#light academia aesthetic
Ever wonder how many records in history are wrong? How many confessions have been changed to protect someone? How many people have actually been lost in a war ? People who were wrongly accused of a crime ? How much our our history textbooks is fact ?
Only thing keeping me going these days is my fantasy to live in a secluded mansion with my ten cats and secret library.
Fuck zodiac signs, which three fictional characters’ personality did you borrow ?
If you had a choice, would you like to remember your past lives? If that is a concept you believe in .
What I would give to see two authors from different timelines collaborate. Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie collab where Sherlock Holnes and Hercule Poirot solve a case together. CHAOTIC. They would get on each other’s nerves for sure. Or a story about Dracula and Carmilla where they’re the type of friends that repeatedly insult each other, all the while looking classy and rich af. ICONIC.
I have books I love; and then I have books that keep me up at night, thinking, analysing, arguing about a character’s choices, dreaming of ‘what if’ scenarios; people that I relate to on a personal level,getting into debates that at one point I don’t know if I’m arguing for a character or for myself.
It’s harder to take the easier path. When you’re living in a society that encourages grind culture. it’s harder for people to choose the easier path because we’re afraid of how society will view us as ‘weak’. But just because you took the easy way out doesn’t mean that you’re giving up; sometimes taking the easy way out means being kind to yourself and putting yourself first, it means patience to gain the strength to do what you want.
Sometimes I wonder if people are only kind because they are told that being kind leads to good karma and good things; so doesn’t that mean people are only kind because it benefits them? But then I remember a stranger running after me in the rain because I dropped some money, a cashier going the extra mile to help me with my things, a store manager helping when I didn’t have enough money on me and I think that kindness is a choice that we make but mostly it is a choice we make unconsciously; no ulterior motives whatsoever and most of the time our actions strive for good.
Therapy? Pfft who needs that when you psychoanalyse yourself after every mental breakdown ahahhaaha.
I have a huge amount of respect for authors who have the strength to kill off their main characters. Because in some stories death is the only peace and mercy that can be given to that character, it is the only way they can be at peace with themselves; as a person who loves the character, yes I would inevitably cry but as a reader who loves the story, I’d be content knowing that the author gave the readers an ending fit for the story and a lesson that not all stories have a happy ending. Tell me which story this was for you.
I feel like some books you just understand it better at a different age. Like high school me didn’t get the humour behind Pride and Prejudice till I read it again a couple years later in college and I absolutely loved it. Similarly I can never have that happy glazed eye look after reading Harry Potter the way I did when I was 11 because there are so many things I nitpick about it now. I still love the series but at the same time I can’t accept some parts of the story that 11 year old me would have taken for granted.
1. Izumi Shikibu, from The Ink Dark Moon Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu // 2. painting by Ron Hicks // 3. Mirabai, from The Winged Energy of Delight // 4. Painting by Tony Belobrajdic | Angelica Alzona // 5. Sierra DeMulder, from Today Means Amen // 6. Painting by Alexander Brie //7. Françoise Sagan, from Bonjour Tristesse //8. Painting by Ron Hicks | Edvard Munch
dropped by two different korean shops today: a super authentic hole-in-the-wall restaurant and a cute quaint café with a pretty fruity tiramisu
a morning fuelled by cold brew and a kaya bun!
hit the library last week! my life begins to devolve around week 10 of each semester but hey this round i’m aware of it … sobs
finally finished my essay plan for the Dreaded Philosophy Paper! trying a new style of writing since philosophy’s relatively flexible and hopefully this’ll make my claim clearer ˊ̱˂˃ˋ̱
made a bear milk carton yesterday •ᴥ•
i didn’t use any pattern so he turned out slightly wonky and he’s definitely a prototype but i’m pretty happy with his wonky little expression !
philosophy paper due friday but today’s been exceedingly unproductive… chalking it up to over-saturation, but tomorrow’s a new and fresh day ！☀︎ (and also one day till my deadline)
here’s a pic of my brown sugar raisin bread and peanut crisp mochi bun !! big yums to fuel the brain that did nothing today ack
i’m back after six months with a pic dump of my last two weeks!
it’s currently week six of this semester and i’ve yet again accumulated substantial backlog, but this time i’m doing a lot more of political theory i’m literally loving the concepts! i’m struggling a little with linguistics, but the computational module i’m taking isn’t as bad as i expected, and despite exceeding the recommended workload it hasn’t been that overwhelming! (i’ve managed to make time for my hobbies, and even picked up a new hobby: crochet!)
