#but i stopped myself

[guttersniper]

LIST 5 SONGS THAT INSPIRE YOU TO WRITE YOUR MUSE.

trouble's braids, tom waits

nature boy, nat king cole

running kind, merle haggard & the strangers

old man, neil young

the city of new orleans, arlo guthrie

bonus songs: the partisan, leonard cohen; hot and dirty in the city by labi siffre; you should've seen the other guy, nathaniel rateliff; hobo's lullaby, pete seeger + playlist

LIST 10 QUOTES THAT INSPIRE YOU TO WRITE YOUR MUSE.

try explaining a life bundled with episodes of this -- swallowing mud, swallowing glass, the smell of blood on the first four knuckles. -- richard siken

those years gaze up at me like a hound. the centuries watch as we walk off the sheer cliff of them. my eyes adjust to the dark, but my heart never. -- hua xi

one of the things i try to do: memorize the smallest, most mundane and ordinary, unprepossessing, and virtually invisible of physical moments: the look and feel of a certain wall at a certain time on a certain day. those walls, those little shacks, those cats in the sun: all that is lacking in self-consciousness i seek to hold in vision, memory. (simple composition, color tints, a wash of light, crumbled brick, cold shadow, stillness, rose-color dirt, a twitching whisker.) -- michelle anderson-binczak

people talk of "social outcasts." the words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but i feel as though i have been a "social outcast" from the moment i was born. if ever i meet someone society has designated as an outcast, i invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness. -- osamu dazai

he knew french and german. he knew the periodic table. he knew--as much as he didn't care to--large parts of the bible almost by memory. he knew how to help birth a calf and rewire a lamp and unclog a drain and the most efficient way to harvest a walnut tree and which mushrooms were poisonous and which were not and how to bale hay and how to test a watermelon, an apple, a squash, a muskmelon for freshness by thunking it in the right spot. (and then he knew things he wished he didn't, things he hoped never to have to use again, things that, when he thought of them or dreamed of them at night, made him curl into himself with hatred and shame.) -- hanya yanagihara

the girl fits her body into the space between the bed and the wall. she is a stalk, exhausted. she will do something with this. she will surround these bones with flesh. she will cultivate night vision. she will train her tongue to lie still in her mouth and listen. the girl slips into sleep. her dream is red and raging. she will remember to build something human with it. -- lucille clifton

what voice is this cut in the air as though a wound itself had speech / give her small hands / give her dark hair / give her a wound no word can reach -- christian wiman

what does it feel like to be lonely? it feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast. it feels shameful and alarming, and over time these feelings radiate outwards, making the lonely person increasingly isolated, increasingly estranged. it hurts, in the way that feelings do, and it also has physical consequences that take place invisibly, inside the closed compartments of the body. it advances, is what i'm trying to say, cold as ice and clear as glass, enclosing and engulfing. -- olivia liang

maybe it’s better to have the terrible times first. i don’t know. maybe then, you can have, if you live, a better life, a real life, because you had to fight so hard to get it away--you know?--from the mad dog who held it in his teeth. but then your life has all those tooth marks, too, all those tatters and all that blood. -- james baldwin

out there where small things scratched and sometimes touched. where words could be spoken that would close your ears shut. where, if you were alone, feeling could overtake you and stick to you like a shadow. out there where there were places in which things so bad had happened that when you went near them it would happen again. -- toni morrison

bonus quotes: there is nothing in this story that’s not a dagger. (hieu minh nguyen); this may be unpleasant to consider, may even be a bad place to begin, but if there were a nicer way to tell this story it wouldn’t be this story. (catherine lacey); most of it happened without music, the clink of a spoon from the kitchen. / someone talking. silence. / someone sleeping. someone watching somebody sleep. (marie howe); look now: my heart is a fist of barbed wire. (analicia sotelo); now you wear your skin like iron and your breath as hard as kerosene. (townes van zandt); i seize on little things / you can tell a lot about people / by the way they comb their hair / or the way they don't look you in the eye. (nikki giovanni)

[fortjester]

6/8 episodes thru blue eye samurai. mizu is so fucking cool i would

[tumblasha]

yes kri$ten stew@rt is hot and more lesbians should be photographed the same way a hot dude is,,

[grimmusings]

spell out your url using song titles. then, tag as many people as there are letters in your url:

@defectivexfragmented thank you for the tag, lovely!

[G]round Control - All Time Low [R]eady To Fall - Rise Against [I]f I Leave - A Day To Remember [M]aroon - Taylor Swift [M]ulholland Drive - The Gaslight Anthem [U]nconditional Love - Against Me! [S]ave It For The Bedroom - You Me At Six [I]rresistible - Fall Out Boy [N]obody Wins - Brian Fallon [G]otta Have You - The Weepies [S]hattered & Hollow - First Aid Kit

tagging (just fun, no pressure): @pleinsdemuses, @velvetnviolentviolets, @pctentialbreakupsong, @marvelsmusings, @tormentedsoldier, @shootsxruns, @herosneednotapply, @ssolessurvivor, @kobikate, @manbehindtheshield, @amarvelousmencgerie

[ofgrimhilde]

marigold : is your muse prone to jealousy ? how might they handle envious feelings ?

Botanical Headcanons: asked by @glacierheart

marigold : is your muse prone to jealousy ? how might they handle envious feelings ?

Honestly? I think it just depends. While I believe that Evie would be jealous, how she responds to jealousy is the key to her, right? The "good" Evie would more than likely see what's happening before her, and if it makes her jealous, she would grind her teeth together, and look away. She might even place her hands on her hips. This is actually canonical though because in D1 after Prince Ben takes a bite of the chocolate cookie with the love spell, and after it takes effect he's just performing in front of the whole school, singing Mal's name at the top of his lungs, there's a following scene where Princess Audrey walks up to Ben with Chad on her arm, and proceeds to kiss him in Ben's face.

This ends up upsetting Evie, and you can see the look of disappointment and jealousy on her face. She's pissed that after doing Chad's homework for him, he picks someone else over her. her shot of becoming a future Queen is shot down - yet again. And it's crazy now that I think about it, right? Because it's by the same girl. Audrey made her mad and I believe, slightly jealous when they first arrived at Auradon.

Angry because she told her that although she's a Princess on the Isle, Villains (The Evil Queen, her Mother) has quote: "no royal status here". Just outright like "You don't matter here, you're just a commoner." Like? BITCH!!! In my opinion, I believe that the "only reason" why Evie wasn't considered a princess in Auradon is because of the barrier. Nothing more was stopping her. I could talk on and on about that but anyway! Audrey also had Prince Ben on her arm then. HER TICKET to becoming Queen.

Evie's Mom gave her the task of marrying a Prince to become a Queen just like she was. And I suppose to only take over the Kingdom of the person Evie married if she was successful. So Audrey really kind of snubbed her nearly three times tbh if you count the fact that Evie was clearly shooting her shot at Prince Ben first (before Mal)

TLDR: I went on a tangent. Sorry about that. I could talk about this girl forever. But yes. Yes, she can get jealous. The "good Evie" just has a more restrained way of handling it. "evil Evie?" PFFT! Nah, she's lighting everyone up with a fireball just like Regina. I think the task for the evil version of her, would be for her NOT to act on her jealousy or bad emotions.

[minjimunji]

Obligatory battle of the labyrinth kiss scene

Bonus:

[skeleton-squid-boy]

you have GOT to remember when watching the new doctor who that the question is not is this good. doctor who is only ever actually 'good' once a season at most. THE ONLY QUESTION IS is it fun, camp, and has aliens. also remember the worst doctor who showrunner is always the current doctor who showrunner. now go watch the new episodes as god intended like you're ten years old and still remember how to experience joy and whimsy.

[lazylittledragon]

bg3 x taskmaster filed under 'things that are funny to me and nobody else'

[teleportzz]

"bluntly honest" autism but in the sense that i absolutely cannot refrain from complimenting strangers if i like their earrings or their shirt or i think they have a friendly-sounding laugh or i think their art is beautiful or i think the fic they wrote portrays the characters so well. "bluntly honest" doesn't have to mean "mean". i love to tell people things that are kind and also true.

[hansoeii]

the best person I know.

[renthony]

Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make.

People make shit. It's what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to cope, to process, to educate, to warn, to go, "hey, wouldn't that be fucked up? Wild, right?"

Yes, sure, there are things that should be handled with care if they are used at all. But plenty more things are subjective. Some things are just not going to be to your tastes. So go find something that is to your tastes and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and trying to dictate universal moral precepts about art based on your personal triggers and squicks.

I find possession stories super fucking triggering if I encounter them without warning, especially if they function as a sexual abuse metaphor. I'm not over here campaigning for every horror artist to stop writing possession stories because they make me feel shaky and dissociated. I just check Does The Dog Die before watching certain genres, and I have my husband or roommate preview anything I think might upset me so they can give me more detail. And if I genuinely don't think I can't handle it, I don't watch it. It's that simple.

[chikuto]

when you see a calendar do you flip to your birth month to make sure your associated image slaps or are you some sort of freak

[evgar]

decided to redraw and improve this silly thing i did two years ago

here's the two compared like damn the colors on the first what was that 😭

[whatafuckinnerd]

I find it unfathomable and astounding that Tumblr isn't more obsessed with Sam Reich. You're telling me there exists out there a man who was born into the aristocracy of our country—with every privilege of modern society at his fingertips—who didn't complete high school (due to his mental health) and instead chose to devote his life to making strangers laugh and raising awareness on mental health. A full-bearded short king who is so committed to being the change he wants to see in the world that he decided to take the company he worked for into his own hands so that he could make sure all the people who worked under him could keep their livelihoods.

How many other CEOs are out here being as honest and transparent with their target audience/market as Sam Reich is? How many of them acknowledge when they fumble and continuously strive to be better than they were? How many of them actually seem like they respect their talent, both in the cast and crew? Sam Reich is the standard we should be holding other CEOs to.

But forget about all that (I could talk for a long time about the respect I have for Sam Reich)—ignore just how respectable he is as a businessman and a person. Ignore all the wholesome reasons for obsessing over Sam Dalton Reich.

The man is a stone-cold fox.

He's a little chaos gremlin and an absolute evil mastermind all rolled into one classy suit and well-groomed beard. Whenever Sam is on the set, you can guarantee he is going to make you crack a smile. And for someone with such natural authority, he's never afraid to be the butt of a joke and show himself being embarrassed. Go ahead, watch any clip of him trying to improvise in No Laugh Newsroom and just try to resist that blush.

You're sleeping on a goldmine of a man, here, damnit! And I will NOT let this go ignored any longer!

[marblerose-rue]

uh-huh

[virtualplushy]

i have started asking myself “how can i make this more fun?” in regards to the things i have to do and it is such a small difference but it brings me so much delight