pulvis et umbra sumus

Time for you and time for me And time yet for a hundred indecisions  And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea

[opencommunion]

people who tell you to stop reading the news to "regulate your nervous system" do not have your best interests at heart. if following current events makes you spiral you probably need a better analytical frame, not less information

[opencommunion]

and the analytical frame you need is probably dialectical materialism

[opencommunion]

i'm totally crazy, i freak out all the time, but you know what helps me most? learning. reading. studying. discussing. sometimes you do need a nap, but sometimes you need a conversation with someone more knowledgeable/experienced, or a day at the (physical or digital) library. and really i think everyone has a different baseline emotional register that's best for them and their circumstances, but i recommend aiming to feel solid and anchored, not necessarily "calm." of course we won't feel "calm" after reading about genocide. but if we approach what we're reading correctly, it can strengthen our resolve; feed our fighting spirit; show us paths to liberation. a lot of people in my life have diagnosed me with "revolutionary optimism" and wonder how i maintain that mindset but i'm not an optimist by nature, it all comes from studying

[mist-the-kittycat]

Genuienly when the fuck did it become normal to chat with chatgpt and ask questions to it INSTEAD OF GOOGLJNG IT???? SARCHING IT UP????????? WHY THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE SAYJNG 'OH I ASKED CHAT' AS IF THATS NORMAL????????????????????

[mewvore]

Sometimes you need to read something twice to get it. You might need to watch a movie three times to understand it. You might have to have that album on repeat for a week until the lyrics make any sense. You're allowed to engage with it and can keep engaging with it until it means something to you. People will see a painting at a museum and laugh about not getting what the big deal is but like you can come back, you can see it at another time, and maybe that next time it'll be different for you. I'm of the belief the "media literacy crisis" would solve itself if more people just sat down and did it again. Watched, read, played, listened, etc like I don't think people are getting more ignorant necessarily I just think we're not glorifying personally replaying things nearly as much as we should be.

[sistertaxon]

Incidentally, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between us and artistic appreciation. When we look at a painting we do no have to move our eyes in a special way even if, as in a book, the picture contains elements of depth and development. The element of time does not really enter in a first contact with a painting. In reading a book, we must have time to acquaint ourselves with it. We have no physical organ (as we have the eye in regard to a painting) that takes in the whole picture and can enjoy its details. But at a second, or third, or fourth reading we do, in a sense, behave towards a book as we do towards a painting.

- Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

[aropride]

(so mad i can’t see straight) Yeah i just don’t think chat gpt is a good classroom tool

[majormeilani]

something about foreshadowing being more prominent the second time around reading a story but in a way that the meaning is changed forever and you can never view a story the same as you once did before. do you know what i mean.

[allsadnshit]

tumblr is for putting your stuff somewhere that's not secret but also not for anyone particular to see so it's true neutral in a really nice way

[thomasmartinnutt]

Richard Long. On this Hillside..., 1972

[megthemariner]

@ryebreadgf / The Truth About Grief, Fortesa Latifi / bone deep, m.v.e / Sidewalk, Richard Silken / @fridayiminlovemp3 / 60 hours, m.v.e / @itsblackleader / Salt, Nayyirah Waheed / @heavensghost

[darkcomedies]

my understanding and interpretation of Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” cannot be untangled from the fact that it was originally published to follow her poem about childhood sexual abuse, “Rage”

[darkcomedies]

i just don’t think it was unintentional that these were presented flush against each other

[jessaerys]

last night while i was brushing my teeth i came to the conclusion that striving for glory is incompatible with coziness and i think i may have fixed my fear of mediocrity with this one simple trick

[jessaerys]

you are an arrangement of atoms that happens to be momentarily conscious. you may spend your second of wakefulness trying to get this assambly of matter remembered for a couple minutes longer in the grand scheme of the universe or you can use it to be cozy in bed. easy choice

[jessaerys]

do you think taylor swift is ever cozy? we all know what happened to the franklin expedition

[brandneweyescd]

they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again

[choysum]

Anne Boyer

[playthings2007]

Please, call me Frankenstein. Frankenstein was my father, but stealing his name and overriding his presence in the dominant cultural consciousness has been really, really satisfying

[freakoutgirl]

in many ways i am still my pretentious 14 year old self which is fine

[pansyfemme]

“never kill yourself” is such a funny phrase to me that i think it’s accidently started working. its like an affrimation. say ‘never kill yourself’ enough times as a joke and maybe you won’t try to kill yourself over minor inconviences anymore

[venatoris]

i made this image for the express purpose of this

[phantom-threaded]

FRANKENSTEIN 2025, dir. Guillermo del Toro

[mephistopheles]

anti-therapy speak. your reactions ARENT valid. you DO owe them an explanation. you ARE just being lazy. your ‘self-care’ talk IS just an excuse. your parent ISN’T a narcissist. you DO need to work harder. you ARE overreacting. you ARE being insane

[maxkuilman]

knights knights knights knights