I am utterly fascinated by sibling pairs where one is a total normie who met their spouse during orientation week their first year of university and the other is a weirdo with a bunch of niche interests who struggles to find meaningful connection
starbucks defenders will never know the joy that a spiced chocolate doughnut and nutmeg espresso fizz from your favorite neighborhood coffee shop can bring
you used to be able to move to any major city and within a week have 10 friends who share your artistic or literary vision, but now cities are filled with normies whose engagement with the arts doesn’t extend beyond selfie museums and Van Gogh immersive exhibits
a curious choice to translate what literally means “my little dove” as simply “my dear” in the subtitles of this Russian film, personally I think English speakers could benefit from exposure to more interesting terms of endearment
Morena is a Slavic goddess associated with winter and death — as winter turns into spring, people burn or drown her in effigy to guarantee a good harvest and welcome Vesna, the goddess of spring
Paris is actually underrated if you walk around it with an open mind and no set plan instead of being an npc who has to see the Eiffel Tower and expects every storefront to be a boulangerie
Eastern Europeans were not built to work, we were built to waste away the day while smoking inside a cafe and arguing about events that happened 50 years ago at 120 decibels
tweeting now feels like shoving a message into a bottle and throwing it into the ocean after I’ve reached Ellis Island, naively hoping it will somehow reach the impoverished but strikingly handsome dockworker I briefly met while waiting to board my ship from Ireland
Rome is extremely entry-level as far as empire obsession goes, a truly interesting man thinks about the Golden Horde or Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a daily basis
Chilean used bookstores: philosophy, history, theology, literature, poetry
American used bookstores: somebody’s dead grandmother’s James Patterson collection
the thing about Virginia Woolf is that she so perfectly encapsulates through her writing, the interior lives of women. it’s why we all can't stop reading. we’re all saying, "wait you felt that way? we were all feeling this way?"
do men have someone like that?
I was very pretentious in my youth and then became painfully self-aware and lonely to the point of embracing pop culture as a way to connect with people, but lately pop culture has debased itself so much that I have no choice but to go back to the old me
@synanthropy
it’s not Dubai but I’ve been seeing a ton of librarian job postings in Doha the past couple months and I’m tempted to join the librarian exodus to the Gulf states
absolutely huge morning for me (finally tracked down the name of this cafe and antiquarian bookshop I stumbled upon in Paris that doesn’t show up on google maps)
The coolest new bar is now open in Midtown. Hidden Gem by the owners of Golden Gems is a disco dive bar. Love everything about this spot. Excited to go dance and try the cocktails!
I don’t understand when people on here are like “oh you’re in my city? and what do you expect me to do with that information?” because I will hang out with anyone anywhere, few people are as dedicated to hanging out as I am
it’s cruel and mean-spirited to discourage a younger person from pursuing their dreams and desires simply because nothing you wanted at their age came to fruition
certain people are like “I can’t post about the last safe zone in Gaza being bombed because I prefer to treat my social media as an art gallery that I curate” but the art gallery isn’t even any good!
going to start vaguely referring to “my ex-husband” in conversation with new people to create a sense of intrigue and mystery, hinting at a wildly different life left behind
I am not “buying books faster than I read them”, I am crafting a substantive private library that I will immerse myself in upon retirement from the workforce
the infiltration into academia of people who think they’re there to “love radically” and “tear down hierarchies” while refusing to critically engage with the texts that influenced these ideas — this is exactly why I no longer want to go through the process of getting a PhD