the problem isn't just that media literacy is slowly becoming a dying art. it's that people straight up do not pay attention when they watch tv/film anymore.
worst thing about free time is deciding what to do with it. it is a travesty that it is impossible to knit, draw, write, read, watch a movie, listen to podcasts, and play a video game all at the same time
one thing i need to start living by is “become the thing that you want” if i want friends who throw themed parties maybe i should start throwing those parties. if i want someone who writes me love letters maybe i should start writing letters for the people i love. if i want to hang out at museums and pretty cafes maybe i should invite my friends to these places. and maybe even then i won’t find the kind of people i want to be around. but then i would have become the exact person i want to be around. and maybe that’s good enough.
Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.
WENDY Wish You Hell, 2024
the 'what if you played it a little risky' post literally Changed my life but i cant fujkign find it in my blog because its. a tiktok screenshot
is this it?
[Image ID: A screenshot of a Tiktok. A person stares into the camera blankly with text overlaid ontop of them. The text reads: "what if you start playing it a little risky? Even just in the slightest. say hi to the bus driver every morning, smile at people in public, go to the gym even if you're worried about being seen, take that class, talk to that person. start posting those videos you want to make, sit with the person sitting alone, start a new hobby, find a new interest, buy them flowers, go on that trip. Be who you truly are and not a watered down you." End ID.]
Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo
"The show's not over until the mockingjay sings," she said. "The mockingjay?" He laughed. "Really, I think you're just making these things up." "Not that one. A mockingjay's a bonafide bird," she assured him. "And it sings in your show?" he asked. "Not my show, sweetheart. Yours. The Capitol's, anyway."
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) + text posts
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) + tweets
You’re as good to me as any brother could be. I’ll never forget what you did for me in the arena.
you’re not for everyone. so what. literally so what. you still have people who will always love you & whom you mean the world to. and you also have yourself. you’re not missing out, they are
being born lonely is so fucking suffocating bc you feel like no matter what you do or who you’re with deep down you’re just not palatable to other people. something about you is so inherently other and nothing can ever dispel that. and it haunts you w every social situation you walk into but you just have to be okay w it for the rest of your life
i’m not even exaggerating but growing up a super isolated teen who wanted to have friends but who just did not know how to make them has fundamentally altered my brain chemistry in some way. now as a young adult in her early 20s i have so many friends & i always get told i give off bubbly vivacious vibes & most people would guess i’m extroverted or at least that social anxiety isn’t something i massively struggle w. and yet even as i grow into that side of me that scared introverted little girl still haunts me every day and makes me feel like i’m standing at the edge of the party even when i’m right in the thick of it. that shit just does not go away. i’m hoping it does as i get older bc i really want this ghost put to rest. and strangely this does not seem to be a universal haunting
books read in 2023: once upon a broken heart trilogy by stephanie garber
“I believe there are far more possibilities than happily ever after or tragedy. every story has the potential for infinite endings.”
if you could see the sun by ann liang
and everything about this moment is so lovely and so fragile in its loveliness that i'm almost afraid to hold it
I think the reason ‘adult life’ is so hard is because the 40 hour work week was created to suit the traditional family structure where the man works and the woman stays at home doing all the chores. it’s really difficult for a single person to work full time, maintain a home, have hobbies and a social life, and take care of themselves
The older i get the more i realise i don’t wanna be around drama conflict or stress i just want a cozy home good food and to be surrounded by happy people