#notes from the collective

[shisasan]

write about how you feel and what’s tormenting you—write it out of your system, July 5, 1903 [From Lou Andreas-Salomé to Rainer Maria Rilke] Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: a love story in letters (1897-1926)

[fracturedporcelaindoll]

Beautiful ~

— Van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

[lucabyte]

even dogs pass the mirror test

[unlimited-nobu-works]

my group chats on private MMO servers

[chiropteracupola]

c. 1540 CE: a young man from Chalco, and his dragon.

[shisasan]

so unassuming, so easily overlooked. ♡

Fyodor Dostoevsky real luxuries in life

Time

Health

A quiet mind

Slow mornings

Ability to travel

Rest without guilt

A good nights sleep

Calm and “boring” days

Meaningful conversations

Home-cooked meals

People you love

People who love you back

[humanityinahandbag]

My Very Educated Take on Steve Harrington and his Bisexual Awakening: Instructions Very Much Included

Absolutely understand those who write Steve Harrington as a shy, new bisexual who has Eddie show him the ropes of queer intimacy. From one angle, I'd almost be inclined to agree.

And then I remember that this is King Steve. Yes, he left the moniker behind, but that doesn't mean the legacy is gone! Royalty doesn't just vanish into oblivion! Kings and Queens of olde are remembered through their tales of greatness and tragedy, and Steve's great legacy is the fact that this man is a bona fide harlot who proudly gave the ladies of Hawkins, ages 16-18 the time of their fucking lives in the golden chariot that is his Beemer.

He's not just out there romancing, either! Robin will need to grudgingly admit, at some point, that his charm is actually so insanely effective that he managed to snag her - the resident Steve Harrington Hater and Local Lesbian - into a lifelong soulmate partnership.

And it gets worse! Because not only is he an absolute charmer, but he's a total slut for true love!

Someone can look at him, at Steve the Hair, Steve the Loverboy, Steve the King of "guess what my jeans are made of relationship material" Harrington and think that he's going to tiptoe and tremble his way through a sexual awakening with Eddie Munson as his guide?

That, to me, is as ridiculous as the thought of Eddie being anything less than a midwestern gay nerd overcompensating with confident speeches and loud proclamations of how he's a bad boy. Like he's not actually a virgin who lies on his stomach, kicking his little feeties in the air, writing tiny stories about being swept off his combat boots by a big strong man with nice hair and a polo shirt and a flock of little nerdy kids behind him.

Like I said. I respect other opinions. But you cannot sway me.

In my head, there is only one true outcome.

Steve Harrington realized he was bisexual, got pumped up because holy shit more people equals more love, Robin, why did you not tell me this was a thing sooner don't be a gay gatekeeper, and then showed up the next day at Eddie's door (with flowers, a hidden box of condoms in one back pocket, and a stapled pile of handwritten instructions - that include detailed charts and graphs and footnotes that he studied and copied down in glitter gel pen in the library - folded up in the other) to tell a very confused Wayne that he just realized his feelings for Eddie were also romantic and he'd very much like to woo his son now, thank you very much.

[shisasan]

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra originally published 1873

[0nsyu-archive]

An interesting analogy

[shisasan]

"you have both; they must never leave you."

Oscar Wilde, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde

[bacchuschucklefuck]

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[padfootastic]

james would’ve adored the heck out of hermione for brewing the polyjuice in 2nd year (illega animagi anyone?) and also, for keeping rita locked up in a jar. oh and punching an asshole classmate in the face.

[bennetsbonnet]

I found an absolute treasure today. A Penguin Illustrated Classics edition of Pride and Prejudice from 1938.

(I love that you can see on the inside of the dust jacket on the bottom right the price in 'old' money of 6d... aka sixpence or half a shilling!)

[shisasan]

True elegance is born from self-refinement, not mere ornamentation.

cultivate an elegant mind

[starkidlabs]

I love him so much! He looks so pathetic!

[shisasan]

To confront the psyche is to encounter a form of death, not the cessation of the body, but the dissolution of obsolete paradigms, opening to a deeper part of the mind, a descent into the collective unconscious. This often unfolds through a painful yet necessary process of confrontation and transformation, a shedding of both self and Ego, an initiation into the timeless.

Edward F. Edinger, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy