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velvet telephone

notes from a girl who refuses to organize her tabs
✧ currently reading: THÉRÈSE RAQUIN ✧ currently listening: SMERZ ✧ thinking about language again ✧ please leave your shoes at the door ✧ this website is best viewed at 1024×768 ✧
✧ welcome to my little corner of the internet

hello, stranger

august 12, 2026 · 02:13 AM

Welcome to my extremely unnecessary personal website. I wanted somewhere that felt less like a portfolio and more like walking into someone's bedroom in 2007 and discovering that every surface has books, jewellery, perfume bottles, burned CDs, old photographs and scraps of paper with sentences written on them.

This is where I keep things that don't really belong anywhere else: things I'm reading, things I'm researching, things I'm listening to, half-formed thoughts, quotations I refuse to forget, strange internet discoveries, and occasionally things that are probably better left inside my Notes app.

Don't expect a coherent personal brand here. There is no branding strategy. There is only vibes.

♡ diary / recent transmissions

the tragedy of having seventeen tabs open

11.08.26 · 01:42 AM

I opened one article about Kafka's syntax and somehow ended up reading about the history of Turkish coffee, then looking at Victorian mourning jewellery, then watching interviews with Gillian Flynn.

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors." — Jim Morrison
✧ things i underlined
"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." — Frank Herbert
"I am free and lost in the same instant." — Anaïs Nin
☾ the book graveyard

books i have read, abandoned, annotated beyond recognition, or emotionally survived.

THÉRÈSE
RAQUIN
LADY
CHATTERLEY'S
LOVER
THE
TRIAL
THE
SECRET
HISTORY
CALL ME
BY YOUR
NAME
SHARP
OBJECTS
THE
METAMORPHOSIS
THE
WASTE
LAND
⚗ research notebook

01 / KAFKA

question: How does Kafka's syntax produce alienation?

current thought: Maybe the feeling of being trapped in Kafka isn't just narrative. Maybe it happens at the sentence level.

02 / LINGUISTICS

question: Why do certain words feel "soft", "ugly", "cold", or "dangerous"?

Looking into sound symbolism, phonesthetics, ideophones and the psychology of language.

03 / DIGITAL HUMANITIES

project: Kafka + computational stylistics.

Someday I want to build something that lets you compare syntactic patterns across Kafka's works.
♫ listening room
NOW PLAYING: nothing yet...
♫ SMERZ — track
♫ Devon Hendryx — track
♫ Tyler, the Creator — track
♫ embarrassing secret song
★ tiny arcade

should you read another book tonight?

You have opened the game.
This was already a mistake.
♡ things i've answered

nobody has asked anything yet...

✎ visitor art wall

the wall is empty...

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