#For Always

[life5lesson5]

[videogamelover99]

THE WORLD IS SMALL EVER AFTER FOR ALWAYS

[patheticblorbloscholar]

I just love them okay? [NOT A FUCKING SHIP EDIT]

[merrin-2-point-0]

my five star reads

The year is not over yet and I'm kind of determined to make it to 150, but I'm currently sitting on 144 reads for the year. Here's every book I gave five stars to and the format in which I consumed the media, in no particular order:

World War Z by Max Brooks - audio

The Missing Piece Meets the Big O by Shel Silverstein - hardback

The Fellowship of the Ring - audio by motherflippin Andy Serkis

The Two Towers - same

The Return of the King - same

Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn - hardback

Jeweled Fire by Sharon Shinn - hardback

Unquiet Land by Sharon Shinn - hardback

All Systems Red by Martha Wells - ebook

Becoming by Michelle Obama - audio

11. Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas - paperback 12. How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi - audio 13. The Sum Of Us by Heather McGhee - audio 14. The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels - audio 15. The Past Is Red by Catherynne Valente - ebook 16. We Are the Light by Matthew Quick - hardback 17. Into the Wild by John Krakauer - audio 18. I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown - ebook 19. Noor by Nnedi Okorafor - audio 20. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy - audio 21. Black Joy by Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts - hardback 22. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen - audio by Rosemund Pike 23. Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett - hardback 24. Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar - audio 25. Pet by Akwaeke Emezi - hardback 26. Too Bright To See by Kyle Lukoff - hardback 27. The Adventure Zone vol 4: The Crystal Kindgom - paperback 28. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann - audio 29. Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore - ebook 30. We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu - audio 31. The Midsummer Bride by Katie Wilde - ebook 32. The City We Became by NK Jemisin - hardback 33. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - audio 34. Falling Bodies by Rebecca Roanhorse - audio 35. Network Effect by Martha Wells - kindle 36. Get in Trouble by Kelly Link - audio

[mityenka]

when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

[sixofclovers]

hecate

[jandjsalmon]

Fun Story to Share.

I got my (now 18-year-old) daughter into Ao3 back in 2021. I taught her she should always comment - even if the fic looks old or abandoned or whatever. She did.

Well - she got this email this morning:

The fic was written in 2014 and essentially abandoned.

Bethy read and reviewed in 2021 (and was actually the only person who had commented at all).

Today in 2025 - the final chapter was posted by the author and this was her reply to Bethy’s comment.

———

Never question whether a fic is too old to comment on.

[skulandcrossbones]

it's so wild to me that you absolutely cannot force a hyperfixation to happen. like you'll watch the most perfectly tailor-made-for-you content that everyone says you'll love and feel absolutely nothing, and then the thing you watch on a whim to fill time will reach through the screen and put its damn fingers in your brain and start rearranging the neurons right in front of you and every single time you're like THIS??? THIS??????? and this happens like every 6-12 months forever

[darkbloomiana]

[life5lesson5]

Everyday my heart, my soul aches for you...

[emiett]

Taking the DIES key to the OMEN room

[zelkams-art]

in all timelines in all possibilities only you can show me this

[and-fishing-equipment]

"i don't comment on ao3 because i don't wanna be annoying or weird" skill issue + you greatly underestimate the power dynamic here, writing multi paragraph comments is like feeding a bunch of deeply insane and possibly starved ducks at the park and watch them go completely mad over having received a piece of bread

[tvguts]

i think we've done a great job expanding the view of what a child's favorite animal can be. kids these days can say they love axolotls or pangolins or coelecanths and their decision is respected. maybe their parents can even find them a stuffed animal of it if they know where to look. and i think that's beautiful

[elbiotipo]

I think one big reason why we don't consider the stars as important as before (not even pop-astrology anymore cares about the stars or the sky on itself, just the signs deprived of context) is because of light pollution.

For most of human history the sky looked between 1-3, 4 at most. And then all of a sudden with electrification it was gone (I'm lucky if I get 6 in my small city). The first time I saw the Milky Way fully as a kid was a spiritual experience, I was almost scared on how BRIGHT it was, it felt like someone was looking back at me. You don't get that at all with modern light pollution.

When most people talk about stargazing nowadays they think about watching about a couple of bright dots. The stars are really, really not like that. The unpolluted night sky is a festival of fireworks. There is nothing like it.