life is just this: it’s living

A writer and lover of beautiful things. Christian. Salt & Light. Pursuing an M.A. in History.

[wordsofnoconsequence]

“The darkness was deep indeed, cloying and choking But out of the dark came a great cry Resounding like a million voices Men and Angels alike come together Singing in refrains of joy, of praise, of promise, of hope, of horror, of exhaustion, but always of You, every refrain is edged by Your love, somehow. every strain is sung around Your name and sometimes, that name rattles every stone and bone on earth- a Name for light, and for shadow, and everything in between, casting all else to be transient beams- (it’s not that the darkness never mattered, but it is never the whole truth.)”

— 11/1 // e.l.

[crypticcuntking]

Nienna, Valar of grief

[onetobeamupart]

Sophie hatter my forever girl

[xiaq]

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

[francesderwent]

“The strangest thing always transpires in the end: that You are never against me. You enter into what I call loneliness, and You overcome my resistance. Can one say that You force Your way in or only that You enter through a door that is open anyway? You did not make me closed; You did not quite close me. Loneliness is not at the bottom of my being at all; it grows at a certain point. The fissure through which You enter is far deeper.”

— Radiation of Fatherhood, Wojtyla

[muse-write]

Thinking about spending an irresponsible amount of money on fanart

[muse-write]

I did. Not as much as I could have, but I got an art print and 2 stickers. I’m excited!

[muse-write]

Jenny Dolfen is now on my list of people to buy from. I want her Silmarillion art on my walls posthaste. The only question is which one?

[muse-write]

Thinking about spending an irresponsible amount of money on fanart

[muse-write]

I did. Not as much as I could have, but I got an art print and 2 stickers. I’m excited!

[luna-azzurra]

Something nobody prepares you for is that the better you get at writing the harder it becomes. beginners write freely because they don't know enough to know what's wrong. then you learn. and suddenly you can see every single flaw in real time as you're making it and you have to write anyway while your own brain is in the corner going "that's a weak verb. that transition is lazy. you've used that word three times." getting good at this is mostly just getting better at ignoring yourself.

[stars-bean]

Labyrinth (1986) dir. Jim Henson

[clawedandcute]

I LOVE the way she plays this. The dawning wonder that she finally understands the power of accepting that sometimes things AREN'T fair, but we have to do our best anyway. Autonomy and personal responsibility fall on her like a mantle, but for the first time, they don't feel like a weight because she takes them up by CHOICE, for the sake of someone else.

[tiltedsyllogism]

me, adding a new tag to my block list: I’m so glad my beloved mutual has discovered a new source of joy

[hil-arrr-y]

Two job-hunting resources that changed my life:

This cover letter post on askamanger.com. A job interview guide written by Alison Green, who runs askamanager.

[curliestofcrowns]

useful

[blownfromthesunintothesurf-blog]

Alison Green’s advice works. 

[sw-or-gtfo-deactivated20211219]

Alison Green got me all my interviews from 2012 onward, I am reasonably sure.

[vanitycats-deactivated20170527]

Alison Green is basically my life guide.

[intentandinvention]

Mine too - she was my most visited website for the first few years of my working career, and I cannot emphasise enough how much her advice helped me navigate how to behave in a work environment. You name it, she has an answer for it. Definitely a life hack.

[muse-write]

Thinking about spending an irresponsible amount of money on fanart

[beardedmrbean]

[gardenoffish]

I’ll take your bad driver Steve rogers headcannons and raise bad driver Steve rogers who knows he’s a bad driver and doesn’t care

[gardenoffish]

Sam: Steve where did you learn to drive

Steve: some of the showgirls gave me a few tips between shows the rest was when I was speeding towards the Nazis

Sam: so you never really learned to drive….

Steve: pfffft…. yeah. Let’s go get something to eat I’ll drive

[gardenoffish]

Bucky gets some of his memories back when he Steve behind the drivers wheel with the sudden feeling of familiar dread.

“Who let him get a liscense?”, Bucky is frantic, “he literally is the last person who should have a drivers license”

Steve just shrugs,“ if it makes you feel better I still don’t have one.”

[pidgydraws]

🩹 let him rest 🩹

[cats-in-the-clouds]

i like it when an evil character dies unrepentant and that itself is narratively framed as a great tragedy. when their death scene is very uncomfortable and sobering instead of triumphant for the heroes. when it’s less about what they’ve done and more about what they’ve failed to do, less who they were and more who they failed to ever become… yeeeaaahhhh

[muse-write]

I love writing fanfiction, I can give all of my favorite characters pet cats and no one can tell me its wrong