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[b @_yellowv]

perhaps nobody truly saves another person.
perhaps we simply leave enough light in each other's hands that finding ourselves becomes a little easier. thank you for leaving so much light in mine. for giving me thirteen years of pieces of yourself that i will carry with me forever

[Eliot @CDTEliot]

if you’re obsessed with long-form like i am, this thread is a goldmine of essays that will rewire how you think

[d @allegorytheory]

found a tumblr blog (been my fav since) that shares photos of clutters whether it's a messy room, someone’s unfinished art project, or a pile of clothes strewn across the roof of a car idk i think there’s something beautiful that comes out of disorder. it’s a proof that we tried

[M @girlpov]

!!!!!! encountering simone de beauvoir's "one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" back in high school was life changing in itself. imagine how i felt when i had to read the second sex as a whole for my first literary theory class in college.

[Dida. @autofilmm]

Hello guys, don’t forget that you can watch every film posted on this account via the link in the bio – feel free to subscribe.

[Θωμᾶς del Vasto @Thomasdelvasto_]

Joe’s stuff has changed my life. Can’t recommend him highly enough, great guy

One of the few teachers who has a healthy marriage and kids as well, FWIW

[florence @jeonsihoi]

(hindi mahal ang magmahal, kahit kailan at kahit anong panahon)

[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

a lot of my essays are written in a few hours, but distilled from years of living, noticing, collecting, reading, talking, feeling

then one day the language arrives all at once, after one final piece falls into place

years of unconsciously making a puzzle, then suddenly finding the piece that lets you see the whole picture. reminds me of the picasso anecdote

[✒️ @Literariium]

How to save your own life, Erica Jong

[nini ˙⋆✮ @infinitelynini]

Doing this is what genuinely shifted my confidence and self concept. I woke up one day and got tired of feeling insecure and being a victim to my own mental prison. I realized it was all just coming from me. And i realized if I created it, it means I can change it too.

[aly⁷ @hobiszen]

rage baiter siguro yung nagtitinda nito samin 😭

[gomi @parveen__tyagi]

writing will genuinely change your life more than motivation ever will. not in some cringe “manifest your dream life” way. i mean in a very real, practical way. most people never actually stop long enough to understand what’s going on inside their own head. they just react to life all day. scroll when they feel uncomfortable. distract themselves when things get quiet. jump from one dopamine hit to the next. but writing forces you to slow down for a second and actually look at your thoughts instead of running from them. and the weird part is you usually don’t even realize what you truly think until you start writing it down.

writing doesn’t just record your thoughts it creates them. ideas start flowing that you didn’t even know were there. patterns start showing up. emotions start making sense. problems become easier to solve because they’re no longer this giant fog floating around in your head. writing organizes your mind. every high performer, every sharp thinker, every person who just gets it, they all write. It keeps showing up as the common thread. not the expensive stuff. not the complex stuff. Just pen and paper. they write because feelings are vague but words are precise. every time they sit down and search for the exact word to describe what’s inside them, they become a sharper, more powerful communicator.

“people follow the person who can say what they mean and mean what they say. writing every day is how you build that muscle until it becomes second nature.”

over time, all that accumulated writing becomes a resource you can draw from forever. the more you write, the more material you have to solve problems, connect dots and think bigger.

the better you get at putting thoughts into words, the better you get at communicating in general. and honestly, communication controls a huge part of your life. like relationships, opportunities, business, confidence, influence, all of it comes down to how clearly you can express yourself. and no, you don’t need to be some amazing writer either. your grammar doesn’t need to be perfect. nobody cares. half the benefit comes from simply getting thoughts out of your head and onto paper.

some of the best writing advice i’ve ever heard was:

“write badly. just write.”

because the moment you stop trying to sound smart or perfect, your real thoughts finally start coming out.

even 30 minutes a day changes something in you. you become calmer because your mind isn’t carrying around a thousand unprocessed thoughts anymore. you become more self aware because you start noticing your own habits and emotional patterns. you become more articulate because you’re practicing turning feelings into language every single day.

if you write every day, your future self gets to sit down and read exactly how far you’ve come. i think that’s more valuable than any photo album.

who knows maybe one day all that writing becomes a book, a course, something you give your children. at the very least, it becomes proof that you were here, that you grew, that you tried.

that’s one of the coolest parts about it. writing lets you watch yourself evolve with time.

seriously. start writing. doesn’t matter if it’s in a notebook, your notes app, twitter wherever. just sit, think about your thoughts and write.

just sit down for 30 minutes and let your mind speak for once. and watch yourself becoming unstoppable.

[Sherry @SchrodingrsBrat]

People are bored because they don’t love anything, have nothing to suffer for, to pour their heart into and go to bed exhausted from passion. It’s the restless ache of a soul wasting its precious life force on trends instead of martyr tier devotion, stimulation instead of ecstasy

[maddie rune🪰 @themaddierune]

Literature is humanity’s longest conversation with itself about what it means to be alive. It has been going on for thousands of years. You are not late, you are not unqualified, you are not too much or too little or too broken. Pull up a chair. This conversation was always about you.

[Nix 🕊 @startingfromnix]

Notes on cultivating a writing practice - rigor and discipline apply to creative work too! Show up and the muse shows up.

[miaa ☻𖤐∘˙•˚ @montowmiaa]

"isang daan" means both one hundred and one way, a hundred reasons to be scared of something but only one way to find out" absolutely award winning song writing

[Namwali @namwalien]

This is one reason that Toni Morrison reminds me of Nabokov, as I say in ON MORRISON.

Oprah once asked her, "Is it true that sometimes people have to read over your work in order to understand it, to get the full meaning?"

Morrison replied, "That, my dear, is called reading."

[Neil Scott @MrNeilScott]

“Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won't hurt him.”

Nabokov to his New Yorker editor.

[Neil Scott @MrNeilScott]

A poster breaking down Proust’s 958-word sentence.

[mignac @mignac_]

Yesterday, we had the wonderful opportunity to preview the newly restored and refurbished areas of PICC. What a beautiful and incredible space, and an architectural marvel that I hope a lot more Filipinos get to see.