Welldressedandunimpressed - Well-Dressed And Unimpressed

Not to sound like a 90s shallow prep, but how you dress can affect your self esteem, and putting energy into wearing things you actively like and projecting an ideal of yourself through fashion instead of seeing clothes as things you have to put on out of obligation helps.

It also can give you a sense of control over your appearance that you otherwise wouldn’t have lmao

NaNoWriMo, the competition whose raison d'etre is making people write actual words for a month, declaring that you can do writing with AI is a predictably inane choice. But coaching their statement in social justice language about how banning AI is classist and ableist, now that elevates it to the sublimely dopey

Alfredo Lazzari (Argentinian, 1871 - 1949) - Rincón de la quinta

Unnecessarily Purple Substitutes For The Phrase “Purple Prose”

Wordsmithery of a Tyrian hue

His pen’s ink was in half-mourning

A style so intensely violet as to have almost passed beyond the visible spectrum

Passages which ought to be carved in porphyry and declared the exclusive property of the Roman emperors

The pages stretched before her like the expanse of Lent, although without either the austerity or the variety: which is to say that they were lengthy, mortifying, and draped in violet

The poet’s style had mixed the red of strong emotion with the blue of deep contemplation in reckless quantities, creating a result so vividly colored as to be barely comprehensible