#again...it helps to read the books.

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[blueboyluca]

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

[chiropteracupola]

c. 1540 CE: a young man from Chalco, and his dragon.

[tiffanyachings]

it would have been very beautiful. camilla would have had to cook (horrible bone soup)

[beatlesmenrock]

it’s time for another beatles dump

[brsb4hls]

Ok, but if you wanna circle that Siken quote around, maybe post the whole thing?

The second part is the important one.

Also, for those who still can't seperate fiction from reality and are obvi already pestering him, because he dared to name that ship:

[peteytheparrot]

A Series of Unfortunate Events liberated me as a child in the way that it shows how utterly incompetent adults can be about children, like none of them care to understand how these children are feeling because they don’t see them as real living human beings, because they’re just kids! They don’t know any better!

[clockworkreapers]

A specter in a web of lies

[obsob]

here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud!!

✷(print shop)✷

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

Does Kaladin know Kalak is Restares. When Kalak mentions or someone else mentions Kalak has used the name Restares with the Sons of Honor does Kaladin connect the dots to more than "oh Amaram was in that group" or does he remember that Amaram specifically said that Restares had the right idea before having the stormwarden brand Kaladin. Does Kalak remember telling Amaram to brand some guy to keep the shard blade. Does Kaladin remember that Restares was mentioned right before his remaining four men were killed. how does that conversation go. Does that conversation happen or does Kaladin just not mention it to anyone but Syl.

[laurent-ofvere]

hey lol

idk if anyone is still here but how y'all doing. life is pretty fuckin brutal and i used to use writing and fandom to cope but ahhhhh ahahaha

[vic-does-battlecats]

Minor spoilers for the already revealed chapters of the next A Starless Clan book Wind

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Another thing that makes kaladin so painfully relatable is how much his mental illness hides his personality, because between depressive episodes and trauma he's this sarcastic little shit that smiles a lot at his friends and then the depression gets to him and all that disappears

[wanderingibon]

the viago-crow rook dynamic makes me crazy i fear!!! the found family!!!! the layers!!! the care of it all!!!! the 'i am afraid of losing my protégé who I've come to regard as family but I don't exactly know how to convey that so I have to be stern toward them, remind them not to abandon their contract, so they aren't eaten up by the antivan crows like I know the organization can do and has done time and time again' i am literally rambling rn but i could write a whole essay i fear

[mistress-light]

Happy birthday to The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt! It's been 9 years now since its release. And it is still one of the best games I have ever played. As some of my oldest followers may know, this blog started out as a Witcher blog, purely dedicated to the Witcher 3. Since then I've met so many great mutuals here on Tumblr. And I'm still here lmao. I don't know...I'm just very nostalgic. This game really helped me through a dark time of my life.

[nibbelraz]

Falling back in love with your craft