[kwistowee]

I don't know how well I can put my thoughts about this exchange into words, but I'm gonna try.

Kate has resolutely kept her walls up around Tyler for the majority of their interactions, but she just chose to be incredibly vulnerable with him. She let him see a fraction of how much pain she carries with her and it stops him in his tracks. (The camera literally stops panning around them the moment her dam bursts, and he stands completely still as she pours out her guilt over her past failure.)

Tyler respects Kate. He admires her capacity to read and to tackle this thing they both love. But now, for the first time, he's beginning to understand just how challenging storm chasing again actually is for her. How much fear and sorrow, how much trauma and torment it carries for her. He is stilled by the realization that this clever, fascinating woman is trapped under the weight of her past, and he gently encourages her to consider taking ownership of that pain by acting rather than surrendering.

But she's not ready. She side-steps his question entirely, stating that he should rest so he doesn't miss any storms the next day while wiping her tears away and trying for a bit of a smile.

And look at the way that shatters him.

He cuts himself off from replying and the grief in his face as he shakes his head and looks down shreds my heartstrings. Storm chasing is absolutely the last thing on his mind right now; he's concerned for her. He has taken every possible opportunity to seek her out in an effort to understand her since the moment their paths crossed. So maybe he's blindsided by the idea that she thinks his primary concern is not missing any storms. Normally, that might be true. He absolutely loves his job. The joy he finds out in the field chasing tornadoes radiates from his entire being every time he does it. And yet none of that passion comes close to how much he is centered on her and her pain in this moment.

But he can't tell her that. He's not ready to admit she is his primary concern and I think he recognizes in this moment that she's not ready to hear that yet either. She has effectively ended the conversation and dismissed him for the night. So he raises his eyebrows in a subtle agreement to go along with what she has said and he clamps his mouth shut. He returns her research notes to her and silently exits the barn to give her space.

And I cannot stop thinking about how much he just conveyed about the depth of his feelings for her with just a few micro expressions.

[goldensunset]

advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love

[inkskinned]

i don't know what else to tell you except to be brave and to be kind. take it day by day. go outside and watch the clouds paint the sky. call a friend.

we are still here, and furious. you are still here, and that matters. you can still do and make and be something important. i promise. stay alive. it matters, and you matter. i know it is easy to succumb to anxiety and exhaustion and defeat.

communities can start with tiny ideas. google "dnd meeting near me" or whatever your interest might be. google "volunteering near me." google "support groups near me." start journalling. start a discord. start a book club.

when you close your eyes and hear hamlet, answer his prayer: it's better still to be.

[eatpussypraylove]

Today I wanted to walk out of my job, so after work I took myself to the movies. I watched a movie that made me cry, and when I got out of the theater, I saw a young dad carrying his daughter on his shoulders down the street. It made me smile. Realize I haven’t been gentle enough with myself lately. Have you been gentle enough with yourself

[inkskinned]

it is hard to explain but there is something so unwell about the cultural fear of ugliness. the strange quiet irradiation of any imperfect sight. the pores and the stomachs and the legs displaced into a digital trashbin. somehow this effect spilling over - the removal of a grinning strangers in the back of a picture. of placing more-photogenic clouds into a frame. of cleaning up and arranging breakfast plates so the final image is of a table overflowing with surplus - while nobody eats, and instead mimes food moving towards their mouth like tantalus.

ever-thinner ever-more-muscled ever-prettier. your landlord's sticky white paint sprayed over every surface. girlchildren with get-ready-with-me accounts and skincare routines. beige walls and beige floors and beige toys in toddler hands. AI-generated "imagined prettier" birds and bugs and bees.

pretty! fuckable! impossible! straighten teeth. use facetune and lightroom and four other products. remove the cars along the street from the video remove the spraypaint from the garden wall remove the native plants from their home, welcome grass. welcome pretty. let the lot that walmart-still-owns lay fallow and rotting. don't touch that, it's ugly! close your eyes.

erect anti-homelessness spikes. erect anti-bird spikes. now it looks defensive, which is better than protective. put the ramp at the back of the building, you don't want to ruin the aesthetic of anything.

you are a single person in this world, and in this photo! don't let the lives of other people ruin what would otherwise be a shared moment! erase each person from in front of the tourist trap. erase your comfortable shoes and AI generate platforms. you weren't smiling perfectly, smile again. no matter if you had been genuinely enjoying a moment. you are not in a meadow with friends, you're in a catalogue of your own life! smile again! you know what, forget it.

we will just edit the right face in.

[mts365-deactivated20250731]

Because what are fruits but symbols of greed, and love, and humanity

Blackberry Picking, Seamus Heaney// @noquietrevolution//@vampireapologist // Oranges, Gary Soto // We Are Okay, Nina LaCour // Twitter user super_smasha// @inkskinned

[violetsandshrikes]

kind of obsessed with this comment from the aoteaora nz subreddit….

[dramaism]

Things are pretty complicated for me right now. Because of Hyeon Jun? No, it's not because of that.

[stuckinapril]

We should all be less embarrassed to be caught trying tbh. Wanting to be something is only ever bad if you’re trying to imitate others without ever forming your own thoughts opinions or taste. But I have never looked down on people who’re trying to get somewhere or called them wannabes or mocked them for it. Like that’s admirable actually. There is nothing wrong w having goals and trying at something until you’re good at it. And there’s nothing wrong w the initial phase where you’re struggling. That’s the most natural thing in the world

[stuckinapril]

Posted this in June and my basically September update is I’ve realized ego death is the only way btw

[stuckinapril]

@virtualplushy your tags are actually so important to me

[explore-blog]

I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time.

James Baldwin, born 100 years ago today, on how to live through your darkest hour.

[godspreciousdaughter]

I just wanna focus on being a full human being. The plague of comparison is so insane and can play out so quietly. The reality of idolising things or making them seem out of reach is genuinely the most insane thing in the world, like this has never led to anything besides disappointment. There is nothing outside of your experience that is better than what you have. Ever. Someone else’s joy isn’t more joyus than yours. I am full and looking no where else

[crippled-peeper]

skin is not supposed to be perfectly smooth and clear and unblemished. it’s literally like 5 sq ft of organ that’s ENTIRELY ON THE OUTSIDE OF YOUR BODY. it’s supposed to protect you and your organs and your muscles and ligaments etc. without skin that can adapt we would all be riddled with infections and pain. even “imperfect” skin loves you and doesn’t want you to suffer. be nice to it . it is your friend

[crippled-peeper]

If your skin didn’t wrinkle, crack, bruise, tan, freckle, or scar then we wouldn’t be alive!!! those are all evolutionary adaptations!!! it’s your body’s way of keeping you in one piece :) and it’s beautiful

[kosmogrl]

your life is not meaningless, you just haven't seen the sea in a while

[anxious-and-in-pain]

or the forest. or the mountains. or wherever fills you with wonder and calm

[wvterways]

gentle reminder that if u feel like time is flying by, note down all the good things that happened to you in the previous month. it might not seem like much but it really does ground you and make you realise just how many things you got to experience. in a day and age where we lose most of our time to technology, we sometimes unintentionally merge days together. sit down, reflect. you’ll be surprised at how much you remember and how warm and fuzzy those memories make you feel.

[yeo-rims]

i'll not use my brain too much but seok ryu's using humour to cope with everything she's been through and seung hyo sees through it all the time, that scene when he asks why she let her mom think she cheated, and she's like pretending that she could cheat, that she would do that, and he just LOOKS at her with so much sadness in his eyes meanwhile seok ryu won't let her guards down at any moment, which is so heartbreaking because one must wonder how much she's been through to get to a point she can't even be sincere with her family/friends. and it's all there in seung hyo's eyes and !!! amazing. because early on, when her mom asks if she's cheated he also looks at her, only her, and it's a moment you can see what he is thinking too!!! god.

[mostlyfate]

My mom and dad didn't come to my meet, but as I looked at the girl who skipped her exam for me, I realized. After meeting Bae Seok-ryu, there was never a moment when I didn't like her. But I don't have the courage to tell her because I don't want to ruin our friendship. So instead of now, I'll do it when I'm in my twenties. After we become adults, I hope I'll be able to tell Seok-ryu how I feel then.

[kdramarot]

"I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close... I will love you until your face is fogged by distant memory. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love you if you don't marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else--and i will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way."

I keep finding myself returning to this quote by Lemony Snicket over and over again for Seung-kryu. Him saying that that ever since he's known her...there's never been a moment he's not liked her, and that no matter how much he denied it, falling for her was inevitable. And now imagine what he must be going through when he got that invitation. He hadn't realized his buried feelings for her, but he blow was evident. His behaviour from the start of the episode vs the end differed greatly, because somewhere deep down, he knew he'd lost his chance a long time ago but the anticipatory grief kicked in much later.

his heart, unbeknownst to him, has been moving on autopilot for so long that Seokryu's re-entry caused a disturbance so impactful that he could only come to one conclusion: he's going to love her even if they never see each other again, and he's going to love her if they see each other everyday. and that makes everything—their history, their connection, his unrequited love—much harder to deal with.