act-age

• “the difference between an angel and a demon is merely the name we give it.”

blue period

• “people never try to compare themselves against god.”

old fashioned cupcake

• “i'm also in love with you to the point of death.”
• “in time, we will forget.” “i won't forget, and i won't let you either. i couldn't figure it out and that frightened me, so i ran away. i'm sorry. but a tomorrow where you're not by my side is even more frightening. for better or worse, i'm prepared to be one portion of your life. a new kind of happiness that you've yet to discover - i want to witness it with you.” “forget being one portion and pl...

• this life was never ours. we were only ever borrowing it.
• no one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. it’s some sort of survival mechanism.
• hell is the absence of the people you long for.
• a life, remembered, is a series of photographs and disconnected short films.
• this was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.
• happiness comes from doing, helping, working, loving, fighting, conquering, from the exercise of functions; from self-activity.
• if grandma hadn't let grandpa win that race, we wouldn't be here. small things like that add up, into something greater than ourselves.
• people have never had a problem disposing...

——manga

• ikoku nikki
• blue period
• skip & loafer
• the apothecary diaries
• loving yamada at lv999
• poco's udon world
• witch hat atelier
• mr bride
• spy x family
• delicious in dungeon
• medalist
• no youna

——manhwa

• payback
• empress cesia wears shorts
• a wicked tale of cinderella's stepmom
• like wind on a dry branch
• lady evony
• the fantasie of a stepmother

• blue period
• delicious in dungeon
• different country diary/journal with witch
• frieren: beyond journey's end
• march comes in like a lion
• skip & loafer
• witch hat atelier

(note: not in particular order)

• skip to loafer - country girl moves to the city, meets all sorts of new people, soon friends. premise is very common, author doesn't try to twist the cliche to un-cliche it, but works around it and it works
• amaama to inazuma - single father tries his best to learn cooking for his toddler daughter after his wife passes with the help of his student. super cute, super fluffy, super sweet, with a hint of sadness in the background. no teacher-student trope, if you're worried about it
• team medical dragon - ambitious female doctor tries to overthrow the regime of a power-hungry old man in the hospital system with the help of a seemingly airheaded but actually really skilled surgeon. got me, someone who never wanted to get into the medical field, thinking to get into said field
• mahou tsukai no yome - abandoned young girl became the assist...

• what if you could do it all over, on our unlived life
• loneliness: coping with the gap where fr..., olivia laing on loneliness and friendship
• why can't we be friends, on parasocial relationship in the age of internet
• remote control, you're wrong about, tonya harding & nancy kerrigan edition
• the age of instagram face, how instagram shapes the new beauty standards
• the mixed metaphor, on asian-american literature, by andrea long chu

• the strangeness of grief ⇢
  • my sorrow lasted for two years. for two years i mentally dated everything, even the purchase of a book, by its distance from shiva’s death.
• the wound of multilingualism ⇢
  • the more i felt at home in english, the less arabic felt like one. so much so that learning a new language was to acquire a new wound. multilingualism meant multi-wounding.
• what college can't do ⇢
  • in “the waste land”—a poem that is about, among other things, modern busyness—people seem superficial, hollow, disengaged, and exhausted. but the problem isn’t their individual choices; it’s the age, which shouts, at every opportunity...

—— haunts

• longreads ✧
• dumbo feather ✧
• lithub ✧
• brain pickings ✧
• musing mind ✧
• aeon magazine ✧

—— resources

• japanese language learning resources ✧
• how do you help a grieving friend? ✧
• useful websites, curated ✧
• stretching for lower back pain ✧
• how to incorporate colours in your outfit based on colour theory ✧
• unconventional fanworks exchange ✧
• the evolution of trust, a game ✧
• uncommon goods ✧
• henri - cinémathèque francaise's free platform ✧

—— lithub's back to school for everyo...