listening to my better angels

it's all whimsy except for the authentic passion

[scribeherself]

the absolute devastating intimacy of a forehead rest. when you are both just so tired from existing in a world that demands you to be a rigid, functional individual, and you finally collapse into each other and just lean your forehead against theirs, or against their shoulder. it’s the physical equivalent of dropping your shields. it’s saying i am entirely heavy right now, and i am trusting you to bear a piece of that weight. and the most beautiful part is that the other person doesn’t even flinch. they just adjust their stance, tuck you a little closer, and absorb the impact. we were designed to divide the burden of being alive.

[samohtehtkantenigne]

The weight of a dear friend entrusting their body by leaning into yours ✨️

[fortheartsofnone]

Someday you’ll stop treating inanimate objects like they are sentient

Someday you’ll stop believing in fairytales

Someday you’ll see clouds instead of castles

Someday you’ll stop watching cartoons with wonder and hoping that fairies visit flowers

But you can always start again ✨

[luna-azzurra]

Some writing advice I will never give up:

Your characters are allowed to be bad people. Your story is allowed to have no moral lesson.yyour ending is allowed to be sad. The villain can win. The good person can do something unforgivable. The lovers can destroy each other. You are allowed to write the thing that no one asked for and everything that everyone told you doesn’t work and you are allowed to not explain yourself.

It’s your story. Burn it down if you want to.

[socialistexan]

Babe wake up, new all time great image just dropped

[samohtehtkantenigne]

I'm not lost and finding myself. I'm incomplete and still creating myself.

[samohtehtkantenigne]

"She paints the cockroaches so they are beautiful. So beautiful that their beauty is an act of vengeance."

In world that too often makes us feel ugly, be vengefully beautiful.

[aesungaia]

[serious-tabaxi]

ok this level of simultaneous vague and direct psychological horror hasn't been expressed since Amnesia Was her Name

[mysharona1987]

[labelleizzy]

[eriyu]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

I have never seen the 2nd object before, but with the Power of Algebra I now know it's a saw horse

Information is WILD

[fukurouonthesea]

illustration ID: (seahorse / horse) * (sawhorse / horse) = (seahorse / horse) * (sawhorse / horse) = sea * saw (the middle is same equation, but all "horse" with strikethrough, because it's everywhere so you can take it out of the equation - i learnt german math so idk the right word for doing that)

[labelleizzy]

@fukurouonthesea if I remember correctly, the American term for doing that process is "reducing the fraction". Thanks for contributing!! This is my favorite post all year!

[the-big-mood]

[pusheenthenerdcat]

KRISTEN BELL?????

[elizabethanism]

On this day in 1953, novelist Shirley Jackson replied to a disappointed reader.