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@ceris-studies
Returning from the tumblr grave in an attempt to prep for the upcoming semester, and to give an update So uh Turns out I’m not a lazy piece of shit who can’t do anything right and who could be brilliant but just doesn’t try hard enough yadda yadda
I just have severe ADHD and need medication<3
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I am South East Asian and I’m getting tired of people writing away my culture.
I am not sure how many of you know but Disney just released a trailer for the movie “Raya and The Last Dragon” and many people have been taking the moment away from the South-East Asian people (like me) by comparing it to The Last Airbender. Now I’m going to tell you why you should NOT be comparing them.
First, we need to debunk the idea that we can cumulatively call someone “Asian”. That is very much an American concept, a label slapped on our continent to make it easier for them to identify us. However, we have 48/49 countries, with over 1 000 000 languages and cultures. It’s very problematic to pin us down as Asian when we all have distinguishing ethnicities that sets us apart. If anything, certain provinces have similar mythologies, or came from the same previous kingdom, and for that reason it would make more sense if we were identified as North Asia (Siberia), Central Asia (The ‘stans), Western Asia (The Middle East or Near East), South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia (Far East), Southeast Asia (East Indies and Indochina). I kind of wish a large number of Americans can see this so they will start calling us by these human geographical groups rather than a continent, and this may dispel the need to compare “Asian” movies.
Now to the comparison of the two movies. The Last Airbender follows East Asian (and some South Asian, New World, Inuit, and Sireniki influences). That is very very different from Raya and The Last Dragon, which completely South-East Asian. Here are some cultural aspects from the trailer:
She uses arnis as a weapon, Arnis is commonly National Martial Arts of the Philippines.
The intro of Disney shows a place in a rock; it represents Sigiriya Rock in Sri Lanka.
When she jumped out of a house, the houses were designed in Thailand’s traditional houses.
The Villain’s mask is called Barong Mask from Bali, Indonesia.
The Sword of the villain and the sword that Raya pulled are designed from Indonesia’s sword.
The wavy sword she’s using is a Kris which is a traditional sword in the southern part of the Philippines. So basically her fighting style is Eskrima which is Visayan (central Philippines) but use weapons from Mindanao (southern Philippines)
The whole thing might be inspired by Princess Urduja, the Filipino warrior princess.
The Sea Dragon is from Phillipines and it’s called Bakunawa.
Raya’s clothes are Vietnamese traditional clothing.
Her animal that she rides is Khmer name, Thuk Thuk. When u have came to cambodia for 5 years ago and you want to go somewhere, you have to call “Thuk Thuk” and they will ride you anywhere you wanna go.
Theory about the tribes;
the yellow tribe is Indonesian or Malaysian
the purple tribe is Philippine or Malaysian
the green tribe is maybe Thai because of the Elephants or Cambodian because of the advance weaponry
the white tribe is Thai because of the Dholes, clothes, and the sword
Please do not take this moment away from us- South-East Asian culture and mythology has always been written away in South Asian and East Asian dominant movies. Our culture was put into the Legend of Korra and was written off as East Asian and due to this misinformation of cultures, we are now compared to some show that has never represented us. Please stop it. Let us have our moment- though our cultures are mashed together for this South-East Asian adaptation, it retains alot of our key aspects.
South-East Asians are not South Asians or East Asians or Central Asians. We are our own. Let us have that. For once in Hollywood, “Asian rep” is not a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Indian.
As a Japanese person, I want to see more non-western dark academia stuff, so here’s what I can think of for Japanese DA
• calligraphy
• hands covered in ink that you used to paint or write with
• kabuki and traditional theatre
• the pavement and narrow streets of old cities
• temples
• in certain areas of the country, huge deciduous forests!!
• kimonos and yukatas
• haiku poems
cultural academia pt. 2
here’s pt. 1
This is a continuation of spreading cultural books to end eurocentrism in academia. There’s definitely more “dark academia” books that fit the aesthetic this time around! Thank you to everyone who added books in the notes of the first post- I just put all those suggestions together in this list so complete credit to everyone who made these suggestions <3
Chinese:
Shen Congwen
Geling Yan
From Emperor to Citizen
Life and Death in Shanghai by Niem Cheng
Jin Ping Mei by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
Japanese:
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Sonezaki Shinju by Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
Works of Oe
Tosa Nikki by Ki no Tsurayuki
Torikaebaya Monogatari
Ise Monogatari by Ariwara no Narihira
A Fool’s Love by Tanizaki Jun’ichiro
The Golden Death by Tanizaki Jun’ichiro
Hell Scene
I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki
The Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Edogawa Ranpo
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
The Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Flower Tales by Yoshiya Nobuko
Books of Hayashi Fumiko
Books of Enchi Fumiko
The Demon’s Sermon on the Marrial Arts by Issao Chozanshi
Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Fool’s Life by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Thai:
Garin’s Uncanny Files
Irani/Persian:
Disoriental by Negar Djavadi
Mesopotamia:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Pakistani:
Poetry of Allama Iqbal
Works of Saadat Hassan Manto
My Feudal Lordand Blasphemy by Tehmina Durrani
The Reluctant Fundmamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Raja Gidh by Bano Qudsia
Four Tragic Romances of Punjab (Heer Ranjha, Mirza Sahiba, Sassi Punnun, and Sohni Mahiwal)
The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa
Indian:
Ramayana by Valmiki
Nonviolent Soldier of Islam by Eknath Easwaran
The Wildlings by Nilanjana Roy
Sivagamiyin Sapatham by Kalki Krishnamurthy
Chitralekha
Chandralekha
Rabindranath Tagore’s short stories
Works of Satyajit Rai
Byomkesh Bakshi
Munshi Premchand (Godan, Gaban, Nirmala)
The River Sutra
Mehlua
(comics)
Nagraj
Chacha Choudhary
Lotpot
Champak
Nandan
Vikram Betal
(poets)
The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu
Gitanjali
Works of Ruskin Bond
Mahadevi Verma
Hajari Prasad Divedi
Arabian:
Hayy Ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufail (he lived in Al-Andalus but was Arab I believe)
Filipino:
Works of Nick Joaquin
Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan
The Eight Muses of the Fall By Edgar Calabia Samar
Isabelo’s Archive by Resil B. Mojares
Noli Me Tangere by Dr. Jose Rizal
El Filibusterismo by Dr. Jose Rizal
Indonesian:
Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Saman by Ayu Utami
The Years of the Voiceless
Beauty is Wound by Eka Kurniawan
Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan
(poets)
Sapardi Djoko Darmono
Chairil Anwar
Sustardji Calzoum Bachri
W.S. Rendra
Taufik Ismail
Wiji Thukul
NH Dini
Dee Lestari
Mira W.
Malaysian:
Garden of Evening Mists
Brazilian:
O Ateneu by Raul Pompeia
Ursula by Maria Firmino
The Hidden Cause; The Alienist by Machado de Assis (short stories)
The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma by Lima Barreto
Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos
Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus
Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha
Macunaima by Mario de Andrade
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
Captain of the Sands by Jorge Amado
Auto da Compadecida by Ariano Suassuna
City of God by Paulo Lins
Budapest by Chico Buarque
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis
Poems by Vinicius de Moraes
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Antologia Poetica by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Senhora by Jose de Alencar
Colombian:
Works of William Ospina
Chilean:
Works of Isabelle Allende
Mexican:
Poems by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Laura Esquivel
El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma by Luis Zapata Quiroz
(authors)
Gerardo Murillo
Ruben M Campos
Maria Enriqueta Camarillo de Pereya
Aura by Carlos Fuentes
El Llano by Juan Rulfo
La Casa Junto Al Rio by Elena Garro
Amparo Davila
Guadalipe Duenas
Ines Arredondo
Fransisco Tario
Max Aub
Bernado Couto Castillo
Amado Nervo
Adriana Diaz Enciso
Emiliano Gonzalez
H. Pascal (poetry of vampires and ghosts)
Tequila Gotico: Literatura Gotica en Mexico (published in magazine/good intro to gothic lit in Mexico)
Argentinian:
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges
Nigerian:
Americanah by Chimamanda Adiche
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Malian:
Fatoumata Keita
Senegalese:
Amadou Kane
Cheik Anta Diop
Sudanese:
Season of Migration to the North
Native American:
Works of Leslie Marmon Silko
Canadian:
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (Ghanan-Canadian)
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese (Indigenous Canadian-Ojibwe)
Birdie by Tracie Lindberg (Indigenous Canadian-Cree)
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican-Canadian)
British:
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Jamaican-British)
American:
Works of Gwendolyn Brooks
Works of Langston Hughes
A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava (Colombian-American)
Once again, if your country wasn’t included, that doesn’t mean it’s not important!! Please continue to add more books with their countries in the notes and correct me if I’ve made a mistake!!
I’m struggling with my classes.
And the subjects of them. I never thought I’d study to become an engineer, not even a bioengineer.
Right now I’m listening to a lecture about social psychology, specifically social identities. It’s talking about how people remove dissonances in their relationships and in their minds. And it really makes me contemplate even more if I should stop studying biosystems engineering. And mayhaps switch to psychology (because the lectures seem to be much more interesting, have much less engineering stuff, and still allow me to get to my end goal - neurosciences).
It’s so hard to keep up with things lately. Uni, hobbies, everything. But what this lecture is talking about is finally teaching me something again, is making me want to learn again. Both to learn more about the subject, and to learn more about myself.
But I don’t know if my parents would pay for me to switch subjects and start over for the second time. I’m so torn. But I can’t keep going how things are right now, I’m just not gonna make it. I can’t bring up the motivation to study something I never wanted to learn in as much detail as I have to for my biosystems engineering classes.
Sigh.
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I spent my entire school career afraid of being wrong because I was taught that to make a mistake was embarrassing. Now I’ve discovered that making a mistake just means you are one step closer to the right answer, and everyday I have to work to shake the mindset that a single wrong answer equals failure.
I wish everyone would admit that classic literature is inherently difficult to read, and that you shouldn’t feel stupid if you don’t “get it”. Especially the dark academia/ classic lit fandoms and stuff. Like unless you have the vocabulary and pop culture knowledge of an 18th century nobleman, it’s going to be a tough read. It’ll take you longer to read; you’re not stupid if you’ve spent several months on a single book! And you don’t have to enjoy everything. It’s okay if you got bored after one chapter of Wuthering Heights, and couldn’t be bothered to read the rest. It’s okay if you want to read your favourite kids book for the 10th time instead. You’re not stupid. No piece of literature is inherently better, more “important”, more “meaningful”, or more “intellectual” than another. First and foremost, read what brings you joy.
“I TOOK CARE OF MYSELF and it wasn’t beautiful. I took care of myself and looked at the overdue bills in the face, even though it hurt. I took care of myself and cried ugly through the therapy session; made another appointment for next week. I put in the work and wrote all the bad memories in detail. I apologized to all the friends I didn’t have the energy to talk to. I finally cut off all my dead ends and bought produce; slimly avoided sustaining myself on barbecue chips and poetry. I recycled. I set an alarm for 8 hours of sleep and did not sleep more or less. I took care of myself and it wasn’t bubble baths. It wasn’t lotion at Bath and Bodyworks and three-cheese pizza. It was uncomfortable. It wasn’t beautiful, but I am, and it didn’t have to be beautiful to be worth it.”
— Schuyler Peck, The Greatest Act of Self-Love Isn’t Always Pretty
Amplify BIPOC voices ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Anyway...roughly 50% of these + tons of other works by POC, women, and LGBTQIA authors are on my bookshop. If you’re feeling shop-y, just hit the link on my pinned post ;)
if you're a student at all, please take care of yourself. you don't need to compete with your classmates for who slept the least or who drank the most coffee. eat breakfast and go to sleep a little earlier. lay off studying for a night and do something nice for yourself. your body and brain will thank you.
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5 tips on how to be productive when studying from home
Hi, guys! Lala here.
I previously posted my study from home routine. I wanted to share additional information/ rules I go by that also help me get things done while at home.
Personaly #5 Communicate Expectations is the one that I don’t see a lot of people talking about. If you live with other people in your house, it can be an extra challenge to get things done especially when you have a latino mom that thinks I am playing and on Facebook the whole time instead of studying and thinks its a always a good time to barge in the middle of my classes and evaluations. I personally have gotten so much value out of it, as it allows me work smoothly without the interruption of people entering in my room or mindlessly knocking at my door.
So you have any other tips that help you get things done while studying from home? Let me know!
If you’re interested in knowing more, check out my original content:
My study routine for ultimate productivity
Minimalist student toolkit
Planning 101: A student tested guide to planning your shit
Whoop little life update!
The third week of my new semester is about to start. I’m technically in my fifth now, but because I failed too many classes, I’m basically repeating the third semester.
Pretty much all my classes are online again/still because the measures against the pandemic have been increased again. That’s honestly quite an issue for me, because I struggle immensely with self-management. (so if anybody has any tips, they’d be greatly appreciated ;-;)
My mental health has been getting progressively worse as I’m advancing in therapy and learning more about myself and my traumas, so getting things done for uni and finding the motivation to even get up in the morning is... it’s a struggle. I’m gonna try pick up posting here again to hopefully help with motivation/responsibility.
I hope you’re all doing well, and that you’re taking the breaks you need. Please be mindful of your capacities - physical, mental, and emotional. (And spiritual.) Please take care folks, you deserve it. 💛
I HAVE ONLY 14 DAYS LEFT FOR MY EXAM AND I’M SCROLLING THROUGH TUMBLR AJAKFJLLAHUGARKKF
👏🏾Education 👏🏾is 👏🏾a 👏🏾right,👏🏾 not👏🏾 a👏🏾 service 👏🏾
Pass along and use the shit out of them
et tu, wanting to read and write and learn yet choosing to mindlessly scroll through tumblr for hours on end?
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To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life. Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart.
— Emil Cioran, from “On the Heights of Despair” I do understand—and it is terrible.
— Franz Kafka, from a letter
I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn’t it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?
— Yevgeny Zamyatin, from “We” To be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. For man’s everyday use, ordinary human consciousness would be more than enough.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from “Notes from Underground” I am aware, sure, I am aware. Catastrophically aware. — Sylvia Plath, from “The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath”
don't worry, my sweetest / you are in my poetry and in my words / you might grow old in years / but you are ever young in my pages
لا تقلقي ، يا حلوة الحلوات
ما دمت في شعري وفي كلماتي
قد تكبرين مع السنين
وإنما لن تكبرين أبدا على صفحاتى
don't worry - nizar qabbani
