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— Celebrating Childhood by Adonis (translated by Khaled Mattawa)
[text ID: Love and dreams are two parentheses. / Between them I place my body / and discover the world.]
> What brings you joy? 💌
whenever someone notices hidden details about me, specially if I didn't notice it first
there's nothing that makes me happier than my books and stuffed animals <3
The smell of rain.
Getting the best table in a cafe.
Getting to use that esoteric knowledge.
A comfortable silence between you and a loved one.
Your favorite song turned up loud.
Sunsets and the smell of the ocean and the sound of the waves crashing
I love when we stretch, especially in the mornings, it’s so cute.
I love how we leave flowers for loved ones. Flowers are nature’s beauty and I think it’s a really sweet gesture
I Like how we journal. Like, we just write whatever we want just for ourselves to see.
I like the idea of a chair. It’s just like a piece of elevated ground for us to sit on.
I love mountains overlooking oceans or massive bodies of water.
I love putting Vaseline on my lips because they feel soft after.
I really really love books. I won’t go into it because so many already have.
I love photography and sculptures. Wowow, I looovee sculptures.
Starting a new notebook
Pens with *that* glide. Pen snobs know
Random acts of kindness
Seeing people achieve a goal - big or small, just seeing their face when they realise they did it
Light reflected on water - Moonlight, city lights, doesn’t matter
When someone *really* enjoys something I cooked/baked for them.
Feeling the sun on the back of my neck
The smell of fresh laundry… Oh! Fresh bed sheets
The way new books smell
One time, I had a really Really sweet raspberry. Like, this raspberry was probably the best thing I’ve ever had so far in my years of living. It was a cathartic experience, eating that raspberry.
watching my cat yawn (it’s adorable)
I love writing cursive t’s and I’s and I love when people say “crossing ts and dotting i’s”
i think jack o lanterns look cheerful
I really like the taste and texture of mushrooms (:
the sound of waves
i absolutely adore clementines (: i eat them till i get sick
I love eye contact. It makes me feel really human in a way I can’t describe. It makes me feel smiley and warm inside
I love looking at the moon or a cloud and thinking someone else is looking at the same thing I am right now while being so far away.
I love it when people make food for people, or just randomly bring over food, it’s such a cute way of caring.
I love when you look at someone and they look at you back and you’re just kinda squinting or raising your eye brows or smiling at each other.
I love when people do something cute or embarrassingly cute and you’re the only one that sees it
The warm sun on your skin after being in a cold building. Dancing. Storytelling. Iced coffee. Sunflowers. Thinking about Jesus. Poems that reach into your brain and pull your heart out. Mismatched teacups. Laughing until you cry. Texts from friends you haven’t heard from in a while. Notes in books from past owners. Summertime. Ballets. Dogs.
I love the feeling of sun on my skin
Your blog makes me happy
Watching rain turn to snow makes me happy
The smell of espresso makes me happy.
I love when people out of nowhere start whispering.
This one is kinda weird but I love when people have physical reactions like flinching ever so slightly or moving out of the way.
I love dough. And I love when I’m making dough I think back to people from many many years ago and I think about if they loved the soft, squishy feeling of dough as much as I do.
when my cat snores
when someone tries to hide a smile but can’t help it
when the air smells different in spring
when I close my eyes with the window down in the car and let the breeze and sun hit my face while a good song plays on the radio
when the light changes in my bedroom as day turns to night
daydreaming
writing
Had this thought while showering but I love our skin. And I love the fact that there is probably a horse with an almost exact skin colour as myself and everyone
lifes kinda crappy but i make bread from scratch and give it to people i love. and im always looking forward to the next time i can take a walk in nature.
Writing on my journal snuggling my cozy blanket
Playing Sudoku on my phone with EDM on the background
Hugging one of my six cats, or the six of them!!!
“Seriously, Hun, I've been spending the last 8 months of my life asking to myself this question, because I realized I knew what I dislike, hate or feel uncomfortable... But I wasn't that suuure about what my "happiness" is. Now I feel like happiness is the choice I make that give me either freedom, inner peace or a spark of joy... So I see happiness in almost every decision I make through the day”
sunsets at the beach. The salt in the air. The sound of seagulls and the stars
the moon makes me really happy
The pitter patter of rain against my window
Freshly baked bread
https://twitter.com/13ts89/status/1698473735072682351?s=20
Wow. Amazing.
need it on a shirt asap
“Let’s face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.”
— (via be-killed)
bonus points if you add in the tags who you’d want to feature on it!
I CANT ADD I’D LIE YOU WOULD ALL VOTE FOR IT THATS NOT FAIR
also i don’t count i heart ? as unreleased, it’s on the beautiful eyes EP
evelyn hugo and celia st. james 💚
no but really, the fact that everyone compares taylor to evelyn and jessica to celia st. james… this picture is too perfect. and taylor wore the green dress last night.
I'm not sure if anyone has shared this yet, but it's phenomenal, and such a transcendent, emotional journey through her music.
the video is also spectacularly gorgeous, I'm in awe of the impressive talent, dedication, and time that must've gone into creating this and capturing the highs, lows, and connective tissue of these (230!!!) songs. it's like a magic distillation of why so many of us are impacted by and love her art the way we do:
“We are the only poets,” Emily told Susan, “and everyone else is prose.”
hyperfixation sucks I think just a little too hard about a guy who isn't even real and I could start crying any second
If Taylor Swift used her power for good she would be such a great stochastic terrorist. She would post on Instagram "Hey guys, Tay here. Just wanted to say that whoever delivers me the head of Ron DeSantis on a platter will get free Eras Tour tickets. #ShadeNeverMadeAnybodyLessGay." It would be at her doorstep in two hours.
You know. Some people could really stand to get more comfortable with the idea of “you shouldn’t say that because it’s mean”. Especially with really common body shaming and straight up bullying lines.
“You shouldn’t make ugly bald jokes because what if a transman on T sees it!”
“You shouldn’t make virgin jokes because what if someone who’s asexual sees it!”
How about you just don’t make them because they’re mean. How about people can be balding or a virgin for a number of reasons and also don’t deserve to be routinely made fun of. How about saying that the reason you shouldn’t make x joke because it spares x specific identity’s feelings also let’s them know that you actually have no problem saying or thinking bald people are ugly or virgins are stupid or etc but you’re just not saying it in front of them. How about you understand this kind of body shaming and bullying especially in a very public setting online are always going to have way more unintended damage to people who did nothing wrong than damage to the person you’re upset with.
Sometimes the best reason to not make a bad joke like that is because it’s fucking mean.
For a healthier option, Lover will be out August 23.
I love this and Irma
There’s a regular at the fabric superstore. She’s at least 80 years old, and she just got back into sewing after giving it up for 40 years. We’ll call her Irma.
I love Irma.
Irma is constantly surprised by the newfangled sewing gadgets our store sells. Today she bought some extra-fine glass-head pins and a magnetic pincushion. As I’m ringing her purchases up, she tells me very seriously, “did you know, if you’re careful, you can sew RIGHT OVER those pins? You don’t need to take them out!”
I told her that I liked that you can’t accidentally melt the head of the glass pins with your iron, and she nodded. “They used to all be like that, but times changed.”
I love old sewing machines and asked what kind of machine she has, and she goes, “Oh, it’s an old Singer Featherweight that my husband bought me when we were first married. It’s probably not worth anything anymore, but the thing sews fine. Have you seen the ones those girls over there–” indicating the sewing machine sub-store in my location “–have? Those things go in every direction and the needle always comes to the top when you stop sewing! Imagine how handy that is!”
I mention that I used to sew on my grandmother’s Featherweight but now there’s a intra-family war about who owns Grandma’s Featherweight and so no one gets to use it. It’s genuinely the best portable straight-stitch machine I’ve ever used.
I warn her to never let anyone tell her that Featherweight isn’t worth something. “I know, I miss my husband and it’s always going to have a place in my heart, just like your grandma’s.”
“I mean, Irma, there’s that, but they’re also worth a really notable amount of money. The Singer Featherweight is really financially valuable. I almost never see them for sale around here for less than about $400, and that’s in bad condition.”
“It’s a good thing my husband’s dead, honey, because if you told him that he managed to buy a sewing machine that’s worth more in 2021 than he bought it for in 1950, well, he’d be so smug that I just wouldn’t be able to tolerate driving home with him.”
"Should trans women be allowed to compete in women's sports" I don't think there should be women's sports. I think it's a silly artificial construction that only upholds the gender binary while it's benefits are incidental and would be better addressed directly.
Care about giving people with different body types and muscle mass a shot? Split your league by weight categories like boxing, or some other direct physical measurement. Gender is at best a poor proxy for these and we only do it because we still treat women are a different species. "But that still wouldn't be fully fair to everyone?" Sport isn't fully fair, it's about rewarding people with the most biological advantage. That's the whole point of it.
You want to give more sporting opportunity to women and minorities specifically? Okay then do that. Create your own opportunities league, but if we're giving up the pretense that it's about essential biological advantage then you better let trans women in.
What's that, the extra league would be treated as a novelty afterthought and would lack the prestige of the real main event? You mean like how women's events were treated when they were introduced? True! In fact women's leagues are still largely treated as secondary now, and you know how we can fix it? Make the main leagues open to everyone with weight, height or muscle mass categories so that people with different body types can excel. Like I suggested before. Problem solved.
Women's sport is bad actually.
𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫: リボーン (reborn) | Taylor Swift
// reputation as a comic book
in the death of her reputation, she felt truly alive.
Reblog if you think it’s okay to platonically say “I Love You” to your friends
Katniss describing Peeta:
“Medium height, stocky build, ashy blonde hair that falls in waves over his forehead.”
“For the first time, I look at him and realize that ablaze with the fake flames, he is dazzling.”
“He looks so clean and healthy and beautiful.”
“I like to watch his hands as he works, making a blank page bloom with strokes of ink…”
“I also become a little fixated on his eyelashes, which ordinarily you don’t notice because they’re so blonde. But up close, in the sunlight slanting in from the window, they’re a light golden color and so long I don’t see how they keep from getting all tangled up when he blinks.” (girl you’re obsessed)
“My eyes travel up to where the flames licked across his forehead, singeing away his brows but just missing his eyes. Those same blue eyes that used to meet mine and then flit away at school. Just as they do now.”
Katniss describing Gale:
“Gale does look striking in the uniform, I guess.”
when i was a kid i used to respond to the "glass half full/half empty" question by asking how the liquid in the glass got there in the first place. nobody ever gave me a chance to explain my reasoning so i'm doing it now
if you have a glass and it has some liquid in it, up to the halfway line, whether it is empty or full depends on what happened before the question was asked. if you started with a full glass and poured half out until only half remained, the glass is half empty, because if you continued pouring it would be fully empty. however, if you started with an empty glass and poured liquid from another container into the glass up to the halfway line, the glass is half full because if you continued pouring it would be all the way full. logical, no?
i was 13 years old when somebody finally told me it was supposed to be some kind of optimism/pessimism thing. i always thought it was a riddle that nobody let me solve
i respect people who want to keep their menstruation to themselves but i have to make it everyone's problem. Literally if it was socially acceptable to lead every conversation with "I'm menstruating" i would.
sometimes u just gotta clean your room and apply an elaborate skincare routine and pretend that’s equivalent to getting ur life in order
hunger games advertising goes hard as usual but unfortunately this confirms that i’ve been pronouncing every single name in this book incorrectly
i just heard someone say that the reason reputation only has one outfit is because her reputation hasn’t changed. no matter how successful she is, people will still see her as someone who dates around and writes songs about her exes (bs) and i am flabbergasted.
This year's soccer jersey are brand new and I could blend into the ocean wearing it. They aren't terrible but the crotch on the shorts is the worst part of the fit
1989 taylor's version, out October 27th.
I think what really GETS me about Miss Americana is that the lyrics do really have double meaning.
If you’re not paying attention, you’d be like, ‘oh, yeah, it’s about high school love’... but then you listen closer with the context of her singing about AMERICA, or rather, TO AMERICA and it’s politics. “You know I adore you, I’m crazier for you, than I was at 16, lost a film scene.” This is really obviously symbolism of, ‘I was so caught up in my own life and being distracted by my career I didn’t really notice you, American politics, needed my attention.’
I now kind of read the chorus in two ways, too. She could so easily just be singing to the Heartbreak Prince as a love interest, saying, “It’s you and me,” and that the rest of the world doesn’t approve of her being with him... but the chorus is so much more layered when you approach it from the singing about her society / her country angle. It’s like she’s saying to America, ‘remember when I was known for my 4th of July parties? You were my whole world’, but then the Republicans claimed her for their own in her silence, and people were bullying her and talking about her, so ‘they whisper in the hallway she’s a bad bad girl.’
So when she says, “the whole school is rolling fake dice”, (which is !!!!!) This is her saying she realises the new America she lives in is run by those who manipulate the system, (just like she said in that Guardian interview as well??!). Then she’s like taking a dig, like, if ‘you’re doing to play stupid games with power, then your prize isn’t a real prize, either’.
This analogy is made even more clear and easier to see in the second verse with, “my team is losing / batteries and bruising / I see the high fives between the bad guys,” and “American stories, burning before me / boys will be boys then, where are the wise men?’ Because guess who said, ‘boys will be boys’ famously???? A certain President.
The whole analogy is genius when it’s then mixed with the American high school symbolism as well? Because to anyone who isn’t American, the MOST American thing is movie vision of ‘high school’, of cliques, of cheerleaders and bleachers.
And there ain’t nothing more cliquey and high school than two party politics at the moment, huh?
Easter Eggs in Music Videos (obviously not nearly close to all of them, but you get the point)
ME! Music video
-Snake turned into butterflies: corresponds to the YNTCD back tattoo
-Snake slithering on the Stones: corresponds to the lyric “snakes and stones never broke my bones”
-Christmas Tree: “we can leave the Christmas lights up til January”
-In the dialogue Taylor says “I cant talk to you when you’re like this”: lyric in false god
-“You need to calm down”: Song title
-Dixie Chicks in ME! = collab
-Taylor walks through clouds, referring to the lyrics “clearing the air, i breathed in the smoke”
-13 clouds
-Cloud resembled a snake chasing after her
-Taylor in the yellow suit = “The man” tease
-7 briefcases
-The scene with everyone in pantsuits is taking place on a street that looks/resembles Cornelia street
- Brendon looks out of the window alluding to the lyrics “staring out the window like I’m not you’re favorite town”
-London sky view/Big Ben: references to London in Lover
-Lover sign: Album name and song title
-Benji: reference to her new cat
-Cupid scene, an angel rolls her eyes = cruel summer lyric
-Cupid scene alluded to “The Archer”
-Cornelia Roses
YNTCD video references
-Dice cameo: “Devils roll the dice” & “The whole school is rolling fake dice”
-“Mom, I’m a rich man” quote alluding to The man
-Benji watch has 13 on it/became new merch!
-Back tattoo takes us back to the ME! Video where the snake turned into a butterfly
-Lover phone case: new merch
-13 gems on her sunglasses
-Cornelia roses alongside the pool
-16th Ave corresponding with “skipping down 16th Avenue”
-“Love letters only” mailbox: unveiled how she’d be releasing new lover days before release
-Hayley using the bow and arrow to hit the 5 target = “The Archer” being track 5
-13 necklace on
-Cruel summer tattoo on Ellen: song title
-7 people laying down in lawn chairs
-Katy + Taylor symbolic reference to their friendship, also possible reference to “its nice to have a friend” as the song title
-Ryan Reynolds is painting the stonewall inn
Lover music video
-Snow globe: “you two are dancing in a snow globe round and round”
-Lyric video in the attic
-Each room represents old era/past album
-Taylor is wearing Stella x Taylor collab in beginning
-Christian hangs up a photo on Benji
-Yellow room is upside down bc fearless completely flipped her life upside down
-Fishbowl references her life in the spotlight
-“Devils roll the dice, Angels roll their eyes” board game = cruel summer
-Scrabble pieces spell out Afterglow
-“Breakable heaven” board game = cruel summer
-New year’s day party = “there’s glitter on the floor after the party”
-13 candles on the cake
I have this skill where I hear one note of a Taylor Swift song somewhere in public and my spine straightens and my head tilts up like I am the goddamn winter soldier being activated but instead of going on a murder spree I just say to my friends "Taylor Swift is playing" and they think I'm insane