I Need Advice :)

august 28th: tea or coffee?

i’m not a huge fan of either ! 😬 i do enjoy the occasional chamomile tea, but i really like these little chocolates for some caffeine! i also love mtn dew and energy drinks, but i try not to drink them too much, bc they’re obv not the greatest for you

day 13 - how do you deal with stress?

um not well lol. but fr i journal, once a week in a physical journal, and everyday in one on my phone. i stress-eat 😬 i take naps and give myself motivational speeches. still not very good at dealing with stress tho. also that’s ^ the sunrise this morning :)

saw a cloud with a slight rainbow in it the other day 🌈

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

i haven’t had motivation to post in a while but .... here is a picture i took of this wonderful book i am reading

death star waffles! and grape juice and bacon :)

Female Academia:

Books:

The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

The Furies by Kate Lowe

The Raven’s Children by Yulia Yakovleva

And I Darken by Kiersten White

Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah

Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

Lajja by Taslima Nasrin

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

Authors:

Jean Rhys

Angela Carter

Julia C. Collins

Ismat Chughtai

Virginia Woolf

The Brontë sisters

Daphne Du Maurier

Flannery O’Connor

Mariama Bâ

Bertha von Suttner

Poets:

Warsan Shire

Raych Jackson

Nazik al-Malaika

Sappho

Jo Shapcott

Christina Rossetti

Emily Dickinson

Nikita Gill

Sujata Bhatt

Maya Angelou

Artists:

Artemisia Gentileschi

Harriet Powers

Klea McKenna

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Vivian Maier

Frida Kahlo

Composers:

Clara Schumann

Tania León

Lili and Nadia Boulanger

Missy Mazzoli

Xin Huguang

The world of academia is considered highly male centric despite that the aesthetic seems to be dominated by young queer women. I am not a fan of Donna Tartt so I have collected alternatives from my own collection of books and a few from friends and family. Some of the books may not be exactly “dark academia” or a set academic aesthetic but they all address female experiences and are academically acclaimed.

January Study Challenge

day 15 - did you make any / have you kept up with your new years resolutions?

decently! at the beginning of this, i said i wanted to drink more water, eat intuitively, and stop procrastinating. i’ve actually been doing pretty well! i drink more than one water bottle a day, and i’ve been completing everything the day it’s assigned. buuuut i have been having problems with food. i have a horrible relationship with food and don’t know how to change that :/ at least i’ve been eating more fruits and vegetables 🍊

p. s. i took these pics at meow wolf in santa fe!

if you’re not wandering around in a sprawling library aimlessly running your hand on dated bookspines before settling down with a hardcover classic on a window seat while the afternoon rain pours down from outside then that’s the point

thanks for tagging me @autumn-rain-coffee :)

rules: answer the questions and tag some people you want to get to know better/catch up with.

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three ships: 1. Wanda Maximoff + Vision 🥰

2. pricefield (yes i am stuck in 2015)

3. Eleanor + Chidi from The Good Place :)

last song: The Man with the Axe - Lorde

last movie: The Suicide Squad

currently watching: rewatching Parks and rec + The Good Place, watching Free!

currently reading: just finished Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse & about to start Armada by Ernest Cline

currently craving: some really good watermelon

i’m tagging @mymessystudyblr @cafeconlleche @marsoundsbetter @alexis-hrt and @study-for-your-dream