#can't forget

[w31rd0-art1st]

Pretty new to the alta fandom, but OH MY GOD YOU PEOPLE ARE MISERABLE WHEN IT COMES TO SHIPS.

I haven't been in a fandom so hateful to each other just because of what characters you want to kiss. This is genuinely such a non issue.

It's not that hard to block a tag, guys.

[crmsnmth]

Please, Go Away

I tried to wash you out of my hands like grease that wouldn’t lift like the smell of smoke that clings to everything after the fire is gone

I turned the lights off early hoping darkness would be enough to lose you in it but you keep finding corners I didn’t know I had

you live in small things now the way a song hesitates before the chorus the empty side of the bed that still remembers your shape

I tell myself this is the last night I’ll think of you like a ritual I don’t believe in anymore

but memory is stubborn it digs its nails in refuses eviction hangs your picture in every room of my head

please, go away not gently, not kindly just leave like you meant it slam the door hard enough to break something

I don’t care if it’s me

I am so tired of carrying your ghost like it’s mine

so take it with you take the laugh, the fights, the silence take the way I almost mattered

and leave me with nothing

I think I could finally sleep with nothing

please, just go

[dk-thrive]

The getting-by part. The moving on with your life... The part where you figured out how to live with yourself...What to do, in the witching hours. What to do. Try to get amnesia every night of her life. Wake up feeling like someone without a past, without memories, let the days fill her up, leaving no room for anything from before. That was always the goal, and she always fell short of it. But there was always tomorrow.

— Patrick Ryan, Buckeye: A Novel (Random House, September 2, 2025)

[always-pining]

Chapter 10 of If the Night Runs Over

new chapter!!

in honor of reg's long-awaited podcast debut, I decided to put together this little cover art.

go press play on this imaginary podcast & find yourself feeling enormous amounts of sympathy for convicted murderer Sirius Black (he is innocent dw)

Then, of course, Crouch—self-important as always—asks, "And did you know about the alibi?" Regulus looks across the table, making eye contact with Crouch for the first time in a while. Regulus raises his eyebrow; Crouch smirks. "No," Regulus says, at last. "Sirius didn't…couldn't remember what he'd done that night. The last thing he remembered was leaving James and Lily's place, and I believed him. But we didn't know where he'd ended up. The next thing he remembered was being detained, and the police were—as you can imagine—not helpful in connecting the dots. They claimed, as you know, that he'd been there when they arrived on the scene, which we later found out wasn't true. But I had no way of proving that."

[howifeltabouthim]

I can still feel the exact weight of you, fixed to me firmer than friends' embraces, than the bodies of lovers.

Abigail Dean, from The Death of Us

[moonchild-in-blue]

Had a horribly funny thought but I'm too sleepy now. Someone remind me in about 9 hours 👍

[infpisme]

[champvictor]

Tea with milk...