every time i try to have an original research idea but Zhang et al. already published it 3 years ago

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DO CREATIVE STUFF EVEN IF YOU DON’T THINK YOU’RE GOOD AT THEM BTW !! do stuff just because you want to, because it feels good and creativity is an outlet we all need!!

When I was younger, I rebelled against the idea that cooking was something I was obligated to do. As I grow older, I’ve begun to fear that if I don’t learn my grandmother’s and mother’s recipes, I’ll lose the flavours I love most. Both of these things can be simultaneously true.

doing it scared but at least i’m doing it and getting through it (even though i’d much rather just scooch past it)

Happy Franz Kafka's "Nothing, merely tired." day

tapping the sign

Refusing to marry, being child-free, being single, focusing on your career is still radical if you’re a woman. Don’t let choice feminism lie to you that every choice a woman makes is feminist. Like u better get that degree girl😭

i hate biological defeatism so much. men are not rape machines by nature without there being any solution to this. entitlement over women's bodies is not an inherent property of them. these are not things that we just have to accept. they are socially conditioned and can be fixed

realising as an indian woman you are always going to be living a dual life in front of your parents and their dreams and aspirations for you will always include a ticking time bomb of marriage and it doesn’t even cross my consciousness as a solid goal for the next few years

You might catch yourself thinking "Orion's belt is highkey the lamest constellation" then you look attentively up at the starry night sky for the first time in a while and you realize: actually, hold up, those three stars are really in a distinct ass little line, that's sick

i’ve been so fascinated by the voyager mission story since i was a kid. there’s just something existentially moving about a spacecraft built all the way back in the 70s still functioning far beyond its original mission, carrying so many of our deepest human curiosities into the

The signal strength hitting Earth from Voyager 1 is less than one trillionth of a watt. To put that in perspective, your phone’s WiFi signal is roughly 100 billion times stronger, and it drops a connection walking between rooms. NASA picks up Voyager’s whisper using arrays of

watching naruto and i get ragebaited everytime sakura says "sasuke-kun" like GIRL. i can never finish stuff like these even if the storyline intrigues me

if orion's belt has million fans, then i'm one of them. if orion's belt has one fan, then i'm THAT ONE. if orion's belt has no fans, that means i'm dead.

I think the gut reaction of us privileged folks when we see the suffering of others who are supposedly 'less lucky' (read: more oppressed) should not be gratefulness. So many of us are taught to be grateful. No. We should be angry. Of injustice.