Constantly Confused

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god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies

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Living my wildest, most unreachable dreams through animal crossing (home ownership)

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"it'll get better"

But what if it doesn't?

What if it's me who's broken?

I want to jump into the Atlantic

Let it swallow me whole

Sleep upside down in the cold

Wake up on the other side of the world

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Espero que mi yo de 16 años sepa que, a pesar de todo, se atrevió a publicar lo que escribe.

La Luna

Un pequeño relato que me encontré en mis notas

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red velvet cake is not just chocolate cake with red dye. it's red because it's made of the blood of people who say that. now grow up or you're next

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Orpheus always turns around because, yes, you would too if you literally crawled through the underworld to get Eurydice back; BUT! Also because people don’t come back from the dead and storytelling is and always has been a way to process emotions.

Orpheus and Eurydice are the exploration of grief so strong you’d go to hell and back to save the person you lost and the gutting realization that it doesn’t matter how hard you try, people don’t come back from death

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I also think that even if they did make it out, Eurydice wouldn't be the same person as she was before dying. As you said, the dead don't come back, so I think that there would be an essential part of her being that ties her to the underworld forever.

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The Internet told me how to live

How benign is the self-improvement industry?

"As humans, we crave certainty. We love to give and to receive advice, listening to cautionary tales in hopes that, when we eventually find ourselves in the precarious shoes of the protagonist, we take the right path. We want a Waze that guides us in every step, instructing us on how to act when we come across any obstacle: “In 5 metres, jump over the hurdle… Jump over the hurdle.“"

On where the self-help industry falls in the age of fear and scrutiny.

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I've never read anyone accurately describing an orgasm.

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Yellow

Yellow is a cat: vibrant, toxic; lazy, elastic.

Liquid yet solid; cute, yet daunting.

Looks so happy jumping around,

Pouncing upon a mouse.

Adorable when napping on the ground,

But be cautious, because

Yellow is for danger, too.

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Each writer has a voice. Said voice is the culmination of all the cultural forces that moulded the writer’s subconscious; it’s the beating soul of their work, what we like to call authenticity.

Truth and Authenticity

A rewrite of a contest-loser essay.

An exploration of what makes writing, and art in general, authentic, and how art and literature are intrinsically intertwined through an analysis of the novel Nada by Carmen Laforet.

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On Writing

But it's back, it's my sound.

On how I regained my authenticity after two years of actively stifling my authenticity.

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"The new year comes like a bird sitting on a branch: unassuming, unaware. Arrows of light shoot up along the coast, bursting in halos of fire, strings of light that vanish in shimmering stars."  

New Year's Eve on Substack

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New Year's Eve

The whole city unites for one clock-tic. For the passing of another hour in another night.

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"The new year comes like a bird sitting on a branch: unassuming, unaware. Arrows of light shoot up along the coast, bursting in halos of fire, strings of light that vanish in shimmering stars."  

New Year's Eve on Substack

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I don't want to remain star-crossed.

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Words cannot describe the amount of serotonin this movie gives me. It captures the joy of playing in an ensemble so well. If you are part of a marching band or play any instrument I 100% recommend it✨🎺. Movie: Swing Girls (2004)

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And the cast actually knows to play their instruments like hello?? underrated af.

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Words cannot describe the amount of serotonin this movie gives me. It captures the joy of playing in an ensemble so well. If you are part of a marching band or play any instrument I 100% recommend it✨🎺. Movie: Swing Girls (2004)

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Time (Looking Away) Isn't it ironic, how we perceive time? If you were to stare at a clock for an hour, its ticking would drive you insane. You'd feel the urge to move the clock hands yourself, to speed up its tortuous rhythm. You'd want to look away. It goes very slow anyways, looking away for a couple of minutes won't hurt. When you turn around and check it again, two hours have passed. I hate to feel time pushing me forward, feel life pass by. So I look away instead, away from the ticking clock. I let the current drag me through life. Weeks start merging together, days feel rushed yet tedious, and breaks are not long enough. You ask me what I did in the past month and I don't know what to say; I don't remember, I wasn't there. I turn around, five years have passed. I've abandoned my life and all I can do now is mourn it. -anto.