#nz literature

[buttercatrho]

Designed ddlc enamel pins due to brainrot. They're playing Tamagotchi!

If you can guess which version you get nothing big f.

If you want one you can buy one here (they look better in person promise phone cameras are just suffering): https://ko-fi.com/rho23378/shop

There's also prints and stickers and a keychain design if you want any of those

[antepaths]

[how long until you leave me here, telling yourself it is a favour? how long until my bones lay bare, scorched, powdered on the pavement?] - d.lg

poetry ig here

[amaliazeichnerin]

Offener Brief der Autor*innen gegen Rechts

Freitag, 31. Januar 2025

[sapphia]

i used to think playing dr with your own psych meds in a funded health system was reckless. then i got treated by our public psychiatrists and actually it’s the only safe way to do it

[krupapatelreads]

Nothing exists but you and I

And if we two be not

Then god is no more god

And down must fall the sky

- Angelus Silesius

[andromedasummer]

stopping myself from quitting my job by remembering it is payday and getting. a jellycat bunny

[undercookedtoe]

Intro post bc idk what else to do

Hiii I'm Madi, I'm 14 and I live in New Zealand, I use any pronouns and I'm lesbian

I do art and I really like media such as Needy Streamer Overload, Mitski, TV Girl, Omori, DDLC, Percy Jackson, Amanda the Adventurer, Anime/manga, Heartstopper, rythm games and stuff like that :3

I'm a huge typology nerd, my current typology is intp TiNi IT(N)? sx5 549 LEFV(3321) mel-phelg r[L]U/E/I su-meph-phsa

I'm m3ntally ill (ofc lol) and possibly aut1stic but I can't get an official dx so idk

RAA that's it i think bmf pls

[buttercatrho]

Happy 6th anniversary DDLC and Happy birthday Monika

[evelynstarshine]

Monster Girlfriend Omnibus: Deluxe Special Edition Hardcover

Do you like your love stories with a hint of eldritch horror?

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Do you collect gorgeous limited editions of fantasy romance books... but wish there were more sapphic tentacles on your bookshelf?

Please support this Kickstarter by local NZ author Marie Cardno

[svnflowermoon]

“ LIKE YOU'RE PLAYING OUT THE END OF A STORYLINE . . .”

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[leejungjaes]

Genuinely beside myself with the giddiness. FFS I’m 41 years old and I literally cannot remember the last time I was this excited about something. Those f***ers have completely consumed my life 😫 Not on until 7pm here in NZ 😭 Oh GAWD, that’s forever away 😭😭😭 I couldn’t get Friday off work, so I hope they don’t expect *any* productivity whatsoever. Just me sitting at my desk all sleep-deprived and horny, counting down the minutes until I can get home and watch it all over again ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

oh girl, same!! i never ever knew id be so consumed by a piece of literature and media like this, the power of bridgerton??? just on another scale of absolute beauty and "i can make you forget your life"

7pm?!?! i mean at least you can watch it and then go cry yourself to sleep? lmaooooo

[lotusrootdesignerpants]

what are your thoughts on New Zealand What kind of land is that

Well I remember precious textures, glacial, pastoral, karstic, sulphurous steam. Green and orange rockpools, the thin air at altitude, such visibility that the snow on the mountains over the lake was violet with distance, timber hotels that my sisters and I imbued with a certain hauntedness, being too young to grasp their recency and anyway never having left the colonies for some truly historical architectural site. As for the culture, I don’t know, I meet a kiwi every thirty minutes in this city, they’re always lovable and kind, usually critical of the shelteredness of their upbringing, but I usually gauge the texture of a country’s thought by that of their literature, e.g. you know what I mean when I say the Argentinian or Hungarian or Japanese mood, but I can’t recall encountering any artistic output at all from NZ, really sorry, so the texture of the land is all I have

[laulo821]

to clarify my opinion on "proper" english, idfc how people write in their personal lives/to friends or family/etc, but in professional/published works- or anything that is meant to be understood by a wider audience i think the clarity provided by adhering to certain grammatical rules and structure is veeerrry important eheheh. for the sake of ease of communication!

i try to be pretty careful about my word choice and order allll the time for that reason, even if i drop a lot of proper spelling/capitalization/punctuation for casual dialogue.

nonetheless, i think when people act intentionally obtuse just to shame people for speaking casually/colloquially/with slang/whatever thats stupid and evil etc. hate when people do that. i might not understand a lot of it, but it has the right to exist yk! it is just as worthy of respect ^_^

anyways i think this topic is very interesting as well its something i enjoy talking about :33

once again i dare ask, where does the professional/private begins and stops? thats a big debate we had in termonology class (terminology , the science of terms aka specialised & professional words). some terminologists argue that terms are only employed in the field by top-notch experts to top-notch experts and nothing else qualifies as a term. other terminologists argue that funk that: "spoonful" is a term because it belongs to the professional sector of cooking, disregarding how common/unspecialised it may be (they dont actually disregard it but yknow). also some guy who goes fishing as a hobby every week and starts talking about the components of his rod to his friends: not an expert (meaning doesn't work as a fisherman)! but using specialised words! should they count as terms or common words? should that be considered professional discussion cuz the terms or private discussion cuz he's talking to a friend? anyways it's just to say that the gap between professional and private discussions may not be so clear

on a same note, what is a wider audience? we're on the internet literally everyone could read that post, making it, by its nature, designed for a wide audience. should every tumblr post thus should have proper english? likewise, works that were only notes and scribbles, like Les Pensées by Pascal that were published post-mortem... it was not meant for a wider audience in that state and is not always using proper French. due to this, are thus Les Pensées not a piece of literature anymore? (kinda teasing w this paragraph hehe but you see the issue i'm poking)

like you said the most important task of a language is not to be proper. it is to be spoken but also to be effective. to enable communication. we could also go all in and dare say, funk the rules as long as a message or piece or literature is understandable, it is proper english!! arguably, every broken rule of proper english creates a new variation of english that could be its own proper variation english (like UK english, US english, NZ english, etc, coexist together as proper englishes)

also youre soso true about the shaming stuff. dawg that pisses me OFF. that's why fuck the Académie Française i wish i could dismember that bullshit of an institution. they are the ones "making the rules" of French but NONE OF THOSE FUCKERS ARE LINGUISTS AND ALSO ARE ALL 109 YEARS OLD HOW CAN THEY im cool im cool [insert the hades calming down gif]. anyways. language belongs to the people so whatever they do with it it's fine as long as they have fun and are themselves <3

on a final note i'm heavily arguing against you here but i think you're overall right nonetheless :p rigor may not always be needed in a language but languages need a strong basis and grammatical rules to exist and actually make the communication efficient!! i perfectly see your points and they are very legit

[fumblingmusings]

just curious! what's your ireland and new zealand's relationship like?

On a personal level, and in the modern day, they get on perfectly well. Maia is more introverted, and is more of a scientific mind compared to Erin's more literature and humanities centric interests. Both like sheep (everyone likes sheep). Both like to sing, both can feel quite out of place and ignored and frustrated for their louder neighbours. They both desire peace and desire neutrality above all, often to the frustration of said neighbours. Maia has a golden bracelet that she was gifted that once belonged to Britannia. Erin gave her that, not England.

Prior to that is a whole different kettle of fish that I know enough about to know I don't know enough about Irish immigration and influence over NZ's 'early' years to definitively state anything.... if that doesn't sound like a cop out.

[charlesandmartine]

Thursday 29th June 2023

The Riesling was not good but you did get a little bottle of rum with it. ??

The flat tyre indicator is on again so a visit to Mr Enterprise Rental's favourite tyre fixer is planned for first thing tomorrow in Penticton on route to the Heritage Railway further along Lake Okanagan. Today was earmarked for a return visit to the museum in Naramata and then a visit to the Naramata Waterfalls. Museum being inexplicably closed we bought something to eat tonight and a bottle of Chilean SB, 12 dollars.

Nobody mentioned at any time that a trip to the Waterfalls ought by rights contain a health warning. Nor did any notice state how far up the vertical perpendicular we might encounter a trickle of water. There was to be fair a notice regarding a lost cat, and a 1000$ reward. Answers to the name of Isla. We did call out but our solicitations returned void. Well we climbed and we climbed; the sound of running water ever present. Underfoot was a very unsuitable surface for a septagenarian. The pathway was a fine mix of gravel and scree which can become very unstable for someone at the far end of 'in their prime', albeit in suitable footwear, to maintain their balance at all times. There were moments on a severe downward slope when flailing arms and legs became somewhat uncoordinated and resembled Torvill and Dean on a very bad practice session. I found a fine stout staff to weald, the sort Moses might have been most happy to carry into the promised land, and that was very reassuring.

It was worth the effort to reach a point where the Falls could be inspected to their full advantage. Many a juvenile mountain goat would have passed into manhood by reaching as high as us I feel. The reverse journey was even more taxing and it was with some relief that we reappeared back in the car park all in one piece.

Since arriving in this area we have been intrigued by the local vineyards and have felt a growing kinship with the SB on offer, so on the way back from town we called in at the Serendipity Vineyard for a taste of the stuff. We magnanimously said whatever the cost we shall have a glass of the best SB of recent pressings. And very nice it was too. Full bodied NZ lookalike, bouquet of apples and honey. Beautiful it was sitting on the veranda looking out across the vines. 13$ a glass was a bit tough on the exchequer; the Chilean wine was less for an entire bottle!!! We thought about the option to buy a bottle to have with our evening repast. This SB would go down well with fresh fish, oysters, asparagus and Caesar salad, so the literature boasted. What have we got tonight? Pork sausages and crisps. Perhaps 50$ is a bit OTT for that.

Off to Salmon Arm tomorrow for two nights via the Heritage KVR and tyre emporium. We shall be really sorry to leave this place. It's a beautiful location, lovely town, great people and we have enjoyed every minute of it. I could live here.

ps. The Northern Pacific Rattlesnake is endemic to Canada BC; one of three deadly venomous snakes. We didn't encounter one today although I did see tracks. Today though was the turn of the Poison Ivy. Plenty of that.

pps. 28° today.

[tsani]

My PhD journey in New Zealand (2018-2022)

In the spirit of International Women's Day 2025, I'm back to this tumblr. Hi everybody! Gosh it's seven years now since my last article *gasp* I was away doing my PhD for four years and that was ghhhhh… You'll find out in this article. Then I worked in Jakarta, was so happy to be back to the corporate life and working in a different CBD. But I had to embark on a new adventure after working for like 1.5 years. Story of my life. So, I moved back to NZ and starting a new life at my own risk this time. I was terrified. Oh well, adventure hurts but monotony kills *don’t know who said this* Plus I want my life to be challenging and colorful.

Anyway, back to the main topic, which is about my PhD journey. FYI, I did my PhD in New Zealand for four years from 2018 to 2022. I was lucky enough to get a Manaaki scholarship from the NZ government--previously ASEAN NZ Scholarship. The scholarship was actually for 3.5 years, but I got an extension for one semester and I also got one month of bravery period following my mom's passing. 

First year: reading till you drop 

Please be aware that my experience is personal to me. First year is like a honeymoon period where you're the most optimistic about your research trajectory haha… So enjoy it, because it'll get tougher and tougher. I mean real tough. In my dept, I didn’t have to take any classes and I just went straight to do my thesis. Also probably because I've been doing research before and have several international publications. Don't worry they're not peer-reviewed. 

First of all, I need to do a literature review (litrev) to refine my inexistent research proposal haha… The research proposal I submitted for uni application/scholarship was on measuring non-tariff barriers for trade on environmental goods. The one I am actually doing is on quantifying barrier to renewable investment (for power generation), which I designed following the primary data I got from my former institution. The litrev was overwhelming after a while because it was so easy to get lost in the jungle of theories, arguments, findings, etc. One of my spvs told me to just start writing the litrev chapter, which is a really good idea. What I did to avoid literature burnt out is to just develop the chapter based on what I understand about the topic. In my research topic, there will be literatures for every arguments. It's not about right or wrong because everything is contextual. I also stick to one theory (suggested by my spv) that I intuitively think would fit into my research and just make it work. If the theory doesn't really fit, I leave it as the theory limitation and find some complementary theories that would fit. Aha! I got really bored with doing litrev for months, it's so theoretical and just bla bla bla. So I just leave it and move on to other things to do. 

Since I'm not an academician and don't have any intention to develop a research career at the uni, I didn't really want to dive into the more philosophical debates like theoretical review, research paradigm, or something like that. I'm only interested to understand why capital is not flowing (as it should be) into renewable projects. I want to leverage my position as a research student to talk to private sector and financial institutions. This is gold baybeee! Wahahaha… 

I forgot to mention that we have annual progress review and half year review (I'm not too sure about this one). I think I passed the first progress review and I had an issue with the supervisory panel that comes up in one of the annual reviews. I can't remember if it's the first or second. It seems like forever ago now. But I'll tell you later on. 

Second and third year: writing till you drop 

Becos I already got the primary data from my previous employer *the benefit of investing in the right people. You always want to work for smart people with vast network* I started to do the quantitative data analysis since my first year actually. The analysis results give me a good idea of how my thesis would look like. But I felt that the quantitative results are not rich enough for my liking. I still have unanswered questions, not the research questions (cause they don’t exist at this point lol) but personal interest questions. So I, with my spv's help, decided to get more in depth information through interviews with the key stakeholders. Luckily, I managed to get most of the qualitative data JUST BEFORE the covid disaster. Phew! 

After finishing both quantitative and qualitative data analysis, I begin to think about how to develop my thesis (e.g., introduction, research questions/objectives, research framework, etc etc). Yes, I didn’t follow the normal research process *giggle* Because data analysis results are the least flexible part of my thesis, I had to develop other part of the thesis to fit into them. I felt this is an efficient process because I don’t want to keep fine tuning (or doing the major restructuring) the introduction, objectives, research questions, theory, methods. 

In the 2nd and 3rd year I managed to write: chapter 1 (introduction and friends), litrev, method, data analysis, results chapter. Oh yeah, I wrote my thesis as a single document. I didn’t break it down into several publications and don’t have any intention to publish in a peer reviewed journal. My gosh, I was so unmotivated lol. I have my own reason for this, probably I'll write in a separate article sometime. I really just want to get it done and move on cause PhD pressure is unbearable omaigad. The anxiety started in the 2nd year and, in the 3rd year, it just got real intense till you submit the thesis. 

Oh about the supervisory thingy. So I initially have 3 supervisors. One was hardly responsive and I felt that their (being gender neutral here) perspective don’t really fit into my research scope that is multi-country. After one of those annual meetings, I decided to drop them from my spv panel and just go with 2 spvs. I want one to focus on the overall research quality, and one to focus on data analysis and sharpening my technical arguments << me being bossy as haha… They don’t mind it tho because I'm the one who is aware of the timeline, research nature, the complexity, and more importantly how my thesis could bring me closer to my next career aspiration. 

This is also a good lesson learned that I wish I knew before doing PhD. The graduate office will help to mediate any issues you have with spvs. So you don’t get stuck with that spv if you don’t work well. In fact, I have a convener who is chairing the annual review with all spvs and he/she is on your side. Before and after the annual review, I had conversations with my convener and they can sense that there's a tension between supervisors and asked what I want to do about it. Basically, I want to drop my primary spv than making this person my 3rd spv. Don’t want to be awkward in the meeting, plus the expertise is not a match. I remember my convener said that I'm really good in articulating the problem and come up with the solution *flip hair* 

Last year: thesis revision till you drop and out 

The final year is the toughest in multidimensional ways like my theoretical framework lol. One of my spvs was unresponsive for like 2 years, while I really need their expertise for my data analysis. But I just make do with whatever resource I have. I am already too tired with the PhD drama, covid uncertainty, and this year I also lost my mom while I was away in NZ. So I just want to submit the thesis with minimum efforts and return home to see my family. 

With the remaining energy, I developed the discussion and conclusion chapters. Then spent most of my time to fine tuning the whole thesis document and addressing endless feedback from my spv. Speaking of feedback, I got so sick of it and kind of trooma every time I got any email from my spv. I eventually just address those feedback I think important. I'm too tired. After the thesis is almost final, I got a proof reader check the whole thesis. It's more for copy editing. I found it really helpful to polish my thesis to be more readable. It sounds like an amazing job actually, you gotta read other people's research and help to polish it. 

In the week of thesis submission I was never this unsure about my thesis quality. I felt that it's not a mind blowing one and the findings were so obviously obvious. I read a lot of convos in the PhD forums and apparently that's a normal feeling. Most of the things that PhD students are worrying about is only in their mind--note to myself. 

The academic (and personal) journey never gets easier post thesis submission. There are many reasons to give up but there are many more reasons to make it happen, especially after you've gone so far in the journey. It's the last push that is the hardest. The benefits of having a PhD degree are immensurable both for your personal and professional growth. It is a good intense academic training. I found that my PhD skills really add value to my work even you're not necessarily working in your PhD topic. So keep going and finish strong! 

Hope to see you in the next journey: thesis viva aka defense aka exam. Bye everyone, have a good day! 

Link to previous articles: 

PhD: NZ Aid | PhD: Aussie | PhD: Endeavour (AU) | PhD: LPDP | postgrad life in AU | Master: Aussie | Master: Chevening | Netherland Fellowship Programme | StuNed in Country Short Course | IELTS