for starters, it was all an accident

kerrin | 30s

[fromtheatlantic]

birthdays in your thirties = one bestie sending you a customized video from an OF creator you’re obsessed with, another bestie sending you a pregnancy announcement

[nevver]

The dead and the dying, Andy Dixon

[bobakick]

inspired by a post i read yesterday which contained the beautiful the words "Hanya Yanagihara's The Long Game"......

pick an author and a title!

how's the book?

5 stars (a masterpiece)

4 stars (pretty good)

3 stars (meh)

2 stars (pretty bad)

1 star (awful awful awful. Awful)

too insane to even quantify. what the fuck

nuance/results

Voting ended onMar 4

(no "idk" button! if you get a title or an author you don't know enough about to make a judgement, keep rolling until you do!)

[inkskinned]

it isn't that i can't do it alone - but sometimes i feel it more, you know? i come back to an empty house. i have no one to text hey the flight got delayed, just letting you know i'll be a few hours late.

most of the time this is okay, and i bask in the quiet. i make myself a new and fancy recipe. i bake treats for my dog. i take environmentally-shameful-length showers. i often like being alone. i like to sit and have the world hold me in a palm like a mercury spill.

but then the small things. i kind of want to see one of the touring broadway shows. or a particular movie. i just want to tangle my legs into someone else's while we eat popcorn and talk about our favorite types of tea or something. it's not that i can't handle any of this by myself - i do, i am happy doing so - but i sometimes cut the orange in half and wish i could peel it for a second person.

i am cheerfully and chipperly informed that all things can be fun and exciting by yourself. i am reminded that loving myself should be the first and foremost goal. i am jokingly informed that if i just hold out, my wife will appear in the clouds as if i wished for her - but that i shouldn't drive myself crazy by looking. i ground myself in my incredible friends and support. i do it all the "right" way.

it's just - i had a long day today. and i wish i had someone's hand to hold about it.

[queerofthedagger]

okay different question, what is the worst book you've read this year

[what-even-is-thiss]

“Cats don’t actually love you”

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.

[victusinveritas]

This artist hand-embroiders canvas "notebooks."

[cinematic-literature]

The Bear S02E07 (Forks)

Book title: Unreasonable Hospitality (2022) by Will Guidara

[saviorified]

it's funny how like. to an extent a sport will forever be frozen in time to when you first got into it. you will associate players with teams they haven't played for in years. your team's Roster™ will be the roster it was when you first started watching

[typhlonectes]

[honourablejester]

Okay, this made me pause and literally write out every letter that 'fell' in order (‘oomngouuhhrsrtutpntnue’), then make sure they were all contained in 'turntomushuponthergroun'.

They are, and it's very satisfying.

[nevver]

Drive till dawn, Ruslan Merzlyakov (@astrorms)

[bestiolin]

leli creations

[demiiwhiffin]

delusion ? in my mind ??? likely place for it to be

[nevver]

Constellations of summer, Alvin Ng

[inkskinned]

NOT to be romantic but yeah my friends are the treasure i found along the way. fuck it, sure, friendship is magic; i've sat down at a table and felt at home and i don't even know what a "home" is. half of them are necromancers anyway. they found me half-dead and they put their hands to my inert body and moved my limbs and said it's okay. it sucks. but we'll both get up again.

[potoh]

Two stunning winners ✨️

[nevver]

Prismatics, Gundula Blumi