The Realm Of Gentle Reflection And Stars

Personal Blog. 18+ Ask me anything so long as you want to have a genuine discussion.

[perfectquote]

“Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.”

— Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

[evendrierguys]

a kind caring character being kind and caring because they actively choose to be despite their anger and trauma will always be infinitely more compelling and relatable than them just being a pure innocent baby uwu

[headspace-hotel]

show compassionate, soft characters who are not “innocent”/naive but who fought bitterly to be and remain compassionate and soft

[hauntedbythenarrative]

The family jewels, Marina//And my father’s love was nothing next to god’s will, Amatullah Bourdon//A Hymn to Childhood, Li-Young Lee//House of the Dragon (2022-)//Someday I'll Love, Ocean Vuong

[the-bluespirit]

adrienette vs marichat, which will be angstier

[lalunaoscura]

one day I’ll stop making memes on my phone but today is not the day

[washed-in-moonlight]

Now someone swap it for Chat’s disappointment for when Marinette doesn’t love him back and utter confusion when Ladybug does.

Then we need Chat to talk to Marinette about why he’s confused and 👋 voila.

Marinette’s astonishment to hear that kitty is still somewhat in love with LB.

[withhorses-blog]

I loved this exchange so much, I just spent a stupid amount of time turning it into a mediocre graphic. Neil, you complete me.

[neil-gaiman]

I love living in a world where I write something on Tumblr and the following day it’s an excellent graphic. Thank you!

[timelordsandkittens]

You know what, I’m going to put this quote on my blog as many times as I want.

Neil Gaiman is my hero.

[random-chaos-thoughts]

I love living in a world where you post anything relates to neil gaiman on tumblr and in the next few hours he found and commented on the post with the same unhinged love for this website as we have

[nature-travel-photography]

North Shore, Kaua'i [OC] [4032 x 3024] - Author: ItsTolkienNotToken on Reddit

[cal-kestis]

ANDOR Episode 6: The Eye

[quotemadness]

“Let someone love you the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

— Mark Hack

[beaft]

in light of the current "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" moral panic re unsuitable literature, i'd like to share an anecdote.

my thirteen-year-old cousin came to visit a few months back. he saw my copy of american psycho and asked if he could borrow it, because his friend had seen the movie and said it was really good. i said okay, sure, but just so you know, it's a lot more graphic than the movie and there's some stuff in there that you might find really upsetting. he asked what kind of stuff. i gave him a bare-bones outline of the contents (gore, sexual violence, cannibalism, etc). he said he would think about it.

a few days later, he came back to me and said, "it doesn't sound like my kind of thing. i think i might wait until i'm a bit older to read it." alright, i said, good call, and that was the end of it. i am 99% sure that if i'd just said "no, you can't have it, you're not old enough," he would have felt patronised and found a way to read it anyway, just to prove a point.

you can draw whatever conclusions you want from that, but i feel it's a pretty good indicator that giving kids the information they need to curate their own experience is way more effective than telling them what they are and aren't allowed to read. that's just my two cents, though.

[washed-in-moonlight]

https://pin.it/3BoYhMU

[thoughtkick]

“We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living fully in the present.”

— Marianne Williamson

[girlcaligula]

“Why do people like a character who’s committed war crimes but hate this other character just because they’re annoying” because it’s fiction Susan, and being annoying in fiction is a greater sin than being a supervillain, because it won’t make me want to read about them. It isn’t difficult to understand

[zombieporno]

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” (Oscar Wilde)

[charlesoberonn]

The war crimes are fictional but my annoyance is real.

[soracities]

Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop

[Text ID: “October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”]

[mapsontheweb]

The black areas represent the remaining natural dark skies in the United States

[largedad]

[impossiblepackage]

I’ve been in the middle of the ocean at night and now live in texas and it is so hard to explain to people that no, they have not ever seen the night sky. It is so hard to explain to people that what they think is a proper night sky is fucking pathetic. A disgrace.

People talk about how you can’t see stars in the city and yeah, that’s true, but their concept of “seeing stars” is being able to make out orion’s belt.

So, so few people have see the sky in all its glory and it’s not sad. It’s a fucking crime. Seeing a perfectly dark night, no clouds, not a hint of light pollution? That’s a fucking religious experience.

The sky the vast vast majority of us grew up with is not the sky that inspired us to look up. It is not the sky that inspired constellations. You can’t even see most constellations.

Your ancestors looked at the night sky and said “surely, that is where the gods must live.” And you might be lucky if you can see hardly more than a handful of stars.

The sky is full, fucking FULL, of stars, and you’ve never seen them.

[ousia-poetica]

[ambelle]

Bat Boys BTS

[washed-in-moonlight]

TITANS SEASON 4 WHERE YOU AT

[xhanisai]

The cute nicknames/pet names that Ladynoir have for each other isn’t just what makes them so special- it’s the ma/mon (my) they add before it that just makes it soooooo good!

Ladybug calling her partner HER kitten, HER CHATON, HERS!!!! And Chat Noir calling her HIS LADY, HIS BEAUTY, HIS BUGUINETTE! HIS!!!!

IT’S. TOO. FUCKING. CUTE.