Universeeker

I'm restless. Things are always calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

[naturaekos]

I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn’t a proper place. I like in betweens.

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (via amargedom)

[jesuisunefemmejesuisperdue]

[thoughts-memories]

[randompalegirl]

[wordsnquotes]

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

All About Eve, Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz (via wordsnquotes)

[valsedesfleurs]

Right from the start I knew You’d set a fire in me And I’d rather be sad with you Than anywhere away from you

[oh-please-explorewithme]

“there’s a lot of things I don’t tell you but that doesn’t mean I don’t think them”

[betterstayabsurd-deactivated202]

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Gomez gives out better relationship advice than like 90% of dudes.

[obstinate-nocturna]

Gomez Addams is a suave motherfucker who loves his wife more than his own life.

Everyone should want a Gomez. He’s p cool.

[breelandwalker]

Gomez and Morticia Addams actually have a very loving and extremely healthy relationship, both in the old TV show and in the more recent movies. They were also one of the first television couples to be shown to have an active (albeit offscreen) sex life. Their frank attitude towards sexuality was shocking in its’ time, but their relationship and their family dynamic is actually more functional and more…dare I say it…sane than most families portrayed on TV.

The comedy in the show came from the family’s “odd” lifestyle, rather than from infighting and petty bickering, or worse, as was common on other shows of the time, thinly veiled references to spousal abuse. They didn’t make fun of each other or act like their children were creatures from another world. Were they strange and outside of social norms? Yes. Were they united in creating a loving home and being good, supportive parents? Absolutely.

These two support and adore their children, care for an aging mother and an estranged brother, put family before everything, and they love each other, wholly, fiercely, without reserve. They are every bit as much in love after at least a decade of marriage as they were the day they met.

Relationship goals. LIFE goals.

[avotica]

Just remembered in the second movie when their third child became “normal” for a period and although they were shocked and didn’t know how to handle it, they didn’t mistreat the child or love it any less. They accepted the difference, even though it was hard for them. 

[drnerdlove]

Reblogged for truth.

[franklyunfabulous]

❤️❤️❤️

[endreal]

Posts about Gomez and Morticia Addams are almost always uplifting and I’m happy to have them on my dash, but I think my favorite bit about this conversation is what Gomez is actually saying to Fester.

It’s nobody’s surprise that many of the aesthetic and thematic elements of The Addams Family in its various incarnations are influenced by Gothic tradition (not goth, that mostly came later. And not Goth, that was much much much too early), and I think Gomez’s words are a dead bullseye in terms of Gothic mentality.

“Make her feel like she’s the most sublime creature on earth”

The sublime is a recurring theme throughout Gothic literature. Although the word (like “awesome”) has lost a lot of it’s original luster over the intervening decades, sublime doesn’t really mean elevated and lofty (or even heavenly) as it’s often used today, but rather something possessing the power and grandeur to induce awe and veneration in the mind of the beholder. Although less than divine, something sublime possessed a wildness and power that transcended human ability to control…or even to comprehend.

Sublime is standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon leaning as far as you dare over the railing and still not being able to see the canyon floor below. Sublime is warrior-queen Galadriel being tempted by the One Ring. Sublime is waking up in the middle of the night in the heart of a wild thunderstorm.

“Make her feel like she’s the most sublime creature on earth”

Gomez isn’t advising Fester to treat a woman he fancies like a princess, or even elevate her to pedestal of angelic nature (who’s idea was it to equate femininity with purity anyway? What a laughable and historically damaging idea. Shame on whatever dead (probably) white dudes promoted that!)

Gomez is advising Fester that if he truly loves a woman he must do everything he can to remind her of how she’s an untameable force of nature who’s grandeur brings him to his knees in awe and terror. Just like Morticia, for Gomez.

I’ll sign off with one of my most favorite quotes of all time, because it feels suddenly very relevant:

“When I find myself surrounded by so much beauty, I feel as if I am the eye of a hurricane.”

- -Sanjay Kulkarni

[babyleedle-deactivated20190114]

Drown me in October winds, in blowing leaves that turn the color of fire.

(via itsfallyall)

[zoomine]

[myonlyphenomenon]

I’ve been staring at this for 5 minutes

[dont-kill-the-kennedys]

That’s what it looks like. That’s really what it looks like

[avesatanaa]

Being out in the ocean is actually so scary because when you look really far out you can kind of see how the Earth is rounded out. It looks like a few miles ahead you’re just gonna fall off or something. Also fun trick: if ur on mobile, double tap zoom in and slide the picture side to side. It looks like you’re actually there looking left to right

[norulesnobras]

DO THAT DO IT RIGHT NOW

[lesbicasentimental]

HOLY SHIT

[jeopardylesbian]

“how do u sleep so much?” depression

“omg why do you stay up so late” depression

“how do you still manage to get everything done?” anxiety 

[brutol]

i owe my body so many apologies

[officialpizzarat]

What a beautiful wedding.

the bridesmaid (to the waiter)

[lizthomas1231-blog]

So a meeting. Then a bar. I guess that says something huh?

[lizthomas1231-blog]

I went to a meeting for the first time in five years tonight. The topic was the 9th step, which ironically was the topic of the last meeting I went to oh so long ago. It was surreal to feel at peace and at ease with the group of people I was amongst and feeling like maybe I can do this. Maybe I can go to meetings every week and maybe I can work a program again and maybe I can better not only my addict side, but the rest of me too. After leaving and processing everything that was talked about, everything I talked about, this feeling of hopelessness came over me. What if losing the addict side of me turns me into a different person? What will my coping mechanism be when I get stressed, sad, angry, happy, frustrated, etc.? What will I do if I don't have that side of me to blame things on? What can I say if I fuck up from just being me? There are so many questions and thoughts and feelings running through me right now that they only thing I want is to get high, get drunk, lose all feeling so I don't have to think about anything. All I want is to be numb and not from the overwhelming thoughts racing through my head. It's overwhelming even knowing that all of my reaction is coming from the addict side of me. Knowing that that side of me has this big of an effect on me. Knowing that I'm powerless to stop it from occurring. Knowing that even though I understand it's my addict sides reaction, I still believe it. So maybe. And maybe not.

[softlysaygoodbye]

[extramadness]

Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but ‘Mom’s’ probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.

Kalyn RoseAnne (via extramadness)