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(detail from the San Barnaba Altarpiece (c. 1488) by Sandro Botticelli)

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November 14th, 2024

Throwback to when nature was a bit greener than now. Only three weeks between the right picture and today and the world feels different. The green is gone and it's getting cold.

I'm quite busy at work but that's normal for this time of the year. Still feeling a bit off but working on it.

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source

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Haunting Ground (PlayStation 2, 2005)

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this website lets you listen to the sounds of all different forests around the world 

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some rare and gorgeous mugshots photos of Conrad Veidt as Cesare the Somnambulist in the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari which I sadly don't know the original source or context for

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mentally i am here

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John William Waterhouse. 1896. Hylas and the Nymphs details.

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Portrait of Urania, 19th century

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a quick “why is my life so bad” checklist

how’s your sleep schedule

have you eaten or drank anything besides sugar and caffeine

how long have you been sitting in one spot

have you gone out in public recently

have you taken a shower/brushed your teeth/groomed yourself properly

have you spent time doing an activity that doesn’t involve a screen

etc

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A poem of mine as Gaeilge has been accepted to be published by an annual journal run by my uni! They’re looking for the absolute final draft and I’m quite excited. It feels so much more real now!

I have previously been published in this journal - two poems last year and one the year before - but this will be the first thing I’ve written in Irish. Come summer I will technically be a bilingual published poet.

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german words i wish existed in english

a messy and incomplete list

nachvollziehen (v.) -- to understand, but less empathetic. i.e. i see the steps that brought you to that conclusion, but i don't understand you.

doch (interj.) -- you're wrong and really it's the opposite of what you said. often said with a healthy dose of sass. i.e. "this isn't a good movie." "doch. (it is)"

frech (adj.) -- somewhere between naughty and sassy and silly. when you're being a bit of a brat, you're being frech.

dreist (adj.) -- audacious, but far more colloquial. when you have the goddamn audacity, you are dreist. i.e. to park that far over the line is dreist as hell

heimat (n.) -- home, but stronger. a home is wherever you have built a life, but heimat is where your roots are. heimat is where you feel pangs of nostalgia when you go to visit your family for christmas and see the shop at the corner.

weltschmerz (n.) -- literally 'world-pain'. the world sucks and sometimes you just sit and feel the pain of it all. that's weltschmerz.

existenzberechtigung (n.) -- the right to exist, often in a comedic context. i.e. pineapple on pizza has absolutely no existenzberechtigung.

fernweh (n.) -- literally 'far-ache'. the opposite of homesickness, the desire to go far away. i guess wanderlust is similar, but that is also a german word, and this is more painful and visceral

schweigen (v./n.) -- the act of not speaking. silence, but more deliberate. the palpable feeling that people are withholding their voice.

verschlimmbesserung (n.) -- when an update with the intention of making something better actually just made it worse. looking at you @staff

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It's fungi season!! Don't eat these, you'll die

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i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

im not a pissbaby