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ornina | 23 | netherlands she/her/hers Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it. the eames to my arthur the draco and louis to my harry's

[olearypoetry]

“I’d be lying if I said you make me speechless the truth is you make my tongue so weak it forgets what language to speak in.”

— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

[strawberryspoons]

Interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Me: I used escapist fantasies as a coping mechanism to get through years of trauma and therefore never learned how to plan for a real life future

[kushandwizdom]

If someone isn't available during your most crucial time, then their presence any other time is useless.

[mymindsecho]

This isn’t realistic for adults. I’m sorry it’s just not.

Don’t fall into believing that, “if they’re a true friend they’ll drop everything and run to be by your side!” crap.

As a responsible adult there will be times that your friends are hurting and you won’t be able to go to them.

There are times that you will have to go to work, or take your sick kid to the doctor, or do many other things that will prevent you from being there for your friend.

When your friend calls you and they’re falling apart and it’s ten minutes until you have to leave for work, you’re not a bad friend for saying, “Look, I love you. I’m sorry this is happening, but I have to go. I’ll call you back tonight when the kids are asleep.” Or “I’m so sorry this is happening. I love you and I want to be here for you but I’ve got to get to work. I’ll call and check on you during my lunch.”

Adult life is hectic and busy with important things all the time and unfortunately it’s also full of shitty things happening to people we love.

Do your best to be there for the people you love and ask for support when you need it but be understanding when being a responsible adult comes before helping you.

[neurotoxinsonline]

The idea that people need to be there any time you need them is really damaging and unhealthy, too. You can’t place value on a person or a relationship based solely on whether or not they’re available, no questions asked, whenever you need them.

In addition to the above: sometimes, someone simply does not have the energy to help. Maybe they’re coming out of a rough patch themself, maybe they have been busy all day,maybe a chronic illness is flaring up. There are a myriad of reasons someone may not be able to be there.

Obviously, if someone is taking you for granted, and never seems to care how you’re doing, that’s an issue. But to write someone off because their life and your life didn’t line up quite right at a given point in time, or maybe even on more than one occasion, is not a healthy way to handle things.

[behind-the-hood]

My favorite thing is when someone goes in deep detail about something Laurent did in the books or a headcanon they have about him, usually something like his love for animals, or him being good with kids, or just a dork who does magic tricks while he's drunk, and end the entire thing with "Damen never stood a chance." Like, no.

No, he did not.

[teller-of-tragedies]

i dont live near the sea and that makes me sad

[detailedart]

Waves details | Ivan Aivazovsky

[yellowsunbluedove]

[soiledrainbows]

temporary selfie upload (for reasons™️) that i will delete later so pls ignore

[olimar]

not sure why people don’t automatically say “shapeshifting” when asked what they want their superpower to be. you could become anyone you want. even fictional characters. anyone. cosplay would always be spot-on. dysphoria wouldn’t exist. perfection

[asd123123sadzkmxkclekrmds]

rob a bank and disguise yourself as a stray pen lying on a shelf when the cops come

[waitingforthedoctorin221b]

there are two kinds of people

[rubixpsyche]

Achieve the dream of being a cat able to sunbathe in old bookstores

Be a bird. Shit on someone’s car.

[wordsthat-speak]

“I am a kind word uttered and repeated By the voice of Nature; I am a star fallen from the Blue tent upon the green carpet. I am the daughter of the elements With whom Winter conceived; To whom Spring gave birth; I was Reared in the lap of Summer and I Slept in the bed of Autumn.”

— Song of the Flower (Khalil Gibran)

[lochnessie]

Can we as millennials and gen-z’s collectively agree that NObody Cares about elbows on the table like Why was that Ever A Problem for Anyone?? We can chill right?

[spacebumble]

nobody asked for this but the origin of not putting one’s elbows on the table comes from the late 18th/early 19th century when wooden ships were still used in the navy- sailors would balance their plates between their elbows while eating to keep them from sliding around. because sailors developed a reputation on-land for being uncouth and aggressive, the placing of elbows on the table became associated with such behaviour.

some cultural historians believe it also goes back further, to the middle ages, when large banquet-style meals were served on trestle tables that had no side support. if someone put their elbows on the table, they risked bringing the whole table down with them.

so basically, there is no longer any need to NOT put elbows on the table, and there hasn’t been since the advent of steamships.

[wonderwomemes]

I love this because now i can smartass the next person who tries to give me shit for it

[rannulfr]

This is my jam…

The part about trestle tables is dubious, at least if you’re tying it to the middle ages. Medieval trestle tables almost always had lateral support beams on the bottom of the legs. They were set into them if they weren’t already attached.

It’s a fairly sturdy design, I’ve seen them support a whole row of elbows, all on one side, some of them still in armor.

Another prevailing theory I’ve seen on the internet is that it was due to space being a premium at medieval dining halls.

This is… Possible… But shouldn’t be assigned as fact until we’re sure it’s not a backwards engineering if the concept. Which halls? Which reign? What sources point to this and are they numerous enough to institute a multicultural social custom?

The structure and space of tables aside… If we’re going to backwards engineer… The no elbows etiquette was already well known for a thousand years prior to the middle ages. It exists in the bible as a euphemism for paying too much attention to someone else’s wife. It may be that it was still seen as lewd in the middle ages.

I think the sailor explanation is the more likely culprit to explain our modern etiquette, even if the others explain past etiquette. I mean it wasn’t all that long ago that sailors tattoos would make you a pariah and there’s still a living history there.

[rosslynpaladin]

AFAIK it’s mostly just that medieval people thought it made you slouch and look slovenly, and Victorians, who made up most of the modern British Manners code, agreed with them.

[prokopetz]

“Character who looks dangerous but is actually harmless” and “character who looks harmless but is actually dangerous” are both well and good, but consider: character who looks dangerous, and actually is, but for a completely different reason than they look like they should be.

[prokopetz]

And no, I don’t mean like “guy who wears robes with a water motif is actually a fire wizard”. I mean like “seven-foot-tall mountain of gleaming muscle with sword the size of a surfboard strapped to his back is actually the Nine Realms’ most feared lawyer”.

[kingofbeartraps]

Hiram McDaniels, a nine headed dragon wanted for insurance fraud.

[2lix]

the foxes as popular text posts #1

neil josten: i hate that my first reaction to stress is always Time To Die™ like ok calm down edgelord.

andrew minyard: they call me… 7 Knives. because that’s how many knives it takes me to cook things because I keep puttin em in the fuckin sink without thinking about it

kevin day: me rollerblading into my therapist’s office this week with sunglasses and a piña colada: maurice, you’re not gonna fucking believe this,

nicky hemmick: *walks up to straight couple* which one of you is the bee and which one of you is the fully grown adult woman who left her fiance for the bee?

matt boyd: *begins breakdancing gently* what’s wrong, son

dan wilds: listen, I’m a nice person so if I’m a bitch to you, you need to ask yourself why.

renee walker: it’s all fun and games until you remember the person you were from 2007-2010.

allison reynolds: how to kiss a boy: 1. grab his waist, 2. slip your hand in his pocket, 3. steal his wallet, 4. dont even kiss him, 5. just run.

aaron minyard: Why are there 2 A’s in Aaron? Why not 6? What’s stopping us?

david wymack: you gotta put your heart into it! no. no, not literally– not your actual– no. how did you even manage to get that. is it even yours. put that. away.

betsy dobson: [at a session with neil, about andrew] It’s weird to think that people who are 5ft are only 5 subways long.

abby winfield: always practice safe sex!! until you have mastered it. then you are permitted to practice Danger Sex

[arancar-no-6]

Mads Mikkelsen is such an anomaly as an actor?? and a human being in general????

He doesn’t remember SHIT about filming Casino Royale (he didn’t even REALIZE he was auditioning for a part in the first place, he said he just literally walked in and instantly got the job?! To the point Daniel Craig borderline interrogated him for how he got cast so easily, considering he had to undergo MULTIPLE AUDITIONS before he got cast himself??)

He wasn’t overwhelmingly interested in NBC Hannibal’s lead role until he found out that long-time bestie Hugh Dancy was already cast as the other lead (HUGH TOO. He hyped himself up for having Mads as his co-star, forgot that decision wasn’t up to him, then sat anxiously by his phone for confirmation from the network. NERD. NERDS. BOTH OF THEM).

“You should make a movie in Denmark!“, i.e. Mads’ drunken solution to ensure he and Hugh could hang out more often because they live in different countries. What a darling.

According to Janice Poon, he’ll eat anything. No matter how gross. Including frigid bone marrow with a straight face.

And then he only hopped onto Death Stranding because his son, a prolific gamer, recognized what a huge deal Hideo Kojima is and told him he had to… Carl Jacobsen Mikkelsen has the sort of power we can only dream of.

He was pretty much entirely unfamiliar with Star Wars before he was cast as Galen Erso (I distinctly recall him grimacing in the bg during a cast interview when asked if they’ve watched their new film yet, with Ben Mendelsohn giving him a very pointed knowing smirk because he KNEW. HE KNEW MADS HADN’T SEEN IT YET-) and spent plenty of time failing quite miserably at SW trivia games with the cast.

Then that one interview where he casually cracks a bottle of liquor open on camera. What an icon.

And correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe a major reason he joined the cast of Dr. Strange was because he was going to be allowed to perform his own stunt and fight scenes?? I think the convo went something along the lines of “Will I get to fight?” “Ye-” “Ok”.

His female co-stars swoon at him. He literally causes hoards of his male co-stars to seriously begin questioning their sexuality.

If it wasn’t for his team he’d probably show up to every award show in the latest neon adidas athletic wear.

Reminds his wife on a constant basis that she’s married to the sexiest man alive from like ten years ago or smth. I think Hanne said he even has the clipping stating so and sometimes pulls it out.

Is he even real???

[eldbitch-horror]

Love cryptid discussions

[pragnificent]

[blurryf4ce]

reblog this and in the tags, write the band that comes to mind first when you think back to being 13 years old

[carrionkid]

like. objectively. living in that time period would SUCK but victorian stuff is so, so, sexy. i want to be sent off to boarding school because i’m too rowdy in an attempt to make me stop embarrassing my family only to enter into a tempestuous love affair with my roommate before drowning in the grounds lake.

[phantomrose96]

Prompt-based fandom events are when you really learn everyone’s colors like you’ll find the people who take the prompt “death” and come up with some smarmy ship-art of character A and character B walking over dead leaves while wearing scarves and drinking hot cider and then you’ll find the people who take the prompt “sunshine” and write how a bright glint of sunshine reflected off the barrel of a gun is the absolute last thing character A sees before taking a bullet to the chest

you can lead a content creator to water but you sure as fuck can’t make him drink