Everyone's Doomed By The Narrative Bitch Let's Get You Some Fruit

Blue Water Lilies, Monet, c. 1917

i stress about stress before there’s even stress to stress about

Spring

Studying in the park + city walk

To everyone running here for refuge from Twitter since they are selling it to Elon Musk, welcome! In order to survive here, you must sacrifice one of your monsters or discard your entire hand.

morrissey’s letter from 1980

drinking pear green tea, listening to some Debussy, feeling good 🍐😌

it drives me crazy how most study community users act so fucking woke, and then in the next post talk abt how they bought a fucking harry potter book like okay! so you choose to support a transphobic writer and a book series that has racism, antisemitism and anti-indigenous themes in it! so woke!

hiya! i hope you're havin a lovely day. dya have any book reccs for japanese literature/poetry?

hi! i don’t have anything on poetry and even with literature, i can tell you what’s on my tbr:

the housekeeper and the professor by yoko ogawa

heaven by mieko kawakami

the travelling cat chronicles by hiro arikawa

lonely castle in the mirror by mizuki tsujimura

murakami: sputnik sweetheart and the wind-up bird chronicle are on my tbr; i enjoyed 1Q84 and killing commendatore

the sound of waves by yukio mishima

strange weather in tokyo by hiromi kawakami

That reminds me of that one infuriating post that was like “if you don’t understand an academic paper, it probably means it was poorly written”…. Besties, romans, countrymen, if you don’t understand an academic paper it’s probably because it was written for a handful of experts in the very specific subfield for which it is relevant, and as someone who is almost certainly NOT one of those handful of experts it’s not in your realm of immediate comprehension. In many (most? all?) fields if you take even one step to the left of your scope of research you’re going to end up spending a lot of time catching up on context. Shockingly, this is because there’s a lot of information out there in the world, and you don’t know all of it. That doesn’t make you stupid, or the author stupid. No one has to be stupid in this scenario. This is a process called learning, just chill on it