Latest Posts by midnighthieves - Page 2

Life's update

Back again to being a student, specifically a Phd student.

Gregory Orr, Here

Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟿, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: July 9. many devils are within us. END ID]

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On Restlessness and Emptiness

fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet // oh de laval, you live more for 5 minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all of their life // mark ravenhill, beautiful thing // mine //  franz kafka, diaries 1910-1923 // simone de beauvoir, from diary of a philosophy student // kine andersen // ariel stess, i’m pretty fucked up // george condo, still life with skull and snowman // sylvia plath, the unabridged journals 

It can be really hard to learn to engage in positive self talk, but sometimes it's easier to start by pretending it's coming from a friend, first 💜

No :c

Natasha Lunn, from Conversations on Love (2021)

[Text ID: For years, I was committed to longing.]

sun

tea, coffee

alternatives to “i want to die”:

i want things to change

i want a different life

today was a shitty day/week

i don’t want to live like this

i want to be somewhere else in life

i’m not where i want to be yet

+ much more

Adonis, Selected Poems, tr. by Khaled Mattawa

Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

Me with a PhD (applying it)

So many idiots have masters degrees maybe I could be the next

How?

Alpine ibex taking a chimney-top break in the French Alps, 2019 - by Sandro Lovari, Italian

collage work by paw grabowski (oejerum)

eternally plagued by being the "intellectual" friend (has surface knowledge on everything) while being the most socially sensitive (can be friends with just anyone) BUT personally cold and aloof friend (needs a lot of distance and alone time)

if you’re struggling lately, i hope this reaches you.

we will be okay. you will be okay. you will grow and evolve and heal. you will enjoy life again even if it’s not the same as it was the last time you were happy. you will live your life not feeling stuck. you will do more than survive. you will thrive.

Fishermen in Gaza, I love this…such a beautiful sight

Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination

what can you say to someone who feels utterly alone and unloved?

your feelings are valid, but not a mirror of reality. you are neither alone nor unloved; the fact that you feel unloved reflects your ability to love, so why not pour your love into yourself and be your own companion? you are your highest priority

Life on Earth (Abderrahmane Sissako, 1998)

virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions : "to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones."

when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

We're almost at the end of three straight months of genocide, 30k deaths, nearly two million displaced and starving. If you're still calling the situation "nuanced" and "complicated" I'm going to beat you to death with a shovel.