I love personalization. I love stickers on water bottles and on laptops. I love shitty marker drawing on the toes of converse. I love hand embroidered doodles on jeans. I love posters on walls. I love knick knacks on shelves. I love jewelry with goofy charms. I love when people take things and make them theirs.
nobody tears through library books quite as fast as a 12 yr old girl with no friends
very random journaling/diary keeping advice, but since i’ve never had consistency with what i post, here’s some stuff that’s helped me keep a semi-constant journal since 6th grade:
if you’re feeling too tired for sentences, bullet points (like this!) are fun
take note not just what you’ve been doing, but what you’ve been thinking about that day
if you want to, you can revisit past events even if it has nothing to do with the day (just make sure to mark down the approximate date of that past day for lack of future confusion)
write down lists of books/movies/tv shows or music you’ve read/seen/heard and your opinion about them
mix-up your standard format with colorful or unusual pencils/pens, adding in doodles/stickers/cutouts of stuff, writing vertically
every few months, word-vomit about anything that feels significant/important at that time of your life and don’t worry about consistency
occasionally write in 2nd person to yourself
cut up a paper bag and tape together a DIY cover for the book. the shittier it looks the more spirit it will have, and in general, i write more honestly when you don’t have to live up to how professional the journal’s cover looks
swear. it’s very therapeutic.
go back and annotate stuff you’ve written ages ago as if your present self has traveled back in time to meet your past self and challenge/comfort them
Eijun = Tsubaki (Ōsaka Ryōta)
Furuya = Suō (Nobunaga Shimazaki)
Haruichi = Suzuri (Hanae Natsuki)