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“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

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+5 emotional damage

“You are the alchemist of your loneliness. You can create anything in its place.”

— Warsan Shire, “Today My Horoscope Read,” Her Blue Body (via mythologyofblue)

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People say “phase” like impermanence means insignificance. Show me a permanent state of the self.

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PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

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imagine if the oceans were replaced by forests and if you went into the forest the trees would get taller the deeper you went and there’d be thousands of undiscovered species and you could effectively walk across the ocean but the deeper you went, the darker it would be and the animals would get progressively scarier and more dangerous and instead of whales there’d be giant deer and just wow

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does anyone have the post thats a leonard cohen quote talking about being empty

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V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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Vatican vs. Blue Whale

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There are no unsacred places

there are only sacred places

and desecrated places

- Wendell Berry, How to be a Poet

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It's poetry

The answer to your problems is self-discipline

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Stick Season by Noah Kahan (a song)

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Oh dear, why would you be alive on a Saturday? You should rest a little. Let yourself go! Leave that body and go spook some kids at the park. It's healthy to be incorporeal from time to time. Possesing a body 24/7 for all eternity, that doesn’t sound like a good afterlife to me. Isn’t it exhausting to maintain all these bodily functions? All day all night for years and years, caring for flesh that isn't even yours. How monotonous. Doesn’t it get boring? Come on darling, let's go hount a house. We're already dead, might as well live a little.

-me

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“Expect the unexpected, they say, but once the unexpected happens, the last thing you expect is that it will happen again.”

― Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions

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Read Monstrilio: A Novel. While It's not the most nail-biting new special interest type of book, it deals with exactly that - how a person can change so much due to the expectation of people who love them but still stay the same on the inside. Interesting and emotional read.

Also, it's queer af. Everyone's at least a little bit gay in this novel.

i hate hate hate hate hate hate hate when a monster is loved and that love turns them human I HATE IT I HATE IT SO MUCH. tell that thing that goes bump in the night that you love the way its fangs glimmer in the moonlight and the way its horrible gnarled claws are so gentle with you or GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!

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Brian Eno and photoshop (1995)

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you ever feel like you were born with something rotten inside you and if people get close enough they’re gonna find out