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5 Tips on How to not just “Deal with it”: Where I’ve been
Let me break it down for you: My mental health has been declining since August, the weight of paying for college has been placed entirely on my shoulders, I left my old job in search for a new one, been under the weight of many different stressors placed almost entirely by my parents to the…
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5 Clothing Aesthetics for this Winter
I don’t know about you, but I tend to rotate my outfit aesthetics throughout the year. There are too many good ones, I can’t choose just one for the entire year!! So, I gather pieces that can be used as bases for most aesthetics (white collared shirts are the MVP of the outfit designing world…
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Committing to De-consumerism
I’m a hoarder. It’s so bad that I’ve known that fact word for word since I was in 3rd grade. Part of it was definitely genetics and the other part environmental factors, but regardless it’s BAD. I see way too much potential in everything and will keep every scrap just in case I can use…
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Arcane Season 2’s intro has so many metaphors it’s overwhelming
I’m sure that someone else has already posted a 2 hour long Youtube video essay about this, but I have the overwhelming NEED to share everything I’ve noticed in the new intro for season 2 of Arcane because my little analyzing cap was immediately peaked the second it started. There is so much to unpack…
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“Self Care Sunday” Never Really Reduced your Stress
I am STRUGGLING with stress right now. College is pretty much a breeding ground for it: balancing a job so I can pay to go college and buy gas to actually get there, schoolwork with constantly changing deadlines, trying to make time for friends, and keeping up with caring for myself and my space? Personally,…
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Routines Just Might Have Changed My Life
During a Youtube “Day in the life” binge, I began to notice just how many lifestyle videos were focused on routines. My night routine, my morning routine, my skincare routine, my realistic after school routine, trying the “that girl” morning routine, the list seems to go on and on. As I continued to go through…
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Censorship, Fandom Culture, and the Perpetuation of Homophobia
It’s widely accepted that censorship is a big problem, but it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what problems it brings. To be clear, censorship is a big issue with a wide array of effects, censorship is almost more of a topic than a problem at this point. This article will only be focusing on the problems…
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Academic Pressure: Validation and Burnout
Ah, academic validation: The bane of my existence yet somehow an integral part of my mental landscape. It’s an especially odd phenomenon of this generation as it’s become increasingly evident that how we perform in primary schooling has little effects on our chances in the job market. Yet despite this, parents and adults in the…