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now that tumblr has polls I can figure this out

have never met someone who’s favorite planet is mercury. what’s up with that

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10.06.2025

This month has the potential to define whether my summer will be characterized by MARINA's Cuntissimo or Radiohead's How to Disappear Completely.

It's so fun to have what once was your primary goal in life ripped away from you!

For now though, I listen to Mendelssohn.

🎶 Lied ohne Worte in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 67/2 - Felix Mendelssohn

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"Greetings to the Universe in 55 Different Languages", a poem compiled out of messages from the Voyager spacecraft

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André Gide, from a journal entry featured in The Journals of Andre Gide, Vol. 2: 1914-1927

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Creative writing is way closer to engineering than I think a lot of people expect. It takes creativity and imagination to decide what to write about. It takes a lot of honed dedication to craft to really make the word-to-word prose sparkle. But all the stuff in between? Knowing how long an idea should be, what medium it should be, how many characters, and how their motivations need to interact, all that shit is basically engineering.

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grief really does come in waves doesn’t it?

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love downloading a pdf to never read. just in case. like lol. you’re coming home with me

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The Eruption of Vesuvius - Sebastian Pether

1825. Oil on wood panel.

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a fun lil catch up tag ! ❣️

thank you for tagging me @crow-studies!

the last song you sang aloud: still working on getting the lyrics down but Voice of No Return from Nier: Automata

your favourite crisp flavor: maybe sour cream & onion? I'm more than happy with most any flavor, though BBQ often runs too sweet for my tastes

the last book you opened: House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski. It is finally time to let this book consume me

earbuds, headphones, or nothing: headphones, almost always

the last place you went, other than home: out to dinner with some friends, which was lovely

a color that looks good on you: I personally like black, or other dark shades, though a crisp white is nice as well

the last trailer you saw: I can't seem to remember, but maybe Ballerina, the new John Wick movie?

tagging: @luteceapprentice @hizerain @nyxscave and anyone else who would like to join in

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how strange it is to let go of something after wanting it for so long

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- Annihilation (Book 1, The Southern Reach Series), Jeff VanderMeer

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before you make a major life decision you should ALWAYS make sure that you are going through something that could be described as an "episode"

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100 Designers' Favorite Rooms, 1994

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Hieronymus Bosch

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no longer a PhD student :(

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i think you can recognize that the usage of ai by students of all grades and all around the world to cheat through their assignments is not a personal moral failing but just yet another symptom of the mechanistic if not, at this point, basically dehumanized processes of our education systems which are nowadays almost solely focused on demanding production from students and churning out degrees required for jobs while ignoring any tangible verification of their actual knowledge, intellectual development and critical thinking skills, much less their mental health, while also pointing out that using ai to write your essay isn't a power move to cheat a flawed system, it is behaving exactly as the system designed, it is cheating yourself by giving up your ability to speak, think for and challenge yourself and bowing your head to powers who will only benefit from not being questioned, and the only reason text genai is so widespread right now is because it was born on the perfect breeding ground that is anti intellectualism

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Rainer Maria Rilke, from a diary entry featured in Diaries of a Young Poet