#and i was right.

[rainofthetwilight]

currently LAUGHING. cackling even .

[magnetic-dogz]

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[lesbianwyllravengard]

Lucanis Dellamorte Camp Outfit by REN

y'all holy shit.......

[hartxstarr]

went to visit my dad and the bf brought his bag with him and i asked him "why are you bringing that?" and he was like "every time we go over there you bring back a bunch of stuff you left behind" and i thought i had nothing left. i thought everything i had left behind i was okay with leaving forever.

but then my brother showed me a box of my old clothes and i found all of my roosterteeth shirts that i thought were lost to time. and i am. im finally reunited with my felix shirt.

[tagmusicblog]

[angelstrawbabie420]

man that reminds me i still like, think of the first time i ever heard ghost and how it was like a fucking switch flipped in me. i quite literally had to pause after hearing 5 SECONDS of the first song i’d ever heard by them (square hammer) to go scream about it to someone and in that moment i knew i would become obsessed w them, before i even heard SHIT. it was actually kinda wild. ghost my fucking beloved.

[yellowocaballero]

Hi!

Was wondering about your take on soulmate au’s.

I mean I always thought of it as a short cut. I guess then there’s no reason for why the characters should be together besides the author wanted them to be.

But I’ve seen that aspect been played into. Like I guess if you want to throw to characters together and see how they interact it works.

I believe firmly that there's (almost.) no such thing as a bad trope, just bad execution. No matter my own distaste or disinterest in a trope, there are ways to write it in the spirit it was intended and to write it well. A lot of very popular romance aus aren't really to my taste, but I'm confident I could write a good example of a great deal of them. The only two AUs that I know I straight up know I will never be satisfying or interesting to me - the only two AUs that I cannot sincerely write and almost never enjoy - are hanahaki and soulmate AUs. And I have tried. Soulmate AUs vex me.

There's just no tension in them. There's nothing that the soulmate aspect adds. When writing, the most important thing for a character is their sense of agency and the choices they make - if a character isn't making any choices, then they aren't driving their own story, and it's a very uninteresting and tepid story. A romance is a series of choices to me. It's decisions made by a character that drive their narrative, decisions made from a lot of very complicated reasons and which are affected strongly by the plot and the setting, and falling in love is the journey towards choosing somebody. Soulmate AUs just strip that, and as a result they strip the entire falling in love narrative.

I've tried about five different times to write an honest, romantic soulmate au story, and I have pretty much failed. It doesn't work for me. There is nothing that soulmates add and it takes away a lot of the crucial elements of a relationship narrative that give it stakes and meaning. I understand why people enjoy the soulmates trope and why it's comforting to people - it's a concept of inherent belonging, that no matter who you are or what you've done there's somebody out there who is for you and who is meant to love you no matter what, that you aren't unlovable or doomed to be without love even if you have never been in a relationship - and normally understanding that is enough to write it well. But what makes soulmates comforting is what makes it a bad story. 'Happily ever after' is the end for a reason.

All that said, I don't hate all 'fated romances' or soulmate dynamics. BBC Merlin 2008 is my favorite romance soulmates story and its Merthur is one of The Gay Ships Of All Time. But I think that's because it's not romance soulmates, and because the story is very specifically fairy tale that does a lot of work with fate and destiny as something that you have to achieve and as powerful forces who you have to fight against. Also 'I Married The Male Lead's Dad', which made me cry like a baby.

[vigilant-cleric]

How do you need to be touched?

fervently.

you crave a hug that cracks your ribs... the feeling of your wandering soul being crushed back into the bones that can't seem to hold it. you need a hand gripping yours so tightly you almost fear it may leave a bruise, a reminder that you are here. and that you are not alone.

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[hhawkeye]

my hirbawi keffiyeh came and it's soooooo pretty and so well made and i wore it to my work christmas lunch and everyone was like oooh thats so cute and i was like I KNOW!!!!! anyway. using this as an excuse to post selfies bc i havent in a while. Hello Tumblr

[gowns]

when i was in college i was always like: this joke is homophobic, this joke is sexist, this joke is hackneyed, these jokes suck. have you heard the suicide attempt comedy of maria bamford

[johnnyutah]

i just shaved my eyebrows shorter than they’ve been in years lmfao the transformative power of listening to music you liked when you were a teenager

[caramelmochacrow]

i hate hate hate it so much that hyuna from alien stage looks like dalia w brown hair help--

[rodismancave]

You can’t actually expect me to be intimidated by you. Come on.

[rabiiid]

now i'm being recommended porn.

[snaxle]

I DONT WANNA PAY BILLS I WANNA USE MY MONEY FOR FOOD AND LIL GIFTS FOR MYSELF AND MY LOVED ONES