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Sophia Joan Short

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someday 🐞

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on getting better

?// ?// call your mom, noah kahan// letters to friends, family and editors, franz kafka// call your mom, noah kahan// september affirmation (Don’t Be Afraid), Keaton St. James (@boykeats) // @smuktvejr // ?// ?// ‘east boston, 1996; night walk’ in god’s silence, franz wright// ending, jonny bolduc// listen, tara bray// the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson// little red cap, carol ann duffy// @daisies-on-a-cup// evermore, taylor swift// @angelwarm// long story short, taylor swift

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it has gotten better before. it will get better again. and again and again and again.

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Reminder. ✨

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you don't talk too much. you're not too loud, or too needy, or too annoying.

you are not too much.

you're allowed to exist and take up space.

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More and more I'm convinced that real love is about the specificity of the beloved.

If you see a person as an interchangeable pleasing companion with which you can have interchangeable pleasing interactions, you may enjoy that experience, but it won't be love.

Delighting in the weirdness of another is the seed of love! Because then it's about the specific person and all their specific passions and habits and mannerisms. That person becomes less and less interchangeable as you know them more and more and learn about every unique, endearing, deeply specific part of them.

And sure, it's just a seed until you water it and tend it and give it plenty of light and soil—but the seed is essential for anything to grow.

If you think you love someone, but there's nothing specific to them that's important, if they feel kind of interchangeable to you, that's really not love. Love isn't about the services the beloved provides or how well they conform to aesthetic preferences.

Real love means appreciating the complexity and specificity of the person in front of you, more and more and more, until they're utterly irreplaceable to you as an individual. Until it's obvious that any future love couldn't possibly trace the exact same path because this love is specific to this one completely unique person.

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Recently I was looking in the mirror and feeling miffed that my eyelashes aren't long and beautiful, and then I remembered this bit of the song "Folding Chair" by Regina Spektor. 🎵 She's so right. My eyelashes aren't for looking beautiful — they're for protecting my eyes. My body doesn't exist for being looked at. It's for doing stuff! "My body is an instrument, not an ornament," as they say over at Beauty Redefined. My reminder for today is to appreciate our bodies a little more (and worry about what they look like a little less).

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there is so much intimacy in creating something together

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It's very possible that the only way to ensure you don't become a conservative old person is to keep checking whether you're wrong. Every time. Genuinely mull over the opposing viewpoint even and especially when it's uncomfortable. You absolutely cannot a) consider yourself safely incapable of terrible principles because you're a good person, or b) treat a your disgust reaction to something as a moral truth. You can't get comfortable. Tiring! But you'd rather be tired and choose the right path, you know?

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I stumbled upon a website that allows you to blend any colors evenly no matter how opposite on the spectrum they are.

sharing the knowledge

very helpful art resource

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the 'what if you played it a little risky' post literally Changed my life but i cant fujkign find it in my blog because its. a tiktok screenshot

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A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

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i think one of the most important things you learn about making connections with others is that a significant portion of the time people just do not know theyre doing what theyre doing