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[cipheramnesia]

I think the main trouble I have is [freezes up and stares blankly into the distance for three hours]

[metamorphesque]

— a girl is a haunted house, tathève simonyan

[text ID: “This is me”, he whispers and I can feel the breath of his fist on my virgin cheekbone. / “This is me”, his voice is clearer, “do you take me as I am?” / But all I can think of is how my mother invented helplessness to raise my father up. / I refuse to build a throne on my head for another man.]

[remanence-of-love]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as were meant to be. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache … The absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.

Brene Brown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[theoldestchorusgirlintheworld]

[typewriter-worries]

Missed Time, Ha Jin [transcript in ALT ]

[typewriter-worries]

- Anthony Bourdain

[mesogeios]

“Reading a poem in translation,“ wrote Bialek, “is like kissing a woman through a veil”; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture of katharevousa and the demotic, is like kissing two women. Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what’s between the lines, the mysterious implications.

– Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

[metamorphesque]

🌼 Monet planted the water lilies before he painted them. Monet organized his property at Giverny as though it were a huge painting. Thanks to a small army of gardeners, he diverted a river, planted water lilies, exotic flowers, weeping willows, bamboo trees, and willows. He seeded the pond and added enclosures with white chickens, ducks, and pheasants. Nature, recomposed by the artist, began to resemble his art. "My finest masterpiece," he later said, "is my garden." 🌼

[agonizedghost]

Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923

[luckystarinsky]

I am fond of lovers but I cannot love, I am too far away, am banished,

Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

[jackbeauregards]

It must have been impossible to insult Kafka. Like, imagine that you call him an insufferable asshole and he just agrees with you. And then he would write in his diary about it.

February 15th I know I am the most insufferable of humans. Horrible. No sleep. Awful.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“What thing worthy of love can be found in me?”

– Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milena

[resqectable]

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[pettymaryshelley]

DA reasons to improve your life:

1. Getting rid of many forms of social media will make you inconceivably mysterious. Are you an immortal that only texts and writes letters? Are you too busy devising a scheme or researching a lost civilization? Perhaps then you will exist more as an idea than a product of consumerism. Art was never meant to wear a price tag anyway.

2. Exercise to prepare for the day you have to leap onto that moving train to catch the figure who stole your carefully-curated research. Walk through cemeteries, the woods, museums—anywhere that allows you to appreciate the aching, fleeting beauty of the earth. Get your heart racing to remind yourself that you are, against all odds, alive.

3. Dressing with confidence will have you walking with purpose and others guessing what your purpose is. Why do you always look so put-together? Where did you get that haunting ring? Who’s chest wore that cardigan before you did? Where are you going with such enviable pride? They do not have to know that you wear a Philly’s baseball hoodie to study late into the night.

4. Journaling madly and keeping lists of everything can nearly guarantee that your teeming brain will live on, immortalized, for an archaeologist one thousand years down the line to unearth a detailed account of a most interesting ancient life.

5. If you learn small psychological, herbal, and folk tricks to cure headaches, sooth stomachs, and ease minds, and perform them with utmost flare, many will believe you to be magical in nature. You do not deny it.

6. Tea is a wonderful method of hydration. Tears are a wonderful method of dehydration. Balance, my darlings.

7. Stare at yourself in the mirror. Stare for hours—or maybe it will be only seconds. Stare, face lit by candlelight and stars, until your reflection whispers declarations of love to you instead of declarations of war.

8. Reading increases neuroplasticity. It also increases an optional knowledge of dead languages, forensic science, the blue-ringed octopus, Harry Potter’s favorite dessert, and why Orion Lake was not made for a deadly boarding school. Read late into the night; that isn’t particularly healthy, but, like I said, balance.

9. Lay in the sun for ten minutes each day. You are now a cat; watch the birds with lethal curiosity; stretch with all the laziness in the world. Vitamin D is good for you, and so is contemplating the simple needs of all living creatures.

10. Eat fruits and cheeses; bread and honey. You are a Greek muse. You dine in the halls of Olympus. Somewhere in the distance, Apollo plays his lyre. You want to sit here, in this stunning palace in the great wide sky, forever. You also want your daily intake of vitamins and minerals.

Stay healthy, stay curious, and stay painfully aware of the aesthetic manipulation of self.

[pettymaryshelley]

It is the unknown that draws people in, but it is being known that makes them stay.

[sharkpositive-moved-deactivated]

obscure asks

what’s your favorite way to dress?

if you could change anything about yourself, what would it be?

what movie/game/etc. helps you calm down?

what does your room smell like?

do you like to organize?

what kind of music would you listen to if you could only choose one?

what song is your aesthetic?

what color do you think goes best with your personality?

do you believe in auras?

what do you wish you hated, but actually like?

vague about your crush(es)

is there someone you have mixed feelings towards?

talk about an au or story you came up with

do you like makeup?

do you prefer space or the ocean?

if you could pick any planet besides earth, where would you live?

what form of government do you like the most? (capitalism, socialism, etc.)

what animal would you keep as a pet, if you could?

what do you think our purpose is in the universe?

do you believe in god(s)?

is there a song you can’t handle listening to, even though you like it?

what ex do you miss the most, if you have one?

do you like soft, fluffy blankets or rough/smooth blankets?

what is your favorite thing to learn about?

what country’s history do you find the most interesting?

what do you think about genderbent ____ (insert someone here)

what breakup was the hardest, if you had one?

do you have someone where you can’t decide if you like them romantically or just as a friend?

what do you think about tumblr discourse?

what instrument do you wish you could master?

how easy is it for you to be honest?

do you have any strange interests?

do you have any strange fears?

what food do you binge on when you’re lazy?

when you get angry, how do you show it?

do you have any impulsive movements? (twitches, ticks, flapping, etc.)

what do you listen to music on?

are you left brained or right brained?

earbuds or headphones?

do you like light blankets or heavy blankets? 

[neophillims]

ask away guys <3

[pettymaryshelley]

I’m feeling candid, darlings; ask if you dare

[pettymaryshelley]

it's important to switch your routine up a bit to keep things interesting.

- do your shower routine backwards

- eat dessert before dinner

- listen to a music genre you normally wouldn't

- take the day off from work or school to remind yourself that you aren't a mindless drone

- climb a tree and let the birds watch you

- drink any drink but tea from a tea cup (monster energy; water; apple juice; wine if you're of age)

- mail a letter to yourself three days from now

- fake your death and move to a new country

- accidentally become involved in a nation-wide pyramid scheme, which you then take down and cement your status as a national hero

- find as many good luck charms as you can in one day

- give a compliment to everyone you see for an entire week

- wear an outfit that you don't think you have the confidence to wear

- go to a karaoke bar and sing an operatic aria

- discover the scientific attributes of dark matter

- disprove a popular scientific theory

- dismantle capitalism

- eat ice cream for breakfast