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I do not believe that grief ever disappears. Grief morphs and shape-shifts as we honor it, as it begins to entwine with the contours of love. At times, it can tug at your heart and break it, especially on days when you feel vulnerable and tender. On other days, it can fill you with immense gratitude for a life that was shared and a life that continues.
— Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love
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“Do not forget yourself in the arms of a lover… Love should be a practice that calls you to constantly remember yourself, to learn of the complex ways you express your fear and the ways your overcome it.”
— Mimi Zhu, A New Love for a New Moon
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After the assault, I became obsessed with wanting to hurt X in return. I had to ask myself during these harmful impulses if I would truly feel better, safer, and fulfilled if I did. Would my spirit be healed, and would I feel whole? Would his suffering tend to my wounds? I knew that if I endeavored to punish him to seek some kind of vengeance, I would still be neglecting my own wounds. Creating more harm would only obstruct me from the tender healing that my hurt required.
Mimi Zhu, Not being afraid of love
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Field Notes on Learning #01: The Creative Process
Kumusta Kaibigan?
This is my blogging era redux, sans the oversharing. However, I'm still an advocate for sharing abundant knowledge. What better way to launch this blog than to freely share information that has touched my life in various ways?
This shortlist is highly inspired by Austin Kleon's newsletter which I religiously study in my free time. Plus, having heavy Gemini placements in my natal chart, particularly with mercury in it, makes writing and sharing ideas, observations, and realizations super healing for me.
There's no particular theme to this list. Just take what you need from this it to help you help yourself. Leave the rest for the others to enjoy.
Word of the Day: Vacillate. Adding new words to my vocabulary regularly is a great exercise to improve the way I express myself whether through speaking or writing. Here's one I learned recently:
2. As a creative, it is important to regularly ask yourself "Who Do You Make Art For?" In this podcast episode (Sep 2021) by Father Bronques of Make Art Not Content, he enumerates three major stages that creatives find themselves in when asking this question. Whatever your answer may be, they're totally valid.
3 Major Stages:
First (1st) Stage: Art for Self-Expression
Second (2nd) Stage: Art for Others
Third (3rd) Stage: Art for Uplifting a Target Audience
The third stage is the completion of this cycle. As creatives, we eventually go back to creating art for ourselves but with a more meaningful purpose and audience in mind. Having this mindset allows us to have a clearer direction in regard to our creative process.
3. An excerpt from the book I'm currently reading entitled "Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection" (2022) by Mimi Zhu:
"Rage is sacred and should be honored when expressed; honoring the rage means understanding it as an emotion, not a call to be violent or hurtful."
4. The other day ago I stumbled upon Yumi Sakugawa's Instagram post on "Inspiration for Creating Structure and Systems for Your Creative Practice". It emphasizes the importance of setting the ideal space, habits, and mindset to cultivate one's creativity with a sense of discipline but not restricting the creativity itself. By having healthy boundaries, we are able to maximize our fullest potential.
5. If you're into adult cartoons, a female lead, and conspiracy theories, I highly recommend watching Inside Job (2021) on Netflix. It's very fun and refreshing to watch, and maybe a tad bit relatable if you're the eldest/only daughter or if you have daddy issues. Just recently, they've released Part 2 so I'm excited to binge on this series!.
6. Today, December 3rd, marks Neptune going direct in Pisces, a major transit in astrology. Neptune, which is a generational planet, rules the sign of Pisces. It represents spirituality and the subconscious realms, particularly our intuition, illusions, and dreams. Finally ending its retrograde, the fogginess we've been experiencing since June will transform into clarity especially when it comes to our relationship with spirituality. This major astrological event allows us to focus this spiritual clarity outwards.
Thank you for reading! Till the next. 🌸🧠
#Austin Kleon#Father Bronques#Make Art Not Content#Mimi Zhu#creativity#creative process#Inside Job#emotions#astrology#emotional healing#neptune in pisces
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Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection
By Mimi Zhu.
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Baby Monkey! ❤️ Baby Monkey! 💙 Baby Monkey! 💜
Based off a post I read over @skittlescripts ✨️
"Me" as The Reader would have absolutely taught their child to say that along side Sun Wukong
While dying from laughter she would probably let slip "damn we should have more kids like this"😉
Which Sun Wukong would immediately take as a invitation and then later a challenge😏
#fanart#fan child#i think I'll name her Mimi?#idk#first thing that came to mind#jttw x reader#jttw sun wukong x reader#jttw#jttw au#sun wukong#sun wukong/reader fan child#baby monkey#isekai'd to the west#isekai'd to the west skit#zhu bajie
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tag drop .
being resurrected . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( queue . )
back from the dead . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( * admin . mimi talks )
corpse . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( before death. visual . arc 1 . )
ultraviolet . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft . anna zhu . )
house in nebraska . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft. vicki donovan . )
swinging by my neck from the family tree . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( before death. arc 1 . )
limbo . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( after death. arc 2 . )
death's angel . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( after death. arc 3 . )
messenger to the afterlife . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( after death. visual . arc 3 . )
my sacrifice . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft . high priestess jade . )
burning house . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( before death. arc 1 . )
black on black . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( wardrobe. arc 3 . )
running from the daylight . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( ask prompts . )
immortality . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( after death . arc 3 . nonreaper verse . )
envy . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft. tyler lockwood . )
you're still an innocent . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft. jenna sommers . )
i just wanna feel alive . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( character study. )
trying to find the way it was / i see you in everything ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft. miranda gilbert / mom . )
spring day ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft. elena gilbert . )
i walked with you once upon a dream ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft. odette ; 2wanlake . )
ptolemaea ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( hunter verse ; human alt . arc 1 . )
#tag drop#being resurrected . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( queue . )#back from the dead . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( * admin . mimi talks )#corpse . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( before death. visual . arc 1 . )#ultraviolet . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft . anna zhu . )#house in nebraska . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft. vicki donovan . )#swinging by my neck from the family tree . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( before death. arc 1 . )#limbo . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( after death. arc 2 . )#death's angel . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( after death. arc 3 . )#messenger to the afterlife . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( after death. visual . arc 3 . )#my sacrifice . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft . high priestess jade . )#burning house . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( before death. arc 1 . )#black on black . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( wardrobe. arc 3 . )#running from the daylight . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( ask prompts . )#immortality . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( after death . arc 3 . nonreaper verse . )#envy . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft. tyler lockwood . )#i just wanna feel alive . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( character study. )#you're still an innocent . ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft. jenna sommers . )#trying to find the way it was / i see you in everything ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft. miranda gilbert / mom . )#spring day ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( dynamic : ft. elena gilbert . )#ptolemaea ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( hunter verse ; human alt . arc 1. )#ptolemaea ⋆· ˚ ༘ * ( hunter verse ; human alt . arc 1 . )
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no bc i’ve been reading mimi zhu’s “be not afraid of love” and listening to mitski’s “my love mine all mine” to psyche my self up to write “on jjk & love,” an analysis on the themes of love in jjk and how they permeate every single arc, how love can sometimes be mistaken as fear and hatred and all the emotions that create curses (thus, gojo’s “this is just a personal theory, but love is the most twisted curse of them all” line in vol. 0), but what do i even write about now when gojo and his possibilities are most likely gone; they were what i was going to base the post on…
#like gege is killing me rn#let a romantic live will u#i need to sleep i have work#gojo dies and world keeps turning#jjk#gojo satoru#gojo#jujutsu kaisen#jjk leaks#jjk 236
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When I looked back at the tiny speck of me, I saw with widened eyes my deep neglected grief and my flowing sadness: the only thing I distanced myself from was me.
— Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love
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Blast from the past music game ✨️
Made by the always incredible Howl @howlinchickhowl & I was also tagged by Macy @celestialmickey Molly @deathclassic Vey @look-i-love-u Carolie @shinygalaxyperson Evie @energievie Deanna @deedala Becki @francesrose3 Harvey @mikhailoisbaby
Thank you 🫶🏼
Name: Myn
Nation of birth: Australia
Teen decade: 20🔟s
Share a song that you once would have included on every playlist/mix cd/mix tape you made, but which hasn't travelled with you into 2023:
Where did you first hear this song? It was on youtube a live performance vid. I got obsessed with it I save all the live performances on my favourites on YouTube & on loop 😆
How old were you when you first heard it? 14/15 I think 🤔
Being who you are now, how do you feel about the song? I still love it haha such an earworm
What is a song you love now that fills the same kind of vibe as this, but more befitting your current self?
Both are catch af & cheeky
Another tag game ✨️
Last song: Leavin by Jesse McCartney for the music tag game lol
Last show: Gundam Seed Destiny
Last movie: Teen Titans: Judas Contact
Currently watching: Lucky Star needed a nostalgia kick
Reading: Be not afraid of love by Mimi Zhu
Obsession: Oh just a couple of husbands that share the same brain cell idk if you've heard of em
Tagging these sweethearts if they wanna play 🥰 @scarcrosseduntouched @ian-galagher @jomilky @iansfreckles @juliakayyy @suzy-queued @lingy910y @captainjowl @xninetiestrendx @crossmydna @sleepyfacetoughguy @sluttymickey @gardenerian @mmmichyyy @chicanomick @thisdivorce @7x10mickey @princekendallroy @iero @bekkachaos @shameless-notashamed @suchagallabitch @adakechi @skies-below @arrowflier @too-schoolforcool @skies-below @lupeloto @sickness-health-all-that-shit @nicksobotka @transmickey @milkmaidovich @depressedstressedlemonzest @flamingbluepanda @intotheblindinglight @introvertia
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Lama Rod Owens quote “Anger is the bodyguard of our woundedness”
Mimi Zhu, Not being afraid of love
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READING LIST FOR 2024
• [🎀] - priority • [✔] - finished • [👁] - now reading • [💭] - next up •
💌 Human Kind (Rutger Bregman) [👁]
🍒 Utopia for Realists (Rutger Bregman) [🎀]
💌 Joyful (Ingrid Fettel Lee) [🎀💭]
🍒 A Paradise Built in Hell (Rebecca Solnit)
💌 Tribe (Sebastian Junger)
🍒 The Art Of Frugal Hedonism (Annie Raser-Rowland, Adam Grubb) [🎀]
💌 Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)
🍒 Weird (Olga Khazan) [🎀]
💌 The Art of Thinking Clearly (Rolf Dobelli) [🎀]
🍒 Civilized To Death (Christopher Ryan) [🎀]
💌 The Courage To Be Disliked (Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga) [🎀]
🍒 The Courage To Be Happy (Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga) [🎀]
💌 The Practice of Not Thinking (Ryonosuke Koike)
🍒 This Is How You Heal (Brianna Wiest) [🎀]
💌 Authetic Happiness (Martin. E. P. Seligman)
🍒 Flourish (Martin. E. P. Seligman)
💌 How To Stop Feeling Like Shit (Andrea Owen) [🎀]
🍒 How To Be a Good Creature (Montgomery Sy)
💌 The Hope Circuit (Martin. E. P. Seligman)
🍒 Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari)
💌 Healing Is The New High (Vex King) [🎀]
🍒 Wintering (Katherine May)
💌 The Strength In Our Scars (Bianca Sparacino) [🎀]
🍒 Ego Is The Enemy (Ryan Holiday)
💌 The Mountain Is You (Brianna Wiest) [🎀]
🍒 Getting Through What You Can't Get Over (Anita Agers-Brooks)
💌 Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess (Dr. Caroline Leaf)
🍒 How To Be Your Own Therapist (Owen O'Kane) [🎀]
💌 Living Consciously (Yvette Ratshikhopha)
🍒 Adult Children Of Emotionally Immature Parents (Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD.) [🎀]
💌 Girl On Fire (Cara Alwill Leyba)
🍒 It's Not Fair (Melanie Dale)
💌 The Highly Sensitive Person (Elaine N. Aron PH.D.) [🎀]
🍒 Tiny Traumas (Dr. Meg Arroll)
💌 Be Not Afraid Of Love (Mimi Zhu)
🍒 The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (Philippa Perry) [🎀]
💌 The Art Of Noticing (Rob Walker)
🍒 The Child In You (Stefanie Stahl) [🎀]
💌 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think (Brianna Wiest)
🍒 The Pivot Year (Brianma Wiest) [🎀]
💌 How To Hug A Porcupine (Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis) [🎀]
🍒 Why Simple Wins (Lisa Bodell)
💌 Don't Overthink It (Anne Bogel) [🎀]
🍒 Why Did Nobody Tell Me This Before (Dr. Julie Smith)
💌 Mother Hunger (Kelly McDaniel) [🎀]
🍒 The Art Of Self-Therapy (Nick Trenton) [🎀]
💌 A Witch's Guide To Crafting Your Practice (Lisa McSherry) [🎀]
🍒 A Gentle Reminder (Bianca Sparacino)
#bookblr#reading list#bookworm#2024#self-improvement#girl reading#bookblr 2024#reading list 2024#coquette#coquette girl#wonyoungism#pink academia#esther's booklist#trying to get back to reading#reading block#self improvement#self love#self care#self help
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she snorks on my mimi til I honk zhu
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