14.4.19 // 6 / 100 Days Of Productivity

a (very in-depth) desk tour!

i love my desk right now so i decided to post a desk tour! it’s pretty busy (i know) but it’s still really great and it’s a great, productive space. if i forgot to mention where anything’s from, please let me know and i’ll respond if i know where i got it. (also i blocked out pictures of me and my friends and also a concert ticket so no one steals it if that’s even possible)

also, just realized i wrote “miche” instead of “micke”. oops

( @emmastudies for the calendar printables! she has a bunch of other free printables that are so useful i love them a lot )

ah, I better spend the quarantine somewhere in the small town in the south of France or Italy, bake bread, sunbathe on the balcony and live with my loved one

p.s: photos are not mine! If you know the owner, write me, please!

~Anime inspired moodboard~

If you are finding it difficult to focus and be productive (like me) then here is your inspiration. Now go study:D

I havent seen anyone talk about this yet so im making a post. 

So lets say you’re researching something for a paper (or just for fun) and the research paper you want to read is behind a paywall, or the site makes you create an account first, or makes you pay to download, or limits you to only 5 free articles, or otherwise makes it difficult for you to read what you want.

do not fear! copy the link to the article

go to sci-hub.se         (the url is always changing so its best to check out whereisscihub.now.sh to find what the current url is)

slap the article link in there

bam! free access! 

This is literally the same

in honor of midnight sun coming out today, I will be scanning my personal copy that is supposed to be here today and will upload it to a Google Doc for free sharing use.

Storytime:

One time (awhile back) this boy and I were talking. I had already had a few warning bells go off with this guy, but I had ignored them because he seemed like a perfect match on paper.

Now this boy, let’s call him Bob, was also a writer. So one day Bob and I were talking about our perspective stories that were in progress and Bob decided he had a big problem with one of mine. Ya see, in this particular story my main character is unapologetically a murderer even though she is the “good guy.” Bob is NOT here for it. He informs me that NO reader will ever be able to enjoy this story. At all. His reasoning being: people do not like bad guys.

After Bob informs me that I should shelf this story, I point out that his argument is pretty inaccurate. In fact, violent/morally-gray protagonists are some of the most celebrated characters in fiction. Some of the examples I gave were Edmund Dante, Roland Deschain, and heck even Dexter.

Bob then explains that while he understands my “confusion,” those characters are different. You see, the previously mentioned characters are okay because they are guys***. Apparently, male characters can be morally ambiguous in their pursuit of something greater, but female characters cannot.

I then bring up characters such as Daenerys Targaryen, Becky Sharp, and Carrie, who are all protagonists but at times they commit morally ambiguous/to downright wicked actions. And spoiler alert, people still love them (even if they think they are “bad people”). Bob then interrupts me to let me know I am missing the point: nobody, especially a male audience (he made sure to emphasize that point), will accept a murderous female character as a good guy because it is simply “not believable.” Women apparently can either be bad or good.

He cautioned me, A WOMAN, to not misunderstand women in my writing. He also told me, a person who studies literature academically, that I might need to do more research into what a “protagonist” really is and what the main character should represent.

Anyway, I ended the conversation. The next day Bob asked me out. I said no. Bob then told me I was a “self-absorbed slut just like the rest of them.”

And that children, is why you NEVER ignore warning bells.

Manifesting academic success and an unlimited supply of cute stationery for the person whom you reblogged this from