unfortunately i text all my friends like i'm their desperate ex. hey i miss you. i thought about you while we weren't talking. what are you up to. can we spend time together soon.
did research on this for a paper, social media trends like "core" aesthetics supposedly serve as insufficient replacements for subcultures because they're mainly focused on the commodification of visuals, therefore lacking substance and actual community
sucks that friendship has been reduced to “i don’t owe ppl anything” “ur friends aren’t ur therapist” “don’t trauma dump on ur friends” bc of the emergence of therapy-speak in friendships… i feel like people forgot friends r supposed to hold space & be present for each other :(
being in my 20s has been difficult knowing i don't have the same, easy access to people as i did in high school. being aware of that has really pushed me to consistently show up for my friends, but it gets hard when it seems like they don't value friendships the same way i do.
“Adult friendships are hard” no most of you just suck at being good friends and have no sense of community. Showing up, being intentional and putting in effort aren’t only reserved for your romantic and professional relationships.
i am a lover...i am sentimental...i keep receipts from outings with friends...i write letters to them, no special occasion needed...i love looking for trinkets for friends and say "this made me think of you"...i love making playlists for them with songs that remind me of them...
nalulungot ako na di na uso yung pagsulat ng liham. i love the whole process of choosing your stationery/letter sets, pens and stickers to decorate your letters with, the time it takes to put thoughts into words, and the fact that writing letters is a love language on its own
a reminder to artists to please not blame themselves for their art not getting enough interactions—the tw/tter algorithm is just extremely shitty and relies on trends, which is why art is only worth a day on this site and doesn't circulate the timeline as often as it should.
"we must guard against grade inflation to preserve the value of grades as a signal of skill and merit" grades will never be a proper measure of skill when we're under a neoliberalist eduk system that weaponizes the fear of not getting a job vs genuine learning & critical thinking
love is stored in the journal! scans of my little journal documenting my japan trip across 12 days :> featuring food packaging, photobooth pictures, tickets, and stuff i picked up from the ground 🍀
read it below ⬇️
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forgot to share this story! while waiting for my flight back to mnl i was airdropping random people pics of my cat miso at the airport… almost all of them declined, but one person sent back pics of their own cats 🥹🐈 we went back and forth sending cat pics until i had to board!
🏡 my zine "what if we were..." is part of a series of 4 risograph zines by nonbinary sapphic artists. it traverses love found in tangible objects we hold dear to us 🍎
preorders are open for the 2nd week of komiket pride! 🍀
love is stored in the journal (part 2)! scans of my little journal documenting my hongkong trip across 5 days :> featuring fruit stickers, ootd doodles, receipts, packaging, and cats (lots of them).🍎🐈
read it below ⬇️
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to add onto this, fast fashion companies (and large companies in general) turn these once aesthetic niches into mainstream when they create cheap products and marketing strategies out of them to get the attention of the youth. so it's a farce of community enabled by capitalism