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I made Nutella brownies last week. :) delicious☆

Okay so I'm having trouble with は and が and where to place them. I feel like it's a little random with wether to use は or が. Except for like the subject of a sentence... then its は I believe. Anyway. I'm also having trouble with に. Sometimes に is simple for me to understand because it'll be right after a specific location. Other times it's like 日本語の雑誌は先生の事務室にあります. And I'm just like.. How in the world is Japanese Magazines allowed in front of に?

Ok imma try. And sorry for the like 6 week delay. 😳 I’ve been through it the past 10 weeks.

First rule: Particles determine the role of each word relative to the verb. 

 が 

As a Case Marker - defines the subject, or the person, or thing doing the action described by the relevant verb. The subject is always expressed as a noun phrase. It is different than は which defines the object. i.e subject of existence like “Over there is a store.” 店がある。

 As a Conjuctive - it is used to connect two contrasting clauses like ‘but’ or ‘though.’

As subordinate clause connector - Indicates the subject of subordinate clause when it is different from the subject of the main clause. Indicates the subject of a relative clause.

Articles on は vs が

Wasabi           Misa’s YouTube       Tae Kim

Ok now I struggle with this so I hope this makes sense. 

に

Indicates time or frequency

Indicates a location

Indicates the indirect object of a verb

Indicates the surface of a object where some action takes place

Indicates a point of arrival

Indicates an entering motion

Used together with a verb to express a purpose

Joins two or more nouns to indicate a list of items

Connects two or more items to indicate a matching or a contrast

Indicates the one acting or the one acted upon

Used with a verb to indicate a change or choice

Indicates a person who gives something or who provides a service

日本語の雑誌は先生の事務室にあります.

「日本語の雑誌」＝ Magazines of the Japanese Language or Japanese magazines

「先生の事務室」＝ Office of the teacher or teacher’s office

「あります」＝ to be located

「は」indicates the topic = magazines are the topic

「日本語の雑誌は」

「に」indicates a location = are located 

The Japanese magazine’s are located in the teacher’s office. 

Articles on に

Wasabi                Quora             Tae Kim       Misa’s Youtube

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Listening to Tash Sultana

Interesting and fun stuff

How to Make a Strawberry Rose Step by Step

How to Make Marble Cake Pops (Inside AND Out!)

HOW TO: STORE HOMEMADE CHICKEN STOCK

Recipe lists

15 Spectacular Smoothie Recipes

25 FAVORITE EASY SMOOTHIES

10 Healthy Ground Turkey Recipes for Dinner

Molasses Recipes Beyond Gingerbread: 9 Recipes Using Molasses

20 VEGETARIAN DINNER RECIPES

The Best Game Day Recipes

19 Healthy Slow Cooker Soup Recipes

Food days

Popcorn day

Cheese lover’s day

Granola day

Top recipes!

Stovetop Alfredo Mac & Cheese

CAJUN SHRIMP ALFREDO

Baked French Toast Sticks

Balsamic Roasted Potatoes

INSTANT POT BEEF STEW

ROASTED GARLIC CHEESY BREAD

CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT BUCKEYES

Vanilla Bean Cinnamon Buns

Nutella Cheesecake

Easy 6 Ingredient One Pot Tortellini Primavera Soup

Easy Sun-Dried Tomato and Mozzarella Pasta

Chocolate Chip Blondies

30 Minute Vietnamese Chicken And Rice Soup Bowls

Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto

Vanilla Mousse with Chocolate - VIDEO Recipe

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes

SLOW COOKER ITALIAN BEEF DINNER

Listen to her.

“I want you to love yourself enough not to feed yourself dry sandwiches for dinner, or skip eating altogether. The way you feel about food sits hand to hand with the way you feel about yourself, and if you eat happily and wholeheartedly, food will make you strong. I want you to feel fine about the messiness of your illogical, impulsive appetite, and sometimes overeat, sometimes undereat, and still hold tight in your self-care.”

— Ruby Tandoh, from Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

naru1hana ‘s art trade came today!!! I am very excited to open it!

I feel like a theme is developing today. 

Comic by Gemma Correll  [ website | twitter | facebook | instagram ]

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Essays

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; I’ve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love

also quick note: some of these links, especially the ones that are from books/anthologies redirect you to libgen or scihub, and if that doesn’t work for you, do message me; I’d be happy to send them across!

Literature + Writing

Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag

The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul*

Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux*

A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi

How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik

Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone

Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman

Lost in Translation: What the First Line of “The Stranger” Should Be - Ryan Bloom

The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote*

The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita Catalão Guedes

Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman*

Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan*

Why I Write - George Orwell*

Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland*

Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)

Looking at War - Susan Sontag*

Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz

Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker

The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews

In Plato’s Cave - Susan Sontag*

On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

Kalighat Paintings  - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past -  Maël Renouard

Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel

Cities

Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash

Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo*

Timur’s Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur

The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall*

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai’s iconic railway station - Srinath Perur

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective -  Andrew Harris

The Limits of “White Town” in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay

The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel

Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan

A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp

The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne

The Nowhere City - Amos Elon*

The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour

Philosophy

The trolley problem problem - James Wilson

A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram

Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls*

Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer

The Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato*

The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape

If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood

Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart

The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae*

The Science of “Muddling Through” - Charles Lindblom*

History

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan

The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore*

From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert*

Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson*

All By Myself - Martha Bailey*

The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder

The sea/ocean

Rim of Life - Manu Pillai

Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery

‘Piracy’, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History)*

The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History)*

Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and “Pirate” States - Roxani Eleni Margariti

Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*

Assorted ones on India

A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *

Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash

Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee

Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu

The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar*

Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta

Our worldview is Delhi based*

Sports (you’ll have to excuse the fact that it’s only cricket but what can i say, i’m indian)

‘Massa Day Done:’ Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman*

Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900–70 - Albert Grundlingh

When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger

Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha*

Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha

MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way*

Music

Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. Araújo

Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder

The 1975 - ‘Notes On a Conditional Form’ review - Dan Stubbs*

Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield*

How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield

Concert for Bangladesh

From “Help!” to “Helping out a Friend”: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha Christiansen 

Gender

Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane

The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin

Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu*

Women’s Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe

Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman*

Women’s health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack

Food

How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)

Colonialism’s effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee

Tracing Europe’s influence on India’s culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu

Chicken Kiev: the world’s most contested ready-meal*

From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad*

The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin*

How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream*

Pav from the Nau

A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes

Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)

Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)

Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter)*

Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua

The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales)*

Tolkien’s Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales)*

Travel

The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism

Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan

On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas*

More random assorted ones

The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries)*

In El Salvador - Joan Didion

Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee

Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell*

What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard*

The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith

Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia*

Credibility and Mystery - John Berger

happy reading :)

Stress

This is to all the kids out there who are stressing out about something:

1. Stop what you’re doing. STOP. 

2. Why are you stressed? 

3. Take a deep breath and close your eyes. 

4. Take another deep breath. 

5. Is it really worth stressing over this? 

6. Open your eyes and look at wherever you are. 

7. Do you want to tell your future kids that this is what you did? Stressed? Or that you conquered obstacles without much stress? 

8. Drink a class of water of eat something. 

9. Clean your desk/bed/room/wherever you are right now. 

10. Get back to what you were stressing about.  

I see a lot of positivity posts about 12-year-olds just learning to draw.  Posts cautioning us to be mindful of 11-year-olds with no grasp of anatomy and 13-year-olds whose characters are all the same person with different hair and clothes, and I love those posts.  Those are great posts.  Keep those posts coming, tumblr.

But can I ask, what about the 25-year-old who just bought their first ever sketchbook?  What about the 32-year-old who’s been drawing for a month and has just about got the hang of a human-looking face?  What about the 67-year-old who finally has time to sit down and learn how to paint like they’ve always wanted?

Not everyone starts drawing as a child.  Not everyone learned as a preteen.  Some people start in college.  Some people start when their career is going well and they feel like it’s time for a new hobby.  Some people start after they’ve retired.

Not all beginner artists are kids, and I just thing the adults ones deserve some encouragement, too.