PERRENIAL

liv | alchemist | she/her

[ponyoisms]

movie theatres are like if platos cave slayed

[chymical]

Books Become Games

Simulation, Gamification, and the Rise of Algorithmic Capitalism

[power-chords]

I’m buying this guy’s book as soon as I get home.

[laiikastears]

something changed

[english-idylls]

Detail of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Caravaggio (1598-99). 

[brok3np4radise-deactivated20250]

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

[ritikajyala]

"Do you still love him?" I know the answer.

"I did, once. I don't know, memory is a faulty thing and the past moves in circles. I don't think about some things for months, only to obsess over them for a week. Also, I don't think I know him now. I did once, and I loved him, loved who he was and who he could be. But I know he's a different person now, I am too."

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

(read full excerpt here)

[hirosemaryhello]

two of my favorite illustrations from this year, both from Carmilla

[gauntletqueen]

HEARTBREAKING: Poor girl has to get out of the soft warm bed even though she is so so so so comfy

[doctorwookie]

Stormy Landscape

by Penry Williams (watercolour)

[peashooter85]

Sword, Korea, 17th-19th century

from The National Museum of Korea

[discodeerdiary]

From the makers of "this meeting could have been an email" we present: this universal moral dictum could have been a personal boundary

[dearhummingbird]

“I read in a pop-science book called How We Learn that both hard problem-solving and creative projects work best when started as early as possible and interrupted as often as possible. Starting the project, even if you’re just making notes, flips the brain into a kind of open mode, where everything seems to have relevance to your project. When you’re in open mode, work happens even when you’re not actively “working”—indeed, all evidence suggests that you do your best work when you’re not trying. Maybe you’ve experienced this while working on a problem—you drive yourself nuts over it, finally give up, and then have your epiphany while playing a video game. In many ways the unconscious mind is smarter, and more creative, than the conscious one.”

— ‘Personal Data: Notes on Keeping a Notebook’, Elisa Gabbert

[priezpourlui]

[librarycard]

sometimes girls dont answer texts ever and thats ok

[wholenessblooming]

bell hooks: Pema, one of the ideas in your work that really challenges me is abandoning the hope of fruition. That’s really hard for me.

Pema Chödrön: The way I understand it is that we rob ourselves of being in the present by always thinking that the payoff will happen in the future. The only place ever to work is right now. We work with the present situation rather than a hypothetical possibility of what could be. I like any teaching that encourages us to be with ourselves and our situation as it is without looking for alternatives. The source of all wakefulness, the source of all kindness and compassion, the source of all wisdom, is in each second of time. Anything that has us looking ahead is missing the point.

Source: from lionsroar.com (Pema Chödrön & bell hooks on cultivating openness when life falls apart)

[valiumhoe]

A Dangerous Method (2011)

[power-chords]

“Motherfucker” is the best swear word IMO. Especially when paired with an antecedent of some kind. I.E. “Ugly motherfucker” or “Rat motherfucker.” It just has such gravitas.