Yes I Read Books. Yes, I Read Fanfiction. No, I Do Not Think That One Is Better Than The Other. No, Not

Yes I read books. Yes, I read fanfiction. No, I do not think that one is better than the other. No, not every book is a 'flawless masterpiece' and not every fanfic is 'poorly-written gay smut.' Yes, both have their pros and cons. No, not everyone has the same opinion or reading preference as you. Yes, it makes you a shitty person for forcing your opinion about which one is better on other people

I still remember the time when I was obsessed with this thing

I recently finished reading Crime and Punishment and now I want to see Raskolnikov and Ivan Karamazov interact

Indian Chaotic Academia

Wanting to wear jumpers and hoodies but changing your mind after looking at the daily temperature

Scoring 97% in English in your board exams but your spoken English makes you sound like you've never studied it in your life

Messy yet (somewhat) intelligible handwriting

A weak spot for old Bollywood songs regardless of your personal taste in music

Chipped nail polish and lots of bracelets

Wanting to study in a park or a cafe but you can't as they're too loud and busy

Adrak chaha is the solution to everything

Muting the class WhatsApp group so you can read angsty fanfiction at 3 a.m. without alerting your parents

Vada pav and samosa>>>>

Buying several highlighters but still end up using blunt pencils to mark important study material

At some point, a B is the best grade you'll ever find in your report card

Reading the Mahabharata at the back of the class in the same way you would read a modern novel ("Nooo, why did he have to die 😭")

Coming up with ideas for study charts but never actually making them

Getting a lot of holidays and vacations thanks to the amount of festivals celebrated throughout the year

"Sir that's my emotional support gel pen brand that I've been using since fifth grade"

The poem you have to learn in your regional language class is actually your favourite childhood song

Rickshaw rides are better than any other mode of transport, change my mind (you can't)

Getting the 'Slytherin house' that always comes last in every school event

Only buying books from the second-hand book stalls because they have all the good ones

Is there a word for that feeling you get when you look out of the window and it's not exactly dark but not exactly day either. The bare branches of a cherry blossom tree are skeletal against the blue-grey sky and a lone bird's singing is all that pierces the silence. There's some nostalgia clinging to this sacred moment but you don't know why you have it or where you first felt it

Being a Dostoyevsky reader and a BSD fan at the same time is so wild