East and West, the wanderlust...

Ava. Australia. She/her. This is a mess.  Remember when you'd sing, just for the fuck of it? Any joy it would bring? Honey, the look of it was as sweet as the sound.   

[heavensarcher]

Is there anything funnier than something tagged one shot that has a bunch of chapters. Like I see something got away from you there

[heavensarcher]

Nothing ruder than when people bring the heart-breaking shit into the romance genre where heartbreak isn’t meant to be forever

Like we all know that disease is inheritable but they aren’t meant to get it, thanks

Hurt no comfort is illegal in this county, maam, hurt/comfort only

Yeah they are meant to be miserable with a happy ending read the genre by-laws angst must be over before the end of the story

[jimmysownworld]

i love the “hollanov has a crush on carter vaughn” take not necessarily in a “i think they would invite him to watch” way but more in a “ilya would accidentally let it slip while chirping at shane to fluster him that vaughn is at the top of their ‘would’ list and vaughn is a little thrown off and straight so he’s like “are you guys asking?” and ilya laughs and pats his shoulder and assures him “absolutely not, i do not share my shane, we just think you are good looking man, i like that you are pretty and fun and my shane likes that you are serious about hockey and have good grooming habits. is not serious, do not worry vaughny we will not be asking you to witness me and my beautiful husband ever” and vaughn low key is overjoyed about it, his teammates who are around and hear the exchange are sometimes like “that doesnt bother you? you dont find that a bit weird?” but vaugh genuinely is just like “rozanov just called me pretty and fun enough to hang out with and hollander thinks im good at hockey and clean enough for him, you could hand me a nobel peace prize and it wouldnt come close to this achievement” and eventually it gets out to the general public so vaughn is captioning his instagram posts shit like “#1 contender for being the hockey husbands third goes fishing” despite shanes mortification about this getting out and vaughns clear delight with it” way

[dhaaruni]

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[coloredcompulsion]

[keskaowl]

tags from coloredcompulsion:

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

“Could you be the chosen one?”

“I am very much the guy who’s here.”

[lifewithchronicpain]

[pansyfemme]

it really is crazy how there are so many influencers with millions of followers i have never heard of in my life

[pansyfemme]

every day someone is like ‘have you heard about the situation with johnny youtube?’ and i go. pardon. who the hell is that

[alivehouse]

what do you mean you havent used mindfulness techniques to accept the state of the torture labyrinth as is yet. its like youre not even trying

[lilyblisslys]

me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me

[mollyjames]

[heavensarcher]

A great thing about teaching psychology is when you become a great case study for the next unit. “This term we’re learning about the importance of sleep and its impacts on your functioning. This week I’ve slept maybe 8 hours across 3 nights which means I’m hitting between partial and full sleep deprivation. Let’s talk about what effects that has on me”

[heavensarcher]

I could read 1000 more “hollanov come out on their own terms” fics and if every single one of them had them post a CCM photoshoot BTS of them grinning wildly at each other to hint at the timeframe I would simply die happy and dream well

[heavensarcher]

It’s pride month! What a great time to be in a profession that’s told we can’t share beliefs or politics and in a country rapidly turning more conservative by the day and in a small town where kids still use gay as an insult like it’s 2003 🥰

[frownyalfred]

me, quietly whispering to the ao3 page of an author who doesn’t even know I exist: I am obsessed with you

[newskyillusion]

me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who hasn’t updated anything in four years: I think about you often and I hope you’re alright

[azrielgreen]

me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who wrote one life altering banger and nothing else: I hope your pillow is cool and your skin is clear and you find money in a forgotten jeans pocket

[jezebelgoldstone]

me, whispering to every single person on this post: please leave one singular comment saying literally any of that

[orphic-mysteries]

If it keeps you from killing yourself it's not stupid. This applies to anything btw.

[brb-on-a-quest]

Bestie. How dare you leave “do not mock the life preserver…” in the tags.

@onewingedsparrow

[insomniac-arrest]

Taylor Tomlinson, Look At You (2022) Netflix special

[heavensarcher]

The “all stories should be sanitised, pure, and without conflict” crowd truly miss out on so much. They don’t appreciate the beauty in an author writing something so deeply uncomfortable that you feel yourself growing physically nauseous. They miss that need to clarify after the instinctive “fuck you this makes me so mad” that you mean they wrote something so on the nose realistic and well-written that it made you want to punch a wall and shatter your screen. They don’t get that moment of soul get “scooped out” that occurs where you need to weep and tell an author that they wrote something so haunting and sad that you needed to stare at the ceiling while the tears shimmered over your vision for a few minutes.

Stories truly are the most human thing we do. We tell stories to share beauty and pain and joy and despair and explore the full range of emotions in the human experience and while not interacting with it yourself is always a choice you have the right to make to insist it doesn’t exist and say no one should get to experience it is just oddly sad.

[violet-prism-creatively]

I tried my hand at one of those two-column (contrapuntal) poems! I have a new level of respect for anyone who writes these lol

You can also read it on ao3 where I learned how to code an HTML table for this.

[pcos-and-endo-awareness]

If you haven’t heard, today PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome has been renamed to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. This change reflects that this is not a reproductive “problem” but a whole body disease.

[leahstuff]

For reference, from the WHO website:

(Text: PCOS affects an estimated 10-13% of reproductive-aged women. It is estimated that up to 70% of women with PCOS worldwide do not know they have this condition.)

[laziestgirlintown]

The Lancet link about shift to PMOS. Spread this to everyone who works in health care now. People with uteruses and ovaries are in agony - yes, the whole body suffers a crisis every fkn month - and health care should help