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HAMMOND B3 ORGAN CISTERN by GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI

#words

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#the traitor baru cormorant #beauty is a wound #the sympathizer #no i'm not juggling any of these very well

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what's a book you read as a teenager that was so magical and personally profound to you it literally changed your life, doesnt matter if the book was actually well written or not. mine's probably the catcher in the rye

#same w catcher in the rye #but also on the jellicoe road #i cannot even tell you what it's about anymore just know i lived for that book

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of course, I feel too much, I'm a universe of exploding stars.

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Marquees, Photo by Jenny Holzer, 1993

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Guelaguetza hairstyles by Netzahualxochitl Huerta featured in Vogue México shot by Luvia Lazo

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“That equality of men and women is a sign of backwardness and that it is part of the ‘civilizing mission’ of the British colonialists to destroy the independence of colonized women, and to teach the colonized men the ‘virtues’ of sexism and militarism are also clearly spelt out by one Mr. Fielding Hall in his book, ‘A People at School’. Mr. Hall was Political Officer in the British colonial administration in Burma between 1887-91. He gives a vivid account of the independence of Burmese women, of the equality between the sexes, and of the peace loving nature of the Burmese people which he ascribes to Buddhism. But, instead of trying to preserve such a happy society, Mr. Hall comes to the conclusion that Burma has to be brought by force on the road of progress: ‘But today the laws are ours, the power, the authority. We govern for our own subjects and we govern in our own way. Our whole presence here is against their desires.’ He suggests the following measures to civilize the Burmese people: 1. The men must be taught to kill and to fight for the British colonialists: ‘I can imagine nothing that could do the Burmese so much good as to have a regiment of their own to distinguish itself in our wars. It would open their eyes to new views of life’ (A People at School, p. 264). 2. The women must surrender their liberty in the interests of man. Considering equality of the sexes a sign of backwardness, this colonial administrator warned: ‘It must never be forgotten that their civilization is relatively a thousand years behind ours.’ To overcome this,backwardness, the Burmese men should learn to kill, to make war and to oppress their women. In the words of Mr. Hall: 'What the surgeon’s knife is to the diseased body that is the soldier’s sword to the diseased nations’”

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Patriarchy and accumulation on a world’s scale, Maria Mies

I don’t think I can continue reading this book. I have to take a break from all this.

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LOVE dostoevsky's commitment to writing about sick people. Not just like, chronically ill people but i love how 80% of his characters are just are sickly guys who you take one look at and think. Yeah that's a sickly man. He is Unwell

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actually no one is allowed to make fun of transmasc names anymore. i dont care if it's a 13 year old trans boy named after his favorite cartoon or whatever you're not allowed to make fun of trans guys' names

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At this point I would rather take a book recommendation from someone who has never read a single book in their life rather than taking one from booktok.

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All Quiet On The Frontal Lobe

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i might do a longer post on this at some point but my biggest recs for people who want to read more are

1) try every medium you can (digital, print, audio, etc) and embrace whatever brings you most joy and understanding

2) throw out quantity-focused expectations and focus on quality, not in the sense of the "finest" literature but instead what feels most emotionally resonant, necessary, impactful, and interesting to you at this moment in your journey

3) remember you can reread as much as you want, whenever you want, and you are not obligated to understand anything the first time. the beautiful think about books is that they will be there with you whenever you want to enjoy their company again.

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Le Roi de la Lune Artbook by Yoshitaka Amano

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on the studyblr aesthetic & capitalism (surprise!)

i’m glad once more the hot topic we’re talking about is the studyblr / dark academic / etc “aesthetic” & how they overglorify working yourself to exhaustion, championing a consumerist lifestyle that is at most ignorant to the common reality of students around the world and at worst classist in how it makes its viewers assume & lead to the common POV that in order to be a “good” studyblr / etc you must own muji notebooks, go cafe-hopping, own leatherbound copies of english lit “”classics””. because we HAVE been talking about this since, god, 2015? 

yet as the studyblr space became more capitalized (i’m looking at you, every single popular studyblr who have moved on to ig & do sponsored posts every time they post – circa mid 2016, 2017) this kind of aesthetic has just been entrenched in the community, because the well-known users have that kind of aesthetic. it DEFINES us. bujos that take too much time (literally they’re not even bullet journals theyre just JOURNALS), watercolored notes, all of that. now, i truly can’t blame individuals here bc we’re all victims of the system, but realize how the studyblrs & studygrams that have a big follower count & get sponsors are those who can in the first place afford that kind of aesthetic? that those who have the “grind” lifestyle don’t have anything to worry but their academics (like, they probably have a part time job, but they wont die if they lose it)?

this post is rambly as hell but i’d like to think im making a point that: we must detach ourselves from this line of thinking and continue supporting studyblrs that aren’t flatlay-photo based and instead FORM. A FUCKING. COMMUNITY. that we think we are but aren’t. that actually interacts with each other, as equals. where we don’t focus on pictures instead but actually our growth as individuals in this academic hell – supported by so many others that are in the same journey as us.

(also dark academia ~aesthetic~ is so fucking western-centric it makes my blood boil as an indonesian but that’s another post for another time)

(thank you @blackgrad @idiotacademia @coffeeandpies & numerous others who’ve been talking abt this issue on the dash <3)

#i like the 'neatness' of the aesthetic every now and then but tbh other than that #i mostly just use this to follow anarchist/langblrs #and to those saying 'it's not that deep' yeah that behavior is part of the problem lol this community is mostly so. empty lol