Btw You Will Miss This In 5 Or 10 Years. Memory Will Smooth These Circumstances Down Like A River Stone,

"...in pronouncing the name, I had secured a sort of power over it, by the mere act of drawing it up out of my dreams and giving it an objective existence in the world of spoken things."

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time vol 1: Swann's Way, "Combray"

“what’s the odyssey?” girl what ISN’T the odyssey

Masha and the Bear were one of the blueprints for the cottagecore aesthetic

enver gortash and family home

@clementinevonradics Courtney Love Prays To Oregon / Brendan Burton American Poetry / Lois Dodd / @filmnoirsbian DO NOT REPLY / Georges Lefebvre The Mother of the Artist / Mattias Härenstam Down There / Louise Bourgeois / Crime scene photos Deadly home invasion CBS news / @heavensghost It lingers for your whole life / Louise Bourgeois Maman / @filmnoirsbian / Geloy Concepcion Things You Wanted so Say But Never Did / @filmnoirsbian DO NOT REPLY

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

You have been vetoed

*pushes you off a ravine*

Classic novels from POC authors

The Analects, Confucius- a collection of his quotes, documented by his pupils shortly after his death. 

Theologus Autodidactus, Ibn Al-Nafis- one of the first Arabic novels and considered an early example of sci-fi and a coming of age story

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Pu Songling- a collection of classical Chinese stories

The Heart of Hyacinth, Onoto Watanna- coming of age story about a Eurasian child raised by white parents

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

The Woman in the Dunes, Kōbō Abe- themes of myths and suspense wrapped into an existential novel

The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran- collection of poetic essays

Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup- memoir of a black man sold into slavery in America

Contending Forces, Pauline Hopkins- focuses on African American families in American society, post Civil War

Iola Leroy, Frances Harper- one of the first novels published by an African-American woman

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

On Love and Barley, Bashō Matsuo-

The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore- a love story mixed in with a political awakening

American Indian Stories, Zitkala-Sa-legends and tales from the authors life based on her childhood and the community

A Dark Night’s Passing, Naoya Shiga- a young mans trial through disturbing experiences

Cane, Jean Toomer- fiction based of black life in Harlem

Where There’s Love, There’s Hate, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Casares

of course he's read the secret history!!

Some character quirks based off people I know

-collects music boxes and line them neatly on the shelf, trying to set them off at the same time.

-used to buy baguettes every Thursday morning and carry them to school

- great at forging things, because their writing can instantly change

- can beatbox surprisingly

- can unhinge their jaw

- can crack their neck

- brings certain things to a get together just because it is aesthetic

- takes lessons for violin yet spends most of their time self teaching themselves piano

- knows seven languages yet has a mental blank for all of them when speaking to someone

- hunches over and makes themselves look shorter than they are, even though they are one of the shortest ones

- good at a shit ton of things yet does not seem to comprehend simple geography, will believe that Spain is in France until told otherwise

- teaching themselves to be ambidextrous

- smartass since day one

-mildly allergic to cats yet owns one

- can’t swim properly

- writes notes in a bunch of different languages mixed together and sits in satisfaction as their friends scramble to translate it.

- has a guilty pleasure of gay fanfic

- has a guilty pleasure of poetry from the romantic era

- one is a slightly hypochondriac

- uses too many commas, semi colons in their writing

- scared of butterflies

- smells like berries

- so many hand gestures and dramatics while talking.

- calls her friends ‘bub’

- whenever she’s bored and wants to read at the same time the only thing she’ll read is Lemony Snicket

- has to pick out their own cutlery otherwise will get annoyed

- checks their bare wrist as if they’re looking for the time

- has a strange obessesion with time

- really likes ink

- gets vertigo a lot

- prefers inanimate objects more than people

-used to have a room filled with paper planes

- always yawns whenever it’s a social gathering