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Friday, 27 March 2026 02:33 pm
temris: (agony)
 Midterms start this Monday! I feel weirdly at ease this time around, I don't know if this will bring me misfortune LOL but idk?? I feel like this semester, most of my classes were easier, and I am taking two classes from 3rd year! Praying for my success...🤲

Other than that, I've finished reading Jane Eyre a few days ago, but I am SOOOO obsessed with it still. IT WAS SO GOOD and I'm glad that I haven't read it as a child, because I don't think I would have appreciated it enough, nor would I have gotten the references, the implicit messages, THE ROMANCE. And children's editions usually are abridged, you know! ANYWAY I love Jane's character so so much, I related to her so often -- being ugly, being an artist, thinking you're unfit for being loved, stuff like that -- but also really envied how strong she is, how resilient she always were; which is why Mr. Rochester fell in love with her 😭😭 AHH THEY ARE JUST PERFECT TOGETHER, OKAY?!?!

And some bad news: My graphics tablet that I bought a few years ago gave up on me... It technically works, but for like 30 secs max, before it disconnects itself. After a series of experiments, I decided the cause is the USB-C port on the tablet itself. So I can't fix it... The warranty is also passed, and I can't find from which website I had bought it either. :/
Thing is, I had bought an Android tablet about a month ago, and I can draw on it BUT AGAIN, TECHNICALLY, because drawing on these things are more difficult than I remember??

I DID start out digital art using an iPad, then did most of it on another Android tablet,, but it seems it has been too long and my skills have receded. I already feel too conscious of my art skills, and this just made it worse... SO I can't draw anything.... I doodle a bit on my notebooks in class to NOT COMPLETELY FORGET IT, but yeah, it's what it is. I am once again forced to draw traditionally.

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Wednesday, 4 June 2025 12:15 am
temris: (medieval little guy)
Finally, I'm done with finals!
I've had too much things to do, but now that I actually have time, I suddenly have no motivation to do anything again.

I started The Hunger Games after having read it about +10 years ago... It's honestly better than I remember -- Collins have literally put nothing that is unnecessary, or filler. Everything is there for a reason and I love it. It's a real page turner.

ONE THING I'M OBSESSED WITH... I've finished watching Cadfael. I'm sad, because it was exactly what I was looking for: 12th century England Benedictine monks! (I've mentioned before that I'm planning out a story around the same era and one of my characters is a Benedictine monk himself.) I just love it so much honestly.

The characters are also one of the things that got me so much into it. Cadfael is so lovable, he's honest about his feelings and even though he usually criticizes those who use religion for their own greed, he remains a loyal believer. BUT I LOVED BROTHER OSWIN SOOO MUCH. He's sooo cute and such a wholesome little (!) guy. AND not to mention, the mean girls Jerome and Robert are so funny -- especially Jerome. Julian Firth has acted so wonderfully, he sells the character just right.

I grabbed the copy of "A Morbid Taste for Bones" my uni had in its library, and it was sooo well written! Unfortunately, only about three of the books are translated but neither of the other two were available in the library. I would have read them in English just fine, but it becomes so expensive to buy+ship them to Türkiye. I had bought "One Corpse Too Many" for such a good price and it arrived today. Can't wait to read it!

NOW TO THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS! GALATASARAY HAS BECOME CHAMPIONS OF SÜPER LİG AGAIN and we finally have 5 stars on our badge! Unfortunately, we also said goodbye to Muslera. He's been part of the team for so long that it feels so weird to imagine the club without him... Now I hope the transfers this summer will be good (I don't think it will happen...) so that we can actually do some good things in Champions League this year.
temris: (constantine)
Uzun zamandır bir kitabı okurken bu kadar sinirlenmemiştim. Yapmayı en çok sevdiğim aktivitelerden biri olan kitap okumayı bana zehir eden bu kitabı bitirmeden bırakırdım ama maalesef aldığım bir ders için bitirmek zorundaydım.

Neresinden başlamalıyım, onu bile bilmiyorum. Çünkü kitabın kendisi de karmakarışık. Ama her şeyin başı bence yazardan başlıyor: Yazar ve onun bildiklerini gösterme çabası. Örneklemede hiçbir sorun yok, ne derler işte, anlatımı zenginleştiren öğeler vs. ama dakika başı, her cümlede bunu yapıp devam eden cümlelerde, paragraflarda HATTA BÖLÜMLERDE bile buna kalkışması bende kusma hissiyatı uyandırdı. Geçiyorum, geçiyorum; hala aynı konudayız. YETER YAHU, ANLADIK. Bir iki sayfa değil, bazen yirmi sayfa geçtiği halde bir adım ilerlemiyor hikaye. NEDEN YANİ ????? NEDEN? Mesela Nihade kokularla uğraşıyor diye İKİ BÖLÜM (hatta belki daha fazla) boyunca hangi koku neden çıkar, nereden gelmiştir vs. BUNLARI ANLATIYOR. YAHU BİRKAÇ PARAGRAF YETERDİ, ANLADIK ARAŞTIRMA YAPMIŞSIN YAZARKEN.

Üstelik de biçimi de farklı değil. Sürekli. Vurgu. İçin. Böyle. Yazmaya gerek yok!!!! (ALLAHIM DAHA DEMİN BİTİRDİM KİTABI SİNİRLERİM HALA ÜZERİMDE.) Virgül kullan çok istiyorsan yani, sana bir lütuf verilmiş virgül gibi, KULLAN İŞTE SANKİ PARA ÖDÜYORSUN VİRGÜLE.

KONUSUNUN NE OLDUĞUNA DA KARAR VEREBİLMİŞ DEĞİL. Önce istiyor bir karakter üzerinden ilerlemek, başlıyor isimsiz yeniçeriyi anlatmaya. (AMA ANLATAMIYOR, çünkü dediğim gibi tarihi olaylara benzetmekten, örnekler verip bilgisini göstermekten KARAKTERİ OLUŞTURMAYI UNUTMUŞ. İsmi geçen hiçbir “karakter”in, karakteri yok çünkü! HİÇBİRİNİN YOK. Hepsi sadece “isminden” ibaret. Yok Nihade’yi seviyormuş, aşıkmış – ki aşk da değil hissettiği, o ayrı konu.) Sonra gidiyor, kronolojik olarak Osmanlı’nın düşüşüne girip yeniçerilerin lağvedilmesine dönüyor işleyiş. Her bölüm aynı çizgiden devam edecek diye bir şey yok da, yaptığı şekil de aşırı düzensiz. Cilt olmasa birlikte durmayacak kitap.

Bu tutarsızlık biçimsel de gösteriyor kendini: Başlarda eski kelimeleri, eski tamlamaları kullanmaya çalışıyor yazar; sonra vazgeçiyor, modern kelimelere dönüyor. Bunu batılılaşmaya falan gönderme olarak yaptığını hiç zannetmiyorum, sadece DİĞER HER ŞEY GİBİ bunda da kararlılık sağlayamıyor.

AMAÇ NE?? AMAÇSIZ BİR KİTAP BU. Bize bir şey öğretmek ise, yeni öğrendiğim belki bir iki şey vardır ki bu da aşırı alakasız konulardandı, en fazla “trivia” olur yani. Yok, bu daha çok “character study” ise O DA YOK Kİ İŞTE DEDİM YA, KARAKTERİN KENDİSİ YOK ÇÜNKÜ!! HİÇBİR ŞEY YOK BU KİTAPTA!!! İnsanda oluşturduğu tek bir his var, o da kaybolan zamana duyduğum hüzün. Öyle ki bu hüzün, okurken sinirlenip bu yazıyı yazdığım zaman bahsederim, dediğim diğer düşünceleri bile unutturdu şu an.

SORMAK İSTEDİĞİM TEK ŞEY VAR, HOCAM NİYE BU KİTABI OKUTTUNUZ YANİ?

(crossposted from my goodreads)


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Tuesday, 17 December 2024 08:52 pm
temris: (cat)
Book talk: Going through one of the worst stressful reads in my life, ever. It's been quite a long time since I've felt this much annoyance while reading a book, I swear I'm using all my strength to go through it.

It's a mandatory read for the finals for Turkish Literature class, and while I don't particularly get mad or anything for mandatory reads, this one has such a way of writing that it's so hard to even turn a single page.

Expect a rant post when I finish this. 😭

Life talk: Besides that, I think I'm going through the lessening of motivation near the end of semester"era right now. It's so hard to keep going, and the teenagers get on my nerves a lot lately.

Media talk: I finally managed to finish the first season of Mehmed: Fetihler Sultanı (it took me like months??) and I enjoyed it mostly, it's a lot better than the other Ottoman shows by Turkish media -- less of harem intrigue, more of war and politics. Besides that, I also started to watch HBO's Rome, and it's been alright. I'm so busy that I barely managed to reach the last episode of the first season. I'm so in love with the main lead, Lucius... 😭  He's just so my type...😭

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