31.01.2023 // the year has taken off with a rocky start. regardless, reading during golden hour is good for the soul

🎧: 𝑴𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 (𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍) 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒉 𝑺𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 🕊️

I left Dame's house at about 7 in the morning and I felt a deep sense of peace inside as I thought about her life and history and everything I didn't know about her. In truth it was probably a combination of the broken sleep and multiple orgasms. I've found that you can reach this unique neurochemical state where oxytocin, dopamine, and cortisol engage in a beautiful ménage à trois  and leave you in this zen-like haze. The sun hadn't yet fully risen and the day was young. I put on my black framed clubmasters, the type of sunglasses made special by a walk of fame at 7 in the morning, and walked past a house pumping Green Light by Lorde through the speakers, the airy shameless laughter inside only achievable by seasoned crossfaders and candyflippers, the twenty-four hour party people your parents warned you about back in high school as you lied about the vodka bottles stashed in your room and the half empty packet of condoms hidden beside your sexy underwear, that black lacy number you bought with your girlfriends and spent nights fantasising about wearing for him (you know exactly who you). As I continued walking towards the shops and the beach I realised this morning may be a gift but I needed caffeine to join the party and liven things up a bit. It wasn't even 7:30 yet.

an excerpt from a novella i'm writing

Michael Cunningham, from “The Hours”

I feel this in my soul

Isabel Allende, the house of the spirits

Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: Perhaps you’ll escape. Day and night, this obsession. It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

I am a writing genius who totally planned this

You probably hear a lot of "DON'T EDIT AS YOU WRITE" advice, don't you? 😬

This is a dangerously vague piece of advice and one that's often taken too literally. Here's a quick breakdown of edits that are actually GOOD during writing.

me, writing: this sentence is way too long. I need to condense it in a way that makes it grammatically correct while still preserving the original meaning I’m trying to convey

the devil on my shoulder: or, you can add five more commas, a semi colon, three em dashes, fifty more words, and it’ll all come together in a way that’s technically grammatically correct but completely incomprehensible to anyone who reads it, even yourself!

me, writing faster: you’re a genius

get in loser we’re healing and loving ourselves

Since Novel has finally been revealed! I can share! All my sketches of them!!! I love my bug-barian changeling! 🐛⚔️ See them on Strange Hungers, we play on Total Party Kiss on Twitch, find us there!

I read a book called Love Cactus and it was so moving and deep and a beautiful love story that left me with tears in my eyes. I went to Google it and couldn't find anything about it. Turns out, I dreamt I read the book. The book doesn't exist. There's no beautiful romance novel called Love Cactus. I don't even remember what it was about but I spent an hour going through all the books I own and another hour browsing the internet only to confirm my brain made all of this up.

It's not a crime to annotate books. But it's a crime to not read them.

Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse

New Official Art

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