what if we admitted to each other that it's not always really romance that we want. What if we admitted that what we're really craving is intimacy and society taught us romance is the only way to get it.
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what if we admitted to each other that it's not always really romance that we want. What if we admitted that what we're really craving is intimacy and society taught us romance is the only way to get it.
They keep making Tanrak look up at Barth and I'm having Thoughts and Feelings about it
the way religious guilt was visualized by the last bit of the second episode of ticket to heaven was so accurate it left a hole in my heart. how awful is it to not be allowed to feel something so human and be taught that that is a sin?
tanrak having trouble getting some sleep after starting to feel attraction to barth and simply getting out of bed to walk himself like a dead man just to get that sensation away, but ultimately gave in to lust, was so heavy.
knowing when not to open the comments is a skill
internet soft skills
not opening the comments
letting people be wrong
letting people be wrong about YOU
letting people have a bad impression of you (see above)
knowing when your input isn't needed
spotting bot comments
block button
blocking tip: you don't have to wait to have a negative interaction with someone to block them. you can block them without ever interacting with them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone being rude to someone else and preemptively blocked them
"why'd they block me? we've never talked" bro if i see you being nasty to the bartender i'm not gonna chat you up
i watched this fan video edit for wu and i nearly got choked up while watching it, realizing how meeting someone and having known them for a short span of time and still feel like you have known them for a long time, one didn't even hesitate to give half of their life to save the other doesn't happen quite often to people.
it's even more emotional because both niran and pete had been alone for years despite having been around people. that they were always meant to go back to a place where it is lonely, not even a spider on the ceiling would accompany them. surely, the walls that stood in their houses were done hearing nothing but the quiet. and still, those were the only places they have known to go back to. both niran and pete grew up in a house that didn't have a home.
so imagine the relief when they finally started feeling the freedom from the shackles of their loneliness after their encounter—after having known the fact that: oh, maybe we could actually work this awkward relationship out and make meaningful memories together and live a life that no longer feels like a dead weight hanging on our shoulders. and then, invite more people that are just as lonely as us, forgotten by the world, so we could build more friendships and turn it into a familial kind of relationship because no one gets to have our backs but each other.
like. how incredibly beautiful is that? to create such fruitful relationships even from just a short span of time; to bond inside a house that was once nothing but with the dust and now with people who will share laughter enough to echo against the walls.
and, ultimately, niran and pete binding their souls together? sharing a life and fate and death together? how heavenly that must be. they have come so far in just a little time. from being utterly lonely to finding no worth in living to actually finally wanting to live and protect somebody for life.
what this tells me is that we don't necessarily have to know someone for years to love them. sometimes, the ones you have known forever are the ones that end up betraying you. and sometimes, the ones you have known in short months turns out to be the best people that stays with you forever.
it's nice. this is nice. i adore niran and pete's blossoming relationship. what a team. what a match made by heaven. what an insane promise by the fates.
the fact that we waited long months (almost two years) for the release of wu the series and then its now here and suddenly we are in the sixth episode tomorrow and like okay whoa slow down a little bit buddy but also come quick so we can watch the next episode but also hey dont be tuesday so fast or else i might cry because we only have wu the series until the last day of june and its not funny
dont ever give credit to people for "giving" women rights. dont thank them for returning what shouldn't have been taken in the first place.
my heart bleeds everyday for the afghan girls and women. they are housebound and have to cover themselves up from top to bottom because they have to "avoid temptation or seduction". they are not allowed to speak in public or appear in public because it is deemed "too intimate." the women can’t look at men. suicide rates have skyrocketed because women and girls would rather be dead than to be a women in afghanistan. it’s not a sin to be a women.
women and girls are denied access to healthcare because they cannot be treated by male doctors, yet they are also barred from education and, therefore, cannot become doctors themselves. shops in afghanistan are even forced to cover up female mannequins. little girls live in fear of becoming child brides, but they dream of being poets, they would kill to get education.
a woman was disqualified from the olympics because she spread the message "free afghan women" at her breakdance performance. there must always be a relative male by their side like women were dogs being treated by their owner, except dogs have more rights than the women suffering.
we must raise awareness, do not look away. these women deserve the opportunities and the human rights that EVERY person does. they are talented, creative and intelligent but men are so scared. scared of women. the taliban tries to erase women. i’m sick. the radical government that feels threatened by women. do not look away.
Fellini’s Casanova (1976)
"The sculpture in the image is “Das Schicksal” (Fate), created in 1905 by Hugo Lederer. The sculpture portrays fate as a ruthless woman dragging two vulnerable bodies by their hair.
The work is currently located in Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany."
from @dustseasons on instagram .
it's been a few days but i still cannot get over how niran had to take a walk and ruminate on this huge life-altering decision to bind his whole soul and life force to a new friend he met like last month, and one of his conclusions was that this might be one of the worst decisions they ever made, that pete will probably get angry at him for forcing this bond on him,
and then we cut to pete who did not have a choice, who got his soul bound without proper explanation, and what he hears is that niran did this to save him, and immediately he concludes that this is fine. niran would never hurt him so soul binding is no big deal👍
niran: oh god what have i done this is the most invasive and controlling thing i could have inflicted on this man and he'll hate me for it and now that our souls are connected i'll have to live feeling his hatred seething between us until we're both dead
pete: oh sweet i'm a sugar baby
"what the fuck is your problem?" (compliment)
"are you sick in the head or something?" (flirtatious)
"fucking freak" (affectionate)
FOUND family??? you think i just found them like this??? babes this is FORGED family. Me & the bros were scrap metal in a junkyard (very valuable, very sharp, very dangerous, uncared for) and we GOT IN THE FUCKING FIRE TOGETHER. WE did this. we said I AM NOT LEAVING YOU and melted into each other for better or for worse (it’s for better) and we are A FUNCTIONAL UNIT now. DO NOT SEPARATE. BATTERIES FUCKING INCLUDED. FOUND family my ass, we built this non-nuclear family unit from the ground up, don’t devalue this!!! it was is and will be a labour of love!!!
non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc
reminding myself that 7 kudos is 7 different people who have read my story and actually liked it
and idk about you but if 7 people came up to me in real life and said “hey we really liked your writing” i would just cry on the spot