Studying The Life Cycle Of Star Clusters While The Thickest Fog Is Blanketing The Entire Neighbourhood

sometimes my only source of motivation comes from my desk area

making someone a cup of tea as a love language

watching tenet today and i am so ready to get my mind blown.

tag 10 people you want to get to know better

i was tagged by the amazing Nah ( @a-poeticallychaotic-bee​ )!! ♡ 

relationship status: i’ve been dating my partner for a bit over a year!

fave colors: in terms of fountain pen ink colors i’m obsessed with—diamine golden sands (yellow ochre), iroshizuku kon-peki (deep blue), and diamine oxblood (a deep dark red)

3 fave foods: milk tea with boba (is that a food?), poke, and vegetarian lasagna

a song stuck in my head: thillana in sindhu bhairavi by bombay jayashree! absolutely amazing. here is a link for you because you need to listen as well

last song I listened to: i’ve been listening to a lot of harmonium music lately, so probably something off a generic ‘harmonium music’ playlist on spotify :p don’t @ me i know i’m wack

time: 6:25pm

dream trip: japan or the scottish highlands!! i feel like i’ve seen these places in so many novels and films and photographs and i want to experience them for myself and learn about the languages & culture of the regions i visit within them!

anything I want: my paycheck to come today so i’m not living off $11.48 :’) world peace would be nice, too, but i won’t get too greedy here. maybe more empathy, all around.

tagging some new mutuals/followers: @bookishdia​ @durd​ @leilanistudies @mathandmilktea @studywithlili @gabrilearnelle @bookbearstudy @outerhope @procrastilate @sonderstudy ♡♡

For anyone who doesn't know what's going on in Canada right now (which, let's be real, is probably everyone who's not in Canada):

This week, a mass grave was discovered at a former Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, BC. The grave contained the bodies of 215 Indigenous children.

For people outside of North America, residential schools were places that Indigenous children were sent to, to have their language and culture stripped away from them. They were literally stolen from their families, and scattered across Canada, to ensure that they would be surrounded by children who didn't speak their language. They were given Christian names and forced to speak English. They were horrendously abused, and the survivors have been traumatized.

Hundreds of children never returned. The assumption has always been that they died. This has now been confirmed.

The school in Kamloops closed in 1978. They are now trying to identify bodies to inform family members. The last residential school closed in the 1990s. There is growing demand to search all of them, but the government hasn't responded to that, as of yet. Ottawa JUST gave in to pressure to fly the Canada flag at half mast. They weren't even going to do that.

This is the reality if anti-Indigenous racism in Canada. The residential schools may be closed, but that hasn't stopped the abduction of Indigenous children, let alone the hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

let me introduce stem academia

I’m not a poet. I’m just a woman. And as a woman, there’s no way for me to make my own money. Not enough to earn a living, or to support my family. If I had my own money, which I don’t, that money would belong to my husband the moment we got married. If we had children, they would be his, not mine. They would be his property. So, don’t sit there and tell me that marriage isn’t an economic proposition, because it is. It may not be for you, but it most certainly is for me.          FLORENCE PUGH AS AMY MARCH IN LITTLE WOMEN (2019)

january 10, 2021

sad that my winter break ends tomorrow but happy that there were snowy days & lots of reading. this semester i'm taking 2 computer science courses, engineering in society, design II, and greek & roman mythology.

110620. had a (covid-safe) painting zoom with people in my dorm as a study break— paint is a medium i struggle with a lot, but i gave this sculpture of diana by giuseppe mazza a shot. i didn't love it at first, but i'm coming around to it now, i think!

Four times the amount of people in Afghanistan have been displaced from their homes by the Taliban in a single week compared to the people of Palestine during the May aerial assault by Israel. Both tragedies are extremely important, but please let people know about Afghanistan too.

Please use the tags and spread awareness.

#save afghanistan

#save afghan lives

#sanction pakistan