#to make it better

[oops-ididit]

if i ever had amnesia, i think the first thing i’d do would be read all the fics i have bookmarked on ao3. getting a second chance to read them for the first time? sign me up.

[urthewolftomystar]

vampire sirius. You agree.

[fishandshesmygills]

honestly though catholics went off with confession. the religious man's therapy

[airanke]

When Dabi and Abiteth fight, sometimes they'll sit back to back. Dabi initiates, actually. He'll just find where Abi is and if she's sitting down, he'll sit down behind her. Eventually, she will reach for one of his hands and they'll just sit like that until they feel like they can talk about what went wrong.

If she's distracting herself by doing something, Dabi will just silently start helping her until she inevitably leans against him, then turns into him looking for a hug, which he will give. And then they will just hold each other for a few minutes.

[wataksampingan]

"The system was deeply Malaysian in spirit — loose yet coordinated, improvised yet thorough, and a lot of last-minute problem-solving. It also required a huge degree of trust in people you’ve never met"

[fvaleraye]

we need to finish signalis one of these days........

[tezuka-brainrot]

Owie owie ouch.

[heart-songs]

"When you love someone," he said haltingly, "...you want to make this world look different for them. To give all the ugly stuff meaning, and amplify the good. That's what you do. For your readers. For me. You make beautiful things, because you love the world, and maybe the world doesn't always look how it does in your books, but...I think putting them out there, that changes the world a little bit. And the world can't afford to lose that."

Emily Henry, Beach Read (pg. 293)

[jacqcrisis]

Zeke listening to Caleb as he mumbles reasons why he 'likes' Britney and feeling even more certain in his self-description as having nothing to offer someone like Caleb. He doesn’t have the capacity or opportunity to make his material reality better or more lucrative, which for him personally is fine. He wants for almost nothing; his basic needs are met and in comparison to his past, he’s thriving and far more than comfortable both in housing, food, work, and his social life. 

And that’s great for him, but for the one thing he does want after, it’ll never work. The only thing Zeke has to offer anyone is himself, and that’s never going to be enough to someone who could have so much more.

[person4924]

i don’t want to feel like this anymore

[puppyrae]

gonna make him set his phone wallpaper to the colors of my nip and cooch ong

[lucidloving]

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

[randomalistic]

Selfshippers who ship with weird/unappealing characters. I love you. Like hell yeah you go get with Mr Crocker. Go get with lord faarquad

[falseficus]

everybody’s always on writing prompts like “what if there was a world where everyone had a timer ticking down to their death… but you met someone whose timer said infinity!” or “what if everyone had their cause of death tattooed across their forehead… but you met someone whose forehead said THE CREATURE!” Enough -

enough. stop with the shock value. there is no need to insert THE CREATURE; the benign concept of such a world is horrifying enough. not even in urgency, but just in banal, everyday interaction. imagine you meet someone and their timer says two years. not tomorrow, not urgently soon, but two years. enough to do quite a lot. they could fall in love in that time - could they get engaged? have a baby? you might otherwise get to know them, befriend them, but perhaps you opt not to, make a conscious choice not to invest in your own grief. what balancing act would every individual person have to participate in - I have ten years, is that long enough to be a good mother to children? is that long enough to secure a caretaker for my own mother? my wife will die a few months before me. my newborn’s timer reads nineteen years.

and cause of death. you interview for a job and emblazoned across the healthy, smiling face of the HR lady is MALNUTRITION. your country is prospering, safe, but every person you meet on the street from the babies to the old women read BOMB. BOMB. what kind of havoc would fate wreak on the world? what about the loss of privacy? how would that shape our notions of hope? idk man I think a lot of those ancient poems were right, and the fates are monsters. I’m interested by the framing of these ideas as trite horror tales when the premises themselves are so much more disturbing if simply taken to their logical ends

[saulwexler]

how to explain to non-americans that the better call saul ads aren’t exaggerated for comedic effect they are super normie

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.