jessica ♡

professional bookworm | english phd student

[alwaysbeenjessica]

planning my 2026 journal ecosystem ✸

[alwaysbeenjessica]

some more journaling thoughts hehe:

i’ve gone back to one single journal. and i am in love! why did i ever stop this. im simply using a dotted midori md A5 which is probably my favorite journal brand. i write in the morning, during the day, before i sleep. i write about what im reading and make lists and mind maps. i’ve been posting stickers and cut outs from magazines im reading. i love using my fountain pens (especially with dark blue ink) and blackwing pencils in them. and i have recently fallen in love with my leuchtturm drehgriffel gel pen. 𓆏

[alwaysbeenjessica]

need a burrito for dinner

[alwaysbeenjessica]

i just finished the lathe of heaven and oh my, i am crying tears into my coffee on this rainy gray june morning. this was my first time reading ursula k le guin’s fiction and I am so amazed at how she somehow deeply understands reality yet posits that this all could be different. she abides yet unravels form altogether. i must read more of her work

[alwaysbeenjessica]

i can't stop thinking about this book! it makes me believe that we can always start again. it reminds me that one of the best things i can do for myself and my communities is to be "easy going" (see this interview). to be adaptable and not rigid in my thinking and approaches to the world.

[perequiste]

things will work out + it’s still early + not everything is lost + trees

[uuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

moments when i felt completely lonely but oddly happy

[alwaysbeenjessica]

i just finished the lathe of heaven and oh my, i am crying tears into my coffee on this rainy gray june morning. this was my first time reading ursula k le guin’s fiction and I am so amazed at how she somehow deeply understands reality yet posits that this all could be different. she abides yet unravels form altogether. i must read more of her work

[alwaysbeenjessica]

“Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every party has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy? I don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”

- The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin

[b1rd1e]

not even kidding be SO earnest. Be so honest and forthcoming about your life, your feelings in the pursuit of connection with others, and know being as earnest as possible in your experience is what quells loneliness in those who feel the same way as you do. Is what helps us feel seen. And builds community and resolve within the fact it doesn't have to feel so lonely and insurmountable. we need community and connection. You really are not as alone as you think, we're all scared. we need to hold each others hands

[alwaysbeenjessica]

both persona 4 revival and ocarina of time remake being announced in the same week, huge deal for annoying people aka me

[matchafigs]

this morning

[alwaysbeenjessica]

i want to have a hashtag big book summer, i'm thinking of either a wind-up bird chronicle by murakami (i can't help it yall💔) or some other big weird book

[alwaysbeenjessica]

thinking a lot about journaling & journaling systems. i’ve been rereading the collected journals of writers i love (susan sontag in particular) and texts on writing by other writers i love (joan didion and bell hooks im looking at you!) and wondering how the simple act of taking pen to paper has become so so complicated. perhaps it’s due to marketing and hyperconsumerism, but journaling has become an activity more about the stationery themselves rather than the act. and i absolutely love stationery, i love my fountain pens and the wonderful experiencing of writing on creamy midori md paper. but i have been so focused on the materials, of perfecting a journaling system with the perfect pens, notebooks, and accessories, rather than the actual action of journaling, of writing to know what i think, paraphrased from didion.

[alwaysbeenjessica]

learning the hard way that super convoluted & complex journaling ecosystems do not work for me! i really only need two notebooks - one for reading notes and another for long form daily journaling. and a weekly journal for academic things. gotta keep it simple!

[alwaysbeenjessica]

less screen time, more of this

[demiiwhiffin]

she’s here

[januaryhoney]

Late Spring, Mary Oliver