You do the smiling, I'll go to jail.

Gal | 25 | she/her | Sick, twisted and very very sad.

[we-live-among-you]

Gettin' a life's a little like dyin'

[we-live-among-you]

hi

another random message while i write some IKEA

i think Sarah is the best and the worst version of myself.

i hate this bitch but also wish i could be her.

also she gets some real closure from the fucked up situationship i had almost a year ago

i can't believe it's really over i have no one to crush on

[we-live-among-you]

every once in a while i think my mental health is steady

and so i read my fight scene to make myself hurt again.

[valtsv]

i'm no medical expert but my one and only health tip i can offer with any confidence is to allow yourself to listen to bohemian rhapsody every once in a while in a setting where you can put your your whole entire life up to this moment into singing along with the part where freddie mercury says "i don't wanna die, but sometimes i wish i'd never been born at all" and feel a layer of dead scar tissue peel away from your existence before it can calcify

[we-live-among-you]

hi

another random message while i write some IKEA

i think Sarah is the best and the worst version of myself.

i hate this bitch but also wish i could be her.

also she gets some real closure from the fucked up situationship i had almost a year ago

i can't believe it's really over i have no one to crush on

[annakarenina]

The Menu 2022 • dir. Mark Mylod

[eggsaladstain]

THE MENU (2022) dir. Mark Mylod

[crimsonclad]

I keep seeing Takes about how recent media like Glass Onion and The Menu aren’t taking “eat the rich” seriously enough to launch real change or revolution and like?? yeah??? popular crowd-pleasing entertainment where horrible rich people Suffer A Comeuppance for the pleasure of an audience is one of the oldest tropes in all of human history???? It is a crowd pleaser! It is the bread (ha) and butter of the Western canon! It is in Chaucer it is in Dante it is in Shakespeare it is the stuff of Dickens and 95% of Agatha Christie and almost every teen movie ever made??????? “look at these horrible rich idiots and hypocrites…and now enjoy their DESTRUCTION” transcends time and space and historical moments! It is so strange to be surprised that Hollywood returns to this well without any intention of seeking anything more transgressive than an audience having a hearty chuckle lmao

[bladesrunner]

You know what I’d really like? A cheeseburger. — Yeah, we can do a cheeseburger. — A real cheeseburger. — I’ll make you a very good, very traditional cheeseburger. — I don’t think you can. — I’ll make you feel as if you’re eating the first cheeseburger you ever ate. The cheap one your parents could barely afford.

The Menu (2022) dir. Mark Mylod

[rylandsgrace]

The menu (2022) dir. Mark Mylod

[trashcora]

THE MENU (2022) + letterboxd reviews

[taylorswift]

In my Eras era. 💅

[annakarenina]

Pride & Prejudice 2005, dir. Joe Wright

[we-live-among-you]

today on Gal and Reut talks:

me: “I just want someone to love me”

@betterthanrevenge: “well I love you”

me: “no. I want someone to love me in a way that makes me go ‘FUCK!’ and not ‘yeah i know’.”

Reut: “wow that was the best thing you’ve ever said.”

[we-live-among-you]

it's been over 5 years and it's still 100% accurate.

[furious-runaway-dream]

Bitches with trust issues love enemies to lovers because they love the idea of seeing someones worst traits first and still be able to fall in love them without the everpresent underlying fear of weather their worst is something genuinely evil. It's me. I'm bitches.

[we-live-among-you]

so I’m working on my IKEA series I started writing for @betterthanrevenge ages ago (and keep writing from time to time)

and I must say

it’s a great piece of work.

I’m not objective but as the writer I do have to say it’s one of my better stories and IKEA3 is obviously the best of the series so far

IKEA1 was written around 6 years ago (first published oct. 14 2014) (yeah. that long ago.)

IKEA2 was written just before I joined the army and Reut and I had a meltdown cause we were scared as hell because we didn’t know what will happen to our friendship (spoiler: nothing. she kept messaging me random things and thats how I first heard about Hamilton so……)

and IKEA3 (my fav) was written recently (April 2020) because of COVID and all the uncertainties that came with it.

I feel that Isabelle, Newt and Sarah have grown so much over the past six years. keep in mind I started writing about them when I was 17 y.o, having absolutely NO KNOWLEDGE about real life.

now, as a wise 23 year old woman I can tell you that writing about 23 y/o people was dumb because they sound like teenagers.

I’m modifying things, changing things that need changing, refining my work.

but I did have to share this things

- Izzy being the responsible adult when Newt and Sarah are fighting is my fav thing to write

- Newt and Sarah fighting like children is BY FAR the best running theme of the story

- Sarah having kids while Izzy and Newt decide not to is a great way to deliver a message (the message being that you don’t have to have children to feel accomplished and that living by society rules is not the only way of living)

- having Sarah and Newt lie to Isabelle in IKEA3 was one of the most painful things I’ve ever written and I wrote about someone witnessing their loved one getting stabbed to death so…………

- I wish I could be 10% like Sarah in my everyday life this woman is a badass even though sometimes she’s a real loser.

- dude the story is not about IKEA anymore wtf 

all in all, I’m so fucking proud of this universe I created, these characters that mean so much to both Reut and I, and believe me, as a writer that never finish writing her stories, IKEA is the first thing I ever finished so much of.

[we-live-among-you]

hi hello another message for me in the future (cause I read these posts later in life)

as I’m re-reading The Maze Runner trilogy I began to wonder when and how the whole IKEA series idea came to life (for you see, it’s a fanfic about Newt after all)

so in May of 2014 (the 31st to be exact) the idea came to life (the details are useless for you dear reader who is not me) and since then I sent little snippets of the story on our chat on facebook.

and here are some fun things I have said and looking back they are even funnier.

I described the whole idea and Reut said “you can make it into a fanfic” and as you know, I have made it into a great one.

I said “the whole story is gonna be really short” and it is not. the original file, containing the full 3 stories and the beginning of IKEA4 is 77 pages. in microsoft word, arial 11 font.

“I mean how long can you stretch an IKEA program?” like I’ve stated before, dude the story is not about IKEA anymore wtf

“I sit here and laugh instead of writing because it’s funny and I never knew I could make myself laugh that much” still 100% accurate, if I’m not writing it’s probably cause I’m reading back my story and think about how funny I am.

(context: I had a big literature test) “it’s time to stop learning about literature and start writing it” to which I say today “oh sweetie you haven’t written IKEA3 yet, you know nothing”

(about reading the maze runner series) “if I continue reading I wouldn’t be able to keep writing because it’ll be hard” (because writing about a character and reading about him doing other things was confusing for me back then and still is today) and it prevented me from reading the death cure for 8 years. good job me.

anyway I have books to read and maybe soon a story to write. my Newt is so much different than Dashner’s Newt and it’s great, I don’t need to be so anxious about writing my version, he’s fine. (he’s an idiot)

[we-live-among-you]

hi hello me again

i just wanna say, that changing Ben's character was something i had to do, and to prove it i look at my files now and see that i first changed him two years ago, before i knew what i know today, and before the final version of him was created based on real life events.

so yeah, dear future Gal, if you ever doubt yourself, don't.

(also, the fact that i can re-write the story and remove the line where Sarah tells her mom she loves her is a power move and i'm happy i can do that because it'll make the whole story better for me)

[skeletorishot]

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THE GOOD PLACE 2x03 — Dance Dance Resolution