Mindful activities to start :D!
Did you know that being grateful actually rewires your brain?
Being grateful:
- Improves sleep
- Relieves stress
- Decreases pain levels
- Increases energy
- Reduces depression and anxiety
- Enhances empathy
- Reduces aggression
- Improves self-esteem
- Increases happiness
- Strengthens positive emotions
- Reduces materialism
And so much more
@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks
its about time i used this blog for the second reason i made it: to force everyone to read my silly writing on ao3!
take this, my favourite fic i’ve written so far: mini bkdk getting married in preschool. with kid logic and shenanigans.
read. now.
“Now, you know what we gotta do?”
Izuku sniffled, bottom lip quivering. He shook his head from side to side, tousling green curls. He really didn’t have a clue what they had to do.
“What—what do we have to do, Kacchan?”
Kacchan rolled his eyes, as if the answer was the most obvious thing in the world. He returned his gaze to Izuku, and opened his mouth.
“We have to get married, duh.”
Izuku’s special-est person—Kacchan—demands to marry him one sunny afternoon in preschool. Izuku is more than happy to!
what better time to finally post my shizaya fic than @shizayasweek :D
Day 5 - Scars
summary: Five years have passed since their big fight, and Shizuo thought Izaya had disappeared for good. But when Izaya returns and says,
“I love you.”
how can Shizuo possibly believe him?
Rating: E
the prologue + chapter 1 are now up. i will update weekly (9 more chapters) and the whole fic will be about 50k words long
Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it’s gossip with some point to it. That’s why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
— Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer
Cultural Dark Academia
After my last post about the lack of representation in academia, I felt it neccessary to provide some examples of what I’m talking about. Obviously there are more countries in the world than I can list and provide books for, so for a quick list this is what I got. !! Keep researching !! If you have any more books by POC please reply them !! If a country isn’t listed, that doesn’t mean it’s not important, this is just what I could get together real quick. If I made any mistakes, please let me know, we’re all learning. We need to help each other end eurocentrism in academia, so value representation and educate yourselves 💓💓💓
Chinese:
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Dream of the Red Chamber
The Water Margin
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The Journey to the West
The Scholars
The Peony Pavilion
Border Town by Congwen Shen
Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang
To Live by Yu Hua
Ten Years of Madness by agent Jicai
The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River by Xiao Hong
Japanese:
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë
Pakistani:
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Ghulam Bagh by Mirza Athar Baig
Masterpieces of Urdu Nazm by K. C. Kanda
Irani/Persian:
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
Savushun by Simin Daneshvar
Anything by Rumi
The Book of Kings by Ferdowsi
The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
Shahnameh (translation by Dick Davis)
Afghan:
Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Indian:
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Aithihyamala, Garland of Legends by Kottarathil Sankunni
The Gameworld Trilogy by Samir Basu
Filipino:
Twice Blessed by Ninotchka Rosca
The Last Time I Saw Mother by Arlene J. Chai
Brazilian:
Night at the Tavern by Álvares de Azevedo
The Seven by André Vianco
Don Casmurro by Machado de Assis
Colombian:
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Delirio by Laura Restrepo
¡Que viva la música! by Andrés Caicedo
The Sound of Things Falling by Jim Gabriel Vásquez
Mexican:
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolf Anaya
Adonis Garcia/El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma by Luis Zapata
El Complot Mongol by Rafael Bernal
Egyptian:
The Cairo Trilogy by Nahuib Mahfouz
The Book of the Dead
Nigerian:
Rosewater by Tade Thompson
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Malian:
The Epic of Sundiata
Senegalese:
Poetry of Senghor
Native American:
The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Starlight by Richard Wagamese
Almanac of the Dead by L. Silko
Fools Crow by James Welch
Australian Aborigine:
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
First Footprints by Scott Cane
My Place by Sally Morgan
American//Modern:
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Internment by Samir’s Ahmed
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson
Rivers of London Series by Ben Aaronovitch
? // east, edith pattou // cotton candy on a rainy day, nikki giovanni // little women, louisa may // go forget your father, cathy linh che // ? // molly mccully brown
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” -Henry David Thoreau
Can you tell me in what issues of Nightwing and/or Batman (or other), do we see Dick as Batman?
He first takes on the Batman mantle in Battle for the Cowl
Batman and Robin #1-26 (Vol. 1-3)
Batman #687-691 (collected in Batman: Long Shadows)
Batman: #692-699 (collected in Batman: Life After Death)
Batman: #700 (anniversary issue)
Batman: #704-710 (collected in Batman: Eye of the Beholder)
Batman: Streets of Gotham #1-13
Batman: Gates of Gotham
Batman: The Black Mirror
Batman Incorporated (2011) #6
Batman (2016) #51
Also these. I'm kinda 🤷🏻♀️ about the exact order:
Red Robin #1, 4, 11-15, 22-23, 26
Batgirl (2009) #5-7
Justice League of America Vol. 2 #41-60
Justice League: The Rise of Arsenal #1-3
Titans (2008) #15-16, 21, 23, 28-30
“And you’ll return to real life. You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living. I guarantee it.”
— Haruki Murakami