Sometimes, it feels like my blog has no value anymore once I stopped writing and posting my fics since I kind of went silent cause of school 😅

Stella: *to luci without looking at the paper* So Strawberry?~ :3c

Mr. Midnight: Are you even more dense than she is? And here I thought that you were the smart one...

good fucking gods, so I got accepted into another Ph.D program and was invited to a poster/talk session so I RSVP'd but hhhhhhhhhh I have not been this socially anxious in a long time and I'm not even THERE yet. feel like I might throw up.

BIG WIN: there are normal catholics in my erasmus place AND my university priest knows some of them!

For my second master's degree in Contemporary Culture, my thesis, due next September, has to be about anything relevant to the field of contemporary culture : art, cinema, music, literature...

I don't have to decide on my subject until at least May, but I already know what I'm going to write about, because I choose to go back to university and do this masters because I had so many things to talk about : fairytale retellings, and in particular, Beauty and the Beast retellings, inspired by Leife Shallcross' The Beast's Heart, and also Lisa Jensen's Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge, Naomi Novik's Uprooted and Cameron Dokey's Once Upon A Time: Belle.

Except that I've just read Madeline Miller's short story Galatea, and last year I read Circe and really loved it, so now I'm also thinking about Greek myths retellings.

The thesis has to be 45 to 100 pages long, so if I choose to talk about both, I could, I have enough room; the question now is, how to agence them together, how to link them together to justify talking about both Greek myths and fairytales in the same paper? I guess one angle could be feminism, by showing how Belle, Circe, Galatea are female characters with their own agency and motivations apart from their male counterparts.

Or I could just write about Belle because she's been my favorite since I was a kid, and leave Greek mythology, my other favorite subject as a kid, to another paper, like for example if I ever do that PhD.

Anyway, I still have time to think about it, after all the classes have started only a month ago, so I'll let all of that simmer. I do take advice and opinions, tho, if anyone's interested in these themes!

the end result. <3

Uni Freshers is going well! We have a farm, a jukebox, so soon we’ll be able to create enough bows and arrows to go fight the Enderdragon @holmestheheart x

VAMPWORLD FINN!! The baby they left in the tank grew up :)

Next part

Of course since I have an essay due friday and several python assignments due Wednesday it is now the first time in a year in which i feel like i want to write fanfiction again

Is it okay to post here that I got my very first ever hickey 🫠😆

It's that bitch that called my hat ugly

I feel REALLY good about my chances of getting into a Ph.D program this year. I've applied to 3 schools with professors who said they were interested in having me as a student in their lab, and I think I have decent chances of getting into all 3? But then if I do, I'm gonna have a REALLY hard time deciding hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I have realized that the perfect form of media must have a delicate balance between absolutely heart wrenching pure emotional devastation and the most ridiculous nonsense you have ever seen in your whole life

Because I always end up oversharing my study schedule on tumblr:

Today I will finnish my Criminal Procedure Law paper. Currently I’m 1/4 in (I have selected my jurisprudence, done the reading and have a guideline as to what do I want to say. I’m halfway through the second out of 6 cases I need to mention on the paper), so I think I will be able to finish today. The plan is finishing the one im doing, praying for a bit and powering through.

Tomorrow I need to prepare my 20th century presentation (analysing Trotski’s with blood and Iron speech) and getting in touch with my group to write the paper. This is stresful, because I need to find good sources and I haven’t gone to class all week.

on monday-wednesday i need to prepare my position / speech for my philosophy of law lecture (which might be harder because I want to defend Ius Naturalism and we’ve mainly worked through comparing Hart & Dworkin. It would be fine if I had more time and energy, but I can not read more). I need to choose one of the three topics, analyse it and list the problems and come up with an answer that’s both my own and coherent. I don’t even have notes of  this class, just about 200 pages of readings that I’ve worked on.

Finally, at some point I need to contact my “thesis” advisor (not a thesis, more like an “end of degree dissertation paper” and see if we can meet up to discuss the index + my questions. And I need to do more readings for this.

There’s also a couple non-priority academic responsabilities: making sure the group-excel paper is well redacted (but I have a friend of mine taking the lead on that one so it should be okay), catching up with the theory for my wednesday seminar (managed to finish it before time thanks to a friend), doing the RStudio test the professor has been hinting at, re-shaping my CV and applying to summer internships because everyone is doing it and I wanted to do it I just thought I had until March, and actually understanding what’s going on with my lectures beyond going to class.

Will Owl die of academic overestimation? Probably not, I’m actually hopeful about all of this and I think its just on the hard side of manageable. That said, balancing that + while trying to re-start my relationship with God might be on my stress limit

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