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Hello ᥫ᭡

This is the walkthrough of my week. So, I was writing a lot of notes for the past week, and have been eating a lot of dried blueberries as snacks and I think it's my new hyper fixation. (ᕦ⁠[⁠ ⁠◑⁠ ⁠□⁠ ⁠◑⁠ ⁠]⁠ᕤ) Then, school starts at 15 and I didn't buy any stationary for back to school for the reason that I have too many unused items that it needs to dried out first before buying anything again. Even my lippies and makeup that I have are finished and being well used for a year so I bought 2 lippies that I will finish in the next couple months before buying one again. (Let's see ⊙⁠﹏⁠⊙) Well, I have been a overconsumption girlie for the past years. I have been buying less for a year now. ᯓᡣ𐭩

Retdems₊˚⊹ᰔ

I have been memorizing my retdems and making documents for it after I memorized.

Here's how I write my retdems when memorizing one. So I have been struggling memorizing return demos for clinicals and I finally figured out techniques how to memorize efficiently. (⁠っ⁠.⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)⁠っ

Mini Haul ౨ৎ

So After a year and a half I have finally bought a lip product, I was finishing all the products first before buying one again and it succeeded. So I bought the popular Korean brand Fwee જ⁀➴

I bought two products from them plus a free lip gloss from my order. I'm so excited to open it (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

What's inside? જ⁀➴

We have...

1. Fwee Cola gloss: 3D Volumizing Gloss Cola Edition: in the shade Cherry Cola 70%

- it doesn't feel sticky and it is really giving volume to my lips. And it smells like cherry and grapes in one.

2. Fwee Rose Obsession stay fit lip tint: In the shade MWO3 Cinnamon Rose.

-it doesn't dry my lips and I have quite cracked lips. Unlike other lip brands I have tried some of them, after I put it on my lips and stain it literally dried my lips so badly that I have to use lip balm underneath before using one.

3. Fwee Lip 3D Volumizing Tint: In the shade of Vanilla Dew (Free)

- very cute and smells like strawberries.

That's all guys, Love Maire (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

Borders I used or template is from Moshicam ✿

And also — not to get nitpicky with deadly tragedies, but they’re called “human crushes,” not “stampedes.” It’s an important difference in description and also in respect. The deaths usually happen because the victims are pinned together in a tight space, they can’t breathe (as in the video) and they suffocate. “Stampede” doesn’t convey what actually happened to those people. The crush that happened in Seoul recently wasn’t because people “stampeded,” it was because they couldn’t move at all and they suffocated. But calling it a “stampede,” you’d think it was the people themselves that ran over each other, like wild animals. It’s disrespectful and untrue.

“Many uninjured fans assisted the injured; several attempted CPR and others tore down advertising hoardings to use as stretchers. 

Chief Superintendent John Nesbit of South Yorkshire Police later briefed Michael Shersby MP that leaving the rescue to the fans was a deliberate strategy, and is quoted as saying “We let the fans help so that they would not take out their frustration on the police” at a Police Federation conference.“

I Told Sunset about You - Review list

1- ITSAY Episodes 1 & 2 Review

2- ITSAY Episodes 3 & 4 Review

3- ITSAY - Thank You note and conclusion. 

I really adore them and their friendship. Billkin is just the cutest. What a promise to make, lord!

Things like this promise or other things they said about each other before actually make me wonder just how deep their talks were from when they met. They know each other SO well.

Interviews never seen before

Mythology:

Circe by Madeline Miller

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy #1) by Pat Barker

Daughter of Sparta (Daughter of Sparta #1) by Claire M. Andrews

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

House of Names by Colm Tóibín

Sistersong by Lucy Holland

The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung by Nina MacLaughlin

Ancient Rome/Greece:

Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome #1) by Kate Quinn

Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King

I Am Livia by Phyllis T. Smith

The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome #1) by Colleen McCullough

Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa #1) by Steven Saylor

Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria by Ki Longfellow

The Pericles Commission (The Athenian Mysteries #1) by Gary Corby

The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault

Creation by Gore Vidal

Glory and the Lightning by Taylor Caldwell

Regency/Victorian Era:

Where the Stars Meet the Sea by Heidi Kimball

Suitors and Sabotage (Suitors and Sabotage #1) by Cindy Anstey

Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance by Jennieke Cohen

Blackmoore by Julianne Donaldson

Georgana's Secret by Arlem Hawks

Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women #1) by Evie Dunmore

A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem (A Lady's Guide #1) by Manda Collins

Gillespie and I by Jane Harris

The Lady and the Highwayman (The Dread Penny Society #1) by Sarah M. Eden

The Vespertine (The Vespertine #1) by Saundra Mitchell

WWI/WWII Historical Fiction:

A Duty to the Dead (Bess Crawford #1) by Charles Todd

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop

The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak

A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson

The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz #1) by Heather Morris

City of Thieves by David Benioff

The Roaring Twenties:

Passing by Nella Larsen

Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey #1) by Dorothy L. Sayers

Jazz Moon by Joe Okonkwo

Dollface: A Novel of the Roaring Twenties by Renee Rosen

The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

Wild Women and the Blues by Denny S. Bryce

These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights #1) by Chloe Gong

What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict

Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham

Happy Reading to you! 😉

• 男主角 • What if there are two “Nan Zhu Jue”, will that be alright? 

I TOLD SUNSET ABOUT YOU (2020) directed by Narubet Kuno

It is true that the goals of a group may at times conflict with the goals of the individual, so we may sometimes be held back by our association with others. But it's just as true that living on your own will often limit you and keep you from pursuing your desires too. Why should one of those be more a more inherent and fundamental conflict than the other.

It’s Fine Press Friday!

On this Fine Press Friday we bring you a new acquisition, Make No Little Plans, by book artist and University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa book arts professor, Sarah Bryant, published under her imprint Big Jump Press. This book was printed in an edition of 20 at Penland School of Craft while Bryant was there teaching a workshop in Summer 2017. 

Bryant borrowed the title of this book from a quote attributed to urban planner, architect, and the overseer of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Daniel Burnham: “Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men’s blood.” The text is “assembled from Plato’s Republic, a contemplation on the ethics of man and the state.” This book acts as a study for a larger project, The Radiant Republic, 2019, in which Bryant’s Platonic Solids, first appearing here, comprise the visual language. We posted about Radiant Republic earlier.

This small book consists of two sheets, one folded at 3 points into an accordion which can lay flat, with the second sheet folded once and stitched into the first fold of the accordion with a simple pamphlet stitch. It is letterpress printed with metal types, polymer plates made from her drawings, and linoleum relief print.

This simple book form exemplifies that simple structures with minimal text and imagery can be conceptually strong and magical objects that stir us, which contradicts the title and the aspirations of the philosophers and architects Bryant is referencing. 

View more posts on Sarah Bryant and Big Jump Press. 

View our post on The Radiant Republic. 

View more Fine Press Friday posts. 

The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get…They’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave. And if any- thing goes wrong, there’s soma.

- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, society has achieved stability, happiness and comfort on a level not yet achieved by any society of the past, and especially not by those of Huxley’s own time. In the year A.F.632 men and women have access to innumerable pleasures and leisures; they indulge in free sexual relations with anyone they chose; they consume copious helpings of the state sanctioned super-drug soma and, thanks to modern science, they spend their lives as young, energetic hedonists.

Yet, it is not the benefits of such a society that Huxley illuminates, but its frightening costs to the individual. Conditioned happiness turns men into automated machines; pleasure machines. But it also strips them of their free will, creativity and ultimately of civilisation itself. Men with no thoughts, only sensations, return, or degenerate to a state of primitivism similar to that of man’s primordial origins; this is the devolution of civilised life at its own climax of scientific and organisational achievement. In this sense, Brave New World expresses a deep anxiety about the future of materialist civilisation, in which the freedom and creativity of the individual are subordinated to the ideals of happiness, comfort, unity and stability.

Huxely’s view of materialism was shaped by the two dominant forms of materialist civilisation at the time of Brave New World’s publication in 1932, Soviet communism and American capitalism. Soviet communism came to power on the wave of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The soviets adapted Marxist philosophy to social reconstruction, gradually abolished private property, organised production into state collectives and, under Stalin, implemented strong, centralised planning of the economy and society. In Huxley’s “Utopian” future, the state exercises control over every aspect of human life, yet goes further than Stalin could ever have hoped to. Not only the economy and politics, but even the birth, lifespan and the very thoughts of the individual are manipulated and controlled; this is socio-biological totalitarianism.

If Stalin could not scientifically manipulate the thoughts of the masses to the same effective extent as the Fordist state of Brave New World, he could, at least, regulate it by persecuting those whose thoughts or activities conflicted with the narrow state ideology. Intellectuals, free thinkers, dissidents who refused to tow the party line were punished, exiled or executed. Thought became a potential crime, information was regulated, subversive works, past and present, banned.

Again, the Fordist state reflects a similar paranoia towards free-thought and intellectuals as subversive to the order and stability of society. As Mustafa Mond, the world controller for Western Europe, states, free speech, free scientific inquiry, independent minds and “the truth” are dangerous to the stability of the social machine; they threatened it with change. The Fordist state reflects 20th century totalitarianism’s obsession with enforcing intellectual and social conformity.

The second major materialist civilisation that shapes Huxley’s Fordist state is that of American capitalism. In the 1920s American modernism surged onto the world stage. It’s extreme individualism, its pleasure seeking culture and its belief that progress rested in the acquisition of material goods were major factors in its growing influence. The name of the Fordist state is taken from Henry Ford the American industrialist who inaugurated mass-production and a new era of the mass-consumer, an era that brought cheap, hightech goods such as cars, radios, and record players into the homes of millions. In the Fordist state mass-production and consumption are the heart of the economic system; indeed they are religious tenets with Henry Ford as its deity. To avoid social instability, such as economic depression, love of consumption is drummed into the masses through years of sleep-conditioning, with slogans like “Ending is better than mending” or “The more stitches, the less riches” .