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i don’t think I’m ever going to get over this line

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they warned me that i cannot want you. mother told me wanting you would get me hurt. father told me wanting you would get me scarred. you told me wanting you would get me killed.

foolish heart, do you think i do not know? i have known from the moment that i laid eyes upon you and the devouring void in my chest woke up and named itself wanting and stretched and stretched and never stopped stretching that you would be the death of me.

foolish heart, i am not afraid.

it was always going to get me killed, this life of mine this life of yours this life of ours. and if you are going to be the death of me ( you are, you are, you are ) i would rather die for wanting you than die for hating you. i would rather die for the hope of having you than die for the fear of having you.

be my sun, my winds, my ocean and i will make myself icarus and i will find my joy in your blinding light and i will find my freedom in your touch and i will find my death in your waiting arms.

and you can melt me down like a candle under the flame or you can cast me about like a leaf in the skies or you can swallow me whole like a memory.

i will still be yours and wanting and wanting and wanting.

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Mikko Harvey Wind-Related in the Wheatfield // Jonny Bolduc open question @jovialtorchlight // Cheryl Strayed Tiny Beautiful Things // @/mkpoet (instagram) // Mary Oliver Count the Roses // Phoebe Bridgers Waiting Room // Fyodor Dostoyevsky // Marie Howe Magdalene Afterwards; "Magdalene: Poems"

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Chelsea Hodson, "Tonight I'm Someone Else" // l.a.m, "The Rising of the Phoenix" // @astrono77153462 // author unknown, "Fallen Angel in Church" // Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov // Franz Kafka and @wingful // @conturnacious // Ted Chiang, Hell is the Absent of God // Google search results // David Bowie

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how it feels being a swiftie rn is what being a codebreaker during ww2 must have felt like

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i think that ghosts can and should decay. i think they should blur and fade, like a tape rewound too many times, or a photograph taken out and unfolded and then refolded again until it's nothing more than a vaguely recognizable smear of what was once a snapshot of time and memory. i think that clinging too tightly to a ghost should only destroy it faster, eroding it away until there's nothing left to hold on to.

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why have i never even watched this show but i already have them in their Happy Ending (handwaving whatever the fuck happened in season 2 and however the fuck it gets fixed) giving up their powers and choosing to be human like barbie did and they have a daughter played by penelope featherington from bridgerton

The way The Kiss was so excruciatingly awkward and extremely un-sexy is perfect knowing that neither of the participants had ever kissed anyone before. Extremely accurate first kiss between two absolute virgins. 11/10 acting u love to see it

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b plot of all fucking time.

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ScottxLogan’s Fic Masterpost

So I decided to put together a master post for anyone who might be looking for something specific from my fics. I’ve tried to give them some organization so that they are easier to find for anyone who is hoping to seek out something in particular listed by pairing so that people can browse each category to fit their tastes. I hope it helps :) **Note** Currently some of the pairings are grouped together on the same linked post if they have only one story for that pairing. As I continue to update each pairing/ship fic will get their own posts but for now I’m trying to separate them so that pairings I’ve written multiple fics (or multi-chaptered fics) about can have their own links to make it easier to search. More updates are coming**

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I think that if you want relationships depicted in your fiction – whether primary media or fan-work – to be emotionally compelling, there’s really no getting around the fact that one of the most compelling relationship dynamics in fiction is “hey, wouldn’t it be fucked up if”.

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when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

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WENCLAIR + TEXT POSTS

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Jenna and Julien are married!

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Fascism sells a synthetic nostalgia.

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Something I’ve come across often in reading fanfiction is this… pervasive idea that people cannot love wholly twice, and that if they’ve chosen one person, it’s because that love is greater than the other.

It’s not expressly said that way. It’s couched in gentler, loving phrases like “he’s never felt this way before” and “it wasn’t like this with anyone else.” It’s especially prevalent when there is a canon love interest to be denied, or a mutually exclusive ship to push back against, and it feels like trying to quietly dismiss a contrived love triangle instead of recognizing that different loves can share intensity and one might still not work out.

And I’m not saying it’s bad, I’m not saying it’s problematic or amoral or something that needs to stop, that people shouldn’t be doing this. I’m not saying that one true love is a bad trope. I guess I’m just asking, what are we afraid of?

Why can’t the character have felt that way before? Why can’t they have loved someone with their whole heart before? It’s the tragedy of love isn’t it- that sometimes it doesn’t work. Not that the love was missing or less, but that it was there, that it was whole and full and real, that it mattered… but that it didn’t change anything, couldn’t work out. The circumstances were wrong, the people were wrong despite their love, it was everything and that wasn’t enough. Love doesn’t have to be less or gone to recognize that maintaining a relationship for it is unsustainable. A character can leave behind a great love and find a new great love, and while love is never quite The Same between people, it can be As Much.

And I guess I’m wondering, you know, how it is better, to love wholly only once? “It was never like this with the other person” is surely meant to be a soft sentiment declaring how much greater this love is, but, all it does is make me wonder what is so weak about it that if there was an equal love, this love wouldn’t survive it, wouldn’t be chosen.

“I have loved like this before, and I’m choosing to fight for it this time” is surely not a lost cause to explore.