Latest Posts by pockykento - Page 2
4/26/22
My hardcover copy of ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ by Ocean Vuong arrived today . I started reading it on my kindle a month ago but its one of those books that you just have to have a physical copy of . Even though I’m on Eid break, I’ve been spending most of my days preparing for my exam that’s in 22 days . I have to remind myself that this is for my future, especially when all I want to do is rest .
hiya! i hope you're havin a lovely day. dya have any book reccs for japanese literature/poetry?
hi! i don’t have anything on poetry and even with literature, i can tell you what’s on my tbr:
the housekeeper and the professor by yoko ogawa
heaven by mieko kawakami
the travelling cat chronicles by hiro arikawa
lonely castle in the mirror by mizuki tsujimura
murakami: sputnik sweetheart and the wind-up bird chronicle are on my tbr; i enjoyed 1Q84 and killing commendatore
the sound of waves by yukio mishima
strange weather in tokyo by hiromi kawakami
i love watching my mutuals post abt their daily schedule it's like we're roommates nd i can hear them in the kitchen talking to themselves
you know what, i know too much about america. social media is so american-centric i could probably tell you more about there than my home country. i would like to forget some information about america please. i would like for someone to say “I am from Oregon” and for me to reply “haha is that some kind of herb?”. please erase america from my knowledge. thank you
when my ecology teacher went "and, well, we're ... surviving" about how us as living things interact . yeah , yeah . we are surviving. it's not always easy but it's enough for us to get to the next day.
can't tell if howl actually reads all those pretty books lying around his house or if he keeps them strewn about for the aesthetic TM
my blog is for the girls who finished last during the mile in PE
tinder bio that says i have JSTOR institutional access
i am a simple creature. every day i am sleepy
it drives me crazy how most study community users act so fucking woke, and then in the next post talk abt how they bought a fucking harry potter book like okay! so you choose to support a transphobic writer and a book series that has racism, antisemitism and anti-indigenous themes in it! so woke!
why do we need exams why can’t my professors just trust me
I wanna live in a little quaint cottage that backs up to a big old forest full of birds and deer and mystery and i want to dry my laundry outside when its sunny and tend to my garden when its foggy and sit inside by the fire and write when its rainy
1.26.2021
A gloomy day studying con law (supervised by Henry of course).
i stress about stress before there’s even stress to stress about
18/12/20
ok, I’m done moping around, time to grind for the exams (p.s I bought this cute glass thing to help motivate me to study and drink water🥺)
Blue Water Lilies, Monet, c. 1917
good evening to girls who are half tree, guys who’ve died twice, guys that have been dead for seven years, bisexuals who are possessed by a forest, gays that can take objects out of their dreams, guys that make you hold a robotic bee in a pit, dead welsh kings, psychic moms, latin teachers that have been framed for murder, boys without internal organs, hit men that read anglo-saxon poetry, and declan
drinking pear green tea, listening to some Debussy, feeling good 🍐😌
Virginia Woolf , Sappho
Me: :(
Old buildings with ivy creeping gently up their sides: ...
Me: :)
today my anthro professor said something kindof really beautiful:
“you all have a little bit of ‘I want to save the world’ in you, that’s why you’re here, in college. I want you to know that it’s okay if you only save one person, and it’s okay if that person is you”
My hobbies include reading, writing and doing neither of those things