• video essay by sage hyden(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLY59czU...)
  • it rejects the chosen one trope in favor of collective action

when you think you have nothing left you still have...

• a good cup of coffee
• androgynous fashion
• animated films
• basking in moonlight
• dancing in private to my favourite tunes
• discovering new music
• drinking with my friends
• eating a hot street crêpe when it's cold outside
• feverish longing portrayed in art
• film photographs emanating nostalgia
• flowers, herbs, plants
• gothic sub-tropes
• journaling in cafes
• kindness, empathy, solidarity
• libraries (the older & quirkier, the better)
• listening to people wax poetic about their passions

for writing pieces—

• why i shouldn't fear death (part ii)
• an ode to the girl i was but never loved
• i'm not the last person you kissed?
• feelings of inadequacy vs. brief moments of peace
• the mortifying ordeal of being known and perceived
• catholic guilt
• the right to be forgotten/deleting memories

for playlists—

• scorpio venus
• underwater
• sappho

• inclusion in the costume community: https://youtu.be/b3tdjRLBcdo
  • appreciation vs appropriation
  • how to genuinely diversify your spaces
  • how to be a good ally

here are two things: the excitement i get from buying new clothes is very fleeting, and owning a lot of it doesn't make me feel happy (quite the opposite, actually). add to that my political & environmental values, and it only makes sense that i should craft a capsule wardrobe.

a capsule wardrobe is a collection of a few essential items of clothing that don't go out of fashion and that can then be augmented with seasonal pieces. there are a lot of pros to it, for example:

• it saves time + avoids decision fatigue
• it reduces desire to buy stuff since you already have the basics (fuck consumerism & capitalism)
• the consistency can be comforting
• it incites you to be more creative when you wanna switch things up
• if the pieces are good quality and in neutral colours, they will last you years (g...

• why are we so attached to our things? https://youtu.be/H2_by0rp5q0

books cleanse—

• books donated: 26
• books sold: 0

notebooks—

• guide to palm-reading
• redo astrology 101

sewing—

• reusable washable period pads
• reusable washable makeup removers
• collages as possible t-shirt designs
• crop my new hand-me-down black hoodie
• fix the sleeve of my striped turtleneck
• crop the burgundy long sleeve shirt i bought in sweden, turn the cut seam into a wave (i'm sure there's a term for that but i don't know it and i'm too lazy to look it up right now)
• crop the dress i wore for christmas two y...

• anti-semitic portrayals of witches
• anti-semitic portrayals of vampires
• the racist origins of the word "spooky"

editing analysis:

• Trauma & Memories Featurette by Michael Zak https://youtu.be/5jwZSycyauw

'why witches? because witches dance. they dance in the moonlight. lunar women, lunatic women, stricken, they say, with periodic madness. swollen with lightning like revolt, bursting with anger, with desire, they dance wild dances on the wild moor. wild-women, uncivilized, as the white man says of other races; wildcats as the government and union say of some strikes; as they say of some of our schemes. the witches dance, wild and unjustifiable, like desire.' — 'pourquoi sorcières? parce qu’elles dansent. elles dansent à la pleine lune. femmes lunaires, lunatiques, atteintes – disent-ils – de folie périodique. gonflées de révolte fulgurante, de colère bouillonnante, gonflées de désir, elles dansent sur la lande sauvage des danses sauvages. sauvages, comme l’homme blanc le dit des autres ethnies; sauvages comme l’état et le syndicat le disent de certaines grèves, de cert...