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can you believe that the most human trait there is is art? we didn't start making art because it was needed for our survival or it helped us mate or hunt…. we make art for the sake of making it and for you and other people to enjoy it. this is why I love literature and art museums or just looking through my old sketches and stories…. making art is what it means to be human I think.

Do you like poems?

yes! my favorites are The Tiger and the unnamed werewolf fridge poem

love is stored in the hand. love is stored in the hands that hold each other. it is stored in the hands that create art. it is stored in the hands that have the power to harm but don’t. it is stored in the hands that are warm and the hands that are cool. it is stored in the hands that do things for others just because they can. love is stored in your hands which express the desires of your heart.

Trim. The investigator, 2019 - Todd Fuller.

Finding a vandalized Wikipedia article while doing homework feels like winning the lottery with the ticket you found on the street

“Anton P. Chekhov - Ein Lebe” 1981

—Yiwei Chai, The Jacaranda Years

actually, growing up is feeling like i turned sixteen two days ago. i’ve been eighteen for years. fifteen year olds seem so young. wasn’t i fifteen just a few weeks ago? all my friends and i are still twelve. i’m closer to thirty than to being a baby. i never got to be a kid. i never grew past eight. i can’t talk to my mom. i want to sit in her lap forever. i want to decide everything for myself. i need someone to tell me exactly what to do. the week is going by so slow. an entire year has passed.

• The mortifying ordeal of being forgotten.

Danny Castillones Sillada, Those Sweet and Painful Memories // Artwork by @/zhihuie on twitter // V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue // Halsey, Angel on Fire // Steve Salo, Forgotten Art // Halsey, Angel on Fire // Sarah Thebarge, The Invisible Girls // Mitski, Working for the Knife // Artwork by @/bekysfairy on ig // Octavio Paz, tr. by Eliot Weinberger, from The Poems of Octavio Paz; “The Prisoner”

we need irl subtitles. what are you guys even saying

I can watch Em in anything. I can watch Em read a phone book and I’ll be entertained. She’s a genius. I’m stoked on watching her in anything and do anything. - Andrew Garfield

girl mutuals

Hey, how do you learn Italian? what textbooks and apps do you use? Can you give any tips for someone who is just starting out? Thanks in advance?

Hi!! Thank you for your question. 

Here is a rough plan I made when I started this blog, which is July 2017. It contains a list of resources I was using at the time. I don’t have access to my Schaum’s vocabulary book at the moment, but I’ll be resuming it when I get home. I would definitely recommend it if you’re an intermediate learner like me.

Other resources I’ve used consistently over the past few months are:

this website for free ebooks

this website for free audiobooks

raiplay for series and films (I also watched Suburra on Netflix, it’s brilliant and you should go watch it right now)

Eduopen.org and federica.eu are two websites that contain MOOCs in Italian, if you’re into that

You could also consider getting the raiplay radio app on your phone to listen to the radio, podcasts, and audiobooks. Note that not all of their content is available outside Italy. 

My routine is now doing a MOOC class (making notes and looking up new vocabulary) in the evening, or going on tandem and chatting to people, because I really have to focus on university studies. (I 100% recommend getting tandem on your phone. It’s free and really fun)

Before that, I used to read a lot of articles on La Repubblica  - just pick a section that interests you. I liked reading outloud to practice speaking, and it also made me focus on the text more. At the end you could make a list of words you don’t know. I also used to watch Cucine da Incubo (the Italian version of Kitchen Nightmares) and the dubbed version of The Nanny, there are lots of other fun programmes available on youtube so just look for something you find interesting. That way you won’t feel bad about procrastinating.. because you’ll be doing it in Italian!

Here are some other useful posts with resources (links included)

radio stations

podcasts

movies and series

a masterlist of italian resources

My tips for someone who is just starting out would be:

Do something every day. Or every other day, if you have little time. This is a lot better than just doing a lot on one day and then doing nothing for the next week or two, or three… your brain won’t retain new information if you don’t practice 

Make it fun and varied. I don’t use apps like memrise, duolingo, etc for any of my target languages because I find them very boring and repetitive. Find a routine that works for you.

If you are a complete beginner, take your time to understand the grammar. Verb drills, gender agreement, articles, and the like. Find a grammar book you like and stick to it. You could look up exercises online to complement it. 

Again, if you’re a complete beginner, start by listening to Disney songs! Look up the lyrics, print them out or write them down if you like, highlight new words, try to translate the lyrics line by line, and/or learn the songs by heart. When you’re a bit more confident in the language, find artists in genres you like and listen to them, and do the same. I listen to a lot of rap music, for example. I look up the lyrics on rapgenius and try to follow them and understand what they mean.

I know I’ve said this before, but go on tandem. Try to have a conversation, even a very simple one. Ask your language partner to correct you if you make a mistake.

Good luck!!! If anyone else has tips or resources for beginners, it would be lovely if you added them to this post!

milf (motivation i’d like to find)

While watching the Tinkerbell film franchise we can see that pixie hollow functions differently to our own society, for example while all the fairys work in assigned jobs, we never see any evidence that they receive money for their work, furthermore we never see any fairys spending money, however they seem to have all their essentials provided for them. When Tinkerbell arrives at pixie hollow she is assigned a house, and we see that each fairy receives a daily ration of pixie dust. Even when Tinkerbell abandons her job in the first movie we still see her receiving pixie dust. By watching the films critically we can deduce that pixie hollow is a communist utopia that uses no form of currency. In this essay I will

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MY BOOK IS OUT!

I am very pleased to announce that my first self-published poetry e-book “My Dawn Is Only Five Hours Away” is available on Amazon! I have been working on this with lots of relapses and little victories since the harsh blow of the pandemic and I can only be proud of myself for not giving up and making a dream come true. Here’s the book description:

In the first chapter of her debut poetry book, Dion Anja explores the turbulence of pandemic through experimenting as well as integrating metaphors and classical elements to mirror the human nature that shifts and stays the same forever. Her poems include various themes like anxiety and hope, but also offer a soothing magical realm with fairies and cats.

It costs $2.99 and if you have Kindle Unlimited, it is FREE! I hope you enjoy it. 

Dion Anja x

Links:

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amazon jp

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how very special are we for just a moment to be part of life’s eternal rhyme

how to deal with mental fatigue

Hi, it’s werelivingarts! Exam season is coming so soon, and some of us might deal with a lot of stress and mental fatigue while preparing for the exams. 

Here are some tips on how to prevent and deal with mental fatigue (before it becomes too serious and leads to burnout). Exams are just ways to test your knowledge and understanding, so please do not expect too high and take care of your health! 🌿

Hope that we would all do well! 😊

THE SECRET HISTORY- NETFLIX SERIES

If you don't have romance or passion in your life, fictional is fine as well.

Well, hello. I usually paint portraits in oil. But now that I’ve got a tablet and PS, they open up the opportunity for artistic exploration that would normally take a long time via traditional methods. I don’t have to wait 2 days for a layer to dry for a start... so that’s encouraging.

Anyways, I like Good Omens. It also happens to be the perfect context to examine different art styles from Renaissance to Victorian times. I started this little historical Good Omens art series last month. Let’s begin with Golgotha Aziraphale and Crowley as Rembrandt style oil portraits :)

and tonight I'll ache with undefined longing for no reason at all

my 2021 reading list so far:

(i want to get it to at least 20 so if anyone has any recommendations i would greatly appreciate it :))

lolita

the little friend

dracula

the virgin suicides

a clockwork orange

homesick for another world

in a dark dark world

emma

you will get through this night

leonardo da vinci, issacson

american utopia

the complete poems of sappho

the wasteland and other poems

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”

- Vincent Van Gogh

- Vincent Van Gogh

snow in rome for the first time in six years!

three am dark academia vibes - a da themed playlist

Two mini serene scenes for the weekend. I am deeply tired, and it has been a very, very long term (I know, a long year). I have one more week of work this year, so just trying to de-stress and make a list of everything I need to do so I can take time off with a clear head 🕯✨