'what ache would you deny? i celebrate the wax and its sun, the wingless skeleton, my slit my swoon.' — katie longfono, "dollface"

• strange women
• the tumult of girlhood
• revolt, of the proletariat especially
• social justice
• gothic sub-tropes
• witchcraft
• magical realism
• film photographs emanating nostalgia
• fashion
• cinema
• colorful architecture
• free-verse poetry
• reading dark poetry to ease myself from a depressive episode, anxiety attack, or a bpd split
• the boys of seventeen
• nature walks
• modern collages
• iced caramel macchiatos
• feverish longing portrayed in art
• satin sheets
• dancing in private to lorde in full volume
• fantasizing/crying to mitski's "lush" album in the dead of night
• drinking as much bottles of wine as i can in my room
• passion drives
• train rides
• flower fields
• walking around the hearts of cities until unforgivable hours, listening to mitski's "puberty 2" & "bury me at makeout creek," basking in teenage angst
• journalling in cafes
• taking photographs of friends
• lying in bed, reading for long periods of time
• serene solitude
• preparing breakfast for myself
• projecting through mythological characters (atlas, icarus, sisyphus)
• urban tales
• disguised longing portrayed in art
• the sounds of a ukulele
• sketching my calloused hands
• listening to people wax poetic about their passions
• contemporary collage-making
• ocean vuong's writing style