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a girl whos love language is physical touch is also a girl who hates people touching her

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I chase after it, but it's always out of reach,

A tantalizing vision, beyond my grasp.

It taunts me with its beauty,

A dream that's just a fantasy.

her_wanderingthoughts

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got my first round of allergy shots yesterday and rewarded myself with a trip to half price books ❤️

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— is it possible that six fictional characters change someone’s life?

— yes.

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— Susan Jeffers

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Lee Krasner // Franz Kafka

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One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

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03.06.2024 | does anyone else feel like they study so much better in their bed? i have a desk and a sizable dining table but i just prefer my bed. also i have just 3 more days to finish my last assignment before summer break and my motivation is nowhere to be found 🙂

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before vs after

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Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

— William Faulkner.

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