can i get a kiss and can you make it last forever

❤️ a slice of cheese on the pavement

[fairycosmos]

your problem is you think if you communicate with clarity and earnestness that people will actually understand you

[luckypunklemonade]

Noah Stilinski stringing red thread throughout an empty room and gradually bringing back memories of his son is—and I mean this wholeheartedly—the most beautiful scene in Teen Wolf

[halos2deac-deactivated20260223]

yep

[justgivemeabookplease]

Shrek 2, while a cinematic masterpiece, is also an interesting look at queerness and comp het.

Fiona is married so it's time to reunite with her parents. But instead of marrying a prince, she's married to an ogre. Not just that, but she's also an ogre. (Yes everyone knew she would sometimes be an ogre but that was when she was a child, she didn't know she would be an ogre for the rest of her life, and besides once she met the right prince she would stop being an ogre. She was supposed to stop being an ogre.)

But okay they're both ogres. We can still ask about when they'll have children because even if they're ogres they can still have kids, right? That's what married princes and princesses do so naturally that's what everyone does. Even if ogres might not be great parents (I've heard that ogres eat their young, is that something you people do?) it's still something that should be discussed.

And okay you can stay in Fiona's childhood bedroom filled with all the reminders that hey, everyone thought she was just a princess and princesses marry princes. Her toys left out from the last time she played with them. The prince slays the ogre. The princess offers a token of gratitude for slaying the ogre. Fiona wrote Mrs. Fiona Charming a million times in her diary because what else was she supposed to grow up to be?

And Harold you have to fix this, your country can't be ruled by ogres. You were unfit to rule when you were a frog but I changed you, I made you better, I made you a prince. You know how this works. Think of your daughter's safety.

Shrek goes to the Fairy Godmother and oh honey, ogres don't live happily ever after. It's just not done. It hasn't happened in all of fairy tale history. You have to change the both of you to be happy. You have to present as a prince and a princess. It will be better. You'll fit in better that way. You'll be accepted that way.

[fitzchivalry]

[habaebiti]

the way this is genuinely life changing stuff for me

[dykeselfcest]

it is unfortunate that there's no reason for most people to remember high school chemistry because the best analogy I have found for "the amount of energy that it takes me to initiate a task, which can be higher than the amount of energy it takes to actually complete the task" is "activation energy" and it's not precisely perfect but

yeah. and you can even include "thing that reduces the barrier to doing the task" as a catalyst/enzyme

anyway. unfortunately this does not actually clarify anything for the average person. but #ToMe it works

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[notahorseindisguise]

the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

[mysticorset]

Peer reviewed tags from @somanyofthekids

[notahorseindisguise]

NO its a JOKE and YOU DONT GET IT. ITS NOT THAT DEEP

[hiveswap]

While she was dead he put his memory of her on such a high pedestal that she could never live up to it alive

[midnight-revolucion]

alternatively‚ she came back perfectly fine but he thinks she came back wrong‚ because the tragic reality is that he never actually knew his wife

[notahorseindisguise]

im going INSANE thats MY POST.

[marlinspirkhall]

It's your post but the journey to posting it changed it to such a degree that even its closest intimacies are now foreign to you. Sorry dude.

[inkskinned]

you know what? fuck it, man. the world is held in the fists of people who like to break things. at this point i’m saying who gives a shit. wear that victorian dress you don’t have an excuse for. dress up like a witch, pointed hat and all. who cares anymore. why worry about it when there’s bigger stuff to worry on. i’m saying. yeah, this lipstick is too dark, wanna share? i’m saying go talk to her, tell her that you like her hair. i’m saying she’s out of my league but i’m still swinging, i’m saying yeah i’m in a ballgown and it’s a pta meeting. what about it. eat the extra brownie, tell her your feelings. i’m saying if nothing matters than we might as well give nothing meaning.

[inkskinned]

#i’m saying if existence is a void at least i’m going down screaming.

it’s been 9 years since i wrote this. i was experiencing 24/7 anxiety so badly that i needed serious medication. these days in the back of my car is an “emergency party box.” when people admit they no longer really celebrate their birthday; i tell them to put the sash on and queue up kesha, we’re going bowling or something. these days i can’t spin around without finding something i am enamored with. these days i list 3 things i’m grateful for before i fall asleep. you’re probably one of them, just by virtue of you existing.

at the time i wrote this, i was suffering through a severe panic attack literally every night. i tortured my brother with constant 2 AM calls just to hear someone else breathing, because i couldn’t be alone in the silence.

i rarely wish i was still 23 even though ironically i had more hope back then. what i can tell you is this: i love the same way, but bigger now. i’ve worn the velvet cape to several business meetings. i spent thursday in a crop top without caring what my stomach looked like.

i told her i like her; i often dress as a witch. i still got glass in my foot this morning. i’ve kissed maybe a thousand people since then and met a million more than that; passing like the shadow of a hammerhead in trains and planes and buses.

i saw you, beloved, there, maybe, on platform in south station. you didn’t speak, but you said: i struggle to give the nothing meaning. the nothing fills up everything. it is just loud and yellowed panicked silence. i can’t stop shaking.

on the roof, birds curl together against the chilled spring wind. the sky outside of the craft store was an iridescent pink. the nothing already had meaning; you are giving it meaning by witnessing.

the act of living, beloved: it’s just decoding how to translate it.

[whenthegoldrays]

when life gives you tangerines, 2025 // vladimir nabokov

[jynandor]

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU TANGERINES (2025) dir. KIM WON-SEOK episode six: LIFE GOES ON AND ON When your body is tired and your heart wants to give up, there will be days when you want to give up on life. Refuse to back down. Fight to pick yourself back up. Take out a blanket and stomp on it. Till your soil. Go earn your money. If you tell yourself, "I won't die. I'm gonna survive," and use your arms and legs to push you up, you'll get past the dark waters and finally see the sky. By then, you'll breathe again.

[dangermousie]

This whole sequence (and also answers the mom's beggar musing, without knowing it.)

She really really wants him to make a move!

And he nerves himself and grabs her hand in his pocket awwwww

I couldn't cap it because it was so quick but his not-truly-a-kiss because he misses her mouth is hilarious!

Her face!!!

This is AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING they are so achingly young!

His FACE his faaaaaaace as he realizes she did it because she's fancied him for years aaaaaaa

[dangermousie]

I love this so much - because she wants for her daughter to have more and he will back her up. But it's also so realistic that he loves her and he is willing to go to bat/back her up (he does make sure his daughter AND his sister have trikes after this) but it doesn't occur to him per se until she points out. Because why would it? He's a 1960s male villager - he is loving and upright but he doesn't think the way she does because he's not her.

How can she not love him? OOOOOOHHHHHHH (But also, it's credit to PBG's acting but also the writing that while GS comes across as a very very good man, he doesn't feel too-good-to-be-true or unrealistic. He's no prince charming; he's not very educated, cannot tell a compliment or have an intellectual discussion really, he's actually not much of a talker at all and yet...)

There is a Russian saying about a really dependable man "behind him like behind a stone wall" and when he said that, it made me think of it.

Aaaaaa OMG dyinggggggg

And off they go for some good time (honestly, it's pretty impressive they don't have five kids running around by now.)

But it's the morning scene that gets me - not just the trikes but the way he moves tables to sit with the "lessers" - not the men or the matriarch but his wife, mom, daughter and sister (and also, how realistic that it's the women - his mom and grandma, that keep enforcing all the subjugation of women stuff) but also - the peas stuff! The kid asks for more peas and there aren't any on her mom's plate and when he pivots, he also gives his peas - but not to his daughter, to Ae Sun for HER to give to their kid - because he's not planning to play some peasant version of Lord Bountiful - the girl asked her mom so he's going to make sure Ae Sun can satisfy her daughter - her daughter asked for it from the mom so from the mom she should have (and also, she can have some for herself too, if she wants.)

[dangermousie]

I love that they both stand up for each other - the way they won't let the other be hit by the cop - and it's so telling his protection is physical and hers is verbal and AAAAAA I LOVE THEM SO

Heh.

[dangermousie]

This is such a great scene because AS wanted to break so many barriers and all that but she's still finding it hard to break from the superstition that puts down her own gender, because she grew up surrounded by it - it's hard not to internalize it however you try.

I love him so much! He is just...and yet in a believable, not 2025 educated man pretending to be 1970s rural fisherman kind of way. Does it make sense? He's loving and he's a feminist really but in a way a working class man from back then would be - it's not abstract for him or some theory of justice or w/e - he just loves his wife and kids and they are paramount to him over anything at all.

The way she still hesitates and then their daughter (who is young and hasn't yet imbibed the prejudices fully - because every year does grind you down more) goes to go on the boat and AS grabs her to stop her (!!!) - but then, unlike the other women who do pass the limitations (her mother in law and grandmother in law are a great example), she actually lets go, she refuses to perpetuate it. But I love that it's not easy for her, she has to fight herself (And also, how telling, it is wanting a better world for her daughter that allows her to seek a better world for herself - she steps on the boat herself to show her daughter that her daughter can.)

[sunlightnmoonshine]

gwangshik swimming across the ocean to get to aesun lives in my head rent free but the build up to that scene is why it's so powerful. how it's pointed out that everything he's done since he was 10 has been for her, to give her a life she wanted and how he's literally leaving the island only because he thinks it's what she wants and he doesn't want to stand in her way but we see that losing her makes living seem futile to him. how we are led to think aesun cares about a career and education and that's why she's considering marrying that sleazy man but we learn it actually doesn't matter but love matters to her, a love she thinks she can't have since she doesn't want to stand in gwangshik's way, how he was her home but she was losing it because she couldn't be with him. we learn that she was never settling for him, she truly loved him and would have given up everything else to be with him just like he would do the same.

it's the way this show raises the question of what we choose in a partner and for the both of them, love mattered the most.

had I been a bystander watching their tearful reunion I would have been in tears because I woukd have felt the longing, the angst, the love. it's just so beautiful.

[jynandor]

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU TANGERINES (2025) dir. KIM WON-SEOK That day, if she hadn't run as fast as she could... If she hadn't run that day... would she have been able to outrun her destiny? But in the end, destiny was a stubborn thing.