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Joy Sullivan, “My Mother Says Kissing a Man Without a Mustache Is Like Eating Eggs Without Salt”, Instructions for Traveling West

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im 12 years old sitting on my bed reading it’s midnight it’s summer my window is open the crickets are very loud but very soothing my room smells dusty and warm and no one else exists. im 12 years old. the feeling never goes away.

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SINNERS 2025, dir. Ryan Coogler

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2025

BE A STUDENT OF WHAT YOU ADMIRE

DO IT BADLY RATHER THAN NOT AT ALL

TO DESPAIR IS TO CEDE VICTORY TO THOSE WHO DO NOT DESERVE IT

BROADEN YOUR CULTURAL HORIZONS

REVEL IN THE ANALOGUE

ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

GRIEF IS PRODUCTIVE; GUILT IS NOT

dzinchuriki

students from belgrade who walked to novi sad for two days arrived in the city last night. in novi sad, as well as in all the places they passed through, they were welcomed as liberators. thousands of locals prepared food and drinks for them, greeting them with applause and cheers. in novi sad, they were met by several thousand people who rolled out a red carpet and set off fireworks, and all the students were awarded medals. yesterday, news arrived that the serbian students had been nominated for the nobel peace prize. today, at three o'clock, three major bridges in novi sad will be blocked, with the liberty bridge set to remain blocked for 24 hours. after those 24 hours, students and citizens will decide whether to continue the blockade.

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Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

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Shoes in Vogue since 1910 by Christina Probert

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being in love with the process and not the results is one of the healthiest things in the world

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in this same vein: being proud of yourself for the work and not the product brings so much more happiness

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Winter in Moominvalley ❄️ {2/2}

dovai

you just need to start. start that movement. start that friendship. start to create. start with what you love. start with what you need. start that routine. start that assignment. start that message. start that study. start with yourself. start now. and i promise everything else you want will start organically like magic.

toocooltobeforgotten

that james baldwin quote where he says, “it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here.”

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kurt vonnegut, being good at things is not the point of doing them.

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take figures out of their boxes btw. sew patches on your favorite jacket. go to bed with your favorite plushes. wear the pants you usually save for special occasions. draw something cool on your wall. put a sticker on your laptop. dye your hair and pierce your lips. glass is meant to break, metal is meant to rust. items are meant to be used. that's how the world knows that somebody loved them.

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When my aunt died of covid, we had to clean out a lot of stuff that she was saving. Foods she was going to try, she was a great chef, spices she'd never opened or only used sparingly, lotions and bath things she hadn't used. After she died I started making a point of using things up: the good vanilla that has to be imported, that we finally found more of, we'd used barely an ounce before she passed away. Even though we love it. I just got my family new bottles of it for Christmas because we used one up. We enjoyed that happiness. Sometimes I still get the impulse to wait for something special, or awful, to save nice things for celebration or comfort. The phrase that always echoes in my mind is "use the good vanilla". And I have been (burning the candles, squirting the body wash, dissolving the bath bombs, putting the saffron in things). And it's been great. Use the good vanilla.