Too Soft For All Of It

Tiffany. 33. I'm really passionate about Peter Pan. YA author of JUST FRIENDS (Swoon Reads/Macmillan).

[maybe-this-time]

You should’ve come home

[maybe-this-time]

Never not proud of this

[maybe-this-time]

Absolutely kills me that this book on Lord Byron from 1935 begins like “oh no another book about Byron!!” Like yeah buddy and 90 years later we’re still writing them lmao

[letterful]

[maybe-this-time]

I won’t let it go down ‘til we torch it ourselves

[maybe-this-time]

I didn't know you were keeping count

But oh, you were keeping count

[maybe-this-time]

Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life

Drawing hearts in the byline

Always taking up too much space or time

[capacity2]

I feel so bad for the annoying women at work. Like I actually feel sick when we’re interacting and I feel the annoyance occurring in my brain like she really doesn’t mean to be this way and she just doesn’t want to feel alone or rejected. you can tell she’s experienced being an outsider everywhere she goes it’s only a matter of time. And it’s not cool chic or edgy but in the ugliest most desperate and dehumanizing way. They always start hopeful. they want to connect and they go searching for someone receptive to her so she can find her people but everyone turns away from her slowly and u hear it in her voice. It’s happening again. she starts hesitating to speak and when she does you hear a shaky child ending every sentence like it’s a question. Testing the waters to know if she’s wrong for even trying. And then I realize I took her smile for granted now that it’s gone.. I have to make it up to her I can’t let something like this continue. Life is so hard for people everywhere, so building a tolerance for being irritated is nothing in comparison especially if the reward is less pain and loneliness in the world I will always be the bestie you have my word

[cyberbaptism]

People who flinch at this or jump to hating on OP have never been completely honest with themselves and it shows. Like, you know this person. You've met this person. The under socialized outcast who everyone thinks is kinda annoying and weird, including you. People think that acknowledging their own annoyance towards someone who's essentially harmless is the same as killing someone and being ontologically bad. Like, as long as you don't shun that person you're good. Actually, that's exactly what OP is fucking talking about. They acknowledge and see that this woman is the way she is and also express sympathy, but because there's no over the top performative moralizing everyone thinks it's mean when it's just a true assessment of the situation. Like, two things can be true at once—yes, this person is annoying and they make me cringe and yes, I'm not gonna be an asshole about it because I know that's not right. I have a sneaking suspicion that the reason everyone got so fired up about this is because they're scared that they might've been the annoying coworker in someone else's story. And guess what you probably were. Yeah. Sit with that. Did you die? Did the discomfort kill you?

[capacity2]

The hysterics was giving 2015 tumblr fr. We’ve all been that hoe nobody likes before

[ruby-white-rabbit]

I've gotten annoyed by my own sister just STANDING there. She didnt do anything! Shes just existing. Being annoyed is a ME problem.

Youre not going to like or be liked by everyone. Thats okay! Just don't be an ass about it

[russian-and-soviet-cinema]

[russian-and-soviet-cinema]

[gonzothekid73]

hedgehog in the fog 1975

[clarkgriffon]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 1.11 — “Out of Mind, Out of Sight”

[actuallywlccan]

Rereading Peter Pan for the first time in years and I keep thinking "how was this a play first???" Because my favorite thing about the book is the writing style. Like sure, the story is great, the message is strong and true, the understanding of children/childhood is amazing. But what really makes me love the book is the way Barrie straightforwardly says stuff that is totally absurd/impossible but you know what he means.

On the very first page he introduces Mrs. Darling as "...a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth... her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner." And he brings up this unreachable kiss that sits on her lips multiple times (for instance he writes that Mr. Darling "got all of her, except... in time he gave up trying for the kiss.") and it's like... I have no idea what that could possibly mean literally, but that's not the point: the point is that she has bits of herself that nobody can quite get ahold of, not even the people she loves. With all her properness and grown-up-ness she still has this spark that belongs to no one but herself, and you can tell that about her just by looking at her face.

And the WHOLE book is like that!!! And like sure, that's not totally wild for a book, but i cant imagine doing such an absurdist, almost un-adaptable writing style for an adaptation of something that had to be literally imaginable because it happened in front of you on stage!!!! (Sure the play is fantasy but mermaids and flying kids are like, totally imaginable things whereas this kiss is like ????? How do you visualize that outside of maybe animation)

[lunnefisk]

BRING ME THE COURT MAGE

[helenvaughans]

[itsmistybitch-deactivated202605]

These posts are sisters

[lierdumoa]

[stephenroot]

How are we as a society going to claw our way back from the fact that a not-insignificant portion of our population is incurably fucking stupid and superstitious in ways we used to mock Pilgrims for being?

[stephenroot]

There is a substantial portion of our country that (1) believes Satan is real, (2) that he is actively working to harm them, (3) that these plans are at times enacted through country music shows at the Las Vegas Sphere by the guy who sang Chicken Fry, and (4) vote.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

I love thinking I'm a hater and then meeting a real hater and going wow that does not look fun actually. Going back to my lukewarm hater ways. Performative haterdom. I couldn't name five hater bands.