who cares?
like, who is even checking your petty transgressions?
this week’s Thought (singular)
fully attached to the nothing matters (nihilistic, despondent) to nothing matters (gleeful, liberated) pipeline. that’s growth
hi
my top two phrases at the time of writing this are ‘who’s to say?’ and ‘it just be like that sometimes’.
there’s something so incredibly relieving about accepting that something simply can’t be done about a terrible situation. it’s the physical exhale of just allowing yourself to exist, giving into the fact that there is a Thing that’s out of your control, and nothing good or productive can come of holding on to it. it truly feels like a breath of fresh air and a long, relaxing sigh (like that scene in kung fu panda 2) to just…let go of Knowing and Doing. with a little shoulder shrug at the end of the phrase, too, just to give a more physical manifestation to the act.
who’s to say? it just be like that sometimes. exhale. shrug.
ps: pococurante (adj.) - indifferent/unconcerned
“Since she wasn’t planning on doing the assignment anyway, her face retained a pococurante expression when the professor gave the submission guidelines.”
pps: happy november! time is an illusion!
English Recitation Competition
Scarf, Rita Dove
Whoever claims beauty lies in the eye of the beholder has forgotten the music silk makes settling across a bared neck: skin never touched so gently except by a child or a lover.
Your love is the weather of my being. What is an island without the sea?
Now summer is here! Come, summer is here! Reach out for the joys that are thrilling! For like you who fade at your wheel, day by day, Soon all things will fade and be carried away. Our lives are but moments; and sometimes the cost Of a moment overlooked is eternity lost.
A Poll!
Middle School Book Review
your regularly scheduled book recommendation has been temporarily halted. watch this space over the coming weeks so you don’t miss the next one!
find all shared books here.
A Picture!
The Good Side of the Internet
The members of Longevity House are united by two things: a willingness to hand over $100,000 and a burning desire to live forever. Inside the weird world of cryotherapy, biocharging and fecal transplants
The four F’s of trauma response and the four Roy kids of Succession
Succession is telling stories about abuse even when it doesn’t seem like it is.
How Does a Caterpillar Turn into a Butterfly?
To become a butterfly, a caterpillar first digests itself. But certain groups of cells survive, turning the soup into eyes, wings, antennae and other adult structures
The birth of Gobblefunk (ft. bagblurter, fizzwiggler, spitzwargler, and others)
In 1982, The BFG was published—a magical and wildly successful children’s book in which a Big Friendly Giant blows pleasant dreams through the windows of young children. As he was planning the story, renowned author Roald Dahl set about creating a new vocabulary for the enormous protagonist: a 238-word language that he ultimately named, “Gobblefunk”. Words that made the cut included, “humplecrimp”, “swallomp”, “crumpscoddle” and, most memorably, “snozzcumber”. The list you see here was written by Dahl as he brainstormed, and offers a snapshot of “Gobblefunk” in its infancy.
Smutty novels are blowing up BookTok – but why are their covers so discreet?
Sexually explicit literature is no longer dismissed as ‘filth’, with the TikTok generation embracing erotic fiction like never before. But these books boast some key differences from their historic predecessors.
this week’s Song
find all shared songs here.
thank you for reading, and see you next week <3
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