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XXIII • she/her • chaotic academia • stemblr

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joy sullivan

[ahotknife]

oh emily wilson translation of the iliad we’re really in it now

[soundcarvings]

Do you think 27 is still young?

I think 70 is young if you know how to move through the world

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, “A Letter to my Mother that She Will Never Read” The New Yorker, May 2017 

[financeprincess]

Sorry to break it to you but you literally have to face your fears and slaughter them. Otherwise you will live a small life that you do not want. You literally have to view your biggest fears and attack them head on. You have to fall into the abyss to find your way out. The easy path does not exist. There is no get out of jail free card. You have to allow yourself to die a spiritual death over and over again in order to reinvent yourself into the person you are actually supposed to be. And you have to be painfully honest with yourself and the people around you. It’s horrible but it’s truly the only way.

[bakwaaas]

mary oliver I’ll be honest I have not endured loneliness with grace

[flowerytale]

J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

[stuckinapril]

people who only use conventional social media are so funny bc they’ll casually be like “can I see your tumblr??” are you Insane. this is no instagram or twitter. this is my vault of secrets

[weltenwellen]

Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

[academicssay]

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

[anditslove]

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

[flowerytale]

Daphne du Maurier, from The Parasites

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

[soracities]

Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone)

[assassin1513]

⚜️Fairy Autumn⚜️

[too-little-caffeine]

Academia is lonely and scary at present..