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what are you currently reading?
Other than my textbook rn, nothing...I finished Divergent..
A Song of Ice and Fire 1
I am currently reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change.
Rumell wrote: "I am currently reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change."My mom's reading that too!
jay wrote: "what are you currently reading?
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Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning by Jason Corburn
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
And another book I really can't remember the name of but it's steampunk and I started reading it a couple days ago and it's really cool.
^Those are just what I am actively reading but I'm also in the middle of a couple other books I've had to put on pause like Don Quixote and Lord of the Rings.
I'm reading Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta and Nevernight by Jay Kristoff.
jay wrote: "what are you currently reading?
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city of heavenly fire
a return to love by marianne williamson
Emily wrote: "jay wrote: "what are you currently reading?
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The Elite"
I hated that book
Helmet for my Pillow is what I am reading Tom Hanks and HBO made into a Miniseries -the Pacific-which I have not seen-anyone who has seen the miniseries-was it any good? I will rate the book only a 3 so far as his type of writing is boring but what would be expected from most newspaper reporters.(exceptions are Hemingway and Ernie Pyle)
@Emily: tbh I kinda hated the entire series. I just really hated her emotional flip flopping crap, the excessive crying, and the lack of much really going on. Like a tiny part of me enjoyed the ride since I don't usually read that kind of book and it was like a guilty pleasure kind of thing, but overall the series was pretty terrible in my opinion....
Oh and to update I finished of Mice and Men and Toward the Healthy City
every time i see the words "of mice and men" i immediately think of the band, of mice and men, but then i realize it's the book they are talking about
Alex loves Palaye Royale ~They/them~ (The Phoenix Reincarnated) (Shadow of Whales) (Bvbarmy) (aa family) (Royal council) wrote: "every time i see the words "of mice and men" i immediately think of the band, of mice and men, but then i realize it's the book they are talking about"Lol. I've heard a few songs by them but never enough for it to stick with me. So far I liked the book more than any of their songs I have heard. I have a friend who is obsessed with that band, though, so I keep meaning to look into them more...
Emily wrote: "@lynx it was kind of the junk food of books. You know it's crap but at the same time you kind of like it."Dude that description is 12/10 *applauds* That is so perfect
Consuming forms of media that are very badly-rated
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I don't understand what that means.
Guilty pleasure is an activity or something that you enjoy, but usually seem weird or shameful by some people. It could be anything - a genre of books, music, movie, show.
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I usually consume a lot of Takis
I enjoy Maths and like getting homework. I have heard rumours about how much people despise homework and Maths.Also watching kid shows at the age of 18. I think I am one of those who is defined as a loser.
Also having a whole pack of biscuits with a cup of tea. It's in the Asian culture. Curling up with a cup of tea. Eating cereal for dinner. Eating the stash of sweets and chocolates that are supposed to be for the kids
Watching daytime television such as Bargain Hunt when I'm Ill. Watching cat videos on YouTube. I just watch a video on cats and babies.
Reading an adult novel e.g. 50 Shades of Grey.
Doing multiple Buzzfeed quizzes.
That's as far as I can think of.
jay wrote: "What’s your guilty pleasure?
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Watching and secretly enjoying unpopular/poorly-written anime series.
றϓқі૯ wrote: "wait does eating a whole package of raw cookie dough count?"Yes
jay wrote: "What’s your guilty pleasure?
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Idk if I really have one. All I can think of is my enjoyment of chocolate cake with orange juice instead of milk. Lol.
Ooooh and maybe that I actually like Britney Spears. XD like her songs from back when I was younger. Idk if she has come out with anything recently or not.
Oh and I also like dirty music more like you'd find in a club and that just kinda make you want to dance or better yet learn to pole dance. XD
And movies that make me cry. They're like a weird guilty pleasure for me. Like Les Miserables, Seven Pounds, and other such amazing movies. I don't watch them often but I secretly adore them.
I also have a guilty pleasure of reality tv shows like Survivor and similar crap. Like I really don't binge watch it but if it is on when I'm somewhere outside of the house I enjoy it more than I care to admit
Lynx ~ 10/1 Never Forgetten wrote: "jay wrote: "What’s your guilty pleasure?
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Idk if I really have one. All I can think of is my enjoyment of chocolate cake with orange juice instead of milk. Lol.
Ooooh and maybe that I actually..."
Ok but same @ Britney Spears's older music LOL
I don't really listen to pop at all, really, so I don't even know what album you're talking about. But, not gonna lie, I also like boy bands more than I care to admit.
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What’s your guilty pleasure?
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food
Lynx ~ 10/1 Never Forgetten wrote: "jay wrote: "What’s your guilty pleasure?
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Idk if I really have one. All I can think of is my enjoyment of chocolate cake with orange juice instead of milk. Lol.
Ooooh and maybe that I actually..."
Biscuits dipped in orange juice is me all the way.
jay wrote: "What’s your guilty pleasure?"Caster sugar.
jay wrote: "What’s your guilty pleasure?
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PERCY JACKSON
AND BOOKS AND BANDS IN GENERAL
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What does your dream life look like? Are you living it right now?
Jeeze going for the personal questions here. I am not living my dream life. My dream life is to be 1) debt free, 2) make a comfortable living if not be rich, 3) be in a career I enjoy, 4) have the opportunity for travel, 5) be able to help people to the best of my ability, 6) foster/adopt, 7) influence people and the climate for the positive (likely through my job, which I'm thinking will be either as a city planner or architect), 8) live one of those lives that makes people cry because of the sheer loss to the world. Like the kind of life that can be made into a movie or biopic.
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mine would be living with a spouse that i love very much, with a couple of adopted kids. rich to the point where money isn’t an issue at all and donating $10k to someone’s go fund me would be pocket change. i would have a lot of pets, maybe even foster animals from a local shelter. i would work a job that i’m passionate about but with short hours so i can enjoy my family time. i would live near my friends and would have a family who supports me. and, of course, i would have a classic car in the driveway.
i’m definitely not living it now, but hey, maybe in the near future?
Sounds like our dream futures are similar :) you got this
jay wrote: "this one’s kinda loaded, and is in two parts, but here goes: What does your dream life look like? Are you living it right now?
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I am currently living up the present. My dream life right now is to achieve higher grades in my A-levels. Hopefully A* for every subject.
As soon as I get my A* I will have further dreams. Also to read new things.I actually had a peculiar dream where I was stealing fruits from my local supermarket. I was caught when I only finished eating half of it. Then 2 police officers caught me. I was telling them if I could finish eating these fruits before I head to prison. When I went to the prison there was vending machine next to the cell where fruits pour out.
I hope this doesn't come true. I love fruit but prison is not to my interests.
jay wrote: "this one’s kinda loaded, and is in two parts, but here goes: What does your dream life look like? Are you living it right now?
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idk tbh,
the only thing i can think of is my life in the fictional worlds like the percy jackson world
My dream life? Uhm...Reading books all day having a job being a poet... lol I can’t see that happening in a million years I’d be famous for sucky poetry probs.
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Can you name a song that takes you back to a particular point in time? If so, what's the moment that the song takes you back to?
Some of Halsey somgs make me feel like I’m re-listening to Daughter of Smoke and BoneThis one night I stayed up all night listening to it. :)
jay wrote: "Can you name a song that takes you back to a particular point in time? If so, what's the moment that the song takes you back to?
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Yes. a lot.
If you look at first part of my journal I have put songs that take me back to memories when I was at primary school. Leaving primary school was a massive sacrifice I had to make.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
My school leaver song was: Let The Sun Shine by Labyrinth. Every time I hear that song I get emotional as I picture the memories I had at my Primary School.
Also S Club 7 songs especially Reach for the Stars and Don't Stop Moving.
These two songs were popular songs that were put on at every school assemblies. Reach For The Stars was also a school leaver song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p6y7...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50kP4...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm262...
When I here these 3 songs. It brings me back to good old days.
There are more but I will keep you these three for now.
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Being at school was my safe zone. I felt protected at school. This is because I was able to get away from problems I get at home.
jay wrote: "Can you name a song that takes you back to a particular point in time? If so, what's the moment that the song takes you back to?
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There's a few songs that do that. I can think of 5 cases on the top of my head though I could easily think of more cases. The most specific and first one I thought of is actually Jar of Hearts by Christina Perri. I think I was like 15 or 16 when it came out and it was all over the radio. Anyway, it was actually played at a valentine's day dance that I went to. A guy asked me to dance and it was always awkward to dance with him because he had a major crush on me. But I found it absolutely absurd that they played Jar of Hearts as a romantic Valentine's day song. Every time I hear it I think of that day.
Another one would be Baby by Justin Bieber. Again I was like 15 years old or so when it came out. Absolutely hated the song. Well a couple years after it came out I was on a committee that planned youth events and approved songs to be added to a dance playlist. Problem was, it was with a church thing. So we are all meeting to approve songs and one of the adults in the group found Gangnam Style offensive because who knew what they were saying, but wanted to instead play a Mormon parody version of Baby which was more along the lines of wanting to have a baby... it was totally sexist and cringy so whenever I hear that song I picture this overly enthusiastic adult in her 40s or 50s crooning about Justin Beiber and dancing to an absolutely offensive version of his song among a group of skeptical teens.
Another song is Firework by Katy Perry. Another song that came out around that same time. My memory of this song is from when that song was still absurdly popular and overplayed. I went to a girl's camp when I was probably around 17 or so in which the theme was "shining like a star". Yeah. So in this camp each group is expected to perform a short little skit. They're all cringy and terrible but still can be fun and creative. Except for that year. Every time I hear that song I'm launched to a memory of sitting under the twilight in an amphitheater nestled into the woods. Girls were seated on every log bench available and a small platform centered in it all contained skit after skit after skit... most of which were really not skits at all but rather horrible dance routines to Firework.
I still hate that song.
The next two examples are more on the serious side. I was severely depressed for some of my teen years and my emotions were everywhere and yeah it was bad. I thought I was bipolar and I'm pretty sure the reality was actually that I was severely lonely in my little isolated bubble. I used to use Grooveshark for my music access. It closed like 3 or 4 years ago but it used to be like a digital platform for accessing user uploaded songs that you could listen to for free. Had everything from things individuals unloaded of themselves to crappy copies of songs to really great copies of popular songs. Anyway. I used to have playlists on there. I kinda wish I could find a way to get it back just for the trip down memory lane. Whenever I hear a song from my main playlist I am launched back into those depressed feelings and time from my teen years. Songs like Pain or Never Too Late by Three Days Grace. Monster by Skillet. Anthem of the Angels or Diary of Jane by Breaking Benjamin. There's more but those are the first that pop to mind.
The last example I will share in this post (since it's getting soooo long) is Rise and Fall by Starset. This song was central to my experience on 10/1/15 when the shooting occurred at my school, then also to my emotional recovery after. This song is the song which I believe stopped me from leaving my car earlier than I normally would have. If I hadn't stopped to finish the song (which is usually something I never do) then I probably would have been right outside the scene of the crime if not actively involved in it. Honestly amid the chaos I forgot what song it was for the longest time. They were a band I had just discovered and through Pandora. I actually FB messaged the lead singer of the band to thank them, but I didn't even know what song it was. I didn't peg it until weeks later when it popped up on Pandora again. There is a large instrumental bit at the end that I used to identify it because I remembered hitting that point and knowing it would end with the instrumental part so I paused it then and got out of the car. Rediscovering that song was actually a massive help to my mental health recovery. I bought the album (I own both of theirs now), became a die hard fan, have their graphic novel, and it's the only band I have merchandise for. I honestly became obsessed because I believe that they saved my life that day. But I played the music over and over and over, especially that song. That song reminded me to be strong, while also mirroring the emptiness and feelings it left me with and providing a sort of outlet. Now every time I hear that song it's a love/hate thing because I love how it helped me but now that's the only thing I can think of when I hear it. It takes me back to the emotional turmoil and sadness, or of sitting in my old Oldsmobile with the orange crushed velvet seats and jamming out to the song before I stepped out of that car and life turned to shit.
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jay wrote: "princess maggie wrote: "jay wrote: "
What color is your shirt right now?
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all different colors. its a picture of frida kahlo with a bunch of other stuff around her"
you are my aesthetic"
you're sweet <3