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inspo for wall art

Benjamin Chambers Brown, “Poppies, Antelope Valley" (before 1942)

Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise (1872)

Paul Cezanne, Mountains in Provence (1879)

Arden Rose, untitled (2025)

“My partner sent me this post and it really really helped me reframe how I think about how I live my life as a person with chronic/mental illness There are no rules. Run the dishwasher twice.”

there are no rules!! run the dishwasher twice!!

every time i scroll back into the depths of my tumblr i am reminded of the fact that i used to have real thoughts (as immature as they were) and now i just look at my phone for 10 hours a day lol

#i am getting better at not doing that these days but WOW #i am a HUSK OF A BEING #NO CONTRIBUTION NO THOUGHT NO THINK

Plus a love letter I wrote in 2017

this was so cute wtf head empty no think

#i too would like some love please #jk PLEASE do not perceive me

one thing that’s been bugging me out for the past year is this whole re-interest in arctic monkeys and it really takes me for a whole trip because do i wanna know has been around since 2013, but somehow got a whole revival moment on tiktok in 2020

#juust a thought

lovelymarimo

“We will never be the same again. But here’s a little secret for you—no one is ever the same thing again after anything. You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are. Accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the gift it is. Work within the desires and goals of the person you are currently, until you aren’t that person anymore, and everything changes once again.”

— (Cecil, Welcome to Night Vale, Episode 75) That is legitimately some of the most helpful advice I’ve ever heard. (via sleuths)

i made (yet another) blog: shao-iris.tumblr.com - i am not done with the theme, nor am i sure that i will keep this up (consistency is hard lol), but it is something i am investing in for the time being!!! yay

#the theme is really broken pls don't judge #also it's 3a and i need to GO TO BED!!!

i went for all of wednesday this week without eating junk food, engaging with social media, talking with friends, or consuming video/audio content (e.g., youtube, podcasts). if you know me, you know that i’m am addicted to my phone and all of these distractions and for the first time in a while, i actually had space to think. not necessarily like deep, amazing thoughts that blew my mind, but i did feel like i had more creativity and originality which is something i’ve always thought i wasn’t naturally good at. goes to show the whole attention economy thing is so real. anyway, i plan on making it a weekly thing and cutting down my social media time overall. i think that’s part of the reason why i’m coming back on tumblr too to force myself to journal (publicly) more over the next couple of months.

#some mundane updates about my life #hopefully this is not just a weeklong surge or phase and becomes more routine!!

fam i’m kind of back on tumblr i think lol ~~ except this time i have slightly more html/css experience

#hello again world!!#do people still use tags to write thoughts too???#like what are the bdps nowadays - someone catch me up

"'Dream House' offers a sense of calm that is hard to come by in the city."

a new favorite in nyc

#personal #isn't this cool!!!#love it

sexybaldwin

One of my favourite Welcome to Night Vale quotes- beautiful and spooky and lovely.

#tru

Science keeps revealing how much we don't, perhaps can't, know. Yet humans seek closure, which should make religious pluralists of us all.

also idk why i never posted this to tumblr!! this is like my 1 repository of all good things!! still love this article.

apparently when i first posted this on fb my caption read: one of my favorite reads in a while. reminds me of this dostoevsky quote: "I acknowledge humbly that I have no faculty for settling such questions, I have a Euclidian earthly mind, and how could I solve problems that are not of this world?"

#link #reading #personal

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

i picked up the eponymous book by yiyun li at the end of the year after a colleague recommended it to me and it is as the nyt/npr/ny/etc reviews say--a beautifully lyrical and personal attempt at understanding how individuals ascribe meaning to the past/present/future, the time that makes up life.

the first chapter, linked here, is my favorite, effortlessly folding in disparate events in her life to connect the dots while looking back while acknowledging the hopeless nature of forced curation that will inevitably lead to melodrama. it is a theme(? a thing?) that i find myself returning to recently and something i struggle to wrap my head around. is it fair to assign significance retrospectively to events that may have been inconsequential when we initially experienced them? and how does this constant framing and re-framing of the past dictate a perpetually evolving self in the present? is there anything that truly anchors us--to a persona, and more broadly, to living?

#reading #thoughts #link

feel very zapped out recently by hanging out with people all the time but also very afraid to spend time alone

#feel very lost again #i don't really know where i'm headed anymore #angst angst angst