ilona lodewijckx

when does something stop being tea and start being soup (and vice versa)?

talking to oneself used to be a sign of mental illness

see this would be a great app if anyone was on it

i feel like the fact you can't browse twitter anymore if you're not on it is the modern equivalent of the burning of the library of alexandria

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important Why? Because others will see you do them, and it will make it easier for them to take their own (slightly less lonely but equally beautiful) action by your side

In occupied France, people would drop their used matches folded into a V, as a secret sign of resistance. People who opposed the Nazis would see them, knew they weren't alone, & felt emboldened to take action.

Some modern day equivalents here--small but powerful actions you can absolutely do:

it's so funny listening to really loud music in your headphones while in the library. you're all "smack my bitch up" meanwhile the bitch in question is a book on the history of trees

Trayvon Martin would have been 30 today. Trayvon Martin should be 30 today.

bird by andrea arnold had me crying big big tears in the theatre & outside on the dark anspachlaan & on the tram & on the sofa & in bed & grian chatten of fontaines dc kept ringing in my ears saying "is it too real for ya?" and all i could do was nod tearfully

from ways of seeing by john berger

12 followers. i love yapping into the void like this. is this what praying feels like?

• Get a library card
• Use your library card
• Support indie booksellers
• Read banned books
• Read diverse authors
• Resist
• Repeat

#booksky #resist

these are scary times for sexy people

"hand gesture" is one way to put it

It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written. I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt.

Mary Oliver making me feel slightly better about the state of my flat while on deadline

"I used to go to Bob's Big Boy restaurant just about every day from the mid-seventies until the early eighties. I'd have a milk shake and sit and think. There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milk shake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner."

David Lynch on inspiration in diners.

Pamela Anderson in the Criterion Closet. The text reads, “We love David Lynch.”

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i feel like leaving x is like finally leaving a bad relationship. like it just gradually got worse & more unhinged but i stayed bc it was "sometimes funny"

i'm really trying to like this app & escape the transphobes, climate deniers & muskle boys on the other one. but i haven't found my people. so hi, my name is ilona, i'm a writer, i like books & letting the soft animal of my body love what it loves. also i believe a ceasefire is just the beginning.