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Intendere è potere

(Title is an Italian proverb, roughly meaning " Learning is the eye of the mind " which literally translate as " To understand is power ".) Throughout this semester, I've been able to learn about many different cultures than my own. Not only through Collaborations along, but also learning Italian through the university (of course, I'll only need to talk about Collaborations, but I might switch to talking about Italian here and there). The actual course itself has helped me understand a lot of things and when I came into this class I wasn't all that enthused about what was going on, as I had a vague understanding of what will happen I just know I speak to a student from Hong Kong - which is still pretty exciting in of itself.  While I wasn't too excited on the topic at hand, I was able to build excitement and understanding, and through my own research I was able to understand more about Hong Kong through Vox's short 5 episode documentary on ...

The final habitus

I don't think it necessarily changed , I think my view still stands that habitus begins with you. However, I see how some things in my habitus has changed. As looking at my entry about Habitus  is interesting for the most part. I talk about the way I came out and how it was different for people, but I didn't mention the disgust that my mother's second husband had for me. He always viewed same-sex attracted people as people who should "do it in their own homes but don't bring it outside" which confused me. Straight people are allowed to showcase their love for their partner, even I (as someone who is dating a cismale) can hold his hand, kiss him goodbye, hug him without it being weird  for the most part. He was someone who, when the votes came out for the SSM survey with the country saying yes, I ran up to him and told him and he said: "you know how I feel about that!" With so much venom in his voice, whereas, when Mum told me they passed the law to...

HKBU Partner

I interviewed my HKBU partner last Friday and it was interesting. I was worried I wouldn't like her? Like, not so much hate, but I felt like she was quite reserved or guarded, which is fine we all are at some point, but what I found when I interviewed her was that she's quite talkative, you couldn't get a word out before she started talking about something else. Which is good you know, but then I'm like "am I just talking to me as a clone?" I think that's the unexpected thing, and she was quite open too, she told me about her mental health issues and the issues in Hong Kong which was a nice input too. I got a lot of information out of her, but not as much as I'd like, but I think I have a rough idea of what I want to write, something about mental illness, maybe set in Australia because I don't know how I'd write something set in Hong Kong? But maybe they're from a family that is quite silent about mental illness which I feel like the H...

Jesus is God.

Jesus is God , God is Jesus . God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. That last sentence was spoken by Nietzsche, a man of philosophy (though really you could argue a man of many things) who wrote about it in Thus Spoke Zarathustra  (1883 - 1891), though was first used in The Gay Science  (1882). Of course, this idea could have been sparked by many others - Nietzsche was the first to really speak of it in great lengths. Religion is always a touchy subject for many, I'm quite open in my beliefs. Raised as a "be whoever you want to be" but with the influence of my paternal grandparents and their forceful nature, I grew up pretty Christian. Baptised under Anglicanism, my parents were married in a church (with both parents divorcing and remarrying with the religious ceremony replaced by a non-denominational wedding officiant), my maternal grandparents were raised in The Church of England (Anglican again) and it wasn't until I was in my teens when I t...

The difference between people and what they write

A lot of writers are different from what they write, but a lot are the same. I talk about philosophy and politics and queer culture and you'll find that in my work, I write philosophical pieces, I have politics in my fiction pieces, and almost at least 1 character isn't straight. So my beliefs are inputted into my work. For others is different, there are people who might write about morbid things, might write about politics or philosophy, but really on the outside, they're very different to that, and that's okay. It's okay to write differently to how you act, your public vs. private life (something I learnt about in my politics class funnily enough). It's okay to write the same as you act. In the end, you've created something that wasn't there, and no matter how you write, who you are, this piece of work is yours and it's beautiful. 

Writer vs. Genre

"You always write something different," they say. You look up at them from your phone and shrug your shoulders.  "I guess it's just the way I write..." you trail off not really knowing what else to say.  "It's just ... weird."  "Why?"  That question was left lingering on your lips, penetrating their mind and it came to a standstill. Like during World War One, and there was the Christmas truce between the French, German and British soldiers who exchanged gifts and words.  "I don't know," they say, "it's just, you're very friendly but you often write about death a lot, like ... a lot!"  You shrug your shoulders and look back at your phone, finishing off the message you were just sending someone. You lock your phone and put it in your pocket and pick up the coffee you were drinking.  "I guess I've got to let my creativity lie elsewhere."  They shrug their shoulders too, moments af...

Audience

My audience is different, it all depends on what I'm writing. If I'm writing my novels, which for the last 2 years has been fantasy (with this year being the third time, and last year and this year will both have more sci-fi elements); thus I'll have an audience based on that genre, maybe the general public will pick it up, but I suspect a majority of my audience will want to read it due to the genre. If I'm writing my philosophical essays or creative non-fiction pieces, the audience will be people who enjoy that content, people who want to learn about something different, change their expectations, and people who want to connect. I remember during high school, I created a short film for my media class, (two actually, 1 for year 11 and 1 for year 12) and I had to write down my audience, and to not just  think about gender, age and location because anyone can say "this book is for everyone, doesn't matter about age or where they're from!", but think...