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26/04/24 || Friday

I've not done 4 pictures in one post in a while haha. The 3rd picture is right after a storm so horrendous it tore off our hostel's false ceiling. Nature can be so horrifyingly beautiful.

The exam week is upon us, and I am trying to stay afloat. After this it's only one year before I graduate, and man I really want it to be over...

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[research life]

Recent study sessions have been productive🫶🏻 Nearing the end of term so the workload has been quite a lot😗🥲🤍

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European followers: can anyone recommend a good online bookshop? I try to avoid online shopping as much as possible, but sometimes I need one or another book that is highly unlikely to be available where I live. Something, you know, that doesn't charge an arm and a leg for delivery.

#reblogging this so i have it for later #i too am looking for good online bookshop #my local bookstores have 1 sad english shelf and most of it is memoirs or colleen hoover #their websites have better selections but it can still be quite a task to find stuff #bookshop

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Hermit crab, but it’s a soul that moves to bigger and bigger discarded bodies as it grows

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College friendship is sending one of your friends who's graduating soon a giant list of monster theory and gothic horror academic reading recs so they can download as many PDFs as possible before they lose their university database access

#reading list

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It's Checkoving absolute gun

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my one wish for studio trigger is that they don't draw laios like a dehydrated twink when he takes his shirt off if he doesn't look exactly like this in the anime i will cry and scream

EDITING THIS TO INCLUDE THE COMMENTS I DON'T WANT PEOPLE REBLOGGING THIS WITHOUT THEM

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tysbooks · 7 days

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In many cultures, ethnic groups, and nations around the world, hair is considered a source of power and prestige. African people brought these traditions and beliefs to the Americas and passed them down through the generations.

In my mother’s family (Black Americans from rural South Carolina) the women don’t cut their hair off unless absolutely necessary (i.e damage or routine trimming). Long hair is considered a symbol of beauty and power; my mother often told me that our hair holds our strength and power. Though my mother’s family has been American born for several generations, it is fascinating to see the beliefs and traditions of our African ancestors passed down. We are emotionally and spiritually attached to our hair, cutting it only with the knowledge that we are starting completely clean and removing stagnant energy.

Couple this with the forced removal and covering of our hair from the times of slavery and onward, and you can see why so many Black women and men alike take such pride and care in their natural hair and love to adorn our heads with wigs, weaves, braids, twists, accessories, and sharp designs.

Hair is not just hair in African diaspora cultures, and this is why the appropriation and stigma surrounding our hair is so harmful.

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Louise Glück, from “Unpainted Door”, Poems 1962-2012

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more and more, margaret atwood

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marie howe, in an interview with krista tippett of on being

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ancient greek masterpost!

I’ve been collecting resources to aid in teaching yourself ancient greek for about a year now, and here they all are!

Where to Start:

List of places to start

How to guide

Intro to the language

Info about dialects

Info on learning homeric greek

Lexicity, has tons more links and helpful guides

Textbooks:

Google drive with TONS of textbooks and reference guides to culture, history, mythology, etc.

Companion site to Mastronarde’s textbook

Mastronarde textbook answer key

Companion site to the Teach Yourself book series

First Greek Book textbook download link

Learn to Read Greek textbook

Companion site to Athenaze

Grammar, Guides and Practice:

Grammar info

Grammar review

Vocab and grammar drills online

Worksheets on conjugations and declensions

Pronunciation guide

Parts of The Odyssey read aloud in ancient greek

Parts of The Iliad read aloud in ancient greek

Other:

Dictionary

Dictionary and texts

Trojan War dates

Some books of the iliad

Some books of the odyssey

Sappho original text

General info about Sappho

Ancient greek music reconstruction and info

More music info

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Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home (translated by Megan McDowell)

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i hate to be that guy, but the idea that gender, sex, and sexuality are ontologically pure concepts that can be rigidly defined if we simply police our language enough (our english language, because of course) is—i cannot stress this enough—a total waste of time. you may as well spend your afternoons teaching a brick how to swim

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ppl misunderstand me when I say "I want more [thing] in stories". I don't mean "I'm going to love every single one" I mean "I'm very picky and I want more of it in circulation so I can actually choose from a wealth of them and be discerning". I see ppl being like "you say you want more of [this thing] but you don't like [example of it]" YEAH CUZ I'M PICKY!!!!!!!! I have opinions and standards????? not all of them are gonna be the same I wanna be able to look at 100 of them and go "I want these 20" not "I only have 3 to choose from and I don't like any of them" you feel me??????

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’

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