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"nothing matters so do what you love and be kind" is the single most viscerally impactful message i have ever gleaned from consuming media and i'm going to live every day with that kind of hopepunk nihilism for the rest of my life

lastoneout

when florence and the machine said "I find that happiness is an extremely uneventful subject" and when romeo x juliet said "a simple life with you would be paradise" and johnathan coulton said "it's okay, I like you in glasses" and everything everywhere all at once said "in another life I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you"

(edit: I made a longer thing with more examples here)

gyudons

michelle yeoh becomes the first asian and only the second woman of colour to win best actress at the oscars

the-bluespirit

KE HUY QUAN wins Best Supporting Actor for WAYMOND WANG in EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE | 2023 Oscars

zhaohaze

‘No matter what, I still want to be here with you. I will always, ALWAYS, want to be here with you.’

caramelcuppaccino

08.01.2023 • sunday

spent the day writing my reports. i was studying in my dorm but then my friend invited me to her place so we spent hours together baking, studying, talking and just chilling. it was very nice<3. she gave me my new year’s gift and i gave her hers!!

p.s. i’m really loving this doodling on the pics thing, can you tell?

what all k pop groups do u stan

Hey, sorry it took me a while to get back to you!

I follow a few groups which include

• Seventeen

• StrayKids

• The Rose (not exactly the stereotypical k-pop group, but I absolutely love there music. Woosung was in my top five artists of 2022 according to the annual wrap)

• NCT (haven’t been very up to date with their stuff though lately. I follow more of WayV content when I do)

• I also like some of the stuff by TXT and Enhyphen

• I’ve been loving the stuff New Jeans has put out

Which all groups do you stan/follow?

kyrieignisdivine-deactivated202

January is stressful.

optimistic-nihilist

violetsnotebook-archive

I think about coffee. I think about the perceived banality of it in a world where we carry our work wherever we go. I know the culture around it well. Sipping a cup of take away coffee bit by bit, in between paragraphs of an essay or throughout a video call meeting is something I used to live by.

This year, in the process of learning to decouple my passions from arbitrary notions of productivity, I began to feel that my daily cup of coffee represented something I’ve outgrown. And rather than a conscious choice I make everyday, it really was more of a tired chore I held onto for the sake of a ritual that no longer means anything to me. I wondered why I even bothered to make it. Nothing about it was pleasurable. I realised I never actually took taste into consideration when I drank coffee.

So then I was interested. I wanted to understand it.

I began my research and fell into a whole new world. It exhilarated me that there is a scientific approach to it. There’s so much to know, new skills to acquire, a whole new community. Something about it felt compatible with a slow and conscious way of living. I found myself falling in love with it.

A couple of months into this love story, I got myself an espresso machine. I delved into grind size, altitudes, single origins and tasting notes. I was coming to a new way of seeing the world, a new appreciation for the bounty of nature, the goodness that comes from working the land, and all the human connections that brings fresh beans to my doorstep. Coffee used to be a means to an end. Up until this year I never thought it could taste like anything other than “coffee.” It feels so silly having gotten to this age without knowing that coffee could taste of rose or lavender or nougat.

As someone who used to always be in such a hurry, coffee now allows me to stay in touch with my thoughts and feelings rather than propelling me into auto-pilot workaholism. Coffee can mean a lot of things. I’m certainly not ascribing one purpose to it. But personally it feels like I’ve reclaimed a part of myself that I had once surrendered to toxicity in the past. I’m nourished.

shelterpub

Hallig Habel, a farm in northern Germany on the North Sea, an area of low flatlands and mudflats. This photo was taken during an extreme high tide. From Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter

Photo by Hans Joachim Kürtz