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a worm spent 100 years transforming into a capital N, then gave birth to a new worm to hold on its head. life is beautiful

Alexander Bassano • Lady Lavery dressed as Flora, in a pose inspired by Botticelli's painting "Primavera", 1911

apply for jobs you’re not qualified for! audit upper-level classes! get drunk with your TAs! see that poster advertising that lecture series? go there take notes and ask questions! thank the presenter for talking about this topic you love! if the class is full before you register, email the professor and ask if they can squeeze you in! RAISE YOUR HAND! tell the disability accomodation office to do their goddamn job! ask for help! file complaints! go to class in your pajamas and destroy the reading! you got this! you KNOW you got this! be arrogant enough to learn EVERYTHING! take your meds! punch a velociraptor in the dick! fear is useless and temporary! glory is forever! shed your skin and erupt angel wings! help out! spread your sun!

i had a really good morning! you deserve a really good morning! kill anyone who says you don’t and build a throne from their bones!

National Drama Theatre in Lithuania

Today I learned that in fifteenth century Polish dudes would sometimes pretend to be werewolves in a scam to get some free meat.

They’d attach wolf tails to their backsides, walk around the village howling and occasionally bite a random cow so that folks would donate meat to them to ensure they don’t „lose control” and attack somebody.

I just thought you guys might wanna know.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.

Do What You Will

Aldous Huxley

Girls from Suva Gora, North Macedonia, no date/source given

Collection of vintageslavic

Averill and Sundararajan, "Experiences of Solitude: Issues of Assessment, Theory, and Culture"

Sensed presence experiences

Arthur Lille, Bali Devil Dancer, India in Primitive Christianity, 1909

In all this there was a strangeness that attracted and enchanted me.

Mary Shelley, from 'Matilda'

Audre Lorde to her students during a poetry workshop, as shown in A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

today’s haul

“When Dante Gabriel Rossetti read the novel Wuthering Heights, he wrote to a friend: “The action takes place in Hell, but the places, I don’t know why, have English names.””

— Jorge Luis Borges, “Julio Cortazar, Stories” from Prologues to a Personal Library.