"What I love in you is your power of loving, a bit wild, a bit primitive, but absolute." — Renée Vivien

• jamille, jam (she/her)
• april 7, 1999
• bicol, philippines
• literature studies graduate
• infj: the advocate
• type 7: the enthusiast
• twitter / tumblr / letterboxd / goodreads

• all this and heaven too by florence + the machine (i would give all this and heaven too; i would give it all if only for a moment that i could just understand the meaning of the word you see)
• i will by mitski (i will take good care of you; everything you feel is good, if you would only let you)
• to be alone by hozier (honey, when you kill the lights and kiss my eyes, i feel like a person for a moment of my life)
• bug collector by haley heynderickx (cause i must make you the perfect morning, and i try my best to prove that nothing's out to get you)
• take care by beach house (i'd take care of you if you ask me to, in a year or two)
• our house by crosby, stills, nash & young (i'll light the fire while you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today)
• say you will by joy oladokun (at the end of my life, the thought of tonight will be one of my fondest memories)

planetary positions

• sun: aries
• moon: sagittarius
• mercury: pisces
• venus: taurus
• mars: scorpio
• jupiter: aries
• saturn: taurus
• uranus: aquarius
• neptune: aquarius
• pluto: sagittarius
• lilith: scorpio

houses

• ascendant - aquarius
• ii - pisces
• iii - taurus
• iv - taurus
• v - gemini
• vi - cancer
• vii - leo

• films
  • whisper of the heart (1995) dir. yoshifumi kondō
  • columbus (2017) dir. kogonada
  • little forest (2018) dir. yim soon-rye
  • lady bird (2017) dir. greta gerwig
  • little miss sunshine (2006) dir. valerie faris & jonathan dayton
• books
  • graffiti moon by cath crowley
  • the waves by virginia woolf
  • banana heart summer by merlinda bobis
  • blue iris by mary oliver
  • my antonia by willa cather
  • saving francesca by melina marchetta
  • the scorpio races by maggie stiefvater
• music
  • city of no reply by amber coffman
  • puberty 2 by mitski
  • high as hope by florence + the machine

— look what a lot of things there are to learn.

• flowers
• cooking from scratch
• gardening
• editing
• translation
• piano
• korean

• "Creative writers are, or should be, speakers for our people's daily lives, mediated by a historical consciousness, rooted in our indigenous concept of our cosmos and its laws." —Rosario Cruz-Rocero
• "Write what should not be forgotten." — Isabel Allende
• "Write hard and clear about what hurts.” ― Ernest Hemingway
• "What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open." — Muriel Rukeyser
• "Writing is a process of coming out of hiding. And if you don’t practice consciously, rigorously, the world will keep sending you back to your hiding place."
• "If you teach me something beautiful I will name it quickly before it floats away." — Kaveh Akbar