“you can’t forget your mother tongue” okay but have you considered bilinguals and polyglots whose first language isn’t english and whose development during adolescence was shaped by consuming content and media only in english and have ever since viewed that second language, foreign to their own, as a better outlet for their emotions and thoughts? as Yiyun Li said “it is hard to feel in an adopted language, yet impossible in my native language.”
28.2.2021 // Here’s my current online classes setup :) i take lecture notes on my ipad, while the lecture’s playing on my laptop - i have to say my neck pain’s improved a lot since i got myself a separate keyboard and moved the screen a bit higher and further away!
♪ affection - between friends
summer days
20,000 words of notes and drafting later I have finally conquered my latest essay! I’ve titled it ‘The Transideological Politics of Irony: Disrupting Historiographical Metanarratives in Morrison, Rushdie and Hatoum’, but who knows what I have actually argued at this point :’–)
19.10.22
revisiting some python, and increasingly orange walks around town 🍂
Going to uni reminds me of the movie legally blonde. I used to watch so many school shows like mean girls and the gilmore girls
🎵 : a thousand miles - vanessa carlton