#I read...

[teagrl]

“I almost laughed. “You would rather me eat your heart than look away in disgust?”

“Of course,” he breathed. “Every time.”

So I stepped toward him and took his face into my hands, drawing my thumb across his lips. He shivered under my touch, lashes painting a feathered shadow on his high, slim cheekbone. I tried for as long as I could not to blink, to stare him down to his marrow, to the truth of him. The serpent wound its way up his throat, tightening its body around him like a vise. When I saw his pulse throbbing between the coils of muscle, I pried the serpent off him and let it wind around my wrist instead.

“Perhaps,” I said, “this story can have a happy end.”

The corner of his lip pulled up into a beautiful, crooked smile. “Who says so?”

“I do.”

-Juniper and Thorn

[catmask]

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

[grunklebongrip]

When a fic doesn’t fit my head canons but it’s well-written

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

[criminalizegolf]

> read library book

> it's good

Thank you library

[minyicho]

starting a collection of my favourite AO3 author’s notes

honourable mentions

[heartbreakincident]

nothing but respect for our troops (smut writers) but listen. i dont want to be the person to tell you this, but not every character is going to be a dom or a sub. some people. and i know this is hard to hear. but some people do have vanilla sex. and some of those people might even be The Character.

[whitachi]

posting it here because there's no chance anyone in my family would ever see it: this is how my brother's 13-year-old child decided to announce something to me

[teagrl]

“I have died a thousand times already,” Sevas said. “Cruelly, at the hands of the Dragon-Tsar. Gently, in Derkach’s bed. If this is what I am in truth, a man made up of nothing but wounds, why should I fear such a thing now? There is no more perfect mate for me than the one who wears my own mortality around her throat like a jewel.”

-Juniper and Thorn (Ava Reid)

[amartworks]

had a fun experience on the subway the other day

[cloudabserk]

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

[omegaverse-anesthesiologist]

why is ao3 is blocked on the hospital wifi????

[fireheartwraith]

[sadgirlautumn]

“kids spend too much time on their devices” well what else are they supposed to do? there’s no corner shops with pinball machines in them on every corner anymore. there’s no malls or stores in small towns for teens to hang out in without being suspected of shoplifting or kicked out for loitering. sidewalks are too broken for them to ride their bikes and there’s no bike lane in the street to make it safe for them. i just don’t understand where they expect these kids to go when they keep taking places away from them. and yes having no safe public places for them is what leads a lot of teens into addiction if they end up at a place where people aren’t truly looking out for them.

[great-and-small]

The majority of the Earth’s rodents: How do you survive environments with practically zero oxygen, feel no pain, and live for decades when none of the rest of us can???

Naked mole-rats: