reading the lord of the rings and I'm once again amazed at how... good most characters are. Like, they are genuinely good people. They are a bunch of kindhearted, gracious, caring people, coming together under adverse circumstances and trying to figure things out and find a solution and support each other through it all. Like Frodo and Sam meet Faramir and Faramir is a bit suspicious at first and kind of implies Frodo may be a spy, and then when he hears his story and he's like Frodo, I pressed you so hard at first. Forgive me! It was unwise in such an hour and place. And this blows.my.mind. He wasn't even particularly mean or threatening to him in the beginning, he's just such a kind, considerate man, recognizing the kindness and honesty of another man. And they're all like that. Even Gollum starts slowly changing (for a short while) when he encounters Frodo because that's the thing about kindness and humility and grace, they are contagious. They transform people, even a creature like Gollum cannot be immune to that. Like, you may consider all this simple and basic and I get it but, hear me out. It is quite rare to see that in modern media and it is also pretty difficult to pull off in a way that is not corny and simplistic. It is mind blowing that you actually don't have to present the entire palette of human cruelty and vice in order to tell a compelling story, contrary to popular belief. Lotr does the exact opposite, and it is just beautiful and it warms my heart. Especially taking into consideration tolkien's pretty grim growing-up experience, him being a double orphan without a home, raised between an orphanage and a priest and having no family apart from his brother and then the war and then he almost dies and then he's poor as hell and then a second war and it all makes sense somehow. He writes to his wife who is also an orphan two days before the marriage "the next few years will bring us joy and content and love and sweetness such as could not be if we hadn't first been two homeless children and had found one another after long waiting" and, yes, yes! The love and sweetness just radiate from his work, the entire lotr series is a little radiant bubble of hope and love and grace that he imagined in his head to deal with a dismal reality and then he just gave that to the world, and isn't that what imagination and art is all about after all?

- 📸 snapshots from the last few weeks

my motivation fluctuates a lot but lately my daily mantra of "i can do it i can do it i can do it" kinda helped tbh

Book stores, berries and (free) bagels <3

Snoopy rice & Miffy bao buns, pizza, and rice by matchaoatss

Ice-cream scoop pngs

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new reading corner 💛🤍🌼🌸

✨🌻🌿✨🌻🌿✨🌻🌿✨ 🌿 You CAN do it 🌻 ✨🌻🌿✨🌻🌿✨🌻🌿✨

the smallest artist i listen to? probably the bird outside my window

[ 24th april, 2024 • DAY 73/145 ]

national holidays are always so difficult because my uni always forces us to go to class on the previous day and it's awful. i had 2 tests today because of this. CG went horribly, couldn't have been worse. Comp was fine, i think, but haven't gotten the grade back yet ;-;

-> classes (total: 3h30)

-> Comp 2.4 notes + 6/6 exercises

-> took a nap

-> sketched for like 2h (working on faces, experimenting with different expressions and noses. next goal: colour, side profiles, dynamic poses)

beauty & the beast aesthetic

ok ill be over in a minny (new way of saying minute)