a girl from nowhere

a dreamer, lover, thinker, writer, reader. a collection of random thoughts and rambles from a girl from nowhere- a.k

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the angel that lives in the spaces between my ribs keeps melting together the microplastics from my veins to make friendship bracelets i have nine of them now

[catoptrophobick]

[ancientsstudies]

Winter in Gustaf Fjaestad's Paintings.

[ofallingstar]

Nostos: The Return (1989)

[xxkiller8unnyxx]

the feminine urge to take a girl on a picnic date and read books while we watch the sunrise

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟹𝟶, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[crimesofapoet]

i feel closest to the angels when i’m in the middle of a thunderstorm, soaked to the skin, shook up with sound, waiting for my bones to become branches of white light.

[ritikajyala]

I lost my best friend 3 years ago- not lost as in dead but lost as in we only text each other on our birthdays now. Movies and books don't tell you that a friendship dying is like the sinking of a ship, you try to get higher and higher and hold onto the rails and unanswered texts, the captain tries to steer it to safety and salvage pieces of two broken hearts until you're left with memories of what once was. We were friends for a decade and knew each other's diaries by heart, I still remember her phone number and the way she took her coffee. Seeing her in streets is like breathing in a scent you forgot you knew but it immediately takes you back to a summer in '07.

Movies and books also don't tell you that friendships don't just end after one fight or incident, it's like the rusting of a bridge, the slow decay of flesh and bones and secrets. It took weeks, months- until one day I woke up and I realized I hadn't thought of her in a while. And I wrote a poem that day and I titled it 'The dying of a best friend' and I put all my love for her in a tiny box with my half of the matching pendant of a dolphin we had and stored them in a corner of my heart under the heading Grief. Where else can one hide unspent love?

It's been 3 years since I lost my best friend, lost as in I still carry our secrets in a tiny box but we only text each other on our birthdays.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

[pacificlove]

She's in someone's locket.

[ritikajyala]

And I asked her, "how do I make peace with the fact that one day my parents won't be alive?"

"You won't", she said. "But life goes on in times of war too. Peace is not a prerequisite for being alive. You'll learn to not flinch or cry at the mention of their name, and you'll go to work and watch television and cook noodles the way they always made."

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

[lostandfoundsomehow]

being insane and in love with life

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[hamletthedane]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

[nightclubsinger]

i’m strange but friendly so people tell me things

[pocketsizedquasar]

when victor hugo said “to love another person is to see the face of god” and herman melville said “let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon god”  and dave malloy said “when we fall in love we wake up; and we are a god and angels weep” and tolstoy said “everything i understand, i understand only because i love. everything is, everything exists, only because i love. everything is connected only by that. love is god”

[disease]

THE BELVEDERE TORSO // est. 1910-19 [italian postcard | 13.7 x 8.6 cm]

[erraticfairymagic]

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