Homenum Revelio

Mara, 29, Berlin and Chicago: a fan of spooky action at a distance.

[sivavakkiyar]

Roberto Bolaño

[lifeattomsdiner]

First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this

[galgorithm-deactivated20260512]

Before getting wine drunk you MUST consider if you have a man you can feel up. If not, you must seriously consider if you are ready to be wine drunk without having a man to feel up and do not overestimate your mental fortitude

[undr]

Robert Blomfield, Coffee Morning, Student Union, University of Edinburgh, 1964

[katestewartt]

A Slice of Lynch (2007)

[wheelie-butch]

when you download a pdf and it's called like 1328723486basdf12.pdf but then you gently rename it to what it's supposed to be. that's forming a bond with a hurt and wild mythological creature and reminding it who it is.

[seikilos-stele]

Ursula K. Le Guin

[sixtwothree]

Photo from alicelascelles's book The Martini: The Ultimate Guide to a Cocktail Icon.

Source: x

[stigmatamxrtyr]

call me patroclus the way i would defeat an entire trojan army and die in battle for her

[sulietsexual]

"Several days of unusually mild weather fitly ushered in a splendid Christmas Day. Hannah ‘felt in her bones’ that it was going to be an unusually fine day, and she proved herself a true prophetess, for everybody and everything seemed bound to produce a grand success" ~ Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Waves," originally published in 1931

[earnedmagic]

1930s “i’m the guy that” pinbacks, part 2

[m-caelius-rufus]

no homo but like do you want to become so textually intertwined that future historians have no idea where i end and you begin

[schoethe]

“Freunde wie Schiller und ich, Jahre lang verbunden, mit gleichen Interessen, in täglicher Berührung und gegenseitigem Austausch, lebten sich in einander so hinein, dass überhaupt bei einzelnen Gedanken gar nicht die Rede und Frage sein konnte, ob sie dem Einen gehörten oder dem Andern. Wir haben viele Distichen gemeinschaftlich gemacht, oft hatte ich den Gedanken und Schiller machte die Verse, oft war das Umgekehrte der Fall, und oft machte Schiller den einen Vers und ich den anderen. Wie kann nun da von Mein und Dein die Rede sein!”

— Goethe in Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens, Johann Peter Eckermann

[luxe-pauvre]

If you’ve trained your taste on great works, it’s disappointing to realize what you’re capable of: Dull, impoverished, and painfully mediocre imitations. It’s easy to give up at this point. But [Ira] Glass exhorts us, instead, to keep on going. That feeling of disappointment? “Everybody goes through that,” Glass notes. And the correct response is to “Do a lot of work — do a huge volume of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week, or every month, you know you’re going to finish one story. Because it’s only by actually going through a volume of work that you are actually going to catch up and close that gap. And the work you’re making will be as good as your ambitions.” In short: Practice. Start projects. Finish them. Persist through the terrible work, the inadequate execution, the failures.

Celine Nguyen, the divine discontent

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[academicssay]

[jondrettegirls]

[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)