KISS ME HARDY

Lauren. eternally tired and eternally in need of a haircut. very into stars, books, the ocean, queer stuff, YA fic, & cool science shit.

[piss-bong]

2020 for me has just been "am I stressed because of a global pandemic and an increasingly fascist far-right government, or am I just struggling to exist under capitalism" and I'm really getting tired of it

[siderealsandman]

Unacceptable Careers for Toph

Cop

Acceptable Careers for Toph

Rich layabout living off her parents’ inherited money

Vigilante who uses her parents’ enormous wealth to fight actual criminals 

Fire Lord Zuko’s Anger Translator

Diogones-esque philosopher (kind of what she eventually became)

Pro-bending champion turned aging, grizzled mentor to future pro-benders

Badger mole breeder (nobody wants them bred but that has never stopped Toph from doing anything)

Construction worker 

“I saved the world and y’all expect me to have a career too?? Nah, fuck that, I’ll take my hero pension from the Fire Nation thank you very much”

[strawberey]

I’m off to the woods ! It’s been too long, I need to sit in a creek and forget some things.

[boykeats]

No doubt in Holland, when van Gogh was a boy, there were swans drifting over the green sea of the meadows, and no doubt on some warm afternoon he lay down and watched them, and almost thought: this is everything. What drove him to get up and look further is what saves this world, even as it breaks the hearts of men.

— Mary Oliver, from “Everything,” House of Light (Beacon Press, 1990)

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

i miss her so much i think about her every single day (the local library)

[thewastedgeneration]

!!!

[claricetudor-old]

hello here is a short story i wrote for a competition i didn’t win. enjoy

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[charmingdarkness]

@youngadultcat

[oil-robin]

Would you kiss an ancient forest spirit?

○ yes

○ yes

○ super yes

[liz-cat-meow-deactivated2020011]

i am a BIG FAN of being around people that make me feel genuinely loved and safe

[januaryhoney]

when richard siken said “we are all going forward. none of us are going back” and “the world is good and we belong here” and “these, our bodies, possessed by light” and “we are all just trying to be holy” and “maybe we will wake up to the silence of shoes at the foot of the bed not going anywhere.”

[kny111]

“You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as much as they can but the rest is up to our friends. They can love you all the time, without judgement. At least the good ones can.”

— Ryan O'Connell (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[littlebearblues]

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[manticoreimaginary]

“Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.”

— William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust

[trapcard]

there comes a time when you’ll have to stop basing your morals on the laws of society because not all of these laws are meant to protect the vulnerable people but to exploit

[gettingintoknives]

Mary Oliver, from “the fourth sign of the zodiac” published in Blue Horses

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