queen of peace

suddenly I’m overcome

[tomfleton]

it’s so embarrassing being a former Tom Felton fan blog considering how much “peaked in high school energy” he has now bro 😭 but can’t get rid of this url EVER

[tomfleton]

life is crazy bc what do you mean I read Manacled when it first came out on ao3 as a senior in college and now I’ve graduated law school and work at a law firm but hauled ass to pick up my signed copy of alchemised and see Sen speak @senlinyu

[tomfleton]

so….I’m see Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy in Cursed Child with an og tumblr bestie Katie…this is called healing your inner child

[tomfleton]

life is crazy because for years I’ve said 5/23/25 would be my ideal wedding date, and now what I’ll actually be doing that day is studying for the bar and maybe getting hibachi for dinner

[queermasculine]

[gripping the sink] perfectionism does not help me avoid embarrassment or shame. perfectionism is in itself a form of shame. when i struggle with perfectionism i struggle with shame. when i struggle with perfectionism i struggle with shame. when i struggle with perfectionism i struggle with shame

[tomfleton]

the more i think about it the more i want to be a lawyer

[tomfleton]

16 year old me, this is for you <3

[oldwomanbay]

my goal for today is no instagram reels & read 20 pages of my book. no consequences if i don’t do that because you cannot hate yourself into becoming who you are

[tomfleton]

I’m 17 years old. I just took my last AP exam ever. Graduation is a few weeks away. I bask in all my free time to read fanfics. It’s 2015.

I’m 27 years old. I just finished my last law school exam ever. Graduation is a few weeks away. I bask in all my free time to read fanfics. It’s 2025.

[tomfleton]

people might not realize this but there’s a strong overlap between shipping dramione and being a high powered big law attorney

[weltenwellen]

Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

[weltenwellen]

“In front of my mother and my sisters, I pretend love is cheap and vulgar. I act like it’s a sin– I pretend that love is for women on a dark path. But at night i dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb.– I dream up a lover who makes love like he is separating salt from water.”

— Salma Deera, “salt”  

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Sue zhao/Ryan O'Connell

[tomfleton]

how I approach dating brown men

[tomfleton]

Things I would tell my 17 year old self.

Every thing you were worried about lowkey worked out. You made friends, real friends, best friends, amazing friends. You’ve excelled in every single career endeavor - the work is long and hard but you made it through the door - that was never the issue. People think you’re eloquent and wise yet funny with great taste. Your skin is clear and soft. You learned how to take care of yourself and live alone and face the world independently.

But at 27 you still feel inadequate. Because the truth is every time you got “the thing” you thought you lacked, you found something new. Now it’s really your body, your weight, not your face and blemishes. Instead of friendship, it’s romantic love that seems completely out of reach. You got the job but now it’s the self doubt of being enough to do it, being able to handle it.

At the end of the day, life is long. I’m sure 37 year old me will laugh that I feel so rotten and unwanted because I couldn’t make it work with a guy I’m not attracted to. That I feel incapable of handling a law firm job after facing a thousand hurdles before. It’s like they all say - life is about loving yourself the most - always. The rest will come together.

[tomfleton]

but lowkey I still ship dramione after like 12 years of having this account so the haters were wrong

[inthefallofasparrow]

[symphcny]

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

— Anaïs Nin (via amortizing)