LUI

i like 60 degree weather

[raqhaelia-deactivated20241212]

this changed it all

[typewriter-worries]

my favorite reads of 2025

The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age

Extremely Online and Incredibly Tedious

Stop Calling My Daughter Pretty

Taylor Swift Is The 21st Century's Most Disorienting Pop Star

No Good Art Comes From Greed

AirPods Are a Tragedy

Only Fads: A Culture (and Economy) of Labubu

As a mother to teen daughters, I'm not that concerned about Sabrina Carpenter's influence (...but I am about Gracie Abrams)

Taylor Swift is not the English teacher she wants you to think she is

The Secret Society of Lightning Strike Survivors

Less TikTok, More Screaming

The era of QAnon capitalism

Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet

Scapegoating the Algorithm

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

How Wellness and Beauty Influencers Can Be Part of an Alt-Right Pipeline for Teen Girls

Ruins in Reverse

The “Disney adult” industrial complex

A lot of y'all aren't woke, just assholes

Comedy’s Safest Slur

ChatGPT Shaming Is Making Our Writing So Much Worse

AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner

Is The Love Song Dying?

Hot subpoena summer

The Old Guard That Never Was (And Why That’s a Good Thing)

[lucidloving]

Ada Limón, "Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds" // SouthFloridaReporter.com // Wikipedia, "Baking Powder" // Caroline McCaughey (AARP), "8 Big Inventions Inspired by Love" // Wikipedia, "Band-Aid" // Jim Walsh, "What's the love story behind Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers?" // NYFA, "The History of Drive-In Movie Theaters" // Caroline McCaughey, ibid. // Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House

[lucidloving]

Fleabag (2016) // @symbiocene // Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts // Nikki Giovanni, Mirrors // cave painting // 肉包不吃肉, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun // thethingswesay.com // Brian Kershiznik // Neal A. Maxwell // Audre Lorde, "Equinox"

[lucidloving]

Jenny Slate, Little Weirds // Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip // @/onenhillion on ig // Farheen Effendi, "Love" // Blue Lock // Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias // Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn // @/onenhillion on ig // Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen // maia, The Fall, The Rise

[lucidloving]

Mary MacLane // James Steinberg // Akiko Busch, How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency // Jennifer S. Cheng, "So We Must Meet Apart" // @lucidloving, "Fraud" // Keith Haring // José David Morales // Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World // @tordenvejr // Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (July 1950–July 1953)

[pollen]

Mary Oliver, from "Spring"

[coolguycy]

Lowkey love the word grasp. There’s a desperation to it. You can never casually grasp something

[theoptia]

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; August 1st, 1926

Text ID: Courage, be everything to yourself. Seek your truth; construct your life, a beautiful life; be strong and passionately cherish yourself to console yourself for being so alone in the midst of all those who love you.

[thoughtkick]

“How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”

— Nina LaCour

[inkpressedpetals]

[metamorphesque]

I have so much love in me that I would like to cry.  

Simone de Beauvoir, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Sylvia Plath, Clarice Lispector

[desimarianne]

August (08) assortment

Jeanette Winterson, from Written on the Body / Mary Oliver, from The Pond / poem titled An August Longing by Amber Khanzadeh / August by Taylor Swift.

[dayn-ryan]

The Things You Own

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

[synthecid]

Un Kyoung Lee

[shisasan]

May 20, 1931 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931   [volume 4]

[mothprincess]

don’t forget that it’s your life. it’s not school’s life, it’s not work’s life, it’s not your family or your partner’s life—it’s perpetually your life, for better or worse. what do you want from this life? forget happy, what motivates you to live? why are you here?