Anna Silivonchik
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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art blog(derogatory)
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2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
cherry valley forever
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Anna Silivonchik
What To Read After Watching “Love Actually:” A Flow Chart
Ok, I sort of love this.
Jenny Meilihove.
sirius making fun of remus for being interested in learning other languages so remus puts a language charm on him that makes everything sirius says come out in german
so then for the rest of the day remus has to translate for him and its like “whats he saying now?” “oh hes asking me to tell you your eyes look stunning today, james”
(angry garbled german)
"absolutely spiffing, he says"
Don’t be a….
My piece for the Gallery1988 Crazy4Cult show in NYC at 355A Bowery. This Friday from 7-10pm!
a little witchy eating lunch.
Children’s area. Small but cozy :)
Passing this on to my 10 favorite follows. The rules are that you're supposed to answer with five facts about yourself, but if not, don't worry! I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy following you.
Thanks, mister! ♥♥
Hmmm… I have such a hard time coming up with interesting things to share, but I love reading these things about other people, so I’mma just play along and not be greedy:
1) I did the whole backpacking around Europe for three weeks the summer after I finished uni and it was exhausting and not the most effective plan tourism-wise, but it was the most fun I’ve ever had. It led to the discovery that Dutch people are impossibly polite, even if you accidentally drop a heavy backpack on their heads and then get an inappropriate giggly reaction. I think it’s one of those things you need to do at the right time, though. (The backpacking thing, not the hitting Dutch people thing, though that too).
2) I find dimples pretty irresistible. Why thigh gaps and beards are a bigger thing than dimples, I’ll never understand. Dimples are, to quote Parks and Recreation, genetic and unattainable after all.
3) I am useless before 10 am and unlikely to fall asleep before 2:00 am
4) I recently read The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which is a coming of age novel about a girl who gets sent to a gay therapy Christian camp in the 90’s, and I think Cameron might just be one of my favourite characters in YA. The author explains her like this:
I also think Cam’s “universal appeal” might come from her near-obsession with sorting through her life, searching for small connections, puzzling things out, asking questions, making sense. It can be appealing to read from the POV of someone so curious about the world. She’s built of contradictions—overly romantic sometimes, world-weary others—but she’s ultimately, I think, generous and compassionate; she wants to find the good, the redeemable, in those around her, and when she does she recognizes it, even if that recognition doesn’t always last for very long or ultimately hold much sway.
5) As a kid, I used to write a lot. I mostly remember keeping a diary I called Eduardo (IDK, okay, I think I thought it was an appropriate name for an elegant, handsome and gentlemanly (bright pink) diary). Also, for years my group of friends wrote daily letters to each other (???). I still have a couple of shoeboxes full of those notes, I don’t have the heart to throw them away and they’re hilarious.
Illustration from the book, “Cuando sea grande” (“When I grow up”).
Calibroscopio 2013. Texts by Magdalena Helguera.
when did we replace the word “said” with “was like”
i think it’s really interesting and cool actually that language has shifted so that ‘said’ implies that you’re quoting, while ‘was like’ means ‘i’m doing a general impression of this dude’. i mean you can’t really harsh on someone when ‘she was like aaah!’ means exactly that, doesn’t it? she was doing something very similar to the particular scream being made. so, ‘like’ indicates that you’re dealing with generalities and inexact terms, and want to convey the gist of things rather than focussing on exact phrasing and technical details—which is pretty great for young people, who are still developing cognitively and thus not always great at stringing a coherent sentence together.
and then there’s “was all”, which tends to indicate a parody or exaggeration, or an even looser impression.
she said: “I know I’ve filed these for you before, but it’s really not part of my job duties and I’m very busy today.”
she was like: “done filing your paperwork, not my department, do it yourself.”
she was all: “shyeah, no.”
i am all in favor of flexibility in language and i think this is fantastic.
bimbo gatto e bimba uccellino (personaggi in cerca di una storia…)
Valentina Benedetti
In this lovely animated short from Blank on Blank – who have previously given us David Foster Wallace on ambition and perfectionism – beloved children’s author Maurice Sendak, born on June 10, 1928, reflects on being a kid and the lifelong grip of anxiety.
Pair with this beautiful letter to Sendak from his legendary editor, the great Ursula Nordstrom, and his posthumous love letter to the world.
"Kids… THEY WANT TO SURVIVE"
The kind of thinking that makes a distinction between thought and feeling is just one of those forms of demagogy that causes lots of trouble for people by making them suspicious of things that they shouldn’t be suspicious or complacent of. For people to understand themselves in this way seems to be very destructive, and also very culpabilizing. These stereotypes of thought versus feeling, heart versus head, male versus female were invented at a time when people were convinced that the world was going in a certain direction — that is, toward technocracy, rationalization, science, and so on — but they were all invented as a defense against Romantic values.
Susan Sontag on our culture’s toxic polarities (via explore-blog)
Librarians Can Catalog Anything Part II: Revenge of the Catalogers
If you contact a spirit that already is in the catalog, you must put Spirit in parentheses to distinguish the spirit from its earthly career.
You can find it in the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules Second Edition 2002 Revision (AACR2).
It’s Here! NYPL’s Children’s Books 2013. Check out this year’s list of great new titles for reading and sharing. http://on.nypl.org/18wCKf4
Iratxe López de Munáin
My Roommate Translating French to Spanish: This is just like French!
Me Translating English to Spanish: WHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA???