the basics

hi, my name is mae (i also go by the nickname 'ginger' occasionally), i'm 23, a second-year MA history student; barista and it's half of my personality

libra

enfp

enneagram 5/7 (i claim two and i'll die on that hill)

green is my favorite color, can you tell?

why am i here

i've been in and out of internet/digital phases for most of my life. i was super involved in a handful of band and tv show fandoms as a teenager (as well as being a constant lurker on aesthetic tumblr.....i miss her), but i've never been super digitally literate and never had the drive or interest to figure it out. getting into adulthood, school essentially became my entire life (don't do two bachelor's degrees at once and then immediately go to grad school kids your life will never be about anything else). tbh my frontal lobe is really cooking and now i actually have a will to do things other than academics and rotting in my own thoughts, so i ended up here. i guess this is part of my testament to myself (or the void) that i can be someone outside of just the girl that has always been good at school and terrified to do anything else. and that there are people and communities to find and cool things to create outside of corporate soul-sucking social channel

currently consuming

*for more info see my likes page

tv show: reservation dogs

movie: lemonade mouth

book: babel by r.f. kuang

game: tears of the kingdom (trying to 100%)

academic projects/ventures/etc

i'm currently working on a digital history-ish project on the 100/the Clexa fandom and the shift after the death of Lexa's character

how it's going: i have hit a wall with tumblr tag data research. currently waiting on an email back from the ao3 staff to see if i could get some data on fic tags. have not started actually writing, but i've got three weeks and the paper itself is a doozy

my internship!

how it's going: hasn't started yet lolol. but i found out the other day it'll count for credit so i only actually have one classroom-course this semester and that's a huuuuuge relief

my (maybe) soon-to-be-published paper

how it's going: i have not actually opened the word document since getting the 'tentative acceptance' email.....i've read my comments though! so that's a start. and i have a month

thesis research

how it's going: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

site to-do list

format likes page
format grad school reading page
fill in gsr (time to DIG in those notes)
add my moodboard to my homepage :-p
make this pretty and maybe make friends and neighbors idk
make my comment box page less sad:-(