i'm so fucking tired of the vague sads

*** icon from piccrew by @poikas I love me a vibrant world and everydays unfortunately can get depressingly same and lacklustre and I do have my days and weeks of being less than stellar so... stories. mythologies. poetry. film. fantasy. clothes. art. lots of things that make me alternately mad, glad, and sad. *** tell me things, yeah? -- Annette

[automatonwithautonomy]

the thing about ronan lynch is that he's so lonely. the only dreamer he knows, the only gay kid. when given the chance he dreams brothers and birds and brydes and little orphan girls. friends. companions. things made for loving no matter how difficult they can be. you are made of dreams and this world is not for you. he's not alone. not anymore. there's always going to be a part of him that's lonely. but he's so surrounded by love now.

[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

[redandgraytogether]

Something about Kavinsky ruining cars and Adam fixing cars

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[schnoobums]

THE MUMMY RETURNS (2001) dir. Stephen Sommers

[tinydooms]

#somehow each of these three men is genre-savvy in a different way

That's what makes them so effective: they understand what kind of story they're in and don't waste time saying that the events happening can't happen. They just deal with it as it comes.

[neutralomensart]

as seen on the fox’s lounge wall

[should-be-sleeping]

You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.

[should-be-sleeping]

[should-be-sleeping]

Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌

[should-be-sleeping]

Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.

[should-be-sleeping]

I mean this with all due respect:

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.

[orcposts]

do not go gentle into that good night

[orcposts]

be a bit of a bitch about it

[echocantstopscreaming]

No

[programmerhumour]

Once upon a time…

[friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt]

[thebeanestbad]

[personification-of-anxiety]

I really wish the overused sentence “You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” was less relevant but here we are

[triassictriserratops]

[ashstfu]

i feel totally normal about this and the scope of my desire is completely average

[gr8writingtips]

just saw a post that accused someone of using generative ai to write an essay because 'no one uses — instead of commas or semicolons' and i've never been more offended in my life

[gr8writingtips]

i'm not as offended as i was when i read the ai thing, but i Am offended

[ramblings-of-a-chaotic-neutral]

Here's a quick au idea that just came to me today:

In a modern au where Merlin is still waiting on Arthur, historians recently discovered a whole batch of legal documents from Arthur's reign. These documents detail many changes he made to the laws of Camelot, including the repeal of the magic ban (which the historians assumed was just a halt on witch hunts).

However, one thing that the historians note as strange were the large number of laws that only applied to the king's personal manservant, who was never mentioned by name in the documents. These laws range from oddly specific, such as 'the king's manservant shall not accompany knights to the tavern', to downright bizarre decrees that make no sense, like 'the king's manservant is hereby forbidden from pointing out stew in the king's hair.'

The historians' first guess was that perhaps King Arthur was going a bit mad in his later years, but they didn't find any other ludicrous laws besides the ones pertaining to his manservant, which then led the historians to question the identity of this manservant and his relationship to the king.

All of this culminates in a historical exhibit showcasing the documents and postulating on this mysterious manservant of king Arthur. Many scholars flock to the exhibit, eager to examine the documents and debate their meaning and impact within a historical context.

Which then leads to a very tired Dr. Merlin Emrys, a medieval history professor, being dragged by his colleagues to see the exhibit and having to stifle is laughter as these world-renowned scholars tear their hair out trying to understand what was essentially a prank war between him and Arthur.

[amethystroselily]

I just know Renee has eternal beef with Kevin for shipping her situationship off to California so he could vicariously live out his Jeremy Knox x Reader hurt/comfort slowburn fanfiction dreams through him.

[animentality]

[a-random-fandom-friend]

Because of Re: Carmilla, I thought you all would enjoy my edition of Carmilla :

The holes go all the way through, the sides of the book are red, and on some pages the text is colored red just under the holes !

I was so happy when I found it in a little french bookshop specialized in queer texts ❤️

[opens-up-4-nobody]

@fancyfrogg for the request "Perhaps merlin in a lake in waders looking for newts, trash, swords. One of them or all of the above? :3"

Not exactly what you asked for but couldn't get this image out of my head