no longer a face.

i escaped someone's face. now, here i am. they/them question mark??

[anosewithlegs]

i need to get up

[presentlydean]

online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

[dostoyevsky-official]

if you didn't see the moon last night, you have another chance tonight (and if you don't see it tonight, you have another chance tomorrow)

[anosewithlegs]

le roman de tristan is the origin of hanahaki

[molabuddy]

the insane experience of missing a fictional character . like you can always go back and reread the book , replay the game , rewatch the show or movie , you can always go back & see them , but you can never experience them & their story for the first time again . its absurd to miss them because they'll always be there , but you'll miss when there were still new things for them to say .

for a small time they were real & growing and changing and you hung onto every new word, but now all they can do is repeat the same story forever&ever & they're not real anymore because you know everything they're going to do. & you miss them. its fucked man...

[molabuddy]

in this way fanworks are like necromancy

[negativepeanuthoarder]

"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

[literary-nose]

the question was - where was dominic rusher?

[today-only-happens-once]

To the person reading this, I hope tonight treats you gently, and that tomorrow looks brighter. 

[anosewithlegs]

where is all the dominic rusher art i don't do well with picturing things in my head

[amazoogle]

only real thursdayheads know what day it is today

[quasi-normalcy]

Reverse Mulan about a young man who disguises himself as a noblewoman and has to learn how to do passive-agressive politicking at dinner parties.

[mobytrot]

reading the illiad and the book 10 "waking ppl up" scene happened whereupon i was instantly possessed with the need to make this.

"Then he [Agamemnon] went to Nestor,

the shepard of the people, whom he found beside his black ship just outside his tent,

upon a soft bed, and beside him lay

his finely decorated arms— a shield,

a glittering helmet, and two spears, and also the dazzling metal belt that old Lord Nestor donned when he armed himself for deadly war."

- the illiad by homer trans. emily wilson, book 10, pg 225-226

[literary-nose]

"am i searching for a non existent dramatic irony" perfectly summarises the experience of reading the thoughts of an unreliable narrator.

[myfandomrealitea]

I actually love hearing about reformed people's stories. I love hearing about people who were in toxic communities or people who used to objectively be dickheads talking about how they got out of that. How they made themselves better.

I hate how most people's initial reaction to stories like that are things like:

"How could you have ever done those things?!" "Oh my god, you believed those things?!" "Well it doesn't un-do the harm you did!"

People incessantly advocate for change but then refuse to allow people who have changed the grace of being acknowledged and given opportunities and chances.

I love hearing about ex-antis talking about how they don't spend their days being angry and sending death threats anymore.

I love hearing about ex-homophobes who realized there's no magic law about what is "natural."

I love reformed bullies talking about how they made amends with their victims and spend their days being considerate of others.

You can't scream about wanting people to change but then expect them to spend the rest of their lives stuck in the past and on who they used to be. You can't expect people to spend the entire rest of their lives grovelling and apologizing and demeaning themselves.

Instead of clinging to who they were, latch onto who they are.

Ask how they got out of it. Commend them on changing. Enjoy that there's one less cause of harm in the world.

[anosewithlegs]

rebirth by eluveitie is if disorder and eternal by mallavora had a child.

[anosewithlegs]

i add new music to my 200+ hour long playlist, skip it in favour of songs i already know and like, then stumble upon it months or years later, and get surprised by how good it is.

[youngerfrankenstein]

I’m gonna be honest it could be any of these at any time.