I ask this one thing:

Let me go mad in my own way

(via)

hey god, its me again, back with my silly little moon imagery

melbourne town hall / melbourne, australia.

Like a candle flame touching the night air. x

sifting through my notes on military cultures and waiting for inspiration to strike this essay season

autumn time 🍂

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde (published in 1890)

The grandma to my previous grandpa, except, plot twist, they are both grandmas. This outfit is actually from June, while the other one is from September, but what is time anyway? I included the two kissas I visited on my solo walk to higashi-nakano that day, ジャックと豆の木 (Jack and the Beanstalk) and 喫茶ルーブル (Louvre), as well as some random pictures I posted in my Stories that day on my Instagram post.

Outfit rundown: Skirt: Innocent World Blouse: thrifted Olive des Olives Bag: Axes Femme Boots (that I ended up changing for more comfy heels): Sperry Brooches: Fuwari, Peppermint Fox, Via Carrousel and other artists who don't have social media Headbow: pin from another dress

the library management students

an instinct for organization

memorizing the dewey decimal system

wandering through the shelves of the library you visited as a child, perusing the familiar titles

the smell of old pages, their edges worn smooth with time

advocating for the preservation of intellectual freedom

knowing where to find every book in your collection

a room filled with books, stacked on every available surface

finding the perfect book to recommend to a friend

understanding the importance of public libraries

fighting to keep knowledge easily available to everyone, regardless of their circumstances

the impossibility of choosing a favorite book from all that you’ve read

being able to list dozens of prominent and lesser-known authors

seeing the library as an invaluable community institution

learning how to repair damaged books

the paper-thin pages of a dictionary, open and displayed on a stand

encouraging curiosity and creativity in everyone

teaching proper research techniques

adapting traditional library systems to keep up with a changing world

a deep love for books and the knowledge they hold

the comfort of a book you’ve read a hundred times

passing along your favorite books to a new generation of children

wanting to preserve libraries, even in the internet age

“I’m so glad i live in a world where there are Octobers.” —L.M. Montgomery

I bought 3 empty notebooks today, guess who's feeling their life is coming together now?

Statues

“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”

— Frida Kahlo

Artwork: Le Printemps (Springtime), Pierre-Auguste Cot.

Royal Palace of Madrid. x

@ephemeralkalopsia

From Eden by Hozier // young and beautiful by Lana del ray // lakes by Taylor swift // Narcissus by Róisín Murphy // all pictures from Pinterest

— L Mathis, “The Poems Haunt / Not the People,”

waiting for the day when someone sends me flowers with a little handwritten note hidden inside the bouquet

It seems all I am capable of is yearning for what I never had

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

- Ernest Hemingway