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i was doing so well, too

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Jean Paul Gaultier, A/W 1992.

During a lecture on epic poetry like the Mahābhārata and Iliad in my first year of college, my professor said, “When the whole world dies, even when brick and mortar is destroyed, memory survives. It survives and lives on in generations to come. And literature carries that memory. All your geography, your economics, your psychology, they’re all based on the memory of man, passed down generations after generations. These epic poems and literature we are studying right now is to remind us that we too will be memories one day. And therefore, let us be good memories,” and I think a piece of this lecture will live on in me wherever I go.

silly warmup doodle

something about vi never wanting anyone in her life to change. something about jayce not caring at all how much viktor has changed so long as he's alive. something about the way vi associates radical change with death, perceiving jinx's continued existence as a kind of necromantic horror—the way jayce would shatter fundamental laws of nature without a second thought in order to give viktor the best chance at survival, in whatever form that may take. transformation as rebirth vs murder, hextech vs shimmer. nature has made us intolerant to change, but fortunately, we have the capacity to change our nature. and then jayce, realizing that he hasn't changed at all, not really—that he is a scientist at heart, and he shouldn't have tried to be anything else. and then vi, realizing she has become someone unrecognizable—never thought my sister would turn bluebelly. and for both of them, it's too little, too late.

I think the meaning of life is eating good food in the company of people you love

chai tea lattes, keeping a book in your tote bag, dried flowers as decorations, phoebe bridgers, greta gerwig movies, the signature necklace you wear every day, taylor swift , 2005 pride and prejudice, vintage teacups, independent bookstores, being a mirrorball, vogue beauty secrets videos, hozier lyrics, enamel pin collections, jo march, writing in book margins, glossier cloud paint, botanical art prints, black turtlenecks, october