“I Was Reading A Book In Which Contemporary Society Was Compared To A Multi-tenant Building. The Tenants

Rohit Gurunath Sharma has always deserved the world. Can't express how heartening it is to see him getting showered in all the love.

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"The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood..."

~Stephen King, "Carrie" (1974)

Friends we used to know

1- Caitlin Conlon @cgcpoems / 2- Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes / 3- Mitski, The Frost / 4- Emily Carey, House of the Dragon / 5- Girlpool, Before the World was Big / 6- Emily Carey / 7- Rob Reiner, Stand By Me

you are not as damned as you think you are

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Growing up in a dysfunctional joint family really f*cks you up in ways that leave you scarred forever.

“And God looked the other way”

@/avainblue // antigone, sophocles // @/sinfulscrapbook // unknown // it is right to draw their fur, dave eggers // day after tomorrow - phoebe bridgers // unknown // sun bleached flies - ethel cain // tonight I’m someone else, chelsea hodson // the war of vaslav nijinsky, frank bidart

its been 2 months since i read cloud cuckoo land by anthony doerr and i havent really talked about it cause its not "fandomizable" or whatever but i started thinking about it again out of nowhere today so i gonna get my thoughts out here.

as you may know for the past several months ive been really into finding obscure music to listen to. not because i want to feel elite or superior or win the obscure music competition, but because its such an intimate experience to me. its like the artist is reaching across time and space to deliver me the song personally and entrusting it to me and I have to take care of it and share it with the people in my life so it can be loved and grow up big and strong. its especially true for songs that are 15 or 20 or 30 or more years old cause it makes me wonder where the artist is now and how theyre doing. their musical career may not have taken off, but it made its way to me all these years later. its touching, you know?

now imagine instead of a song from a decade or two ago that you can stream on spotify, it's a manuscript that's thousands of years old. five times over, across millenia, somebody discovered a story that was doomed to be lost forever and singlehandedly worked to rescue and preserve and share it so that it could keep on living, because it was important to them. whether the story is "good" or not, hell whether its even complete or legible, is not what matters. what matters is that for their own reasons, some part of it resonated with each of them, and they felt a responsibility to pass it on so it would not die with them.

to put it more crassly, cloud cuckoo land is basically a story about lost media. the need to preserve and record and recover information no matter how trivial it may seem is such a human thing to do and i love that

Every "Title of your sex tape" joke in Brooklyn Nine-Nine

"Kind, sober and fully dressed", Jake to Amy

"I'm sorry about tonight", Jake to Amy

"It's not your fault, I was terrible", Jake to Amy

"I'm horrible at this, when can we stop", Jake to Amy

"Ah, well done", Jake to himself

"I'm with someone and nothing is going to happen", Jake to Amy

"This better not bite me in the ass", Jake to Amy

"Uh oh, hope it doesn't get too sexual", Jake to Amy

"Blast of cold air coming out of that box", Jake to Amy

"Why doesn't your mouth work", Jake to Amy

"I hope it wasn't a mistake", Jake to Amy (right after they fuck for the first time)

"I just got it out of the vent to rub it in your faces", Jake to Amy

"One more 'but' and you're in contempt", Jake to the judge at his trial

"I'm so confused, I don't know what's happening right now", Jake to Amy

"I'm shaking right now, I'm definitely going to cry" Amy to Jake

"Seriously, what is taking so long?" Jake to Amy

"My mother has a fantastic basement", Jake to Holt

"I came alone", Jake to Jimmy Figis

"That's not how holes work", Jake to Boyle

"Why don't we take this map and this sextant and chart a course to the restaurant", Holt to Boyle

"Did not work at all but I love that you attempted it" Jake to Holt

"Jake and Amy are getting married tonight", Boyle to himself

"Sorry, that came out weird", Jake to Holt

"It's hard for some people", Jake to a therapist

"It just slipped out", Rosa to Boyle

"I came as fast as I could ", Jake to Amy

"There's not even any soft parts in the middle we could pull out", Jake to Hitchcock and Scully

"Grabbed whatever and yanked", Boyle to Dr Oliver Cox

"Just show me the tip", Jake to Holt

"She's coming, hide!" Jake to Holt

"Quite hard upon me", Jake to himeself

"Demon in your jeans", Jake to his father

"Cockpit Larry and the mile-high stewardi", Jake's dad's actual sex tape

Weird that Doug Judy and Gina aren't on the list 🤔 🤔

1. A Primer for the Small Weird Loves - Richard Siken / 2. The Crane Wife - CJ Hauser / 3. Automat - Edward Hopper / 4. Red Doc> - Anne Carson / 5. Melancholy - Edvard Munch / 6. The Village (2004) / 7. So We Must Meet Apart - Gabrielle Bates and Jennifer S. Cheng