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where i come from, our culture (traditionally) doesn't really encourage makeup. it's seen as a somewhat pretentious thing to partake in, and women only do makeup for special occasions like weddings. men simply don't wear any makeup.

today, my mom tells me she has to order new makeup online. i ask her why, since she doesn't wear makeup daily. she answers that her aging is starting to show and the lines on her face are making her ugly. she needs to hide it.

my mom is only 46. she was brought up in a culture that discouraged everyday makeup. yet today she looks at herself in the mirror and the only thing she sees is aging = ugly.

ugliness is a western idea that's leaking into my culture, ruining the beauty of old age for my mom. and i'm so overcome with sadness.

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modern greek mythology stories as penguin classics

the penelopiad by margaret atwood, lore olympus by rachel smythe, ariadne by jennifer saint, circe by madeline miller, the song of achiles by madeline miller, the lightning thief by rick riordan

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achilles and patroclus

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Saoirse Ronan as Christine McPherson

LADY BIRD (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig

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“I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched and what music they listened to, wanted to look under their beds and in their secret drawers and night tables and inside the pockets of their coats.”

— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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Boris—leaning back on his hands, face turned to the sky— was singing to himself in Polish.

Wszystkie dzieci, nawet źle, 

pogrążone są we śnie, 

a Ty jedna tylko nie.  

A-a-a, a-a-a, 

byly sobie kotki dwa. 

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“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”

The Secret History as a ‘50s film classic

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Do you understand? When I am done telling you these stories, when you’re done listening to these stories, I am no longer I, and you are no longer you. In this afternoon we briefly merged into one. After this, you will always carry a bit of me, and I will always carry a bit of you, even if we both forget this conversation.

—Hao Jingfang, ‘Invisible Planets,’ in Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, tr. & ed. Ken Liu

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We make burnt cakes on sunday evenings and take bad selfies, we dance to offbeat music and leave the dishes for tomorrow- a little life, million little lives. We're okay, I think.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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here's an angel number wallpaper i made <3

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u/boonaynays

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ge_baking

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