#this is poignant

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

- I grew up with a mother who, like you, was given away when she was very young to be with relatives. And I think was scarred by that forever and was an emotionally fragile and scared person. My job, I like to make her laugh. That's what I did. Somehow, I was the one who could make her laugh. But the flip side to that deal was my emotions, my negative or unsavory emotions, like anger or independence from her. - Or sadness or grief. - Or sadness, grief, anything. Anything that was difficult for her to handle. I knew intuitively, I can't do that. I can't put that on her. She was I'm the only caregiver after the age of 11, so I had to keep her safe. Then I walked into acting class, and here were these people, and there was this world where emotions were actually the currency. I had stumbled on into a world of play, as you might say, where all these things that seemed so dangerous to me in life were actually not only not dangerous, but they were appraised. I came to this through reading your book, so I just wanted to thank you for opening up that part of myself that led me to a direction that I'm still walking and in many ways.

[puppyeared]

renaissance dogys

characters belong to @canisalbus

[backstepping]

ayo edebiri: the movie reviewer we deserve

and her dad also has an account

[unbloodiedmartyr]

The use of the word hallowed to describe Saints is just... it's so on the nose but just So Well Done like.. They'll hallow you. They'll hollow you. They'll pull you out of your skin, and pour a god in.

[foldingfittedsheets]

A phrase that’s always stuck with me was my friend Lia way back in middle school talking about sleeping too close to someone else. It was a big negative for her when she thought about cuddling, “You’re just breathing in their out air.”

I cannot explain why those words carved themselves deeply across my brain but they did.

When I’m too close to people and I can feel their breath I’ll deliberately breathe out while thinking, I don’t want your out air.

It is an act of love for me to be close enough to someone that I don’t mind breathing in their out air.

Every person I have told this phrase to has come back and informed me later that it lodged deeply into their psyche too. So here you go, Tumblr. Out air. You get to think about it now, too.

[theknightartorias]

a collection of some of my favorite durge lines/flavor text

[hinamie]

all i have left

[copypastus]

@feylinweek Day 3 - Alternate Universe

Acomaf AU where everything is the same but Feyre and Tamlin are a little better at communication and compromise.

[maplebars]

beyond journey's end

[one-time-i-dreamt]

God has abandoned us for so long we replaced him with ourselves.

[oldbutchdaniel]

started imagining rpf discourse in the rockstar lestat universe (part 1)

[suspendingtime]

COLIN & ELOISE BRIDGERTON BRIDGERTON 3.01 ‘Out of the Shadows’

[luetta]

[specialagentartemis]

I do think it’s funny how consistently Menelaus is portrayed in Greek tragedy as just, a total asshole. Rude and cruel and just the fucking worst.

This is because Menelaus was the mythic king of Sparta, and Sophocles and Euripides who were writing these plays were Athenian, and more to the point, Athenian living during the Peloponnesian War against Sparta. It’s literally just the ancient version of making all the antagonists in every American movie in the 80s and 90s Russian. Writers going, You know the guys we’re at war with? They SUCK

[arealtrashact]

'Why can't Auntie Brandy just have the thing she wants?' 

 'Because it's not meant to be...'

[feluka]

Hamed Sinno, lead singer of Mashrou' Leila, has been arrested after protesting for Palestine during a pride parade.