c.

for you, i would ruin myself

[birdsocks]

They are studying us in petri dishes

[lordascapelion]

We should piss on the poor

[barryogg]

How dare you say that reading comprehension on this site is piss poor

[charlesoberonn]

Based on a true story

[flightyquinn]

i hate so much that i understood this reference...

[hollowedskin]

One time I was dating a guy and I took him to dinner with my family and I couldn't figure out why the staff were looking at us weird and then my grandma said "it's amazing you found each other, you two are a matched set. You look basically identical. Same height, same hair, same eye colour, you even have the same eyebrows"

She said this with love and adoration while we realised every single other person in this restaurant saw a normal family come in and then the siblings kissed with tongue.

[misterrockett]

Lot of "girl what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" energy coming out of these tags.

[hollowedskin]

HEY NOW LISTEN

Yeah no you're right that's fair.

[rainstormcolors]

A little rat with some Klimt-inspired doodles.

[dogmotif-deactivated20240505]

i love tumblr because sometimes i get an urge to rb posts about something nobody likes and everyone just politely ignores me. everyone's like oh he's fallen into madness again, he'll be fine later i guess

[prophetic-writer]

Literally nothing could be more fun for me than reading my own writing from months ago and forgetting i was the one who wrote it. Im glued to the screen and i cant wait to find out what happens next. Bitch YOU made it up!!!!

[rainbowgazes-archive]

I love how the search function on this site is absolute garbage. I can look up a post word for word and I will NEVER find it

[simons-quest-deactivated2019091]

[strangerdarkerbetter]

Pro tip:

Wanna find a post?

Write out what you remember into a Google search.

After you write that out, end with site:tumblr.com

Google will search for your text on just tumblr

In my experience, it’s way more effective than searching through Tumblr

(you can use site:SITENAME.com to search any site btws)

[rainbowgazes-archive]

This usually works but for some reason a lot of posts get indexed on google from a person’s URL based on the posts that were recently reblogged on page 1, meaning that this is only a tiny bit more reliable.

[archivehead]

I HAVE a solution to this, you have to write down site:tumblr.com/post “ “

and then write a direct quote (could be a fraction of a sentence) into the quotations, I’ve been doing this for years, and it’s so useful, it works like 99% of the time 

(the more popular a post is the more likely you’ll find it)

[rainbowgazes-archive]

you’re a genius holy shit

[krisdoesart]

Just used this to find a post I’ve been desperately searching for, thank you so much

[thecosmicrap-deactivated2025010]

Professionally speaking, *gleams with bewitched eyes* *hushes* whatever goes down your bloodthirsty minds, dear writers

[fillielitsa]

All 13 full moons of 2023

[teaboot]

Every look ICONIC! Our lady can NOT flop!

[ssaseaprince]

One thing about me is that I love to be sad, especially when reading fanfiction. Give me hurt/no comfort, main character death, angst, fighting, breakups, cheating, whump, heartbreak, injuries, ambiguous endings, unrequited love. The more it hurts, the better. I want to be sobbing into my pillow until I pass out from exhaustion. I want to have to take an hour long cold shower just to come back to reality. I want my heart to hurt so badly that I can't breathe. I want to be forced to take the day off work because I'm inconsolable. I want pain. I want anguish. I want to be questioning my entire life. I'm nothing if not a masochist.

[elainiisms]

the circle of life

[handweavers]

who are you when you are not watching tv or movies? when you aren't playing video games or reading a book or fanfiction or listening to music or whatever other kind of media that you engage with? who are you when your mind isn't in another world or story, when you are forced to sit with yourself and the only experience you have is your own sensorial life? can you define yourself outside of what you consume? who is that person? do you like them? can you bear it? can you bear it?

[handweavers]

these are value-neutral questions and i am not inherently implying anything in them. what you read into it is for you to decide. consider why your immediate reaction to being asked who you are outside of the tv shows you watch is to become defensive or angry or uncomfortable. what might that say about how you feel about your life? why are you reading judgement into my questions? your answers are not for me, they are for you. do with them what you wish.

[thewildetyme]

when hands touch..

[saturnstillhere]

our coming-of-age has come and gone

“first love / late spring”, mitski // “class of 2013”, mitski // “grown”, gatlin // “the man with the axe”, lorde // “working for the knife”, mitski // “nothing new”, taylor swift // “funeral”, phoebe bridgers // “forever winter”, taylor swift // “garden song”, phoebe bridgers // “little women”, greta gerwig

[slavicafire]

what I really like about all these vintage couple’s portraits is that there is a very certain romatic decorum kept up – certain themes and poses – which, while of course being the mainstream preferred view of couples repeated throughout many studios, are just… so nice to look at. 

this staged affection, a mix of theatricality and intimacy, the couple holding still for a couple of moments and now immortalised in a very set sequence of embraces and kisses. there is a charm to it even when I can’t tell whether this was a genuine couple portait or just actors hired by the photographer.

the kiss on the bare shoulder (eyes perfectly averted), the cheek caress, the piano and the violin, the interrupted embrace, the woman tilted back as in a half-stopped dance…

[slavicafire]

I simply must torment you a bit with these, let us see some of my personal favourites! (part one due to the image limit)

let us start with the kiss on the cheek (eyes averted! oh the pose! these were taken between 1910-1940)

or the nearly opposite energy (how daring!) of the kiss or caress with direct eye contact (1910-1930)

and then the innocent – yet so flirty – classic of the park encounter! (1890-1920)

[slavicafire]

and then the famed kiss on the bare shoulder – what an idea, what a vibe, such intimacy! (1910-1930)

and oh, I am not done, look at this – the adoration of the woman! look at this expression, this pose, this decorum! (1910-1940)

and then some of my favourites from the more playful or direct category, enjoy (1910-1930):

[slavicafire]

and, at last (thank you for still being here and witnessing my recent fascination with vintage polish photography) my three absolute favourites outside of any particular categories (1910-1930)

just look at her. just look.

[longscarydream]

lifehack: when you see a Take One candy bowl in a restaurant, wait until noones looking and shovel candy into your pockets. god may judge you but his sins outnumber your own

[zerofarad]

“God may judge you but his sins outnumber your own.” We really need to start collecting and sourcing these Potent Quotables.

[citrusgroves]

I’ve been doing this for years

It’s all on a google doc of mine (x)

[ovovivip]

litany in which certain things are crossed out - richard siken // mirages: an unexpurgated diary of anaïs nin, 1939-1947 - anaïs nin // 2x06 - fleabag // love is my religion- ziggy marley // take me to church - hozier // holy - king princess // fine line - harry styles // today I'm someone else - chelsea hodson // a letter to fanny brawne, 13 october 1819 - john keats // sacrilege redux - ashe vernon // planet of love - richard siken // song of the fox - margaret atwood // the brothers karamazov - fyodor dostoevsky // sappho // horatio - t. j. klune // red, white, and royal blue - casey mcquinston // the raven king - maggie stiefvater // nox - anne carson // i know what you think of me - tim kreider // figuring - maria popova // journals and miscellaneous notebooks 1838-1842 - ralph waldo emerson // on earth we're briefly gorgeos - ocean vuong // more than friends - faraaz kazi // red doc> - anne carson // 3x10 - wtfock // red, white, and royal blue - casey mcquinston // jenny slate // an oresteia - euripides (trans. anne carson) // wuthering heights - emily brontë // the song of achilles - madeline miller // global cultures: a transnational short fiction reader - elisabeth young-bruehl // red, white, and royal blue - casey mcquinston // a child's definition of love // small wire - anne sexton // the dead poet's society - peter weir // our beutiful life when it's filled with shreiks - christopher citro // stay here - gaho // keith haring diaries - keith haring // latin phrase // hozier // dooms day - bastille // guilty of dust - frank bidart