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december consumption

these are forms of media that i frequently associate with december

books

Devotion, Patti Smith

A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin

After Dark, Haruki Murakami

The Woman in the Dunes, Kōbō Abe

Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick

Untold Night and Day, Bae Suah

Paradais, Fernanda Melchor

articles/essays

Everything Visible Is Empty: Toshio Matsumoto, Stuart Monro-Mousse Magazine

As a city, Hong Kong confounds. The sheer aggressiveness, people jostling for trains or shouting from afar, somehow feels more intimate than unsettling.

A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty, Julian Lucas-NYT

(on Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor)

Our Doppelgängers, Ourselves, Alan Glynn-Lit Hub

Cannibal Manifesto, Oswald De Andrade

Strange Fruit: the first great protest song, Dorian Lynskey-The Guardian

poetry

The Denial of Death, Louise Glück

Funeral Blues, W.H Auden

A Quiet Poem, Frank O'Hara

Giving Up Smoking, Wendy Cope

I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once, Yehuda Amichai

Last Curtain, Rabindranath Tagore

Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo

Tahini Al-Jamil saying ‘I had never felt quite so seen as when she saw me’ sounds like something straight out of a dark academia novel, where the protagonist is describing their ‘friend’ who they’re definitely NOT in love with

New drinking game: take a shot whenever Henry bites his lip in TSH

Tonight the moon is full. Through the window the moon covers my bed and turns everything a milky bluish white. So I escape by closing my eyes. Because the full moon is light insomnia: numb and drowsy like after love.

Clarice Lispector, from "Água Viva" (tr. by Stefan Tobler)

was at the minster + saw a class of school children laying on the floor looking at all the architecture 💌

Excerpts from Today by Victoria Chang

a beautifully constructed poem on death and grief

there's always time to take your time // watercolor, ink & gouache on paper

please let me live in this forever and ever

flan with friends 🍮 print available here ! 

Research ideas for bored people

Religious cults in ancient societies

Poison and why it’s so prominent in mystery novels

Methods of forensic investigations throughout the years

Influence of fashion based on past media

The transition to the Renaissance and renaissance philosophy

The pioneers of Pop Art

Artists in times of war

Music and political propaganda

Symbolism in surrealistic art

The Trail of Tears

Dead branches of evolution

Art Fraud

Barbie doll fashion

Southern Asian Empires

Advance of science and maths in Islamic kingdoms

Dark academia and its subtle racism and elitism/classisms

What defines as ‘alien’ in different cultures

Opium War

Modernism in South America

Egyptian revolution

White washing in media

Racial identity in the Caribbean

History of puppetry in Chinese drama

Problems revolving organized crimes

Cuban missile crisis and the Cold War

any true crime case that fascinates you

Your views on immortality

Feral children and the impact of isolation

Themes of self discovery in Albert Camus ‘The Stranger’

Early concepts of feminism in literature and then later on music

Add some of your own in the comments :)

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