#summer study abroad

[thesecrethistori-an]

A bit of train study to catch up with my readings

[avornalino]

hiiii.. 🙃🙃

[felic2q]

today is like this

[froggiewrites]

Anonymous Assumption: you speak multiple languages!

Sort of! I'm not fluent by any means, but I have an okay understanding of German (was certified up to a certain level in high school, but I'm definitely not as good as I was then), and I'm currently learning Japanese! I've always really enjoyed learning languages, and I hope that I can confidently say I fully speak more than one some day.

[indigostudies]

honestly i think one of the best things about langblr/studyblr (or at least, the little corner i’ve curated for myself) is that i see lots of other people doing “wild” things for their studies that make me feel less like a weirdo for what i do. almost no one i meet irl thinks a triple major and first degree before you graduated high school and doing intensive language courses abroad on a yearly basis are “normal” but then i log onto this blog and suddenly my personal academic path doesn’t seem so strange. it’s nice!

[wildatheartkinsey]

all along the italian coast

[paintingsbykf]

Rome Alley (01) Watercolor Print Card available on PaintingsByKF Etsy shop!

This card has a blank interior and is perfect for birthdays, baby showers, bridal showers, thinking of you cards, get well soon cards, and more!

Interior printed card messages coming soon!

[you-are-my-neverland]

writeblr introduction

this is my fifth-hundreth time doing this, but i wanted an easy introduction that i could update without many frills, so here goes.

introducing....me!

online, i go by star! (she/her)

college student majoring in foreign langauges, with a chinese (mandarin) concentration and a linguistics minor

i hope to go into literary translation of some sort, but we'll see how it goes

in my free time, i like to watch asian dramas, listen to music, and read; i also dabble in video editing

i talk about the above and more on my main @astarlightmonbebe, which i also follow from

when it comes to writing, i love reading/writing

character driven stories with lots of complicated relationship dynamics (give me more of we-used-to-be-close, estranged or otherwise multilayered found family/sibling relationships, fated to be but hate it, etc)

magical realism, especially coming-of-age

low or middle fantasy

lore/mythology/religion (love folklore, legend, especially ones that change, grow, and are more real than they seem)

what i'm working on (current as of august 2024)

wip: godhood

naying yue’s father has been missing for three years. after stabbing her bff/lover in the eye and getting expelled from college, she decides to celebrate her twenty first bday by killing herself. however, her plans are derailed when she is attacked by monsters, rescued/kidnapped, and told her father abducted her as a young child, and that her real identity is the heiress to a powerful family who is part of the mysterious Outsider World…

new adult low fantasy inspired by/incorporating wuxia elements

drafting book one right now; will likely be at least three books if i get there

comic sans ppt

other ideas bouncing around

a high school sports wip revolving around a sport called cyclone, where biking meets medieval jousting to create a very metal sport. gil reyes, once a cyclone prodigy and now on limited time, finds himself dumped and kicked out of his cyclone crew. a street tournament with a cash prize and a claim to fame leads to him starting his own crew, recruiting the scholarly sprinter, aadya; high school dropout and underground stunt rider/racer, yama; the duo of sprinter winnie and bruiser jade; a rural girl with brute strength and a boxer’s instincts, elle; and a brilliant time trialist who knows nothing about cyclone, pazu.

paper tigers

status: constantly rotating around in my head on a hot plate

when moonlil acang's father, the warlord of the north, dies in a violent explosion of which the only survivor is a mysterious girl he has apparently brought back from the mountains, moonlil is forced into a position he's never wanted. setting inspired by 1920s china/chinese history. featuring: grave robbery, complicated siblings, mythological elements, and a dose of revolutionary, imperial, and military politics.

the phosphene phenomenon

status: sketching out the details, potentially plotting

three years after witnessing a total solar eclipse and falling into a coma, diyu wakes up to find himself with New Eyes and a ghost attached to him. lalita's been dead for years, but she knows nothing but her own name. tasked by death to help other spirits move on before she, too, can find her afterlife, lalita and diyu have no choice but to team up, along with sunny, the one person diyu has never been able to stand. featuring: a super intense rivalry (swear), self discovery journeys, ghosts and mental illness, agents of death, and so on.

previously on here i’ve successfully completed the first drafts of two wips, fairbone and the metamorphosis of the lost (tmotl), which still occasionally pop up.

i’m not always the most active, especially during the school year, where my focus is on trying to write a few words a day if any at all, but i’m always excited to hear and interact with other’s work!

[the-cinnamontography-is-amazing]

Did you know that Venice in the sixteenth century was the first government to have a centralized intelligence organization. While the idea of 'spying' and 'espionage' is a new concept, the Venetians were centuries ahead.

[enfleures]

fell in love with italy last summer

[timmurleyart]

Summer at the chateau. 🇫🇷 🏖️

[agentark]

my current plight is that I have no kpop friends so I'm just sitting alone with my thoughts after the craziest last few days like

[veggietale]

got my exam results suicide is back on the table

[readingloveswounds]

this job posting is looking for someone who can LEAD study abroad programs....i am gushing about my own experiences as a student in this cover letter which i hope communicates to them that i CANNOT possibly do everything right away

[galamalion]

might be going to cuba next year, can't wait to fuck up my posting schedule even more than i already have <333

[cometcrystal]

This isn't true where is the evidence to support this