“make your life the first life that you save.”

── likes. photography, tea, lepidoptera, sumikkogurashi, commonplace books, existentialism, wildflowers, literature, lace accents, critical media analyses, kaomojis, studio ghibli films, the golden hour

── dislikes. false dichotomies, toxic optimism, overly sweet tea, monotony, pseudoscience, listening to my own voice, anti-intellectualism, conservative ideology

“whoever you are, no matter how lonely, / the world offers itself to your imagination, / calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting / over and over announcing your place / in the family of things.” — wild geese, mary oliver ｡𖦹°‧

• heath, they/she sapphic. singaporean, 07
• a vessel for more thoughts and words than are necessary
• biology & philosophy student perpetually desiring academic validation
• photographer, occasional essayist & poet
• watching wild skies, wishing with closed eyes

• apply the principle of charity
• it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. - invitation , mary oliver
• you can still make a beautiful life for yourself even if you feel like you’ve lost many years to grief or darkness or wounds that won’t close
• good morning, you have to be the thing that saves you
• do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. do justly, now. love with mercy, now. walk humbly now. you are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

umwelt as subjective experience, seville orange jam, fireworks, benedict anderson’s theory of nations as imagined communities, phylogenetics, butterfly pea lemonade, to resist is to remember; to claim is to..., bactericidal antibiotics, construal level theory of psychological distance, voyager golden records

♪ : burning daylight - mia nicolai, dion cooper • ordinary creature - of monsters and men • synopsis - 終日柄 • reply - yuju • se eu moresse amanhã - napa

—— non-fiction

• one day, everyone will have always been against this - omar el akkad

—— anthologies

• the material dimension of clouds - pluriversidad nómada

—— miscellaneous

• they told us to move - edited by ng kok hoe