tarnished but so grand 🕯

Aya / Lit Major

[thebellekeys]

messi is lowkey a george rr martin character because why is the best footballer in the world an autistic dwarf

[kennaskorner]

Even if you hate Argentina, you can't disregard how impressive it is for Messi to still be as good as he is at his age.

[mexicontpaymybills]

I both love and despise the person I become when the World Cup is happening. Suddenly my mood is determined by 22 strangers kicking a ball and for some reason I start speaking in whatever accent belongs to the country playing.

For one month every four years, I completely lose my mind.

I hate it.

I love it.

[agardenofbasil]

Messi missing a penalty is world cup heritage at this point.

[agardenofbasil]

Genuinely could not make this up even if I wanted to.

[mexicontpaymybills]

Dear Diary,

2.7 billion viewers world wide tuned in to see the match of the tournament:

Argentina score against Cabo Verde 1-0

THEN Cabo Verde equalize for a 1-1

THEN Argentina score another giving us a 2-1

THEN Cabo Verde scoring a beautiful goal 2-2

With Argentina finalizing with a 3-2

It was 120 minutes of beautiful chaos.

2. Morocco beat Australia in penalties and made history with the first ever FIFA World Cup knockout win.

3. James Rodriguez is playing this World Cup??

4. Brazil and Mexico took the same plane ride home. Like every four years La Seleccion Mexicana had me losing my head for over 90 minutes,

5. Neymar retired from national futbol:(, it was difficult for him to cry on the pitch because of all the Botox he has going on. 

6. I need to know how much refs get paid.

7. President Donald Trump got rid of a red card for a USA player. Yes, you read that right.

[soracities]

“It’s summer now, and you’re craving a simpler existence. You want to read. You want to write. You want to meet strangers for dinner, and not refuse another drink at another bar. You want to dance. You want to find yourself in a basement, neck loose, bobbing your head as a group of musicians play, not because they should, but because they must. It’s summer now, and you’re looking forward to worrying less. You’re looking forward to longer nights and shorter days. You’re looking forward to gathering in back gardens and watching meat sputter on an open barbecue. You’re looking forward to laughing so hard your chest hurts and you feel light-headed. You’re looking forward to the safety in pleasure. You’re looking forward to forgetting, albeit briefly, the existential dread which plagues you, which tightens your chest, which pains your left side. You’re looking forward to forgetting that, leaving the house, you might not return intact. You’re looking forward to freedom, even if it is short, even if it might not last. You’re looking forward.”

— Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

[myhyperfixationpalace]

HIM

HIM

I fucking love this tiny alien

[myhyperfixationpalace]

THE GOOOOOOOOOOAT

[lanalangs]

starting to unlock my unbearable personality that arrives every four years for the world cup

[circusheart]

I do think the post that's like "when they torture you to insanity and then torture you for being insane 😂🤣" is one of the most succinct and foundational analyses of interpersonal violence and conflict that had ever been written

[petaltexturedskies]

One day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. That kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. But you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. There are things you only learn when no one teaches them. And that’s how it is with life. There’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering.

Clarice Lispector, from “Gertrudes asks for advice” in The Complete Stories

[stillgotscars]

it was legendary [gunshots] it was momentary [tires screeching] it was unnecessary [explosion][glass shattering] should’ve let it stay buried [sirens][people screaming]

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

Elegy For My Sadness by Chen Chen

[notruvik]

[seaphine]

the damage has been done (overshared)

[studyingscribbles]

you're getting distracted again. focus.

drink a cup of water, tie your hair up, pull on your comfiest clothes, get your desk clean and ready, print out past papers, set your notes out, turn your laptop on, turn off all distractions, take out your stationary, open your books, take a deep breath, and just start.

[ryebreadgf]

the september wind that makes you nostalgic for stupid things has been blowing through the city. watch out

[mephistopheles]

cancelled & excised from my friend group for referring to the american poet & horror novelist as ‘eddie poe’ and ‘the number one baltimore bitch’