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Random pieces of advice

The world is less scary and chaotic if you lie down on the floor

Noticing different kinds of light (stars, candles, sunshine or city lights) can bring back the feeling of wonder and hope

If you can’t shower, washing your hands and face will help you feel better and cleaner

If you can’t clean anything else, changing and/or washing your bedsheets can do wonders

Fresh air and being outside in general can help with depersonalisation

Spending time around animals can help you recognise what’s important and calm anxious thought cycles

Techniques for emotional regulation in children can really help adults too

Putting random asortment of food on a plate without creating an actual dish still counts as a meal

Drink something warm

Delete that app

Treat yourself as if you were a kid. Buy yourself a toy, play around, learn about cool new things

Fast paced life isn’t morally better and it’s not good for everyone

There is no good reason to keep yourself hungry

Singing to your full lung capacity can be a great way to let out built up emotion

Tension in the face can cause headaches. Try to massage your face regularly

Nothing is as important as your health

You are a whole person on your own, you don’t need someone else to be there to deserve love and attention. Your life can be full as long as you are present

You should cry things out whenever you feel like it

Slow walks are still movement and they do count

It’s never as bad as you imagine it

Try changing your toothpaste flavor if you hate brushing your teeth

Anything can be a stim toy - one of my favourites is a heavy dragon necklace that has a complicated surfice. It’s fun to touch and hold and it’s not even “actual” stim toy

Procrastinating and feeling bad about it is true waste of time. Learn to truly rest. It takes the same amount of time but it is useful

Sometimes you have to force yourself to do the things that make you feel better

Don’t trust the thoughts you have after not sleeping for a while

Friendships don’t have to be forever to mean something

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faunjo

1 year ago

An excerpt from a poem. It reads: 'Who could love you / like this? Who else will sew ou in the stars?'

Keith S. Wilson, Heliocentric

An excerpt from a poem. It reads: 'Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.'

Sarah Wiliams, The Old Astronomer

A painting by Vincent van Gogh; a night-time scene dominated by dark blue and yellow, with the top half of the painting dedicated to the night sky and stars, and the majority of the bottom showing the reflection of the sky on the river Rhone. In the foreground, a man and woman are walking together.

Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night over the Rhône

Two lines from the script of Titanic (1997). It reads:
JACK: Where to, Miss?
ROSE: To the stars.

Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

An excerpt from a printed book. It reads: 'The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins--but in the heart of its strength lies weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars.'

Matthew Stover, The Revenge of the Sith: Novelisation

Lyrics taken from the website Genius. It reads: 'Look at the stars / Look how they shine for you.' Both lines are highlighted in grey.

Coldplay, Yellow

A copy of a song sheet, which has been annotated with the guitar chords with each line of lyrics. The lyrics read: 'The first time ever I saw your face / I thought the sun rose in your eyes / And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave / To the dark and the endless skies, my love'.

Ewan McColl, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (with guitar chords)

A fairly long paragraph from a printed book. It reads: '"You are under no spell, pretty boy, pretty boy." She lay back in the grass and stared up at the sky. "Your stars," she asked. "What are they like?" Dunstan lay beside her in the cool grass, and stared up at the night sky. There was certainly something odd about the stars: perhaps there was more colour in them, for they glittered like tiny gems; perhaps there was something about the number of tiny stars, the constellations; something was strange and wonderful about the stars. But then...
They lay back to back, staring up at the sky.'

Neil Gaiman, Stardust

A line from a poem. It reads: 'Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there?'

Richard Siken, Snow & Dirty Rain

A section of iambic pentameter in a printer script. It reads: 'Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,
Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun--'

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Two sections of the same image; round puffy clouds painted in cream and ivory on a backdrop of a grey and dark blue sky. The grass visible in one is unseen in the other, and vice versa for the full moon. The clouds, stars and moon have all been painted with luminous gold that seems to glow softly.

Şenay Cüce, sketchbook details

An excerpt from a poem. It reads: 'What is there to do: I've made love to satellites in your name.'

Keith S. Wilson, Heliocentric

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faunjo

2 years ago

Videodrome (1983)

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faunjo

2 years ago

The Trouble Is, You Think You Have Time.

the trouble is, you think you have time.

GONCHAROV (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese

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faunjo

4 years ago

You Have Bewitched Me, Body And Soul, And I Love, I Love, I Love You. I Never Wish To Be Parted From

You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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faunjo

2 years ago

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faunjo

5 years ago

dark academia study techniques

rewriting your notes, over and over and over again, not worrying about the neatness but paying close attention to each and every word

muttering every bit you know by heart under your breath as you walk down the streets

studying early in the morning, focusing on one sentence or chapter and pondering it through the day

researching things that you have questions about on your own, finding books on that subject and leafing through them

reciting your notes dramatically to your household companion or your stuffed animal

challenging yourself to think, speak, write and consume media only in your target language

eating certain snacks with different subjects and letting the smells trigger your memories

associating each subject to someone you know by sight only

romanticising bits that you have difficulty getting interested in

chanting your notes at night on a classical tune

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faunjo

4 years ago

my 2021 reading list so far:

(i want to get it to at least 20 so if anyone has any recommendations i would greatly appreciate it :))

lolita

the little friend

dracula

the virgin suicides

a clockwork orange

homesick for another world

in a dark dark world

emma

you will get through this night

leonardo da vinci, issacson

american utopia

the complete poems of sappho

the wasteland and other poems

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faunjo

2 years ago

some of the dvd extras are still uploading and probably will be for a while but all of the movies are available to watch on the google drive! feel free to share the link to the drive around and let me know if there’s any issues with it :]

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