untamedheart

[untamedheart @paperbackwry]

there is a specific comedy in crossing hemispheres only to find that what you wanted all along was a room you could feel bereaved about leaving

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got kafkaed by three institutions over a refund and márquezed into a stranger’s family mythology within the same week

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after devoutly devouring sánguche de chicharrón, lúcuma con leche, jugo de papaya, and papas fritas from the holy land of the potato, i have unilaterally decided that la lucha needs to go global rn. we’ve been settling for mcdonald’s so long but we didn’t have to.

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something primordial about the south pacific at night

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casalino focaccia sandwiches how i miss you…

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walking home in the sacred valley every night under a sky so densely populated it felt like an accusation about how i’d simply decided it had nothing to offer. cities don’t take things from you. they just manage your expectations until you forget there is anything to expect.

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went to a 4.8 stars nikkei place today (unpictured) and left either nikkei-phobic or deeply uncertain about my own palate

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lúcuma orange smoothie and lomo saltado

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cupuaçu smoothie, allegedly. tasted like sour pineapple, or maybe cupuaçu just tastes like that.

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morning! :-)

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tomate de árbol en almíbar debut

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sacred valley dispatch: three cats live in this urubamba courtyard and all three have independently concluded that my glass door is, at best, advisory. i see it differently. we are locked in a high-altitude border dispute.

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@soph_llo it’s called narrative in oakland, california haha

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this cabinet of curiosities posing as a home goods store! the owner told me they curate a whole new collection seasonally, so it never gets old.

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i genuinely don’t get the uncritical worship of elite autofiction. yes i’m talking about Yiyun Li. it’s not healing but narrative hegemony where the dead are permanently muted. a literal masterclass in trauma capitalism.

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shooting my sci-fi movie at frank lloyd wright’s marin county civic center

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my life is one big atomic operation. i can’t stop during the process or i can never start.

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@saintgumi just doing my duty as the unofficial ambassador for chongqing 🫡

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treat emotions like visitors, who are just passing through!

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i don't cure habituation by staring harder at the same place. i cure it by going somewhere else. i outsource this manual labor of manufacturing novelty. i leave constantly to forget places just enough to be vaguely amused by them when i inevitably come back someday.