in a quiet room

너만 본다 비를 맞아도 눈속을 걸어도 다시 또 살아도 오직 너야

[percyfraser]

TO ALL THE BOYS: ALWAYS AND FOREVER 2021, dir. Michael Fimognari

[ofallghosts]

“Even if you don’t believe in God, you have to believe in narrative. Things happen, one after another, world without end. Just because you’re self-aware doesn’t mean you can change what’s happening. Eventually someone is going to break your heart. Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking ‘I am falling to the floor crying’ but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it—you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well and when you’re having sex with your next lover on this very floor they will also notice that you didn’t paint it very well and they will think less of you for it. And then you think ‘Is that sentence too long?’ And then you have to hold the contradictions of sobbing uncontrollably and wondering about grammar in your head at the same time. I think if you are true to the entire experience, not just the sad part, you don’t risk sentimentality because you’re not overloading the experience with fake, melodramatic feeling. I also hear that whispering helps.”

— Richard Siken (via asthesparksflyup)

[dirbyagnesvarda]

remember when ocean vuong said “the most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed & remember loneliness is still time spent with the world” and “to look at something is to fill your whole life with it” and “don’t we touch each other just to prove we’re still here” and “if only briefly, hunger is to give the body what it knows it cannot keep” and “i miss you more than i remember you” and “days I feel like a human being, while other days i feel more like a sound, i touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who i was” 

[bigsueclaus]

1. Never Been Kissed - Natalie Wee // 2. Jenny Slate // 3. Elegy - Chen Chen  // 4. The Pisces - Melissa Broder

[diarygirls]

why are there so many posts like “i wish none of us had to work office jobs i wish we were all picking apples and dying wool and digging in the dirt” like fuck off i absolutely do not want to do any of that i want air conditioning

[agathcn]

“No longer shy about how I love. My eyes open. You are everywhere.”

— Rumi, from “Unseen Rain; Quatrains of Rumi,” originally publ. c. 1986 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[oephelia]

a reminder fr the me of last night and this morning & every day from now on ! a reminder fr everyone who wants better !

this place could be beautiful, right ? you could make this place beautiful.

[quinnmilfilm]

Michigan, USA Canon AE-1 / Kodak Gold 200

[takashiyasui]

Mount Fuji at dawn

[bobbycaputo]

Empty Silent London by Photographer Corrado Chiozzi Taken on Christmas Day, The Only Day of the Year Where the Capital Is Silent

[firstfullmoon]

Not much news. Rather cross—Would like a letter. Would like a garden. Would like a Vita.

Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Vita Sackville-West, c. June 1926

[hashtagloveloses]

this is the only ship that matters

[hashtagloveloses]

THEY MADE THIS INTO A BOOK CALLED “SANTA’S HUSBAND”

[hashtagloveloses]

MERRY CHRISTMAS I AM HAPPY TO REPORT THAT FOR THE TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY THEY WROTE A PREQUEL COMIC ABOUT HOW THEY MET!!!!!!!!!!!

[flawlessbeautyqueens]

Arden Cho photographed by Raul Romo (2017)

[ourladyofperpetualnaptime]

“My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. “Listen,” he said, “life and no escape.””

— Anne Carson,  “The Wishing Jewel: Introduction to Water Margins,” The Anthropology of Water, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (via o1sv)

[lifeinpoetry]

And we got drunk too fast and our sweat smelled like cider and I felt loved Not understood but loved And my first heartbreak was in the summer Light was infinite which gave the illusion we had more time than we did My hands were always sweaty and I never shied away from reaching for hers

— Laura Buccieri, from “how could we not,” songbook for a boy inside

[piperderg-deactivated20221106]

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[fairycontessa]

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This makes my heart happy (and less stressed)

[jay-kwellyn]

Stay blessed y’all

[rcmclachlan]

Turns out, 2000 was 20 years ago. Which is odd, since 1980 was also.

[rhube]

The thing Gen-Z really needs to understand is that no one older than them is ever going to be able to estimate time correctly because the Millennium.

The Millennium will always be Not That Long Ago. Everything since the Millennium will always be, in some sense, ‘new’.

It just broke us, OK? It was too big and we’ll never quite be able to deal.

[lrgcarter]

Was the real millennium bug inside us all along?

[jenroses]

yep.

[porcupine-girl]

I think at least part of this is that pop culture has gotten such a longer shelf life over the past 20 years.

You can listen to a Top 40 station now and hear a song from 10 years ago easily, even songs from the 80s or 90s on special occasions (which might just be the Nineties at Noon or whatever every single day).

A Top 40 station in the 80s? Played the current fucking Top 40 and that was it. You were lucky if you heard a song that was one year old, definitely never ten. I was born in 1979 and heard almost no music from before I was born until high school or college. If you wanted to hear anything older than a year, you had to listen to a classic rock (late 60s to 70s) or oldies (50s to early 60s) station. There was nothing earlier than that on the radio.

A restaurant was playing What a Feeling, from 1983. 28 years before my son was born. That’s the equivalent of hearing a song from 1951 in the late 80s, which just did not happen. Even for an oldies station, it was hard to find anything that old.

VCRs were just getting big in the mid-80s, but there was a limited selection of videos you could buy (or even rent) for them. Most video rental stores didn’t bother to stock TV shows, it just wasn’t worth it. (Few shows were even released on VHS.)

So you could generally watch recent movies and “classics” but if you were looking for some random movie from the mid-70s - that’s only ten years previous - you were mostly out of luck. Imagine looking for a movie from 2006 right now, and you can find maybe the top-grossing ones and a few that won Oscars, but Night at the Museum? The Devil Wears Prada? You’re shit outta luck. That’s what it would have been like looking for movies from 1976 in 1989.

So for those of us who grew up in the 80s and early 90s, pop culture had a hard limit of about a decade, if that. By the late 90s, the internet was good enough that music was starting to stretch that, but you still couldn’t really get video through the internet and DVDs were still catching up in terms of what was available. You didn’t really get entire seasons of TV on DVD until the early 00s - the first season of The Simpsons, which aired in 1989, wasn’t released on DVD until 2001.

Anyhow, I think that’s why a lot of older millennials and Gen Xers are having trouble wrapping our heads around the idea that the year 2000 was almost 20 years ago. Because we grew up in a world where if you heard a song regularly, or watched a movie or a TV show that wasn’t late-night reruns, it had probably been released within the past 5 years, and almost definitely within the past 20. Our brains haven’t quite gotten used to hearing a new song followed by a 30-year-old song on the radio and not just being able to find any decade-old movie at will but seeing gifs of decade-old movies almost daily. Our brains think that means those things must still be new.