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you know why you’re here

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new painting

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Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid was a very good book

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holaa bean!! do you have any jasmine perfume recommendations?? im looking for something very fresh and soft, as loyal to the flower as possible. gracias guapa!! 🪷🪷🪷

I only really wear groumands or fresh green scents so i don’t know anything about floral perfumes! However, I did smell a very nice jasmine perfume at Le labo that reminded me a vacation I took to France as a kid, which was weird. I’m sure you might have already smelt that though. If anyone has better recs pls attach please add to this!

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Dear Bean... Ily xoxo

ily :D

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“In winter I think spring will be my salvation, and in summer I think autumn, and in autumn winter, it is always the same, I hope from one season to the next.”

— Thomas Bernhard (via wordswithinyou)

[ecstaticadventures]

‘bread is bad for you’ ‘rice is bad for you’ sorry im not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. i love you carbs

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disorder.forge

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How do you perceive yourself?

on worse days I think I’m lazy, perverted, caustic, agitated; on better days I think I’m capable, considerate. on the best days I don’t think about myself at all

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▽ The first envelope was a pair of wings.

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we have run out of shelf space in my boyfriend and I’s flat. stacks of books around our bedroom now, which is endearing to me

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highly recommend the portable feminist reader edited by Roxanne gay! A few early essays may be rereads if you’ve taken a women and gender studies class but it’s such a good selection

adding to my tbr thank you ☝️

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a pastel de nata is what I think a cannoli should taste like. sorry

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i'm so silly! i thought i saw you post about japan. do you have any recs you'd be willing to share from your time in tokyo as well as any japanese literature that you've read and loved? xx

I answered your book q separately, but I’ve pasted below the little Tokyo neigborhood guide I made for friends after I went.I usually don’t do much research before traveling, but for some reason I did tons before Japan. I’m very happy I did!

KOENJI:

- really cute little town, great for lowkey shopping, bars, and a walk around

- If you like tempura you have to visit TENSUKE. if you go on opening you won’t have a line. It was amazing. The tempura egg is everything

- Walnuts coffee and AIMU both had good lattes/matcha. Walnuts is ran by a Japanese American guy from Brooklyn who was super nice !!

KICHIJOJI:

- is nearby and on the same line as Koenji, so you could go to both easily. Pretty park. We went to Tony’s Pizza there which is an institution and it was cute. Only if you like thicker dough

MEGURO/EBISU: ❤️

- both nearby to one another.

- Slightly busier, (but not busy by Tokyo standards), trendy, lots of shopping

- Daikanyama books is really beautiful. Huge bookstore with a great selection of Japanese authors translated to English too

- Onibus coffee nearby is cute

- Following the river here and seeing where it takes you is a safe bet

- Sky garden meguro

YANAKA: ❤️

- Japanese “retro” neigborhood. This area did not get bombed at all so it has a lot of older buildings. Very quiet and known for their cat iconography everywhere. Great for shopping for ceramics + tea

- Kanekichien is a kitchenware and ceramics store, it’s very old and has beautiful homemade mugs + very good matcha for cheap. It’s very cool and on the promenade of Yanaka

- Menya Hidamari is an ichiran ramen place (mostly solo dining + you order on the machine in front) that specializes in chicken ramen. I don’t love beef or pork cutlet as much as chicken and this was definitely top 1/2 ramen places I went to while in Japan

- Honestly most cafes here are cute

- Cibi cafe

KITAZAWA: ❤️

- trendy area with lots of shopping and izakayas.

- Shirubee Shimokitazawa Shop was my favorite izakaya I went to. Sooooo yummy. The yellowtail!

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hey bean, i'm going to tokyo soon and was wondering what your japanese lit recs were? i've read 'kafka on the shore' and have 'confessions of a mask' + 'kitchen' on my tbr.

thx :)

hello! I actually haven’t read that many Japanese authors, or maybe not enough to be asked for my opinion. my favorites are probably sayaka murata (earthlings + convenience store woman), banana yoshimoto (only some! I loved kitchen), and haruki murakami (Norwegian wood + Kafka). I have mieko kawakami and osamu dazai on my tbr

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Do you have any books or essays on feminism that you could recommend? I have a lot of anxiety in relationships with men because I'm so worried about slipping into patriarchal dynamics without realizing lol.

in semi recent memory, essay; I enjoyed RFQ’s “standing on the shoulders of complex female characters”,

for books; Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening”, Natasha Brown’s “Assembly”, “The Vegetarian” by Han Kang, “The Wall” by Marlen Haushofer are all books I liked in varying degrees that have strong themes of feminism. They asks questions I think are not so superficial, as I think some feminist-leaning media tends to skew that way.

I haven’t read any books on feminist theory. I can’t remember more specifically essays ive read, which is bad because Ive taken two feminism in lit classes. Please feel free to recommend :)