romantic in the worst sense

Laura | 20s | art, old books, obsessed with textiles, partial to anything 19th century | m.a. in art history in progress

[lichslayer5000]

[beautifulscreaminglady]

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[alioshakaramazov]

i had a good day at the library today, despite feeling low for a moment and not knowing why. made a new display zone for local writers and met not one but two older women with cool literary taste that restored some of my hope for the world (tell me why 90% of the readers we get are women. answer: men are illiterate). also: rain.

[uhtreds]

locked the fuck out. distractionmaxxing

[hoursofreading]

“I feel it in my work as a teacher, where I recognize that we are so close — so, so close — to a world where teaching looks like AI-generating lesson plans and delivering those lesson plans using AI-generated slides, and then assessing the skills of those lessons using AI-generated tests, and then grading those tests using a form of AI. The content of AI producing student work that is then fed back to AI for AI to assess. And for what? And at what cost? It pains me. It pains me deeply. And then I sit down and I read about clams. And it’s not just that I am reading about clams. It’s that I am reading the perspective of someone who thought that it was worth paying attention to clams. There. Remind me again why we read? I think that’s part of it. You pick up a book and someone has you by the arm. There, they are saying, look over there. They are pointing now. They are holding something in their hand. Little clam in the palm, refusing to open. Look at that thing that loves being alive, how it resists the same sun we turn our cheek towards. Crazy world, beautiful place. Down in the deep somewhere, a clam smaller than my hand is withstanding the pressure of a few dozen full-size trains just hanging out on top of its body.”

— Mary Oliver’s “Clam” - by Devin Kelly

[visenyaism]

bro last night was a doomed arctic expedition

[elainiisms]

i hate ur boyfriend moodboard

[heavensickness]

[simena]

Betty Jiang (detail)

[alioshakaramazov]

i thought this was a cute and fun children's book. they just sent this toad to jail for grand theft auto

[1nayaa-deactivated20260711]

nobody is more stressed than a 24-29yo thinking they are running out of time lol

[papillon-de-mai]

Antoine Cécile Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot — Portrait d'une dame vêtue de blanc, debout dans un paysage boisé. details. 1820-1845

[barbienefertiti]

Keep some things sacred to yourself whether its your grooming habits, beauty secrets, love life, ambitions, finances, spiritual practice…. Don’t be afraid to have your private secrets, you do not have to be an open book.

[alioshakaramazov]

last few days of february. what's next, march??

[alioshakaramazov]

reading one chapter of the trial by kafka to introduce new stress and tension into my life and chasing it with one of the wind in the willows to get my whimsy back

[fandanglefrogfarts]

Unfair of my job to expect me to show up when I have arts and also crafts to do

[alioshakaramazov]

nick cave hours

[gouged-doll]

st. bernadette soubirous