Imagine an alien watching Earth from the Moon with a telescope. For thousands of years: no signs of humans - just forests, oceans, clouds. Then around 1700 (~300 years ago), cities, roads, and lights appear. Exponential progress is invisible... until it’s not.

„I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.“ Jorge Luis Borges * August 24, 1899

RIP Roland Barthes you would have loved that we refer to everything as being coded now

spags has been bailing out andy reid for over half of our yearly wins since 2023

what are the locks for week 5

Rave fashion has completely lost the DIY spirit & sense of community. It’s turned into a competition of who can have the most expensive flashy outfit. It’s OKAY to re-wear things & repeat outfits. It’s NORMAL to not buy a brand new outfit for every single event.

The painting is only finished when it has erased the idea. —Georges Braque

BEAT. THE. LIONS.

Whale paintings referenced in Moby Dick

when ur tired of scrambling your shit, just remember you can always hard boil

is this a problem

'The Seventh Seal' (1957) Ingmar Bergman.

Claude Monet, Snow

going to the parents crib just to munch

theres obviously a lot of reasons why "literary culture" barely exists in america these days but it really doesn't help that we have an IMDb equivalent for books but no Letterboxd equivalent