ON DEATH, WITHOUT EXAGGERATION,
ON DEATH, WITHOUT EXAGGERATION,
or: a few of my favourite poems about dying, being dead, & the ones who are left behind. some melancholic, some upbeat, some morbid, some euphemistic, some sombre, some tongue-in-cheek, some direct, some not, all good. in no particular order:
“on death, without exaggeration“, wisława szymborska (oh, it has its triumphs, / but look at its countless defeats, / missed blows, / and repeat attempts!)
“the suicide’s room”, wisława szymborska (a lamp, good for fighting the dark / a desk, and on the desk a wallet, some newspapers / carefree buddha and a worried christ / seven lucky elephants, a notebook in a drawer.)
“the letters of the dead”, wisława szymborska (poor dead, blindfolded dead, / gullible, fallible, pathetically prudent.)
(can you see that i’m very fond of wisława szymborska?)
“harlod’s leap”, stevie smith (it may have killed you / but it was a brave thing to do.)
“not waving but drowning”, stevie smith (i was much further out than you thought / and not waving but drowning)
“a meeting”, wendell berry (he has, / i know, gone long and far, / and yet he is the same / for the dead are changeless.)
“the dead”, billy collins (the dead are always looking down on us, they say)
“memory”, hayden carruth (my dear, / how could you have let this happen to you?)
“her long illness”, donald hall (daybreak until nightfall, / he sat by his wife at the hospital / while chemotherapy dripped / through the catheter into her heart.)
“this is a photograph of me”, margaret atwood (the photograph was taken / the day after i drowned.)
“owl song”, margaret atwood (i do not want revenge, i do not want expiation, / i only want to ask someone / how i was lost, / how i was lost)
“anne sexton’s last letter to god”, tracey herd (i have just lunched with an old friend / saying goodbye and something / ‘she couldn’t quite catch’.)
“ophelia’s confession”, tracey herd (i didn’t drown by accident. it was a suicide. / at least let me call my mind my own / even when my heart was gone beyond recall.)
“the promise”, marie howe (he looked at me as though he couldn’t speak, as if / there were a law against it, a membrane he couldn’t break.)
“aubade”, philip larkin (being brave / lets no one off the grave. / death is no different whined at than withstood.)
“lady lazarus”, sylvia plath (and i a smiling woman. / i am only thirty. / and like the cat i have nine times to die.)
“edge”, sylvia plath (her bare / feet seem to be saying: / we have come so far, it is over.)
“sylvia’s death”, anne sexton (what is your death / but an old belonging, / a mole that fell out / of one of your poems?)
“a curse against elegies”, anne sexton (also, i am tired of all the dead. / they refuse to listen)
“tomorrow they’ll cut me open”, anna swir (i have many powers in me. i can live, / i can run, dance and sing. / all of that is in me, but if need be, / i’ll walk away.)
“biology teacher”, zbigniew herbert (in the second year of the war / our biology teacher was killed / by history’s schoolyard bullies)
“dedication”, czesław miłosz (you whom i could not save / listen to me.)
“dirge without music”, edna st. vincent millay (they are gone. / they are gone to feed the roses.)
the rosie probert scene in “under milk wood”, dylan thomas (remember her. / she is forgetting. / the earth which filled her mouth / is vanishing from her.)
“do not go gentle into that good night”, dylan thomas (old age should burn and rave at close of day; / rage, rage against the dying of the light)
“a quoi bon dire?”, charlotte mew (and everybody thinks that you are dead, / but i.)
“myth”, natasha trethewey (you’ll be dead again tomorrow, / but in dreams you live. so i try taking / you back into morning.)
“i watched you disappear”, anya krugovoy silver (are you there? where? / are the others there, too?)
“i am asking you to come back home”, jo carson (my mamma used to say she could feel herself / runnin’ short of the breath of life. so can i. / and i am blessed tired of buryin’ things i love.)
“the night where you no longer live”, meghan o’rourke (was there gas station food / and was it a long trip)
“condolence”, dorothy parker (but i had smiled to think how you, the dead, / so curiously preoccupied and grave, / would laugh, could you have heard the things they said.)
“death at daybreak”, anne reeve aldrich (i shall pass dawn on her way to earth, / as i seek for a path through space.)
“fear no more the heat o’ the sun”, william shakespeare (golden lads and girls all must, / as chimney-sweepers, come to dust.)
“sonnet xciv”, pablo neruda (don’t call up my person. i am absent. / live in my absence as if in a house.)
“funeral blues”, w. h. auden (the stars are not wanted now; put out every one, / pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, / pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood)
“the drowned children”, louise glück (but death must come to them differently, / so close to the beginning.)
“because i could not stop for death”, emily dickinson (the carriage held but just ourselves – / and immortality.)
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^ Image: Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is an 1829 oil painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner
Translated Texts
Homer Odyssey Text: Translated by Samuel Butler
Homer Iliad Text: Translated by Robert Fagles
Academic Articles on Homer [These links will take you to google drive]
Ares, Aphrodite, and the Laughter of the Gods by Christopher G. Brown
A Collection of Essays on Homer collated by George Steiner & Robert Fagles
The Comedy of the Gods in the Iliad by Kenneth R. Seeskin
Disguises of the Gods in the Iliad by Warren Smith
Divine Justice or Divine Arbitrariness
Heroic Epiphanies: Narrative, Visual, and Cultic Contexts by Jorge Bravo
Gods and Men in the Iliad and the Odyssey by Wolfgang Kullmann
Gods in the Homeric Epics by Emily Kearns
What is a Greek Myth by Jan Bremmer
Achilles’ God-Given Strength/ Gifts from the Gods of Homer by S.R. Van Der Mije
The Odyssey and the Conventions of the Heroic Quest by Gregory Krane
Odysseus and the Genus Hero by Margalit Finkelberg
Olympic Pantheon by Ken Dowden
The Gods of Homer by G.M.A Grube
The Hubris of Odysseus by Rainer Freidrich
The World of Odysseus by M.I. Finley
The Independent Heroes of the Iliad by P.V. Jones
Perceiving Iliadic Gods by Daniel Turkeltaub
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Cliff Notes: Virgil Aeneid by Richard McDougall
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The Importance of the Fourth Book by Kenneth Quinn
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Poetry index: Irish
With that last set of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill poems, Irish has reached the arbitrary 25-poem minimum to get its own index, so. Here it is.
All poems are accompanied by an English rendering, of variable quality.
Breathnach, Colm: “Macha”
Brennan, Deirdre: “An Tobar”
Ellis, Conleth: “Faire”
Ellis, Conleth: “Oilithireacht”
Ellis, Conleth: “Sa Stáisiún”
Kelly, Rita: “Dán Grá”
Kelly, Rita: “An Ré ina Luí”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Cadenza”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “An tEach Uisce”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Fionnuala”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Muintir m'Athar”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Oscailt an Tuama”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Sionnach”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Tráigh Gheimhridh”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Tsunami”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Turas na Scríne”
Ní Ghlinn, Áine: “Sa Chistin”
Ó Céileachair, Séamas: “Uaigneas”
Ó Fiannachta, Pádraig: “Caisleán Gainimhe”
Ó Maolfabhail, Art: “Ní Bhíonn an Páganach gan a Chuid Féin den Charthanacht”
Ó Murchú, Aodh: “An Charraig”
Ó Murchú, Aodh: “Leascultúr”
Ó Néill, Séamus: “Amhrán Mhanannáin Mhic Lir”
Prút, Liam: “Réal sa tSeachtain”
Rosenstock, Gabriel: “Leacht Ceartaithe”
80 Young Adult Books by Black Authors
Supporting Black authors is something that I definitely need to start doing more, so I’ve compiled a list of 80 YA books by Black authors. I’m putting the ones that I’ve read at the top in bold, and the rest will be books that I have looked up and have put on my list to read. I can’t do much to change what’s going on in our world right now, but I can do my part to support the Black community in any way that I can. These are in no particular order and please feel free to add more!
On The Come Up by Angie Thomas
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Calling My Name by Liara Tamani
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Odd One Out by Nic Stone
Jackpot by Nic Stone
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone - coming out 9/29/20
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
Oh My Gods by Alexandra Sheppard
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America edited by Ibi Zoboi
Love Me or Miss Me: Hot Girl, Bad Boy by Dream Jordan
Spin by Lamar Giles
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan
Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
The Belles Series by Dhonielle Clayton
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
The Voice in My Head by Dana L. Davis
I Wanna Be Where You Are by Kristina Forest
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
The Evolution of Birdie Randolph by Brandy Colbert
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika and Maritza Moulite
Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron
A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
A Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinney
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown
Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
Solo by Kwame Alexander
A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
By Any Means Necessary by Candid Montgomery
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
Light It Up by Kekla Magoon
Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert
Learning to Breathe by Janice Lynn Mather
I am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina
The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Opposite Of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
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The Effigies Series by Sarah Raughley
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Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
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Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
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Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
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GUITAR SONGBOOKS
I’ve managed to collect a ton of official guitar songbook PDFs for various albums which are totally accurate and verified. I thought I’d make a masterpost for anyone who would like to use them! These links should send you to Google Drive and you can download them from there. :)
AC/DC - The Best Of
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See
Audioslave - Audioslave
Blink-182 - Blink-182
Blink-182 - Enema Of The State
Bon Jovi - Crossroad
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (Piano)
Coldplay - X & Y (Piano)
David Bowie - The Best Of (Piano)
Ed Sheeran - + (Piano)
Ed Sheeran - X
Eric Clapton - The Best Of
Fall Out Boy - Folie A Deux
Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree
Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Green Day - American Idiot
Green Day - Nimrod
Guns N’ Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Guns N’ Roses - Use Your Illusion I
Guns N’ Roses - Use Your Illusion II
Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
Led Zeppelin - IV
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Metallica - Metallica
Metallica - St. Anger
Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - Incesticide
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
Oasis - (What’s The Story) Morning Glory
Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out
Paramore - Paramore (Piano)
Paramore - Riot!
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
R.E.M. - Out Of Time
Radiohead - Amnesiac (Piano)
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Radiohead - Kid A (Piano)
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Silverchair - Frogstomp
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Van Halen - The Best Of
3 Doors Down - The Better Life
beginner’s guide to the indie web
“i miss the old internet” “we’ll never have websites like the ones from the 90s and early 2000s ever again” “i’m tired of social media but there’s nowhere to go”
HOLD ON!
personal websites and indie web development still very much exist! it may be out of the way to access and may not be the default internet experience anymore, but if you want to look and read through someone’s personally crafted site, or even make your own, you can still do it! here’s how:
use NEOCITIES! neocities has a built in search and browse tools to let you discover websites, and most importantly, lets you build your own website from scratch for free! (there are other ways to host websites for free, but neocities is a really good hub for beginners!)
need help getting started with coding your website? sadgrl online has a section on her website dedicated to providing resources for newbie webmasters!
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are the core of what all websites are built on. many websites also use JS (JavaScript) to add interactive elements to their pages. w3schools is a useful directory of quick reference for pretty much every HTML/CSS/JS topic you can think of.
there is also this well written and lengthy guide on dragonfly cave that will put you step by step through the basics of HTML/CSS (what webpages are made from), if that’s your sort of thing!
stack overflow is every programmer’s hub for asking questions and getting help, so if you’re struggling with getting something to look how you want or can’t fix a bug, you may be able to get your answer here! you can even ask if no one’s asked the same question before.
websites like codepen and jsfiddle let you test HTML/CSS/JS in your browser as you tinker with small edits and bugfixing.
want to find indie websites outside the scope of neocities? use the search engine marginalia to find results you actually want that google won’t show you!
you can also use directory sites like yesterweb’s link section to find websites in all sorts of places.
if you are going to browse the indie web or make your own website, i also have some more personal tips as a webmaster myself (i am not an expert and i am just a small hobbyist, so take me with a grain of salt!)
if you are making your own site:
get expressive! truly make whatever you want! customize your corner of the internet to your heart’s content! you have left the constrains of social media where every page looks the same. you have no character limit, image limit, or design limit. want to make an entire page or even a whole website dedicated to your one niche interest that no one seems to be into but you? go for it! want to keep a public journal where you can express your thoughts without worry? do it! want to keep an art gallery that looks exactly how you want? heck yeah! you are free now! you will enjoy the indie web so much more if you actually use it for the things you can’t do on websites like twitter, instead of just using it as a carrd bio alternative or a place to dump nostalgic geocities gifs.
don’t overwhelm yourself! if you’ve never worked with HTML/CSS or JS before, it may look really intimidating. start slow, use some guides, and don’t bite off more than you can chew. even if your site doesn’t look how you want quite yet, be proud of your work! you’re learning a skill that most people don’t have or care to have, and that’s pretty cool.
keep a personal copy of your website downloaded to your computer and don’t just edit it on neocities (or your host of choice) and call it a day. if for some reason your host were to ever go down, you would lose all your hard work! and besides, by editing locally and offline, you can use editors like vscode (very robust) or notepad++ (on the simpler side), which have more features and is more intuitive than editing a site in-browser.
you can use ctrl+shift+i on most browsers to inspect the HTML/CSS and other components of the website you’re currently viewing. it’ll even notify you of errors! this is useful for bugfixing your own site if you have a problem, as well as looking at the code of sites you like and learning from it. don’t use this to steal other people’s code! it would be like art theft to just copy/paste an entire website layout. learn, don’t steal.
don’t hotlink images from other sites, unless the resource you’re taking from says it’s okay! it’s common courtesy to download images and host them on your own site instead of linking to someone else’s site to display them. by hotlinking, every time someone views your site, you’re taking up someone else’s bandwidth.
if you want to make your website easily editable in the future (or even for it to have multiple themes), you will find it useful to not use inline CSS (putting CSS in your HTML document, which holds your website’s content) and instead put it in a separate CSS file. this way, you can also use the same theme for multiple pages on your site by simply linking the CSS file to it. if this sounds overwhelming or foreign to you, don’t sweat it, but if you are interested in the difference between inline CSS and using separate stylesheets, w3schools has a useful, quick guide on the subject.
visit other people’s sites sometimes! you may gain new ideas or find links to more cool websites or resources just by browsing.
if you are browsing sites:
if the page you’re viewing has a guestbook or cbox and you enjoyed looking at the site, leave a comment! there is nothing better as a webmaster than for someone to take the time to even just say “love your site” in their guestbook.
that being said, if there’s something on a website you don’t like, simply move on to something else and don’t leave hate comments. this should be self explanatory, but it is really not the norm to start discourse in indie web spaces, and you will likely not even be responded to. it’s not worth it when you could be spending your time on stuff you love somewhere else.
take your time! indie web doesn’t prioritize fast content consumption the way social media does. you’ll get a lot more out of indie websites if you really read what’s in front of you, or take a little while to notice the details in someone’s art gallery instead of just moving on to the next thing. the person who put labor into presenting this information to you would also love to know that someone is truly looking and listening.
explore! by clicking links on a website, it’s easy to go down rabbitholes of more and more websites that you can get lost in for hours.
seeking out fansites or pages for the stuff you love is great and fulfilling, but reading someone’s site about a topic you’ve never even heard of before can be fun, too. i encourage you to branch out and really look for all the indie web has to offer.
i hope this post helps you get started with using and browsing the indie web! feel free to shoot me an ask if you have any questions or want any advice. <3
Short Story Recommendations
These all fuck me up to a varying degree of emotions
Crime
Philomel Cottage - Agatha Christie
Lamb to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl
Death and the Compass - Jorge Luis Borges
Horror
The Landlady - Roald Dahl
A Walk in the Dark - Arthur C Clarke
The Wife’s Story - Ursula K Le Guin
The Veldt - Ray Bradbury
The Hanging Stranger - Philip K Dick
The Colour out of Space - H P Lovecraft
The Spider - Hanns Heinz Ewers
Sad
The Life You Save May Be Your Own - Flannery O’Connor
A Small, Good Thing - Raymond Carver
Cathedral - Raymond Carver
The Haunted Boy - Carson McCullers
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Chef - Andy Weir
The Martyr - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Jambula Tree - Monica Arak de Nyeko
The Rats Do Sleep At Night - Wolfgang Borchert
Sci-Fi
Love is the Plan the Plan is Death - James Tiptree Jr
The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C Clarke
The Star - Arthur C Clarke
Reunion - Arthur C Clarke
The Commuter - Philip K Dick
Exhibit Piece - Philip K Dick
To Serve Man - Damon Knight
Brothers Beyond the Void - Paul W Fairman
What the Fuck?!
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
A Collapse of Horses - Brian Evenson
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby - Donald Barthelme
Hopeful Monsters - Hiromi Goto
The Box Social - James Reaney
He-y come on ou-t - shinichi hoshi
The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang (just the entire collection bro)
Other
Broken Routine - Jeffrey Archer
A Man Who Had No Eyes - Mackinlay Kantor
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been - Joyce Carol Oates
The Lady, or the Tiger - Frank R Stockton
The Continuity of Parks - Julio Cortázar
The Dinner Party - Mona Gardner
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel García Márquez
On Exactitude in Science - Jorge Luis Borges
625 words to know
Italian version (English explanation and more resources here)
• Animali: il cane (dog), il gatto (cat), il pesce (fish), l’uccello (bird), la mucca (cow), il maiale (pig), il topo (mouse), il cavallo (horse), l’ala (wing), l’animale (animal), la zampa (paw)
• Mezzi di trasporto: il treno (train), l’aereo / l’aeroplano (plane), la macchina / l’auto / l’automobile (car), il camion (truck), la bici / la bicicletta (bicycle), il pullman / il bus (bus), la barca (boat), la nave (ship), la ruota (tire), il carburante (gasoline), il motore (engine), il biglietto (ticket), i mezzi di trasporto (transportation)
• Luoghi: la città (city), la casa (house), l’appartamento (apartment), la strada (street/road), l’aeroporto (airport), la stazione (train station), il ponte (bridge), l’albergo / l’hotel (hotel), il ristorante (restaurant), la fattoria (farm), il campo (court - sport), la scuola (school), l’ufficio (office), la stanza (room), la cittadina (town), l’università (university), il club (club), il bar (bar), il parco (park), il campeggio (camp), il negozio (store/shop), il teatro (theater), la biblioteca (library), l’ospedale (hospital), la chiesa (church), il mercato (market), la Nazione / il Paese (country (USA, France, etc.)), l’edificio (building), il terreno (ground), lo spazio (space (outer space)), la banca (bank), la posizione / il posto (location)
• Abbigliamento: il cappello (hat), il vestito (dress), il completo (suit), la gonna (skirt), la camicia (shirt), la maglietta (T-shirt), i pantaloni (trousers /pants), le scarpe (shoes), la tasca (pocket), il cappotto (coat), la macchia (stain), i vestiti / l’abbigliamento (clothing)
• Colori: il rosso (red), il verde (green), il blu (blue), l’azzurro (light blue), il giallo (yellow), il marrone (brown), il rosa (pink), l’arancione (orange), il nero (black), il bianco (white), il grigio (gray), il colore (color)
• Persone: il figlio (son), la figlia (daughter), la madre (mother), il padre (father), i genitori (parent (= mother/father)), il neonato (newborn) / il bambino (baby), l’uomo (man), la donna (woman), il fratello (brother), la sorella (sister), la famiglia (family), il nonno (grandfather), la nonna (grandmother), il marito (husband), la moglie (wife), il re (king), la regina (queen), il presidente (president), il vicino (neighbor), il ragazzo (boy), la ragazza (girl), il bambino (child (= boy/girl)) (la bambina, girl), l’adulto (adult (= man/woman)), l’essere umano / l’umano (human (≠ animal)), l’amico (friend), la vittima (victim), il giocatore (player), il tifoso / il fan /l’appassionato (fan), la folla (crowd), la persona (person), la gente / le persone (people)
• Lavoro: l’insegnante (teacher), lo studente (student), l’avvocato (lawyer), il medico (doctor), il paziente (patient), il cameriere (waiter), il segretario / la segretaria (secretary), il prete / il sacerdote (priest), il poliziotto (police man), la polizia (police), l’esercito (army), il soldato (soldier), l’artista (artist), l’autore (author), il manager / il dirigente (manager), il reporter / l’inviato (reporter), l’attore (actor), il lavoro (job)
• Società: la religione (religion), il paradiso (heaven), l’inferno (hell), la morte (death), la medicina (medicine), i soldi (money), il dollaro (dollar), la banconota ((dollar) bill), il matrimonio (marriage), il matrimonio / le nozze (wedding), la squadra (team), la razza (race (ethnicity)), il sesso / il rapporto sessuale (sex (the act)), il sesso (sex (gender)), l’omicidio / l’assassinio (murder), la prigione (prison), la tecnologia (technology), l’energia (energy), la guerra (war), la pace (peace), l’attacco (attack), l’elezione (election), la rivista (magazine), il quotidiano / il giornale (newspaper), il veleno (poison), la pistola (gun), lo sport (sport), la gara (sportiva) (race (sport)), fare esercizio (to exercise), l’esercizio (exercise), la palla (ball), il gioco (game), il prezzo (price), il contratto (contract), la droga (drug), il cartello (sign (traffic)), il simbolo (sign), la scienza (science), Dio (God)
• Arte: la band / il gruppo (band), la canzone (song), gli strumenti (musicali) (instrument (musical)), la musica (music), il film (movie), l’arte (art)
• Bevande: il caffé (coffee), il té (tea), il vino (wine), la birra (beer), il succo (juice), l’acqua (water), il latte (milk), la bevanda (beverage)
• Alimenti: l’uovo (egg), il formaggio (cheese), il pane (bread), la zuppa (soup), la torta (cake), il pollo (chicken), il maiale / la carne suina (pork), il manzo / la carne bovina (beef), la mela (apple), la banana (banana), l’arancia (orange), il limone (lemon), il mais / il granoturco (corn), il riso (rice), l’olio (oil), il seme (seed), il coltello (knife), il cucchiaio (spoon), la forchetta (fork), il piatto (plate), la tazza (cup), la colazione (breakfast), il pranzo (lunch), la cena (dinner), lo zucchero (sugar), il sale (salt), la bottiglia (bottle), il cibo / gli alimenti (food)
• In casa: il tavolo (table), la sedia (chair), il letto (bed), il sogno (dream), la finestra (window), la porta (door), la camera da letto (bedroom), la cucina (kitchen), il bagno (bathroom), la matita (pencil), la penna (pen), la fotografia (photograph), il sapone (soap), il libro (book), la pagina (page), la chiave (key), la vernice (paint), la lettera (letter), l’appunto (note), il muro (wall), il foglio (paper), il pavimento (floor), il soffitto (ceiling), il tetto (roof), la piscina (pool), la serratura (lock), il telefono (telephone), il giardino (garden), il cortile (yard), l’ago (needle), la borsa (bag), la scatola (box), il regalo (gift), la carta / la tessera / il tesserino (card), l’anello (ring), l’attrezzo (tool)
• Elettronica: l’orologio (clock), la lampada (lamp), il ventilatore (fan), il (telefono) cellulare (cell phone), il network / il lavoro online (network),il computer (computer), il programma (program (computer)), il laptop / il portatile /il computer portatile (laptop), lo schermo (screen), la fotocamera (camera), il televisore (television), la radio (radio), l’elettronica (electronics)
• Corpo: la testa (head), il collo (neck), la faccia (face), la barba (beard), i capelli (hair), l’occhio (eye), la bocca (mouth), il labbro (lip), il naso (nose), il dente (tooth), l’orecchio (ear), la lacrima (tear (drop)), la lingua (tongue), la schiena (back), il dito del piede (toe), il dito (finger), il piede (foot), la mano (hand), la gamba (leg), il braccio (arm), la spalla (shoulder), il cuore (heart), il sangue (blood), il cervello (brain), il ginocchio (knee), il sudore (sweat), la malattia (disease), l’osso (bone), la voce (voice), la pelle (skin), il corpo (body)
• Natura: il mare (sea), l’oceano (ocean), il fiume (river), la montagna (mountain), la pioggia (rain), la neve (snow), l’albero (tree), il sole (sun), la luna (moon), il mondo (world), la Terra (Earth), la foresta (forest), il cielo (sky), la pianta (plant), il vento (wind), il terreno (soil/earth), il fiore (flower), la valle (valley), la radice (root), il lago (lake), la stella (star), l’erba (grass), la foglia (leaf), l’aria (air), la sabbia (sand), la spiaggia (beach), l’onda (wave), il fuoco (fire), il ghiaccio (ice), l’isola (island), la collina (hill), il calore / il riscaldamento (heat), la natura (nature)
• Materiali: il vetro (glass), il metallo (metal), la plastica (plastic), il legno (wood), la pietra (stone), la roccia (huge stone), il diamante (diamond), l’argilla (clay), la polvere (dust), l’oro (gold), il rame (copper), l’argento (silver), il bronzo (bronze), il mattone (brick), il materiale (material)
• Matematica/Misure: metro (meter), centimetro (centimeter), chilogrammo (kilogram), pollice (inch), piede (foot), libbra (pound), metà (half), il cerchio (circle), il quadrato (square), la temperatura (temperature), la data (date), il peso (weight), il bordo (edge), l’angolo (corner)
• Nomi vari: la mappa (map), il punto (dot), la consonante (consonant), la vocale (vowel), la luce (light), il suono (sound), il silenzio (silence), il rumore (noise), il buio (darkness), sì (yes), no (no), il pezzo (piece), il dolore (pain), l’infortunio (injury), il buco (hole), l’immagine (image), il motivo / la fantasia / il disegno (pattern), il nome (noun), il verbo (verb), l’aggettivo (adjective)
• Direzioni: sommità (top), fondo (bottom), lato (side), davanti (front), dietro (back), fuori (outside), dentro (inside), sopra (up), sotto (down), sinistra (left), destra (right), dritto (straight), nord (north), sud (south), est (east), ovest (west), la direzione (direction)
• Stagioni: l’estate (Summer), la primavera (Spring), l’inverno (Winter), l’autunno (Fall), la stagione (season)
• Numeri: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 30, 31, 32, 40, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52, 60, 61, 62, 70, 71, 72, 80, 81, 82, 90, 91, 92, 100, 101, 102, 110, 111, 1000, 1001, 10000, 100000, milione (million), bilione (billion), primo (1st), secondo (2nd), terzo (3rd), quarto (4th), quinto (5th), il numero (number) [ HERE ]
• Mesi: gennaio (January), febbraio (February), marzo (March), aprile (April), maggio (May), giugno (June), luglio (July), agosto (August), settembre (September), ottobre (October), novembre (November), dicembre (December)
• Giorni della settimana: lunedì (Monday), martedì (Tuesday), mercoledì (Wednesday), giovedì (Thursday), venerdì (Friday), sabato (Saturday), domenica (Sunday)
• Tempo: l’anno (year), il mese (month), la settimana (week), il giorno (day), l’ora (hour), il minuto (minute), il secondo (second), la mattina / il mattino (morning), il pomeriggio (afternoon), la sera (evening), la notte (night), il tempo (time)
• Verbi: lavorare (work), giocare / suonare / recitare (play), camminare (walk), correre (run), guidare (drive), volare (fly), nuotare (swim), andare (go), fermarsi (stop), seguire (follow), pensare (think) parlare / dire (speak/say), mangiare (eat), bere (drink), uccidere (kill), morire (die), sorridere (smile), ridere (laugh), piangere (cry), comprare (buy), pagare (pay), vendere (sell), sparare (shoot(a gun)), imparare (learn), saltare (jump), odorare (smell), sentire (hear (a sound)), ascoltare (listen (music)), assaggiare (taste), toccare (touch), vedere (see (a bird)), guardare (watch (TV)), baciare (kiss), bruciare (burn), sciogliere (melt), scavare (dig), esplodere (explode), sedere/ sedersi (sit), stare in piedi (stand), amare (love), odiare (hate), passare / oltrepassare (pass by), tagliare (cut), combattere (fight), distendersi (lie down), ballare (dance), dormire (sleep), svegliarsi (wake up), cantare (sing), contare (count), sposare / sposarsi (marry), pregare (pray), vincere (win), (perdere (lose), mescolare (mix/stir), piegare (bend), lavare (wash), cucinare (cook), aprire (open), chiudere (close), scrivere (write), chiamare (call), girare (turn), costruire (build), insegnare (teach), crescere (grow), disegnare (draw), nutrire (feed), prendere / prendere al volo / afferrare (catch), lanciare (throw), pulire (clean), trovare (find), cadere (fall), spingere (push), tirare (pull), portare /trasportare (carry), rompere (break), indossare (wear), appendere (hang), tremare (shake), firmare (sign), battere / picchiare (beat), sollevare (lift)
• Aggettivi: lungo (long), corto (short (long)), alto (tall), basso (short (vs tall)), largo (wide), stretto (narrow), grande (big/large), piccolo (small/little), lento (slow), veloce (fast), caldo /bollente (hot), freddo (cold), caldo / tiepido (warm), fresco (cool), nuovo (new), vecchio (old (new)), giovane (young), vecchio / anziano (old (young)), buono (good), cattivo (bad), bagnato (wet), asciutto (dry), malato (sick), sano (healthy), rumoroso (loud), tranquillo / calmo / silenzioso (quiet), felice (happy), triste (sad), bello (beautiful), brutto (ugly), sordo (deaf), cieco (blind), carino (nice), meschino / cattivo (mean), ricco (rich), povero (poor), spesso (thick), sottile (thin), caro / costoso (expensive), economico / conveniente (cheap), piatto (flat), curvo (curved), maschile (male), femminile (female), stretto /aderente (tight), largo / allentato (loose), alto (high), basso (low), morbido (soft), duro (hard), profondo (deep), superficiale (shallow), pulito (clean), sporco (dirty), forte (strong), debole (weak), morto (dead), vivo (alive), pesante (heavy), leggero (light (heavy)), scuro (dark), chiaro (light (dark)), nucleare (nuclear), famoso (famous)
• Pronomi: (I) io, (you) tu, (he/she/it) lui / egli (m.), lei / ella (f.), esso (n.) (we) noi (you) voi (they) loro / essi (m.), loro / esse (f.), loro / essi (n.)
** go check @sayitalianohome to find more vocabularies’ and grammar posts
The school system continues to fail neurodiverse students
Neurodivergence in academic settings is highly misunderstood & under discussed. Below is a master list of information on the reality of being a neurodivergent student in an education system built for neurotypicals; as well as resources and tools to aid students with autism, adhd, dyslexia and more in higher education. Please share this post so it can reach, educate and assist and many people as possible.
**this will be continuously updated. if you have any additions please feel free to message me or send me an ask and i’ll add it to the list!
✰ EDUCATE YOURSELF
NEURODIVERSITY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
VALUING DIFFERENCES: NEURODIVERSITY IN THE CLASSROOM
ADHD EDUCATION CARRD
AUTISM EDUCATION CARRD
MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT AUTISM
DEALING WITH DYSLEXIA CARRD
TONE INDICATORS CARRD
✰ HELPFUL READS/SELF HELP
NEURODIVERSE SELF-CARE: MANAGING ANXIETY THROUGH CONNECTION
NEURODIVERSITY WELLNESS: LINKS TO SOME GREAT COVID-19 RESOURCES
PREPARING FOR COLLEGE WITH DYSLEXIA
AT UNIVERSITY: THE ART OF SHARING INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DISABILITY
HACKING YOUR ADHD - where you can learn techniques for helping your adhd brain
SURVIVING COLLEGE WITH ADHD
GOING TO COLLEGE WITH AUTISM
5 TIPS FOR AUTISTIC STUDENTS STARTING UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE
✰ TOOLS
FOCUS@WILL: an ios & android app designed to increase your focus and attention, Focus@Will uses specially engineered audio in which frequencies similar to the human voice are removed. Why? We are wired to pay attention to them, and they distract us.
FINISH: an app that lets you add tasks and divide them into “short term,” “mid term,” or “long term,” as defined by you.
CLAROSPEAK: ClaroSpeak offers the option of visual highlighting in-sync with the spoken words, a great range of colour and font settings to allow for optimum reading and word prediction to help with writing.
C PEN: The C-Pen Reader is a totally portable, pocket-sized device that reads text aloud with an English, Spanish or French human-like digital voice.
book recs masterpost
an ever-updating masterpost of books i've recommended. please check these before you ask for recommendations in case they've been covered —
fiction
"the tragedy still happened, but it was important that the love was there"
japanese literature
korean literature [1], [2]
gothic writing
spooky adult horror gothic
some favourites
marathi books
some ruskin bond
indian fiction [1], [2], historical fiction, stories, [3], [4]
non-fiction
general assorted ones i like
some favourites
about people living through crises
on geopolitics, foreign policy, international affairs
on political philsophy
vaguely sociology
biographies
on economic history
on the silk route
on prisons, convict labour
on afghanistan, soviet invasion, terror
capitalism
on language and linguistics
on the ancient and prehistoric world
just a bunch on india
the indus valley
indian aestheticism, art
gupta empire
sangam literature
on the northeast
india and southeast asia
nur jahan, mughal women | more
islamic conquest and state-making
on kashmir
assorted nonfiction
colonisation and aftereffects
on nationalism
on cities
on mumbai
on bollywood in bombay
on cities
on delhi
on kolkata
essays
history, migration, labour
art, reading, travel, gender, sports
nature, climate, some history
political economy, environmental and urban history, cartography and space
my comfort books
light reading
books that have got me out of my slumps
on art, photography, aesthetics, design [1], [2], [3]
on the environment
just some story and essay collections
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