Character Quirks Based Off People I Know II

Character quirks based off people I know II

- obsessed with making films even as a kid

- has a weird red stain on her jumper that doesn’t seem to ever go away

- has lost her viola about three times in a year

- buys things to impress people (eg. fountain pen, notebook)

- used to experience slight auditory hallucinations

- wrote poems about raspberries being metaphors

- suffers from burnout a lot

- ‘my cutoff date is 28. I either die committing art theft or assassination or I don’t die at all.’

- despises the word soliloquy

- continuously says the word soliloquy

- has an (almost finished) KYD wall

- constantly working on something

- brings board games to whatever house she goes to

- incredibly happy when gifted world maps

- someone once called her dumb and now her life goal is to become better than them in every aspect

- has leverage on anyone about everything

- constantly treats everything as a (subtle) competition

- *draws six lines on leg* “look I’m a guitar”

- constantly comes up with strange pick up lines

- wants to ‘pull a Henry’ every time she slightly fails at something

- has a specific due date for crying and it’s a friend’s birthday

- named all the statues they could find in a small town

- wore a plague doctor mask to a party

- has a real knack for wrapping presents

- her gift for her Valentine was a cheesy heart necklace and a poem based on TSH quotes

- still wanted to be in the rain, so put coats over each other and huddled together

- her entire personality is ‘JAMES IS ALIVE.’

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december consumption

these are forms of media that i frequently associate with december

books

Devotion, Patti Smith

A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin

After Dark, Haruki Murakami

The Woman in the Dunes, Kōbō Abe

Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick

Untold Night and Day, Bae Suah

Paradais, Fernanda Melchor

articles/essays

Everything Visible Is Empty: Toshio Matsumoto, Stuart Monro-Mousse Magazine

As a city, Hong Kong confounds. The sheer aggressiveness, people jostling for trains or shouting from afar, somehow feels more intimate than unsettling.

A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty, Julian Lucas-NYT

(on Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor)

Our Doppelgängers, Ourselves, Alan Glynn-Lit Hub

Cannibal Manifesto, Oswald De Andrade

Strange Fruit: the first great protest song, Dorian Lynskey-The Guardian

poetry

The Denial of Death, Louise Glück

Funeral Blues, W.H Auden

A Quiet Poem, Frank O'Hara

Giving Up Smoking, Wendy Cope

I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once, Yehuda Amichai

Last Curtain, Rabindranath Tagore

Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo

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portraitofglue

2 months ago

"Bloodthirsty" filet crochet piece ♡

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art textiles

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portraitofglue

3 months ago

over again. over again.

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portraitofglue

1 year ago

strangers, in the window

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art a strange life stranger company

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portraitofglue

1 year ago

Excerpts from Today by Victoria Chang

a beautifully constructed poem on death and grief

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portraitofglue

3 months ago

there's always time to take your time // watercolor, ink & gouache on paper

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art

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portraitofglue

4 years ago

Tahini Al-Jamil saying ‘I had never felt quite so seen as when she saw me’ sounds like something straight out of a dark academia novel, where the protagonist is describing their ‘friend’ who they’re definitely NOT in love with

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dark academia the good place tsh iwwv if we were villains james farrow oliver marks TALKING ABOUT meets it sounds like

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portraitofglue

4 months ago

“what’s the odyssey?” girl what ISN’T the odyssey

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portraitofglue

6 months ago