studyblr

this is the recovery bee popping in, gently booping your nose and landing on your shoulder to remind you that things will be okay, even if it doesn’t feel like it right now. you’re loved, you’re worthy and you’re important.

i see posts sometimes that try to be very virtuous about the studyblr community- that talk about how it should primarily be for sharing learning tips, etc- but i respectfully disagree.

I think people should create and enjoy the content they enjoy and that serves them. 

now maybe someone’s here for just learning tips and not aestheticism? totally fine. but if someone’s here just for aesthetics? that’s also valid! sometimes you know how to study, you don’t really need tips, but you want someone to nudge you and say, “hey, studying can be beautiful.” 

#studyblr gets real is a great tag, but so is regular #studyblr. 

to be honest? although i reblog learning-tips posts etc as well as aesthetic ones, i find just pretty photos far more inspiring. my issue with studying is not that i don’t know how or that my techniques don’t work, but that i’m often unmotivated.

and that’s why i use studyblr! of course i can find beauty in my own messy desktop, but that’s the point of this kind of media- to romanticize it for you. i don’t look at studyblr photos with the perspective that my workspace has to look like that for me to enjoy studying. i don’t think that sitting in the middle of a giant white duvet with a wooden ikea tray and coffee and strategically placed dried flowers is really how anyone studies. 

i look at studyblr photos because they personify the feeling of successfully studying. many times the things that fill us with joy simply would not have the same effect through a photo if we just took a straight up photo with no arrangements whatsoever with bad lighting, no arranging, etc. although these photos that i see are not visually what my study spaces look like, they are what they feel like. 

05・08・2019

05.05.2020 // 12:45am

the coffee of all coffees ☕

are you the sun, the moon, or the stars?

09.15.19

heading back from my weekend in chicago touring uchicago & northwestern. i absolutely love uchicago now, it’s definitely at the top of my list now. read some of ronan farrows book on the way back because he’s probably my favorite man to ever exist. click for higher quality

cold and crisp air making you feel alive

your breath freezing and the wind making your skin tight

pitch black nights

heavy snowfall making even the ugliest landscapes breathtakingly beautiful

wrapping yourself in a huge blanket to keep yourself warm

frozen cold hands against your bare skin

ugly sweaters and fuzzy socks

hot chocolate after a long time out in the cold

the warmth and comfort you’ll experience due to increasing intimacy

christmas and the joy of giving

less partying and more intimate movie nights with your loved ones

the hundreds of blankets you’ll end up sleeping with

the smell of something freshly baked filling the entire house