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Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

Text ID: By thinking so much, I became echo and abyss. By delving within, I made myself into many.

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"Because of You", Paruyr Sevak (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

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“There’s a strange naïveté and kindness demonstrated by humanity when faced with the universe: On Earth, humankind can step onto another continent, and without a thought, destroy the kindred civilizations found there through warfare and disease. But when they gaze up at the stars, they turn sentimental and believe that if extraterrestrial intelligences exist, they must be civilizations bound by universal, noble, moral constraints, as if cherishing and loving different forms of life are parts of a self-evident universal code of conduct. I think it should be precisely the opposite: Let’s turn the kindness we show toward the stars to members of the human race on Earth and build up the trust and understanding between the different peoples and civilizations that make up humanity. But for the universe outside the solar system, we should be ever vigilant, and be ready to attribute the worst of intentions to any Others that might exist in space. For a fragile civilization like ours, this is without a doubt the most responsible path.”

— from the Author’s Postscript for the American Edition of The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu (trans. Ken Liu)

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hi guys this week has been an absolute shitshow im not gonna be able to do anything until s.korea impeaches yoon and get its democracy back on track and there is no more possibility of another martial law being imposed, so

i cannot believe this shit is happening again since the last time i marched for impeachment (2016) and i can't even join this time bc literally on the other side of the globe

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THIS DIVAAAAAAAAAA

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imagine being a Korean person awake at like one in the morning trying to accept that the president of South Korea actually just tried to go full dictatorship by way of an emergency martial law because he was basically having a political temper tantrum and every agency and corporation in the country is all hands on deck, code red mode on everything and the military is being deployed and then the assembly revokes the martial law and then the president is like lol nevermind and now you have to get ready to work at your shitty job on a Wednesday

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"Traitors of the nation."

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"Never fall into despair. Never fall to cynicism. There is something you must do. Don't look away. In today's society all capital pressures people to become stupid. Cynicism robs people of their will. Never fall into despair. Always have hope. I have high hopes for your generation. If you won't fight, then I will rise and fight, even if I am already dead and underground. I hope that won't have to happen. I wish, with all my heart, you and the generation after you will prosper." - South Korean novelist Cho Se-hui, 2008

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"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

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hi guys, I know I am taking so much time updating, but I recently quit my job, moved across the world to Chile, married my gf, and started learning Spanish, so you can imagine I haven't been in the right headspace. anyway I'm alive, pls look at our cats in the meantime

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Yall might not find a 52 year old goth woman and her 600+ year old trickster demon husband who worships the ground she walks on the pinnacle of Gothic Romance, but thats because you're a wet blanket with no chutzpah. The rest of us are thriving though..

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STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".

A slow-burning international literary star who has won multiple awards in South Korea and Europe, Han is the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize. She was awarded for books, including “The Vegetarian” and “Human Acts,” that explore the pain of being human and the scars of Korea’s turbulent history.

Nobel literature committee member Anna-Karin Palm said Han writes about “trauma, pain and loss,” whether individual or collective, “with the same compassion and care"

Nobel committee chairman Anders Olsson praised Han’s “empathy for the vulnerable, often female lives” of her characters.

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"Voca Me", Vahagn Athabekyan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

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Sometimes u just gotta make yourself a quesadilla and move the fuck on