#WHERE TO BEGIN

[redgatechateau]

Modern day Renaissance painting No. 2, -"The Nymphs Lounge"

[ningtual]

sunwoo ig update (241008)

[thenightblogsuccessioneth]

[otomiyaa]

It's only been 1 day and I'm already drowning in the tickletober stuff I want to consume 🥰😱

[howifeltabouthim]

Where to start? How to stop?

Kate Atkinson, from Death at the Sign of the Rook

[iwanthermidnightz]

the time has come. my sister asked me about kaylor 😭

[one-sleepy-dragon]

when sam miller said "when we were younger, we saw God's face in our fathers, now that all our heroes died, we're all alone" and when sam miller said "as the years and years went by and we fell less and less in love, we slowly stopped complaining about what our parents did to us" and when sam miller said "a quarter life gone by and i'm still obsessed with purpose, just getting wasted wasting time" and when sam miller said "now i don't believe in politics, i don't pray to celebrities, or stand with generations finding faith in TV screens and screaming all that's good is gone, all we used to love is dead, now our only heroes are the voices in our heads"

[letuswaltzforthedead]

it's been more tma and less tea and literature and such on here recently but that's mainly because when i sat down yesterday with chamomile, carrot cake and my second hand copy of Romeo and Juliet, ready to annotate my heart out, i got through about 2 pages before giving up and watching bbc ghosts compilations

[pinolitas]

I need healthy interests and relationships I need to get out of this hole of depression I've made for myself

[majorbaby]

there's a vibey three-line trapper/ginger noir AU microfic on ao3 published in 2012. i am inconsolable.

[a-true-janian-reply]

Can we all just scream for a minute? It won’t help but maybe we won’t go insane with fear and grief ?

[fellshish]

Sorry to bother you again, but do you know what's up with the "good morning" tag?

I wanted sunrise and coffee and breakfast and all I got were half naked people:/

Oh new tumblr user, you’re really in it now :/

[dreadcase]

just got told by some guy that he “likes my skrillex hair”

[lucy-moderatz]

[theladyoflore]

A small little book recs for these trying times:

Cleo Wade, Where to begin:

Where to Begin is a collection of the ideas, mantras, and poems I turn to when I feel like I am losing it. I wrote this so that I could put them all in one place when I felt overwhelmed by worry, fear, anxiety, or helplessness.

The words in this book are what stop me from walking away from the problems of the world during tough times. They also help me stay connected to hope during difficult moments and remind me that even on the days that feel the most daunting, I still have the power to show up and do something, somewhere, in some way.

Change-making comes in all sizes. It doesn’t always have to be one big gesture or nothing. As my friend Jenna often says, “The big stuff is the small stuff.” Your big life is made up of a collection of all of your small moments. Our big world is a made up of a collection of all of our small actions. This book is about where to begin.

Rutger Bregman, Humankind A hopeful history:

From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and cooperation of human beings has been the greatest factor in our success

If one basic principle has served as the bedrock of bestselling author Rutger Bregman's thinking, it is that every progressive idea -- whether it was the abolition of slavery, the advent of democracy, women's suffrage, or the ratification of marriage equality -- was once considered radical and dangerous by the mainstream opinion of its time. With Humankind, he brings that mentality to bear against one of our most entrenched ideas: namely, that human beings are by nature selfish and self-interested.

By providing a new historical perspective of the last 200,000 years of human history, Bregman sets out to prove that we are in fact evolutionarily wired for cooperation rather than competition, and that our instinct to trust each other has a firm evolutionary basis going back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. Bregman systematically debunks our understanding of the Milgram electrical-shock experiment, the Zimbardo prison experiment, and the Kitty Genovese "bystander effect."

In place of these, he offers little-known true stories: the tale of twin brothers on opposing sides of apartheid in South Africa who came together with Nelson Mandela to create peace; a group of six shipwrecked children who survived for a year and a half on a deserted island by working together; a study done after World War II that found that as few as 15% of American soldiers were actually capable of firing at the enemy.

The ultimate goal of Humankind is to demonstrate that while neither capitalism nor communism has on its own been proven to be a workable social system, there is a third option: giving "citizens and professionals the means (left) to make their own choices (right)." Reorienting our thinking toward positive and high expectations of our fellow man, Bregman argues, will reap lasting success. Bregman presents this idea with his signature wit and frankness, once again making history, social science and economic theory accessible and enjoyable for lay readers.

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I've recently read these two books and they both uplifted my spirits. So, I hope that if you give them the chance, they will uplift yours too.