if i didn't know better.

brittany. 20's. daydreamer. pessimist. underdog supporter. open listener. loyal. art lover. a more personal side-blog of odds and ends.

[ttrustissues]

I feel like I’m constantly worrying about the next part of my life without realizing that I’m right in the middle of what I used to look forward to

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us. Not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are.

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

[soracities]

Billie Holiday, ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’

Richard Siken, ‘Anyway’

Adonis, ‘Season of Tears’

[company]

when kafka said "all the love in the world is useless when there is total lack of understanding" and when richard siken said “if you love me, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”

[beautifulscreaminglady]

anne carson

[anthropologyofwater-deactivated]

People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘you’re safe with me’- that’s intimacy.

Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (via anthropologyofwater)

[allthingseurope]

Abtsteinach, Germany (by Rita Eberle-Wessner)

[diaryofanangryasianguy]

5 Books by Women to Read During Filipino American History Month

10/03/19

1. America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

A reference to Carlos Bulosan’s classic America Is in the Heart, Castillo’s debut novel chronicles a queer woman’s immigrant experience in the United States.

2. In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar

The nine stories in this debut collection feature Filipinos who left their homeland to seek better opportunities abroad. There’s a housemaid, a teacher, a nurse, and a pharmacist living in different parts of the world such as North America, Asia, and the Middle East.

3. Something in Between by Melissa de la Cruz

Jasmine de los Santos, a 17-year-old Filipino immigrant, bags a scholarship that will fund her college studies. But her dream shatters when she finds out that her parents keep a secret—they are “TNTs” (tago nang tago or undocumented immigrants).

4. Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly

There’s Virgil Salinas, a taciturn Filipino American boy; Virginia Somerset, a deaf and sad girl; Kaori Tanaka, a Japanese American psychic; and Chet Bullens, the bully and story’s villain. Their worlds entwine on one fateful day—a friendship is born and justice is served as well.

5. The First Impulse: Notes on Love, Film and Death in the Philippines by Laurel Fantauzzo

Fantauzzo, a Filipino American, also weaves her own narrative into this creative nonfiction. A genre-bending work, it offers a social commentary to the state of Duterte’s Philippines.

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[feministism]

[dreamproxyaesthetics]

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Saiid Kobeisy f/w 2016-2017 rtw

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

Elio Abou Fayssal spring 2015 couture

[somethingmoresubtle]

Window to the Garden: version I by yanadhyana

[gelrev-blog]

Minke Whale Migration

[eo-nni-blog]

[elicsaab]

Tony Ward RTW S/S 2016

[doyouevenbeauty-blog]