“What I Say Is, A Town Isn’t A Town Without A Bookstore. It May Call Itself A Town, But Unless It’s

The psychotic drowns… where the mystic swims.

Mandy (2018) dir. Panos Cosmatos

this book website gives you the first page of a random book without the title or author so that you can read it with no preconceptions!!! great for discovering new recs

Character sketches // Alter ego

Saving up my last few expensive Strathmore papers and going digital, as I can commit mistakes as much as I want without any pressure.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

“The eleventh way to be noble: collecting precious things for the needs of a high and fastidious soul to possess nothing in common; one’s own books, one’s own landscapes.”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §943 (edited excerpt).

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐑 𝐆𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐔𝐏

ຯ  🌴    !   ׂ⁠  want to glow up and look unrecognisable for the summer? this post has been designed perfectly just for you 𑁍 

this post has been divided into 3 parts.

𝐈. 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐓𝐎𝐗 : 𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐈𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔

SAY BYE BYE to the old you, you are no longer the things you call yourself. you’re not ugly, stupid, lazy etc. you will no longer look up at that mirror and tear your beautiful self apart, that’s all in the past.

we’re going to stop those habits completely they do nothing but bring us back and withhold us from our true power, we are so much more than the hurtful words we call ourselves :)

optional, but you can write down all the bad habits you want to get rid of, and make a promise to yourself that you will put an end to those self-destructive habits.

✧ — again you do not have to, some habits are a difficult process. you can make a promise to yourself that you won’t let those habits bring you down and you will continue thriving no matter what

SAY IT HERE RIGHT NOW:

“𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐘𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅”

AND AGAIN…

“𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐘𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅”

WITH ALL THE POWER AND DETERMINATION!

“𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐘𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅”

𝐈𝐈. 𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓 :

self concept is the foundation of everything. its how you view yourself and how you view friendships, relationships, life..etcetera!

changing your self concept doesn’t have to be challenging and difficult it is so easy and simple

here’s an example

if you think that you are unlucky, ugly, stupid and that no one will ever love you those thoughts will reflect in your 3D. you will find yourself in circumstances because of your thoughts.

you can change all of that in a millisecond by deciding that you have the best self concept in the world, you are more kinder to yourself and start practicing being kind to yourself

instead of tearing yourself apart you start telling yourself “i am going to be kind to myself today, i find that my features perfectly suit my face”

if you want to be beautiful you have to change your inner thoughts. it all starts with mindset first, never the other way around.

self concept affirmations ➜ here

𝐈𝐈𝐈. 𝐑𝐄-𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 :

okay so you’ve done your detox, you’ve stopped entertaining those habits and you’ve finally recognised your worth and got your self concept back on track…its time to rewrite your story.

so who do you want to be? don’t be afraid and i actually recommend that you go extra as much as you can. want a totally new face? THATS TOTALLY EASY. want to have tiny ass waist? THAT IS SOO EASY TO MANIFEST. want the best pinterest summer ever? THATS SO ATTAINABLE!

write down or take a mental note of your goals <3 tick them off as you go!

𝐈𝐕. 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔 :

okay so this is my favourite part, you are going to APPLY everything you know about the law, everything you know about how to create your dream life and JUST DO IT. you’re going to take that leap of faith and watch the results blossom right in front of your face, you’re going to be so proud of yourself this summer for persisting and seeing yourself become an unrecognisable queen.

so on that mental or physical note you’ve created you’re going to become that person..EVERYDAY! you’re going to think and feel and embody that person that you want to be. you’re going to compliment yourself in the mirror, you’re going to think beautiful thoughts, you’re going to get lost in conversations with yourself about how amazing you are. you’re going to dance and twirl in your beautiful summer dresses about how you have the best self concept and the best body..best EVERYTHING!

if i wanted to be a top A student who can balance a social life and studying amazingly i would have thoughts like..

“look how amazing i can balance a social life”

“why am i so amazing at everything i do?? its crazy how i have the most amazing friends and still have time to study and achieve my goals”

𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄 …  ۫ ִ ׂ☀️ ◟♡ ˒ ⊹ ݁ ִ  ۫

get rid of self-destructive habits

change your self concept

rewrite your life! who do you want to be?

BECOME THAT PERSON

can’t wait to see all your glowups, love you..MWAH!

I’m so glad the Guillermo Del Toro Pinocchio movie is being received really well, because it was literally my most anticipated movie of the year! So here’s some fun facts about the crew, concept, and production that got me excited about this movie and that I think would excite much of tumblr as well:

-the screenplay was cowritten by Del Toro and Patrick McHale, creator of Over The Garden Wall and a writer on Adventure Time.

-the movie was codirected by Mark Gustasfon, who was the animation director of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

-the primary art/animation designers of this movie (production designer Curt Enderle, art director Robert DeSue, character designer Georgina Hayns, animation supervisor Brian Leif Hansen, and photography director Frank Passingham) previously worked on projects that include Coraline, the Corpse Bride, Paranorman, Isle of Dogs, Frankenweenie, Kubo, and Chicken Run.

-Besides Netflix, it was produced by the Henson company (always a good sign when you’re doing anything with puppets) and ShadowMachine, who have produced a lot of Adult Swim shows including Robot Chicken, Moral Orel, and Tuca and Bertie, as well as the Netflix original BoJack Horseman.

-Del Toro was inspired to make this adaptation due to the similarities he’d always noticed between the original Pinocchio story and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Both are about a man-made character’s relationship with his father/creator, and his attempts to understand what it means to be human. This inspiration is why the film takes on a gothic feel at times.

-the movie is over 10 years in the making. Del Toro announced the project in 2008 and production began in 2012, but it went into development hell and no further updates were made for several years. Del Toro has described it as his passion project, saying "I've wanted to make this movie for as long as I can remember.”

-the backdrop of Mussolini’s Italy was intended to show how Pinnochio was able to find his own humanity and will in a time where everyone else was acting like a blindly obedient puppet. Del Toro wanted to deviate from the original book’s themes of obeying authority by making his Pinocchio virtuous for questioning the rules and forging his own set of morals. (Also if you know anything about Del Toro, the guy likes to dunk on fascism.)

-Del Toro didn’t feel the need to have Pinocchio become flesh-and-blood at the end of the movie, saying all you need to be a real human is to behave like one.

I was lucky enough to see this movie in 35 mm in a movie theatre on Thanksgiving weekend. If there are any movie theatre showings near you and you’re in a position to be able to attend them, I would totally recommend it especially if you can go with loved ones. It was a gorgeous, heartwarming, and magical movie to experience on a big screen and perfect for the late fall/winter holiday season.

Daniel Egnéus’s stunning illustrations for Little Red Riding Hood (part 1 of 2).

The Beguiled (dir. Sofia Coppola, 2017)