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SHE IS SO FASHIOOON!!

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quickly sharing my lockscreen bc it’s super cute & this song that ive been loving <3

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this is problematic of me (joke) but i really enjoy the splashing of french into english speech or writing. just adds a pizzazz

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You’ve heard of “don’t monetize your hobbies”; get ready for "don’t master your hobbies".

Your hobbies are here to help you decompress and have fun. They do not have to be disciplines you toil over for expertise, unless that is something you genuinely enjoy doing.

It’s okay to enjoy language-learning without ever becoming fluent, or even conversational. It’s okay to like playing guitar even if you only know a few clumsy songs. You can read books and never finish them, bowl without ever scoring even halfway to perfect. We’re here to explore and play, and we cannot do that if we’re chasing perfection in everything we do.

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stone fruit or berries? poetry or essays? essential oils or incense? records or tapes? dressing in pastels or all black? scrunchies or bows? granola or oatmeal? stripes or polka dots? bunnies or deer?

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book from the sky (tianshu) xu bing, 1989-91

I was so excited to see a copy of this in real life bc it's something I studied in art history. this is a book that was typeset and printed by hand using wooden blocks but every one of the characters was invented for the sake of the piece and does not correspond to any word in the Chinese language

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Serious question: how do we read books in our target languages?

Like, does anyone have a strategy?

Do you guys only consume stories you're already familiar with or does it matter to you?

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The train is coming. Naebo station, Sapporo, Hokkaido. Feb 2023

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Monument Valley, Arizona by Ken Cheung

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this clip makes me so emotional. i feel like this sometimes, at night especially. That the whole wide world may swallow me whole. That i’m wide-eyed in the face of god. that I’m not a victim of smallness but rather its loving disciple.

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When are y’all’s finals? My finals week starts on the sixteenth… but all my profs this semester are doing finals in class, the last week of class 💀💀

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flowers in the community garden. watercolor on toned paper~

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why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry

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