Random things that I love

[thefallendaisy]

Nights can be treacherously cruel and murderous. It can insert a knife straight through your gut and twist and twist until your insides become your outsides. Nights can behave like renegades. But, who is to blame them when the world will end up witnessing the hand holding the knife is not someone else's, but solely yours.

[louisegluck]

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

[parkchanwoohoo]

Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue

[werewolf-beans]

Increasing my discomfort tolerance has also been one of the greatest assets to improving my mental health.

[profalseidols]

[run-florist-run]

Puzzle purse love tokens from 1790 to 1816

[metamorphesque]

― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

[metamorphesque]

all of my devotion turns violent

Ada Limón, Jen Mazza, Japanese Breakfast, Denis Sarazhin, Anaïs Nin, Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Neruda, Joseph-Désiré Court, Crimson Peak (2015)

buy me a ☕

[thefallendaisy]

Let me hold your hand and walk beside the waves that ebb away, for the hands of the clock dictate the transient nature of everything and we are nothing but mere slaves to time.

[thefallendaisy]

I don't want to treasure anything, either palpable or impalpable, for once a moment is passed, everything becomes a memory and sometimes they make you ache.

[thefallendaisy]

Someone, somewhere has a rose tucked in between the pages of a book, whose tender petals, has in them preserved the touch of someone's unspoken last goodbye.

[thefallendaisy]

Sometimes, they don't convict you and send you to prison. Sometimes, they give you memories, and the next thing you know is after they're gone, you are held captive for your entire life.

[1617]

i listen to the same 11 songs everyday just in a different order

[thefallendaisy]

He treaded on the path of self-destruction and the world named it Poetry.

[thefallendaisy]

How fragile we think our heart is, yet how it can continue to harbour abundance of love for someone, for years. How every time, despite the heart being shattered by someone, it collects the broken pieces and fixes them, together, only to love the one who broke it, again and again. How strong our heart is, for it can withstand storms and thunders. How weak our heart is, for it can ceaselessly cry even at the slightest indifference shown by the ones we love, at a certain point of time. How paradoxical to hold an instrument of divine beauty and love within ourselves, yet to search for it in others as long as we live, while desiring to live no longer, when others don't present it to us on a platter, while we have already spent a million moments holding a love so precious, deep inside our veins, ever since we stepped on the Earth.

[sjowgren-deactivated20240728]

some of my favorite tiny love stories

[sjowgren-deactivated20240728]

update:

(from nyt’s modern love column)

[into-the-weeds]

Researchers "Translate" Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot

A machine learning algorithm helped decode the squeaks Egyptian fruit bats make in their roost, revealing that they

They found that the bat noises are not just random, as previously thought, reports Skibba. They were able to classify 60 percent of the calls into four categories. One of the call types indicates the bats are arguing about food. Another indicates a dispute about their positions within the sleeping cluster. A third call is reserved for males making unwanted mating advances and the fourth happens when a bat argues with another bat sitting too close. In fact, the bats make slightly different versions of the calls when speaking to different individuals within the group, similar to a human using a different tone of voice when talking to different people. Skibba points out that besides humans, only dolphins and a handful of other species are known to address individuals rather than making broad communication sounds. The research appears in the journal Scientific Reports.

[aroundmeblackbats]

forty arguing bats

[hevcrap]

[wiggerbeefer]

Bats be like

[thatsallfolks-blog]

Kim min hee

[thefallendaisy]

HAHAHA