It Smells And Sounds Like Spring 

Winona Ryder as Mina Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Movie fanart of The Ritual, directed by David Bruckner

I discovered the movie while casually scrolling Netflix, and I'm in awe.

Took up the 100 medhead challenge long back, also I'm not even counting the heads, Incorporating this into my daily routine with the motto of one day one head :) . In this way I'll no longer have the toxic relationship with painting, I've a peccadillo of abusing myself with something I love to do. We'all learning...

Can’t stop thinking about how attack on titan is not a romance but how its narrative hinges upon the most devastating love stories I’ve encountered in fiction.

How Ymir and Historia cling to each other under the burden of a crown they didn’t ask for.

How Eren, the definition of an “attack” protagonist does anything and everything for Armin, who shrinks away from violence (despite having to become the embodiment of war).

How Erwin gave Levi the sky, and it is a debt that Levi knows he can never repay.

How subtly yet thoroughly they work Moblit into every scene, a step behind Hanji, cautioning them and supporting them, so that you don’t even notice him until he’s gone.

How Mikasa’s “Akerbond” to Eren goes so much further, so much deeper, because he exhibited such raw, unfettered inhumanity in the name of protecting her when she was a child, when he barely even knew her, and that is all she knows of love.

How Connie feels like he’s lost half of himself with Sasha gone.

How much Carla loved her son.

How much of an impact Marco made on Jean.

How Armin could eat Bertoldt’s love for Annie and have it latch onto his own admiration of her.

How Marlowe thought of Hitch as he was dying.

How Reiner keeps going for the kids he has to mentor.

How Falco put himself between Gabi and danger over and over again.

How violently Sasha’s family mourned but how reverent of her spirit they were to forgive her killer.

Idk man I just think for a show that started off as kids fighting giants and turned into “my war crime is worse than your war crime”, it is driven almost entirely by unique, poignant and thoroughly convincing love stories.

How To Remember Things Long Term Using Mind Palace Technique

If you're a Sherlock fan, you already know about this, but if not, let me introduce you to something that will probably change your life

Mind Palace as termed in BBC's series Sherlock is a memory technique called 'Method Of Loci'

It's very easy to get hang of, but you need to invest some time at the beginning

Here are the steps that I used to create a mind palace to remember all the things I'm required to in med school:

1) Imagine a small place/room

To begin, you need a small space until you get the hang of it. You can start with your own room or house or any place you know like the back of your hand

Example: your fridge, to begin with

2) Think of all the things that are placed in the room and commit them to your memory

Let me continue with the example: think of where everything is kept in your fridge.

Think of where the eggs are kept, the milk, the vegetables, etc.

3) Make a little list of something that you need to remember

People on YouTube would suggest to remember something like your grocery list (which will do) or the numbers of pi (which, while impressive, is unnecessary, I think)

I would suggest to not waste energy on something that doesn't apply to your life/studies.

Example: elements of the periodic table

4) Associate the list with the items in your mind palace

It doesn't always have to make perfect sense, you just need to relate to it while remembering later

Example: in my fridge, the eggs are kept separately at the top, just like Hydrogen in the periodic table

Next is Lithium, second row where we keep milk and so on.

5) For the first time, write down what you're associating everything with, a diagram on a plain paper works the best

So like, draw your fridge, make shapes that resemble the things in there and label them with the things that you are associating it with currently

6) Practice by Exploring Your Mind Palace

Like I said, it will need some time when you're doing it for the first time, but then, a practice for 15 minutes a day by venturing into your mind palace is enough

7) Make Your Mind Palace Bigger!

After you get the hang of it, just start renovating your mind palace bit by bit!

You don't need to keep just one mind palace, you can have as many as you want! Create one for remembering things about your family, another for school, another for birthdays of your friends, the list is endless

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Hope this helps! If it did or you have any questions, feel free to send me a direct message or an ask, I'll be happy to talk to you about this and help you create your own mind palace Xx

- StudyTheory

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1993 guerrilla marquee by Jenny Holzer who fought the good fight on 42nd street ‘fore they tore it down. 

everyone’s comfort characters are either gay, mass murderers, mentally unstable or just straight up dead or all of these

Birders, 2019 (dir. Otilia Portillo Padua)