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Now this is wisdom. I mean, the source title says it all.

“Fairy tales — the proper kind, those original Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen tales I recall from my Eastern European childhood, unsanitized by censorship and unsweetened by American retellings — affirm what children intuitively know to be true but are gradually taught to forget, then to dread: that the terrible and the terrific spring from the same source, and that what grants life its beauty and magic is not the absence of terror and tumult but the grace and elegance with which we navigate the gauntlet.”

— Maria Popova, “The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear” (via soracities)

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I made a zine!! 12 pages, black and white interior, it's basically a 50-something year old gay guy's take on the Dark Academia aesthetic. Price is US $5 to cover costs. PM if you're interested in getting one. So far, only 10 have been made.

Happy new year!

Felice anno nuovo!

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been… (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Frosty vibes on this cold New England morning.