tell me I never knew that.

katie. writer. a mostly vibes-based reflection of things I'm working on and things I like.

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[troutreznor]

pigeons but shoot it like a hardcore show

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"Someday it may happen, but don't hold your breath, for the truth is we are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us."

– Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312

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from "I Perform Encapsulations," by Ursula Andkjær Olsen

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The day after David Lynch died, I visited North Bend and Snoqualmie, Wash., the real-life Twin Peaks, to talk to residents and visitors about the show's, and Lynch's, legacy. Story by me, photos by my #1 photo guy Riley Yuan.

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"A book is one of the more buildable utopias."

– Elisa Gabbert, "The Essay As Realm"

[myjourneythroughfilm]

Lion's Mane Jellyfish | Olympic Coast Camera: Olympus Stylus Epic 80 Film: Kodak Portra 400

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"Memory saves people and drives them mad and I suspect we've forgotten what it was really meant to accomplish."

– Joshua Wheeler, Acid West

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"Nature does all this stuff — it's such a bag of chaos, you know? We're born into this chaos, and we grow up, and then we're, like, well, now what do I do in this body I landed in? What am I supposed to do with this?"

– River Lehrer quoted by Rachel Monroe in "Dead Reckoning," The New Yorker, 6/30/25

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pray on my spine, it's a rosary

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“How a duck is made and where the different things are on a duck can give a clue to a more or less perfect composition  for a painting. If you could interpret a duck, if you could work with the rules of a, you could get something close to a well-composed painting.”

– David Lynch to Rolling Stone, 1990

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"Are we instead completely brightness, completely light?"

– Sallie Tisdale, Violation

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Cayman Islands, 2015: Lighthouse Point at 103ft, by me

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"'I'm not tuned that way.' He paused. 'But you tune yourself at a certain point.'"

– Amanda Petrusich, "The Last Indie Rock Star"

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Nepal, 2018: the view from Kyanjing Ri summit, by me

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"All I mean to say is this: It is very hard to say anything that is actually right about anything at all."

– D. Graham Burnett, The Sounding of the Whale

[vintagewildlife]

Walrus By: Fridtjof Nansen From: Lebensbilder aus der Tierwelt 1910