• 01. burning the old year by naomi shihab nye +
• 01. litany for the animals that run from me by hieu minh nguyen +
• 02. for those who stand against tyrants by joseph fasano
• 02. how to live by todd dillard +
• 02. thirteen ways of looking at a glacier by craig santos perez +

• apply the principle of charity
• it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. - invitation, mary oliver
• you can still make a beautiful life for yourself even if you feel like you’ve lost many years to grief or darkness or wounds that won’t close
• good morning, you have to be the thing that saves you (๑'ᵕ'๑)⸝*
• do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. do justly, now. love with mercy, now. walk humbly now. you are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
• never apologise for being obsessed. read all day. work all day. run for hours. forget time exists. be everywhere but be a ghost. turn off the world and create your own. let craft become compulsion. positive obsession is a gift, disguised as a curse.

sorry for being criminally inactive, but i need to make this for the sake of finality. (๑﹏๑//)

song reviews, visual sociology, authenticity and the paths not taken, psychedelic rock, metacognition, challenging the totalisation of technology

— music diary ♫

10. we know everything from the beginning - jyocho 20. rosso - jizue 21. 擁抱着你我 - night keepers, manson 22. selenge - céline dessberg 26. 28日の大通り - 空気公団

— and now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. 𖦹°‧

• heath, they/she genderqueer sapphic, some form of aroace
• singaporean, eng/中 (2007)
• a collector of small and meaningful objects (with no inherent use other than to make the heart glow a little softer)
• aspiring sociology student, full-time archivist of memory, with a chronic dependence on tea and critical theory to interpret reality

♡︎ hobbies: photography, researching, writing, media criticism, music discovery, birding, journaling, reading, exploring museums, engagement with niche passions

“make your life the first life that you save.”

── likes. photography, tea, lepidoptera, sumikkogurashi, commonplace books, existentialism, wildflowers, literature, lace accents, critical media analyses, kaomojis, studio ghibli films, the golden hour, having niche passions, patchworks, clouds, social constructivism

── dislikes. false dichotomies, toxic optimism, overly sweet tea, monotony, pseudoscience, listening to my own voice, anti-intellectualism, conservative ideology, ai art, amatonormativity