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Are you, like me, an Indian student who yearns to use the aesthetic stationary we see on studyblr and studygram that our parents will never buy for us?

Look no further, here are some cheaper (more like half-the-price) alternatives that are available in Amazon India:

Note- these are affliate links. If you buy from these links, you'll help me save some money for a laptop at NO EXTRA COST to you! Thank you so much Xx

• Loose ruled pre-punched sheets

• Fineliner pens (25 colours at the same cost of 8 Stabilio pens!)

• Pretty Pastel Sticky Notes (there are 4 colour themes you can choose from!)

• Cute little Desk Organizer

• Brush Pens for your Calligraphy needs

• Another Desk Organizer if you have loads of stuff like I do and/or as messy as I am

• This Stationary Set that has a hole puncher, a stapler, stapler remover, tape dispenser and some staples

• Single Lined Spiral 300 Pages notebook for your bullet journal

• Sticky Notes with Book Index Tabs

• Cool Coloured Gel Pens

• These Erasers that I wish I had in school

{These are the ones I personally use and have had no issues with them ever! All of them are under 500rs each - as opposed to the international stationary brands that cost like over thousands rupees}

Do you have any cute stationary that you love Or wish you could get in India? Let me know in the comments below! Feel free to DM me if you have any doubts :)

Yagyaseni

She who was born out of fire

She who was disrobed

She who washed her hair with blood.

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male audiences will happily watch a dozen superhero shows, but then something like Agent Carter or Supergirl turn up and they’re panned from the first trailer and have to struggle for ratings. male audiences will watch countless installments of a franchise as long as it’s about men doing man things but the second a character like Rey or Furiosa or god forbid four entire female Ghostbusters steps up and takes a position of prominence it’s “pandering sjw bullshit”.

this isn’t like… an opinion I’m pulling out of my ass here? this starts where earlier than tv shows and hollywood blockbusters, when all the kids in a class are reading Harry Potter or Percy Jackson or Eragon o Lord of the Rings or Maze Runner or whatever the hip book is right now. the books like that, the ones that become popular reading, are overwhelmingly about male leads, because male is still considered the default. 

there’s a split in YA literature, between books that are “for everyone” and “for girls”, and that’s honestly the entire issue in a tiny little box right there. stories about men are supposed to be accessible for everyone, but stories about girls are seen as 1.) inherently for women and 2.) something that only women will care about.

men grow up in a society that doesn’t make them go out of their way to get into the heads of women and empathize with then. historically it’s been very easy for men to not engage with female-led media if they don’t want to, whereas (like someone else commented on this post) girls and women have had very little choice in the past because everything was about men. we didn’t even question it.

and now the women are arriving in mainstream media in ways that say they’re important and they matter and

small (or sometimes not so small) but loud-enough-to-be-acknowledged groups of men lose. their. shit.

because they think there’s something inherently Not For Them about a woman’s story, and they never learned how to deal with it.

i love books, right? and from the ages of about 11-15 i was insanely invested in teenage/ya fantasy and sci-fi. harry potter, percy jackson, all of the books op listed above- and one of the things that made those books so great was that you could have a conversation about them with anyone! a lot of the guys in my class also loved this type of genre and i’d often talk about books with them (even my own brother has read all of the books listed above) we’d have long, interesting conversations about these books and it was great.

but then i’d mention something about the hunger games, or the divergent series, or uglies, the raven cycle, mara dyer, the mortal instruments, the selection, etc. and the response would always be the same: either ‘i haven’t read it’ or ‘i couldn’t get into it’ or ‘it doesn’t seem like my type of thing’

even outside of the ya genre, looking at something like contemporary fiction or whatever- do you know how many guys will talk endlessly about the great gatsby or catcher in the rye or any other male-centric novel? but when you bring up something as influential as pride and prejudice or jane eyre or practically /anything/ written by/focused around a woman- you get the same responses as before

society has made it so that women have no choice whether to engage with male-centric stories or not: from children, a big portion of the media we consume focuses on the male perspective and like,,, that’s not necessarily a bad thing /in itself/- the bad thing is that it doesn’t work both ways and it’s not an even split. whereas young girls are surrounded by and expected to empathise with films/books/media concerning men, it’s not the same for young boys: they have narratives that either focus entirely or largely around them. 

.... that's literally a saree. His mum is wearing a saree.

Study with other people live on discord! Bonus: It's Harry Potter themed!

Studious Success is a discord study server with the following features:

Earn achievements and level up from 1st Year to 7th Year!

Earn Galleons (virtual fake money) by studying and use it to buy a (virtual) wand, owl and other stuff from Harry Potter

Bored from doing mundane everyday tasks? Now you can earn house points for your house for completing them as an incentive

Study using pomodoro method!

Bring your friends or make new ones and study as a group

Mental Health resources and support group!

Weekly de-stress by playing trivia or other online games together

Seasonal Study Challenges (only for a short amount of time) will be hosted across the server, Studyblr and Studygram! Eg. Winter's Yule Ball Study Challenge

Non-Seasonal Study Challenges (can be completed any time) will also be hosted. Eg 15 Days Handwriting Challenge, etc

Everyone that is 13 and above regardless of gender, major of study, level of study is welcome!

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