#communicate

[razzby-monade]

slamming my fists on my knees while whispering goddammit repeatedly at 2:52 AM

[abrainwashedmel]

i cannot overstate how hot direct communication is.

Just, going to someone "Hey, I want you to brainwash me until all I know is you, until there is nothing inside my mind except what you encourage, and then use me, please."

[lovepassionheart]

[mindinthevoid]

[dk-thrive]

Do you feed me? Brush me? Soothe me? Am I safe?

I wonder, as I feel myself dissolve into sadness. I have to sit down, and I try to remind myself: talking is only one way of relating, and perhaps we rely too heavily on it, forgetting that we can also connect through gestures, sounds, glances. I think about the nonverbal and preverbal entities in our lives: animals, newborns. They don’t want our explanations of love; they want to see it in action. Do you feed me? Brush me? Soothe me? Am I safe?

— Tory Henwood Hoen, Before I Forget: A Novel (St. Martin's Press, December 2, 2025)

[random-bookquotes]

For one thing, the shows and serials were trying to communicate accurately with the viewer. As far as I could tell, real humans usually didn’t know what the hell they were doing.

Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

[obsess-over-ink-on-dead-trees]

isn't it funny how everything could be going right in your life, in fact you might even be thinking that this is one of the best periods of your life, but then someone finally opens up, and you see how toxic you've been, how many hints you didn't notice, how you were just ignoring everyone's problems just for your life to be simpler.

Life isn't easy. It isn't simple. It isn't always happy.

Things happen, people are hurt, but ignoring it all won't make it go away.

I hate hurting people, but I try so much not to, that I end up hurting them even more. If there is a problem, address it. Turning a blind eye to it will just make it worse till its unfixable.