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be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.

My pie in the sky goal for learning Chinese is to read a classic poem in the original language and actually understand why it is beautiful. My croissant high above sea level goal is to read a paragraph of the trashiest pulp their literary tradition can offer me and actually understand why it’s stupid as hell (complimentary).

I keep reading English translations of classic Chinese poetry where the poems are introduced by a tremendously sincere translator saying something like, “the exquisite verse of [Poet] has endured through centuries for reasons self-evident to any who read it,” and then I’ll read it and unfortunately. the reasons are rarely self-evident.

there is no amount of language learning that is useless. I think it obviously scales up in wonderfulness as you learn more, but even just being at the point where you can recognize what language is being spoken or written is still a more useful thing than not knowing that. it is lovely to say hi to people in their language! any attempt to learn is important. you don't get fluent overnight. and you don't have to get fluent overnight. more knowledge is better than none. it isn't just all or nothing.

Just discovered the queue, this thing is amazing

I love how everyone silently agreed to queue this and it's only now crawling out of the processing vortex. Tumblr posters love being contrary so much

studying history is like. here's to another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be. thank you women who fight for abortion and contraception and independance from men for another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be

Unfortunately it’s very easy to lure me places because I like to go somewhere