unbeingdeaddd:

“It is the phenomenon sometimes called alienation from self. In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something; that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game. Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the spectre of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that one’s sanity becomes an object of speculation among one’s acquaintances. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.”

— On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from the Pages of Vogue

(via our-blue-nights)

goodthingsarewaiting:

You can always start again. Clean out your social media. Create a new account for your new taste in music. Study or work in a new city. Start socialising with new people. Choose a new signature scent and style and purge the outdated parts of yourself. If you don’t like where you’re at, but you don’t know what to do about it – try starting again.

STYLE [Jeff x Annie vid]

we come back every time.

AO3 permalink (look there in the event of a copyright takedown) 

I set out to make a fun little Community vid. Somehow, in the process, it made me a no-holds-barred Jeff x Annie shipper. It’s pretty surreal to get swept up in the excitement of a new ship when you already know the source material like the back of your Chang, but I leaned into it, harnessed both, and this is the result: a Jeff x Annie thesis in vid form.