10 / 30

Elif Batuman on feeling like everyone around you seeming so much more formed and opinionate.

“Boredom is different nowadays. It’s about super-saturation, distraction, restlessness. I am often bored but it’s not for lack of options: a thousand TV channels, the bounty of Netflix, countless net radio stations, innumerable unlistened-to albums, unwatched DVDs and unread books, the maze-like archive of YouTube. Today’s boredom is not hungry, a response to deprivation; it is a loss of cultural appetite, in response to the surfeit of claims on your attention and time.”

— Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past

Heart Picnic Basket

late 19th century perfume bottles

*forgives myself for the moments I've acted outside my values due to fear and uncertainty*

Why do i get so flustered around cute boys? It’s like i forget that all men are beneath me

gold angel pins

anyone else wonder if the rise in dnd podcast popularity is an ingrained human response to the folkloric tradition of sitting in a circle telling each other stories or is just me