I don't think you know how to love anything

i'm nina and i'm a mess.

[depsidase]

[enchantedbook]

'The Swan Maidens' by Walter Crane, 1894

[segamascott]

Why the fuck are you 30+ on tumblr

this is my house?

[mayothompson]

not normie enough to fit in but not fringe enough to lean into being a freak, worst of both worlds, pure liminality, just the weird coworker, and unrelatable classmate. and your mutual

[cannibalchicken]

[notquiteaghost]

once again opening a ship tag on AO3 and opening a dozen fics and closing out of almost all of them immediately because they would not fucking act like that

[notquiteaghost]

why is it – i know why. this is a rhetorical question – that so many people have a fixed idea of what A Romance looks like and will mold the characters to fit it. rather than molding what the romance looks like to fit how the characters think and act.

like. i am drawn to repressed sarcastic bastards who would rather run into a burning building than verbalise their feelings. that is their appeal. why are you having them say 'i love you' while holding their partner's hands in full view of two dozen other people. stop that. they wouldn't fucking do that. other things can be a love confession. other things can be a display of affection. have you never anticipated someone's needs! done a task they hate without having to be asked! remembered their favourite food! rearranged your plans for their convenience! punched someone in the gut for insulting them! have some damn imagination!!!

[notquiteaghost]

hallmark movies won't tell you this but the love languages are actually access intimacy, in-jokes, learning the little details, attack dogism, and voluntary vulnerability

[adjoint-law]

#romance is doing your partner's paperwork #and them doing your paperwork #in a cold war of paperwork-completion that leads to the best organised filing system you've seen outside of a large corporation #whereupon you curse their name and go and find things they like to bribe them with so that they'll stop completing your paperwork for you #but oh no upon your desk when you return - it's a perfectly made cup of tea and that new book you've been meaning to read! #FOILED AGAIN

[ohyoungil]

this is genuinely so sad 😭 (source)

[sexybritishllama]

one of the most frustrating things about getting a job is that after you go through the absolute hellscape that is applying and interviewing and you finally prove yourself worthy of having employment, you'll end up in the workforce and realise that 90% of the people with jobs are not actually very good at them. so like why was all of that even so hard

[kissycat]

Thank god soulmates (one person destined for you that you will never be happy without) aren't real but soulmates (people you understand and connect with on a special level, multiple, some of which you havent met yet) are real

[valtsv]

if we weren't supposed to press down on bruises they wouldn't have made it feel like that when you do

[rox-and-prose]

the thing about living with mental illness for decades is that occasionally your brain will be like hey you're useless and should kill yourself and your only real reaction is cmon man right now im in the middle of something

[hello-jumping-in-puddles]

the problem with hamlet is he’s always played by a 35 year old dude and im like. in the first place why are you not already the king, get it together. and when a 35 year old makes fun of people he’s just a dick. he’s not funny he’s just annoying. like shut the fuck up and just kill your uncle like a goddamn grown up.

but 15 year old hamlet? when a 15 year old is being snarky and annoying? thats just how teenagers are. a 15 year old panicking about commiting actual murder? okay, yeah, you’re allowed to panic about this for a while. fair enough. 15 year old hamlet is actually a tragedy rather than the saga of a mid-life crisis.

nobody under thirty has played hamlet in a major film adaptation according to wikipedia and its a goddamn travesty.

[thangyuzz]

i love whatever’s wrong with him

[itsaspectrumcomic]

A 2pm appointment can take all day when you're autistic

[bocje-ce-ustu]

I mean, I want a weak hero class 3 too but anything that isn't suho and sieun making out while somebody else does the fighting in the background isn't gonna look like satisfying character development to me

[wordshoarding]

Your Love Finds Its Way Back, Sierra DeMulder

more

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

beginning to suspect that if I ever want to have a published novel I will have to actually write a novel, which is frankly ghoulish

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I know I have a novel in me but it seems to be lodged in like. I don't know. my appendix.