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✨@llgeekayartll ✨Stories have played a huge part in my life. Be it the truth in non-fiction or the truth presented to us with the comfort of fiction attached to it, it has been immensely impactful. I've been asking myself what impacted my reading habits recently that I wasn't able to pick another fiction book and also blog about it with the passion I had earlier. But then perhaps, this way of consuming stories has fulfilled its purpose in my life. I have let go of my previous self and invited the one that comes with a flow, working towards a more connected way of life and living.
So now it's probably time to let in these stories with a new meaning for myself, a new purpose. I'm now coming back to books and their world with idea of connecting another form of art. For me, it'll now be a desire to bring the words and worlds to life visually in a way that I'm led to see it and hopefully provide anyone a portal to view life from a different lens even when it seems all gloomy । It's always the little things in life! In the coming weeks, this page and @llgeekayartll will more on less be working in harmony. So, hop on the journey train with me? .
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.🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I haven't bought any physical books, but multiple ebooks and audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I know the feeling, however, let's opt for used, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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✨ Our first colouring book for you! ✨
I'm super excited to introduce this beautiful collaboration between @gunchakoi and I and present our first ever Colouring Book to you! Guncha is an extremely talented artist and brings Nature alive on her paper with her colours and paints ❤️🌞 We decided to work on something to help you spend your days indoors, safe and colourful with your family and friends. The colouring book is for all age groups and designed for you to spend time colouring with your kids too! It's available for you to download for free, and we suggest you use anything from colour pencils, pens to crayons. If you have water colour paper, feel free to trace this out and use any paints you like and have available at home! If you want to colour these digitally, you can export these pages to your desired painting software ( simple way to export is to take a screenshot of the page ). We hope that this colouring book fills your quarantine days with some fun and lightness while you fill it with colours and bring them to life. Please find the link to my website in my bio (@llgeekayartll link tree) and download your book! ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️
ALSO!!!! **** Once you have completed your creations, share them on your feed and stories and tag us @gunchakoi and @IIgeekayartll using #gunchaXgee - you will then be entered to win some magical surprises and goodies handcrafted by us! ✨ We will be picking a few of our favourite creations by the end of this month or lockdown. Follow us both here on Instagram to stay tuned for what's more to come! ✨ .
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"A puppy feels like life and love. Their entire bodies are soft—fur, skin, the pads of their feet new and delicate. They radiate warmth in the way science can explain, but it goes further than that. The heat of affection pours out of their eyes and makes their little butts wiggle like crazy as soon as they see a person—they don’t even care who. They’re love, encapsulated." ▪️▪️▪️▪️
Still not over this book! .
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🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I haven't bought any books and last year my total number was just 15 but I have bought multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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My reading these days has shifted to Non-fiction mainly. I'm currently researching different areas related to elephants and their lives in relation to human activities, for a project. I'm studying the science behind their thoughts and emotions. I've been the one to read articles on whether or not animals feel emotions, it's pretty obvious they do. Just because they look different, and have different ways of living than ours doesn't mean that they don't experience the most basic of emotions like we do. ▪️▪️
The reason I'm studying this is because elephant brains are 10 times bigger than ours, and the way they contemplate and observe is more complex and advanced. And that's what I'm trying to understand. ▪️▪️▪️
The downside to this is that at every page, I meet with our reality. The reality we've created for ourselves and them. The pain and destruction caused for our greed and insensitivities. And that deeply affects me. I'm privileged enough to take breaks from this reality and get back to research keeping my mental health and state in consideration. Had I been in their place, I can't even imagine how hell like living would've been.
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And everyday I'm reminded to choose kindness ❤️
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Have you seen the latest blog post, yet? It's all about a book I designed and illustrated :D link's in my bio! .
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A new blog post about my first book project is up on my website! If you like poetry, and want to read something in Hindi translated Urdu, then this one's for you 🤓 Link's in my bio! .
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"I suppose one of the reasons we’re all able to continue to exist for our allotted span in this green and blue vale of tears is that there is always, however remote it might seem, the possibility of change"
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Why didn't I read this book sooner when everyone told me to? 🙈 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is about a 29 year old woman, dealing with a traumatic childhood and adolescence, who seems like is a misfit and has a strange way of living. I, however, think that most of her ideologies need to be normalised and the most commonly accepted need to be changed. I finished this book earlier this year, pretty much at the begining of it and starting it off with someone like Eleanor was a wise decision ❤️
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"Did men ever look in the mirror, I wondered, and find themselves wanting in deeply fundamental ways? When they opened a newspaper or watched a film, were they presented with nothing but exceptionally handsome young men, and did this make them feel intimidated, inferior, because they were not as young, not as handsome? Did they then read newspaper articles ridiculing those same handsome men if they gained weight or wore something unflattering?"
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.🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I haven't bought any books and last year my total number was just 15 but I have bought multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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"But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll."
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What's worse is that even the most well educated people still live by the same phrase.
The Female of The Species is one of the must read books, in my opinion at lease.
The book is a contemporary YA novel that highlights, in all it's brutal reality, rape culture through various points of views. It sheds light on the trauma almost every girl and some boys carry right from their childhood to their adult life which arises when they're violated in one form or the other. ▪️▪️▪️
If you haven't read the book, I highly suggest you should. Even if it's YA, I think the adults need these stories more. .
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.🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I haven't bought any books and last year my total number was just 15 but I have bought multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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“Together we are learning how to live, write and love to the fullest by simply being all of who we are. Sometimes we manage this beautifully and artlessly; sometimes we fail ridiculously. When we fail we remember the moments of harmony and grace, and try again. That, pretty much, is the pattern of my progress in life: Take a step forward, move on, fall down, stand up, go back to walking, trip over and fall down on my face again, pull myself up, keep walking…”
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Throwback to one of the reads that taught me a lot about womanhood, a book through which I got to see a part of one of my favourite authors @shafakelif , an intense read and a voice for many women writers around the globe. I really need to re-read Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice! .
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🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I haven't bought any books and last year my total number was just 15 but I have bought multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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"Where would we be without tomorrows? What we’d have instead are todays. And if that was the case, with you, I’d hope for the longest day for today. I’d fill today with you, doing everything I’ve ever loved. I’d laugh, I’d talk, I’d listen and learn, I’d love, I’d love, I’d love. I’d make every day today and spend them all with you, and I’d never worry about tomorrow, when I wouldn’t be with you. And when that dreaded tomorrow comes for us, please know that I didn’t want to leave you, or be left behind, that every single moment spent with you were the best times in my life."
- @official_ceceliaahern
I miss you baby boy. Wish you were still here ♥️ Thank you for everything.
2010-Always ♥️ .
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Little bubba is becoming a big boy! He's 5 months and three days now, and my entire day goes around him. It's definitely getting better, he's a little less anxious than before and getting more and more independent by the day. But it's an on going process for the both of us. And I just realised that his coat is more white than black now! (This one's an old pic)
Did you see the blog post where I introduced him? Link's in my bio! He was so tiny when he came! ▪️▪️▪️
I also have a new blog post going up soon. I have a lot of stuff that I'd like to upload and publish but I'm focusing on training Zoughie at the moment, along with studying and practicing. So taking it nice and slow and enjoying everything as it goes! I'm definitely in a better state of mind since Zoughie's come home, just need to get better at time management 🤭 But there's definitely a lot more to come on my blog and @llgeekayartll ! .
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Introducing Mr. Doughnut's baby brother, in a new and the last blog post of 2019 ❤️ link's in my bio! .
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Watching Homecoming by Beyonce on Netflix and I have these lyrics stuck in my head - "I break chains all by myself
Won't let my freedom rot in hell
Hey! I'ma keep running
'Cause a winner don't quit on themselves" - and I agree. .
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"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."
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I'm currently writing a new blog post which will be up on my website in a few days. Checked out the latest one, yet? Link's in my bio!
Joker as a character, we all know, is intense and complex. And he's one of my favourite villains, if that's a thing. But in no way do I encourage evil or any mental illness be romanticized.
The Killing Joke is one of the best origin stories I've read and I loved the artwork! .
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..🌎Let's all do something for our environment, our planet, our home and as readers let's try and reduce our physical book buying. This year, I've bought less than 10 books but multiple ebooks & audiobooks. I love reading from books too so I understand that craving but let's opt for used instead, or share and borrow. And better yet, let's appreciate ebooks and enjoy the never ending stories and aim for endless trees❤️🌎
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#repost because it's important! "Traders of Ivory actually want extinction of Elephants. The less Elephants there are, the more the price rises.” - The Ivory Game @netflix_in
Ask yourself, do you really want to be a part of something so brutal? Ivory business is strong because we demand ivory products - decor pieces including religious statues (the irony), jewelry, billiard balls, piano keys, and a lot of Ivory carvings; tourism and entertainment where Elephants are held captive to give us rides. The food industry is shifting with the shift in demand from animal to plant-based options. The Ivory industry can be eliminated with the same logic. If we end the demand, this brutality against elephant families will end too. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
In yesterday's blog, I've tried to give some facts on elephant personalities to sensitise us towards them as living, breathing, sentient beings. The link to the blog is in my bio, and I also talk about a story I'm writing with a baby Elephant as our protagonist. To have a look at the process and illustrations, follow me @llgeekayartll for more stories. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
Animals are not here for us. Elephants are not here to provide us with their tusks. They're here with us. If anything, we owe Elephants a lot for they're the reason why forests survive man-made disasters. But we're running out of time, these magnificent beauties are on the verge of extinction. And without them, our ecosystems are bound to collapse. ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️
We need Elephants and Elephants need us to save them. We've already lost Indian Cheetah to climate crises, and if we're responsible for it then we also have the responsibility to reverse and restore our environment. 🌎 There's no planet B 🌎 .
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Endorphin, oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine ❣️
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