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Hi, I'm a teen reader, an avid one according to many.A writer too.I absolutely adore classics(historical fiction, realistic fiction, mythology, children's fiction, period dramas, whatever classics) and I'm on a quest to complete a 100 of the world's greatest classics.

But I've recently felt like I'm losing touch with the new wave of fiction.I don't know what that exactly is but i assume it's work that came out after the year 2000.or maybe stuff that booktube and booktok popuparised-i am in neither of these spaces.I don't read young adult books and the only 'new' book that kids my age love nowadays that I've read is AGGTM series by Holly Jackson, and i liked it fairly. I admire classics for their writing style and i genuinely enjoy reading them and getting lost in a period of time before mine, but i also don't want to lose touch with today's fiction.I know this sounds like a rant but i don't know how else to word my words.Authors i like are Agatha Christie, C. P. Snow, George Orwell, Harper Lee, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Somerset, Enid Blyton(don't like her views,however, just the stories), Frances Hodgson Burnett and i really liked Bridge To Terabithia

Should i stick to my classics or should i explore? I don't have much time as the next grade for us is an exam heavy one, and are our boards and i want to finish reading as much as i can this year itself. If the answer is the latter, can you drop some reccomendations?I've heard of stuff like The Cruel Prince but after reading blurb i don't feel like reading that.

I like:

Historical fiction

Murder mysteries

Realistic fiction, fantasy, magical realism

Non fiction that's told in a story form

Don't like:

Romance alone(Romance as a by product of something else like a crime novel is fine, side plots, but i don't like romance as the main focus. Liked Wuthering Heights, but nothing else in that genre)

Sci Fi(i don't like sci fi)

Hi, I'm a teen reader, an avid one according to many.A writer too.I absolutely adore classics(historical fiction, realistic fiction, mythology, children's fiction, period dramas, whatever classics) and I'm on a quest to complete a 100 of the world's greatest classics.

But I've recently felt like I'm losing touch with the new fiction. I don't read young adult books and the only 'new' book that kids my age love nowadays that I've read is AGGTM series by Holly Jackson, and i liked it fairly. I admire classics for their writing style and i genuinely enjoy reading them and getting lost in a period of time before mine, but i also don't want to lose touch with today's fiction.I know this sounds like a rant but i don't know how else to word my words.Authors i like are Agatha Christie, C. P. Snow, George Orwell, Harper Lee, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Somerset, Enid Blyton(don't like her views,however, just the stories), Frances Hodgson Burnett and i really liked Bridge To Terabithia

Should i stick to my classics or should i explore? I don't have much time as the next grade for us is an exam heavy one, and are our boards and i want to finish reading as much as i can this year itself. If the answer is the latter, can you drop some reccomendations?I've heard of stuff like The Cruel Prince but after reading blurb i don't feel like reading that.

I like:

Historical fiction

Murder mysteries

Realistic fiction, fantasy, magical realism

Non fiction that's told in a story form

Don't like:

Romance alone(Romance as a by product of something else like a crime novel is fine, side plots, but i don't like romance as the main focus. Liked Wuthering Heights, but nothing else in that genre)

Sci Fi(i don't like sci fi)

I've been in love with this girl for about ever since i can remember. We're best friends for about 7 years now, since 2nd grade. I've had these feelings ever since the end of 5th grade(or even longer, i just can't find a starting point). She's the most beautiful person I've ever seen. The kindest, the most honest. The most soft. She's neat, artistic, studious. sometimes i want to worship her. She's a flower and I'm the honeybee that flies around for a taste of her nectar. If she's the moon then I'm the stars;if she's the sun then I'm the earth.She brings me joy.She cheers me up.Sometimes i even get filthy, dirty thoughts about her and i feel ashamed because she's the purest creature and even dirty thoughts towards her should be equal to a sin.

The problem is, she's straight. And though are friend circle has queer people and She's not a hater.. She's a little homophobic, like she doesn't understand it. I know she might know of my feelings because it's that obvious to my other friends. But she won't acknowledge them. And it's always a constant, throbbing pain in the depths of my heart because she won't ever love me;she can't ever love more than a friend. And it's not her fault eirher.But i can't stop these stupid, ugly,Beautiful feelings for the life of me and its eating me alive.

TLDR;I'm stupidly in love with a girl who can't and won't love me back.

Hi , i have about chin-neck length wavy, very frizz prone hair that's quite untameable. I'm very dependent on my mother and she says i don't need conditioner as long as i use oil and wash it away with shampoo so i do that once a week. A lot of products don't work on me and my hair and i have allergies. Heat treatment is bad as well.

Having that established, i want to ask you guys on some advise for hairstyles.Tips and tricks. And no, i can't clip it back or do half up half down or any cute short hair styles really because my mother hates hair being let down and wants it tied up. She does some cute French and dutch braids that i like on my hair when she feels like it but she's a working woman and since I'm getting older i want to do some hairstyles myself. I'm sick and tired of going to school everyday with simple two high ponies that make me look like a baby or two low ponies that are bland. Single pony is also getting boring. Suggest any other hairstyles(please link videos or step by steps if you have any)? Also-if you will be kind enough to leave some hair care tips as well, that will be appreciated.

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Happy Pride!

I'm super interested in English Literature, creative writing etc and want tk study abroad and hopefully get settled in a place were i can enjoy rights as lgbtq+.

I'd like to Major In English Literature with a minor in history, the latter is optional. St Stephen's college delhi seems like a good choice but the cutoffs are HIGH and its very hard to get into. I also don't reallyw ant to study in delhi. If i do get in there, though, i plan tk get inti oxford via rhodes which seems quite impossible.

I've come to you, those who have done B A Literature and then Masters in the same abroad and hopefully a PhD, what are some alternatives to achieve that dream? And I'd like to become a professor but there's not much scope there currently.

Could you give me some advice on moving forward as a young girl? Like alternative colleges if this seems quite illogical, and some other ways to go abroad.If this isn't the place, please also reccomend me a good sub to post this in.

Thank you for any and all help!

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I'd like examples that are not Mukundan Unni Associates Please.

I'm... Disappointed. I want to pursue English Literature as a major. I read the old textbook from my seniors and was overjoyed at seeing a lot of the world's finest literature in it-only to open my new textbook and see trash indian writers wirh trash stories and ai slop poems praising bharat. Has the standard dropped so much? and not even talking about the new three language policy... Man.. European history and nazism erased from the history textbook.. God knows, should i switch boards?

The Purpose of a school uniform is to introduce uniformity.

Yet the uniforms for boys and girls are different.Now,I don't have a problem with skirts.Actually,I adored the pinafore we had up until the seventh grade.And the boys had a shirt and shorts set.It was comfortable,we weren't hot all the time and everyone looked good in it and liked it.

Problem started when 8th started and the boys had full trousers and and girls switched to a stupid churidar with a coat over it.this had weird sleeves that reached till the elbow constricting movement of the arms and was hot all over and itchy too.Plus it had no slits so we couldn't do pe properly either.Its a very outdated uniform.I know thats not even the worst of it because a few schools still have churidar shawl uniforms.This year the PTA changed it,the girls and boys have the same uniform.But the girls have to wear a coat.Why?Why the need?Make small teenage girls be hot and uncomfortable all day because God forbid a small girl has bo*bs and people stare. I hate it.Then why not give the boys the same coat?I wouldn't be half as mad as I am now if they had to wear one too.Plus my mother would be happy because my brother's shirt wouldn't be messy if all the dirt gets on the dark coat.

Are y'alls schools the same ?I know a few schools have switched to gender neutral uniforms like t shirt pants.

Almost all gen ai is bad but i think maybe informative ai could be used for good.

In the analytical, informative department, which of the current free mainstream ais do you find best? Because Chatgpt and Gemini are trash.I put a document, they generate something completely different when i ask for an outline/summary.