Concept Playlists Pt. 2

Corpse Bride (2005)

since my writing post was received pretty well, i though i’d make other, to give some insight on the racism in the film industry and why it’s still a big problem now as it was in the past. 

cute high school au where jock!beau is super protective of her nerd best friend Caleb

he was supposed to be her tutor and maybe be a good influence on her, but Beau’s parents don’t know that he once stole a cat from a bad home and also once got into a physical fight at a bookshop over a limited edition of The Dark Tower

also Caleb’s foster parents, Veth and Yeza Brenatto, love Beau dearly and Veth tells her stories from her shoplifting days and also makes sure she always has enough to eat. Yeza shows her how to make smoke bombs.

a college au scully!! ✨💫

10 Things I Wish I Knew Before University

You are going to feel like dropping out. I would say to stick it out for the first year and sit for finals. If you get a good grade for your finals, that could really give your confidence a boost and motivate you to keep going. And then, if you still feel like dropping out or changing majors, you should do as much research as possible.

Feeling pressured to do more things. During my first year, I said yes to everything–even things that I didn’t feel like doing. I felt like if I didn’t, I’d be missing out on something really important or fun. FOMO, basically. However, more often than not, I wasn’t missing much and these opportunities will arise again very soon.

Buying too many unnecessary things. I bought so many stationery and notebooks before I started uni in hopes that they would motivate me to study. I ended up not using even half of them my first year. At least, I’d be set for supplies until I graduate.

Revising in uni is not the same as revising in high school. I used to think I could study last minute for a test, like I did in high school. I learned the hard way that that wasn’t the case at all. Now, I review the topics after every lecture. The key is to keep up because all those lectures are going to pile up really fast.

Past papers are your new best friend. I find that professors have their favourite questions that they like to give out. During finals, they might even use the same exact questions as they did in tests!

Failing/Getting a low grade in a test isn’t going to ruin your life. I once got so caught up on that one test. But luckily during finals, I snapped out of it and just tried my best. My final grade wasn’t too bad. You live and you learn.

Wear whatever you want (as long as it doesn’t get you in trouble). When I wear a hoodie and sweatpants, I get comments that I look like I just rolled out of bed (which I did, duh). And when I have really nice makeup on and do my hair, I’m trying to impress someone. I think people just like to run their mouth and it’s nothing personal, so you shouldn’t care what they say anyway. 

Keep in touch with friends outside your university. It can really come in handy during times when you really have to vent about someone in your classes. They can also help you keep grounded and have a different perspective.

You don’t have to love the library. I’m the kind of girl who studies lying on her stomach on the bed with papers and books surrounding me and my cat stepping on them occasionally. I think the library is too quiet and public for me. And if you’re the same way and prefer the cafe or elsewhere, then that’s okay too. The goal here is that you get your studying done.

Stay healthy. Whenever it’s near finals, I would abandon every other responsibility except studying. I would stop eating healthy and quit exercising, all in the name of making time to study. But they should go hand-in-hand with studying and not one or the other. I find that the better I take care of myself, the better my grades are. You should also get enough sleep–this, I never fail to do.

Types of students this autumn

all songs can be found on my autumn or studying playlist here and here

The Cosy Cuddler: ‘Jackie And Wilson’ by Hozier

hides away from the cold winds under a bobbled blanket, sips warm mugs of milky tea as they work through essays and research, avoids leaving their room at all costs, oversized hoodies that you can nuzzle away into, mini clouds of pumpkin spice float in their room from their candle constantly burning

The Library Lover: ‘Rainjacket’ by Back to Yours

spends endless hours pouring through mountains of work marked down and scheduled in a to-do list, comes prepared with nutritious snacks and lukewarm flasks of coffee, tapping fingers to their studying playlist, power walks for ‘their’ seat each day

The Caffeine Consumer: ‘Empty Castles’ by The Hails

thick turtlenecks that cover up scandalous actions, sipping burnt black coffee that coats your tongue, avoiding set work to flip through your favourite poetry anthologies and copy down quotes from your favourite books, torn out pages embellishing your plain walls, cigarette smoke cascading like a waterfall out your window

The Unwilling Undergraduate: ‘Atlantis’ by Seafret

glazed eyes that open when the sun has already toasted the frosted ground below, spends lessons in another world, turns up with bleak notes scribbled onto a scrap piece of paper, would rather sip amber beer than morning protein smoothies

The Channelling Creative: ‘Apple Cider’ by Early Eyes

embroidered the warm bonfire tones that surround them into their fictional written works, daydreams of photography projects embracing the morning dew and harvest moons, strategically places spices into their coffee for the tastiest brew, adorned in shades of burnt orange and black velvet 

The Seasoned Studier: ‘Better’ by The Honeysticks

trudges through their normal routine taking little notice of the changing winds and awakening shadows, fresh sheets of paper and obsidian ink, clean collars peaking out from under sweatshirts, soaring high marks across the board, enveloping your senses in green tea

some of my fav retro computers!!! i would love to doodle some more later on!! it was really hard to choose only six ahaha (click for captions!)

i often ask myself why i am not sitting in a library in an old gothic building with a spiral staircase and ladders to reach the top shelves in a black turtleneck reading about vampires in the dark with only a single flickering candle dripping wax onto the aged wooden desk i'm sitting at to illuminate my surroundings even though it's the 21st century right now