punch the unpunchable

"i read women pretty well. women and trees." // betsy; 20s; she/her; fic writer; multifandom ft. star trek, 1917, les mis, dune, tmg, taz, etc.

[owlinaminor]

What happened was, I wrote a new song about Jenny and said, “Well, either this song is going in the garbage or you’re making a whole album out of it.” And I liked the song. This is the great rule in life: Half measures are generally useless. In Revelations, the Lord says, “If you are neither hot nor cold, I shall spew you forth from my mouth.” You have to commit.

— John Darnielle about the new Mountain Goats album (source)

[therozanov]

HEARTSTOPPER FOREVER [2026]

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#Probably My Favorite Parallel/Full Circle Moment Of The Entire Show

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

First vs. Last Photobooth

[puncertainty]

continuing traditions

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Your partner came back from the dead after being missing for decades. Every one of their friends who they went with ended up dying a horrible death.

Now, somehow, their entire mental health is based on the continued life and happiness of this fairground goldfish that they picked up.

Neither of you know the first thing about how to care for even a healthy fish. This fish has been poorly cared for, has multiple diseases and the person who handed it over explicitly didn't expect it to live nearly as long as it already has.

You're frantically googling how to set up a fish tank, where to buy fish food, can you even take a fish to the vet? Your partner wants you to know that they're happy they made it home and survived their horrific ordeal, but also that if anything happens to the fish then they're going to kill everyone on this planet and then themself.

You're honestly wondering if you're even helping the fish, or just prolonging its suffering, but your partner will only accept medical help for their many injuries or engage in basic self-care once they're confident that the fish is being looked after.

So you get a tank. You set up a filter and all that stuff. You learn way more than you ever wanted to know about water temperature and ph and nitrate levels. The fish is safe. You start to develop some affection for the little guy. Your partner begins to recover. The fish begins to recover.

Which is when you learn that in its 'healthy' state, the fish regularly refuses to sleep when tired, keeps begging for food that is obviously unhealthy for it (and struggling to eat the food that you do provide because “it tastes gross”), and continually tries to persuade your partner to take it out of its nice safe tank so it can go explore the wonderful world of Outside, where the slightest mishap will kill it instantly.

Your name is Adrian, and you kind of wants to strangle this fucking fish, statement.

[balaclava-trismegistus]

if i dont respond to a message from you i can basically guarantee its not because i dislike you. im just getting attacked by imps and shit all the time genuinely.

[owlinaminor]

anyone else ever listen to an old ship playlist and suddenly feel inspired to work on an old fanfic wip you abandoned years ago? because wow that is an Emotion

[peachandpinwheel]

one of the hundred things I love about Andor is that in the end, all the villains were destroyed not in an epic showdown with the rebels or whoever but by the machine that they worked for. syril was a faceless casualty of the genocide he helped create. dedra was done in for putting ambition over conformity to the machine, and she took down partagaz, who essentially created her, along with her. even heert was quite literally killed by his own droid and his own men. all of them were crushed by the wheel they dedicated their lives to keep turning. it's just so deeply deeply satisfying.

[unflaneur]

“ all of them were crushed by the wheel they dedicated their lives to keep turning . it's just so deeply, deeply satisfying . ”

this .

[ntrider]

giving increasingly loud sighs as I wait for my crush to ask "what's wrong?" so I can say I'm in a state of depression unless I can touch someone's boobs with no bra

[ntrider]

I stop once I start getting short of breath

[aokozaki]

[Your crush, on the phone to someone unseen] Yeah I think she needs to be put down, her breathing-- yeah I know it can be a problem for her breed, but it's getting really bad.

[ntrider]

I'M NOT A DOG??????

[aokozaki]

[clearly less interested now] Oh.

[ntrider]

wait! au au

[aokozaki]

[walking over the distant horizon, towards the West]

[ntrider]

AU AU!!! AU AU!!!!! 😭

[gayhockeyshow]

Stating the obvious here but it’s not just “We didn’t even kiss.” It’s the last time we saw each other you took me so sweetly that it woke something up inside me I didn’t even know was there. It’s you waited two years for me to be ready and then disappeared. It’s deleting the letters one by one because I know this will fall on deaf ears and you’ll leave me again. It’s hitting my head against the elevator wall because I hate myself for wanting you so badly and knowing you don’t even want me the same way. We didn’t even kiss. We didn’t even kiss.

[owlinaminor]

the legacy of the band t.A.T.u. is so wild in hindsight.  it feels like something I would’ve made up at a party to impress friends.  like what do you MEAN these two russian teenage girls pretended to be lesbians because their producer thought it would help them get popular, and they did have massive hit songs in english and russian, and they competed on eurovision and protested the iraq war, except turns out one or both of them was really homophobic the entire time??  oh and i found out about this band in middle school because of a redwall amv???

[owlinaminor]

subscribing to authors on ao3 can only benefit you in the long run. because what do you mean I just got an email notification about a heated rivalry/yuri on ice crossover fic!!!!!!

[hydrahowl]

This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

[twobabkas]

[alphalesbian]

I LOVE YOU LESBIANS IN MY COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[redbelles]

shane: [bilingual] ilya, also bilingual: 🙄

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