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“We are always in a hurry to be happy ... for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty believing in good fortune.”

Want to seem a bit more cultured like our writer @jazzyj1011 ? Join her book club, starting with Alexandre Dumas’s masterpiece ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’. 

A book club? In 2021? Madness.

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Want to change up your style, but not sure where to start? Start at The Aether, with all our new segment ‘Lynette’s Pick’! 

Let us know how your journey of self exploration goes!

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CONVERSION THERAPY: Faith gone wrong

By Amanda Suliawan

“... these practices often focus around Christian teachings, indoctrinating queer people that the God that created them cannot love them for who they are.”

An all-powerful, all-seeing, all-loving creator, despising their own creation?

Madness, isn’t it? 

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"'No great genius has ever existed without a strain of madness.' says. Aristotle."

"As long as you can feel, you can create."

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"If I listened to everyone else, I wouldn't be where I am today. Trying to make everyone else happy will not give you satisfaction in your work."

"You're always going to have critics and you're always going to have people who love it, so what you need to do is just make yourself happy."

Skipping your graduation to take pictures at a concert? Madness.

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". . . what started off as an insignificant painting with no name and no owner would eventually capture not only the interests of a Swiss tycoon, a Russian oligarch and a Saudi prince, but the entire Art world. This is the story of how a $1,000 painting became a $450 million masterpiece."

A $1000 painting into a $450 million masterpiece? Madness.

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Charlize Chiu

"I am a lot more confident and comfortable in what I wear now."

"If I could go back in time and tell myself one thing before starting a career online - no matter how it's going right now, and how difficult it might be, you're not wasting your time, trust me."

The Aether introduces a new feature. Each month, we will be featuring fashion influencers. If you have any you'd like to see here in particular, let us know.

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Perfect Blue: The madness of the split self

By Rahemma Azwar - social media entry

In this month's Social Media Feature, Rahemma Azwar writes an article discussing the 'madness' of the split self, as depicted by Satoshi Kon in his 1997 debut film 'Perfect Blue'. Rated R21, the film follows a Japanese idol singer who quits her band to become an actress, shedding her "good girl" image to further her career.

Delve into the world of madness in this month's issue of The Aether.

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“I’ve found the human body incredibly difficult to get my head around—especially the vulnerability that comes along with it. In a sense, I’ve always failed at representing the core of our existence on a canvas. With this piece, I’d like to think that I’ve achieved that—with the way that the body, the subject, in question is almost like a gradient; with the the way that the the warmth of the foreground contrasts the deafening blackness of the background. Though untitled, I’d say it leaves a lot to be said on its own.”

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Fancy a new adventure or a new wardrobe? Learn more about Spades Room in this month's issue of The Aether.