moon 🌙

mika ❤️ 26 | freaky fairy punk

[madtrader]

[imjust-a-girl]

[dustinsohn-deactivated20230105]

[filmesbrazil]

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. IV: 1944-1947

[nightclubsinger]

i’m strange but friendly so people tell me things

[fireache]

Marisol Muro

[random-brushstrokes]

John Williamson - Twilight in the Wilderness (1864)

[decatris]

[80sanime]

[lovecrumbss]

shades of pink by monet

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"No one remembered my birthday-" Well, but did YOU tell anyone it was coming up and you wanted to celebrate it with them?

"I wish someone would see through it when I tell people I'm fine-" Well, but have YOU considered not lying when people ask you how you're doing?

"I am so resentful of my friend because they keep doing this thing that really bothers me-" Well, but have YOU directly communicated that the thing is bothering you?

"I am burning out because my friend keeps expecting me to help them with serious struggles-" Well, but have YOU tried to establish the boundaries you need to feel okay?

"No one ever asks me about this thing I really care about-" Well, but have YOU brought it up yourself?

"I miss my friend but they haven't texted me-" Well, but have YOU been reaching out to them?

Sometimes people are mean, uncaring assholes, in which case you get to be mad. But sometimes you just need to communicate better. Try communication before you assume someone doesn't care!

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"But what about when you do all that and it hasn't worked?!" Then this post is not directed at you. This post is directed at the people who haven't done these things and tried these strategies. If you have tried all of the above and your friends aren't adjusting their behavior, then this post isn't making excuses for them because it is very clearly not about that. It's about communicating BEFORE you assume bad intentions and lack of care. Communicating to no avail is a whole different situation which this post does not cover

[quietedd]

[green-rescue-team]

[homunculus-argument]

Hey btw, to new writers who want to write angst: Nothing illustrates darkness as well as sparse and brilliant highlights.

If you want to write a character with an unspeakably awful past, there’s no need to go into deep and gory details about how horrible it was. Readers who can’t relate to it won’t relate to that, and the readers who have been there generally don’t want to see that. Instead, highlight some of their happiest moments but make them unsettlingly small.

Sprinkles in some realism, too. Having a character go “my parents were abusive monsters and I’ve literally never had a happy moment in my life” isn’t realistic, and both the people who haven’t witnessed that kind of thing outside of fiction, and the people who have personally lived it will just go “yeah, yeah, tragic childhood, misery, darkness, we’ve all seen it”, and being nothing but negative makes the character both uninteresting and unlikeable.

Now, having someone casually think or say shit like “I think my happiest childhood memory was that christmas when dad was in prison. Nobody was yelling or throwing anything and mom was sober the whole time”, and be genuinely surprised by other peoples’ concerned reactions - now jesus christ that’s bleak.

[zoanzon]

if you do it right, you can simultaneously drop such a scene to be darkly comedic and bleak.

[neenarchive]

don't like the idea that film projectionists are being phased out of the modern cinema. i like knowing there is some mysterious guy up in the projection room making my movies happen like quasimodo ringing the bells

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