this is an announcement for all the non-americans in the world. today's date is a palindrome. happy 12-11-21 to all of you!
“you can’t forget your mother tongue” okay but have you considered bilinguals and polyglots whose first language isn’t english and whose development during adolescence was shaped by consuming content and media only in english and have ever since viewed that second language, foreign to their own, as a better outlet for their emotions and thoughts? as Yiyun Li said “it is hard to feel in an adopted language, yet impossible in my native language.”
folklore as an old storybook
@taylorswift @taylornation
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Stevie Nicks at the airport in Amsterdam, after a concert on Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours Tour,” April 1977.
kinda sad to get to the time of year when everyone on the internet starts memeing about how they gotta go play hours of #cool-special-indie music on mute for the next few months just so their spotify wrapped looks good at the end of the year. idk i just find it depressing to see how even your most private and personal joys, even the music you listen to, must be tweaked and polished and contrived so it can be presented to the world. how even your taste in music must be performed.
This is what I have from my convo with Harry. You can hear my answers!!
we’re dancing round the kitchen in the refrigerator light
Midnight Milk, Marie Sjøvold
childhood friends are like open wounds