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monika | xxii | infj | industrial design student “to make living itself an art, that is the goal” - henry miller

[imanbenerrabeh]

may 2026

[stuckinapril]

life is so hard when you’re a very lazy girl by nature but you also want to do a lot of things in your one wild and precious life

[ssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

[hyperions-fate]

No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams.

[hyperions-fate]

[wlwillow]

[eek-a-tron]

Couple of interesting additions:

1. Ferdinand Cheval tripped over a stone and was inspired by its shape, eventually stating, "It represents a sculpture so strange that it is impossible for man to imitate, it represents any kind of animal, any kind of caricature. I said to myself: since Nature is willing to do the sculpture, I will do the masonry and the architecture."

Here's the tripped-over sandstone in question, which explains some of the abstract design:

Oh, and also:

2. He tripped and started this when he was 43.

[evidently-endless]

so the childhood yearning to live in a fantasy world just never goes away huh

[somerabbitholes]

spending saturday mornings working is growing on me

[petaltexturedskies]

Spring, dreaminess, sleepiness, healing under the gentle moonlight, inability to think yet l've been enjoying it.

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from "Memoirs of Martynov" in Selected Works

[sentimentalbeing2001]

Perfect day to watch my favorite movie

[loveridden1999]

doing things at the right age is literally a made up concept. you can start/pursue anything at any age. btw.

[loveridden1999]

remember remember

[fairycosmos]

this can not continue divas

[konoko]

[great-gatsby]

every reread kills me a little bit more

[great-gatsby]

reread and enjoy <3

[ddeck]

i cannot overstate how good it feels to watch older movies where the actors were still allowed to look kinda weird and not be conventionally attractive. like it is genuinely healing

[crowxstudies]

i think kurt cobain is sleeping on my train

but he died and i'm somewhere in northern poland. it was a nice number

i'm closer in age to it than 16 now.

and im going home to my cat

not my parents

and it squishes my insides. has been for some time now. i don't feel home in a place that i pretended to listen to nirvana in.

what am i making for dinner anyway?

[peacozy]

studio ghibli romances be like mmm what if we didn’t kiss, but instead both spiritually matured as people because we met each other

[teathattast]

[mothprincess]

Mary Oliver, from The Fire