i'd like to walk around in your mind

cath, 23, brazil (^^ゞ writing ☆ design ☆ cinema ☆ c-drama enthusiast

[streetkit]

girl shocked to discover that inaction can have consequences too

[fieldbears]

local woman disgusted to learn that choosing not to decide or act is, in itself, a choice

[frailnbedazzled-deactivated2025]

1999 The Sun The Moon and Stars

Greg Mort

[benzohoarder]

[valtsv]

tbh the "false" and "pseudo-" prefixes do so much for a word. like ohhhhh that's not what it looks like, that's something else. okay 👁👁

[valtsv]

"prophet" "scorpion": yup. i know these 👍

"false prophet" "pseudoscorpion": ...interesting. tell me more.

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

[luna-azzurra]

When a Character Is Grieving Someone They Never Got to Say Goodbye To

✧ They talk about the person in past tense… then correct themselves. Then stop talking entirely.

✧ They touch things that belonged to the person like they’re fragile, sacred, about to disappear.

✧ They hoard the last voicemail, last message, last anything. Play it. Don’t play it. Just knowing it exists hurts enough.

✧ They leave something untouched, an empty seat, a half-packed bag, a coffee order that isn’t theirs.

✧ They get irrationally angry when someone else seems to be “moving on.” As if forgetting is betrayal.

✧ They don’t let themselves cry all at once. It comes in pieces. Like they’re afraid too much grief will drown them.

✧ They over-apologize. For being quiet. For being distant. For not being okay.

✧ They become hyper-aware of time, dates, anniversaries, time zones, the exact moment everything ended.

✧ They get superstitious. Ritualistic. As if doing things "right" might reverse something.

✧ They smile when they talk about the person. But it’s brittle. And it never quite touches their eyes.

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Soup”, Instructions for Traveling West

[sinoheritage]

Mount Qingcheng 青城山 in Sichuan province, China.

It is considered one of the birthplaces of Taoism, and one of the most important Taoist religious sites in China. As an important site of the Taoism, it became host to many Taoist monasteries and temples, and since 2000 it has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ☯️

[luna-azzurra]

Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)

(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.

✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)

[weltenwellen]

Glennon Doyle, Untamed

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, from “Otis”, Poems 1962 - 2012

[libraford]

"If tampons should be free, then so should my diabetes meds."

Yes? Yes they should be? Your life-saving medication that you need in order to live for a condition you were born with should be given to you at no cost?

[whimsigothwitch-deactivated2026]

Blessed monday witches

[sandushengshou]

The Addams Family (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

[videoclubs]

PERFECT DAYS dir. Wim Wenders

[gusucloud]

Kill me Love me (2024)

“You and I are definitely meant to be together by destiny.”

[27-06]

“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Catherine Earnshaw, Wuthering Heights  (via calms)

[zabadi]

i wish people online were capable of not swinging from one extreme to another omg like how did "dont shame gbt people for liking men" and "acting like men r inherently doomed to be horrible is counterproductive gender essentialism" turn into "if u say anything bad abt men thats bad and lesbians r weird for not liking men" like its getting very weird and very obvious that nobody actually understands what critical thinking is they just read posts online and then see how far they can run w them