@regnum-lab Okay, So This Has Been In Discussions A Long Time And I Had To Write My Views. The Thing

first chemistry lab this year. currently reading letters to a young poet between breaks. and living off ice tea (obsessed) the weather is so pretty <3

Tell me you book journal, without telling me you book journal. I’ll go first, haha.

Anyway, here’s a few books I tabbed and my new November spread! I am loving it! (inspo from Pinterest). Also, those little dots in my calendar are my habits (the key’s covered up by the book I’m currently reading).

Current read 📕: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

Ps. For all my American peeps, don’t forget to vote in midterms on Tuesday, Nov 8!

Day 9/100 of Productivity

I keep swinging between feeling very on top of everything and feeling wildly unprepared. I'm sure the coffee jitters don't help.

ALONE WITH YOU IN THE ETHER; BY OLIVIE BLAKE.....

Reading is perhaps the best of meditations......

i’ve turned into a purple gel pen girl of late

Has it ever happened to you in a confrontation that the person you're confronting tells you ,"You could've just done that, why didn't you? Now you're blaming me?"

You don't have a logical counter to that because yes logically you could've done that. But how would you explain someone your internal working mechanism, your fear of consequences if you didn't do it the way you did it, of the actual consequences you would have to face if you didn't do it the way you did? You see, the person you just confronted is blind to your perspective so it's understandable why they see another logical solution to your problem when it's not really a harmless and helpful solution for you, but as a fucking adult, they are supposed to take responsibility for the part where they made the mistake, where they evaded responsibility instead of blaming you for not doing the other way. This is called being logical.

"One of the profound anxieties I have is that because I only have one life, I am temporally and geographically limited. I can’t live in Brighton and in Barcelona and in Brussels at the same time. I strain against my finitude and wish I could be everywhere.

Reading calms this restlessness and allows me to transcend my limits. This is why I’ve always loved novels with a sense of place. I feel that I know what it is like to grow up in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul, hang out in Donna Tartt’s Las Vegas, make a life in Tom Franklin’s Mississippi. When I wrote Berlin, I really wanted to give my readers that travelling experience: to place them in the city so that they would know the food, colours and smells, the strange and wonderfully disorienting social fabric of the place."

-Bea Setton; Author of"Berlin"

This weekend, activists in Uganda - a country where homosexuality is punishable by death - held their first Pride. 

This is the epitome of courage. I have no other words. 

What do you do when you don't feel like a person anymore? When all you feel like is an extension to everybody else's life? I like being needed most of the times, but I absolutely hate it in moments when I stop feeling like a fucking valid person anymore, when being needed absolutely fucks up with my personal progress, be it academic, psychological, physical or emotional. When people who need my help feel entitled to it and I feel too exhausted to even defend myself on that stand, when all I want to do is cry about it.

favorite pictures i've taken hozier + tamino </3 missing them