zeph's papercuts

i bring kafkaesque energy to the table she/her | writer | burnt out uni student | 20

[lingering-zephyr]

Letter to Welcome You

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My dearest paperclip,

Welcome home. This is where I put away my writings, quotes from favourite authors, and aesthetic pictures/moodboards, because of my morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs (iykyk).

⋆ Me: eldest daughter, introvert, fangirl, theatre kid, student of both STEM and humanities, former artist, and of course, a writer

⋆ Favourite Poets: Charles Bukowski, Mother Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Ocean Vuong, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Carol Ann Duffy

⋆ Favourite Writers: Father Franz Kafka, Oscar Wilde, Lemony Snicket, Khaled Hosseini, Benjamin Alire Saenz, (dare I say Nicola Yoon, Jandy Nelson and John Green to honor my adolescence) but this is hard, I usually read books not authors

⋆ All-time favourite movies: Big Hero 6 (fight me), The Lion King, Dead Poets Society, The Greatest Showman, Hamilton (play), Kill Your Darlings, and all Studio Ghibli honestly

⋆ Some favourite books (this is the hardest): Red, White and Royal Blue, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Kite Runner, If We Were Villains, The Secret Island- Enid Blyton (the list is never-ending)

⋆ Some favourite music genres & artists: jazz, rock, R&B, some pop/acoustic, Ateez, Conan Gray, Hozier, The Neighborhood, Sleeping at Last, SYML, Maneskin (can't remember more for now)

⋆ Major fandoms: Marauders--Harry Potter, snowbaz, RWRB, ATLA, Six of Crows, Malec--Shadowhunters, JJK, Aristotle and Dante series

⋆Some other interests: greek mythology, philosophy, reading fanfictions, calligraphy, researching random niches, maladaptive daydreaming, pinterest, video editing, home decor, watching art, adding things to cart online but never checking out

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⋆ If you ever need to vent, need reassurance, or simply want a friend to talk to, write to me anytime. I might not reply immediately, but I will always write back you, my paper clip.

Please DO NOT reply with or DM inappropriate stuff to me; I don't block, I report.

Yours through strengths and sorrows,

                                                                                                zeph. 

[lingering-zephyr]

escaping my corporate life to say i love being a fangirl. you can pry it out of my cold dead hands.

[ohwyrmies]

honestly?

this sucks. none of this is right. forget if it's constitutional, it's wrong.

we're a bloodthirsty fascist country with no regard for human life or ethics, and we're jumping at the chance to kill anything that stands in the way of the expansion of an apartheid ethnostate.

the USA deserves to fall.

[lingering-zephyr]

No because fuck America honestly. Because why would you fucking bomb a fucking country without even trying to give an excuse for it. Fuck the Americans, the ones who're joking about a WWIII because the triviality of human life is funny, and the forestfires in LA are so funny, I bet the civilians deserved it because they had so many guns right. Because the people always fucking deserve it. WHO THE FUCK CARES IF IT'S A FUCKING HUMAN LIFE.

Fuck you. Fuck the fascists, fuck Israel, fuck France, fuck Russia, fuck China. Fuck all the countries that have American bases. Fuck Qatar, Fuck Saudia, Fuck UAE, Fuck Turkey, Fuck Pakistan, Fuck India.

[project2028]

Donald Trump orders United States Military to Bomb Three Iranian Nuclear Facilities as the United States prepares to pursue a war with Iran.

Iran has threatened to retaliate against the US strikes.

[lingering-zephyr]

ah yes. because nuclear arms are so bad, which is why the USA has 5000+ of them, more than any country in the world. having nuclear weapons is so fucking wrong and dangerous I wonder who dropped the first bomb in Hiroshima.

who could it fucking be.

[shisasan]

7 June 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[lingering-zephyr]

can't belive nobody texts me like this:

[lingering-zephyr]

a reminder to get yourself a warm treat and feel absolute heaven in your mouth for a while.

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“You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

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“Here,” he said to Harry, handing him a particularly large piece. “Eat it. It’ll help.”

-Remus Lupin about chocolate

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The Wizard Liz, a YouTuber who teaches women to be successful in every way and never settle for less, got cheated on while being four months pregnant. And it made me realize:

Men will always try to keep themselves superior. They could have the most beautiful, loving person beside them, yet if the person is self-sufficient, confident, and more successful than they are, they will bring the person down. And mostly, the only way they have is to cheat. Because literally why would you cheat, right? Why would you cheat at all after impregnating a woman? To tell her she's not all that? to humble her? Make an attempt to ruin her life? To make her leave you because you do not have the emotional intelligence to figure out your feelings, and do not have a valid excuse or the guts to leave her?

They could love you, but the moment they sense the power dynamic not favouring them, they will flip.

[lingering-zephyr]

Perhaps a name is the softest confession of love.

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yup it's that time of the month again (I don't have a single poetic idea, I have never read a book in my life, I don't have a clue how to combine these 26 alphabets to make a sentence, I was never a writer)

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“Death is the mother of beauty.”

― Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

[lingering-zephyr]

“Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.” ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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cleaning up your camera roll after years is like oh hi there person who ruined my life in 67 ways and gave me a hospital worth of trauma. aw look at us smiling at each other. lemme throw up real quick :)

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an evening in may: the sun still lingers beneath my skin. i wake up from a nap and spread jelly on toast. nothing hurts.