#i love you. and you will too

[demaparbat-hp]

He's never happy

[you-were-burned]

i am not ready

to surrender

my childhood

the innocence it promised

the safety

comfort

security

that came with being a kid.

but i am ready

to say goodbye

to the pain

the trauma

the endless

nights

of screaming

of marks on undeserving skin

of tears left unshed.

to bid farewell to that ugly past

sever the rope tying my neck to its hand

and be free

from the suffocating

useless

disgusting illnesses

thrust upon me.

to reform

reforge

rebirth

become a new person

a better person

a whole person.

but

once everything is said

and everything is done

when i look in the mirror,

it's

still

me.

broken and

shattered and

bruised,

but still me.

i cannot

sever

my past

any more than

i can halt

the passage of time.

that

crying little child

is

the confused pre teen

is

the overdosing fifteen-year-old

is

the tired

broken

adult.

after it all

they are all me:

confused

scared

tired.

i contain

multitudes

i am everyone i have ever been

everyone i ever will be

i am spilling

out at the edges

claiming this body

as my own

i am finally

wholly and unapologetically me

no matter what happens, i can say this with absolute certainty:

i was here.

poem title: "me." written 21 Dec 2022

[mochasucculent]

Dumb thing that would not leave my brain

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: The Wrinkler

[isjasz]

[mob killing noises] BAM!!!!1111!!

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[oncillabrigade]

Finally read Robins!

I have a lot of thoughts, but I just want to say this panel is the funniest thing I've ever seen:

[canonkiller]

but you can't keep holding on like this.

[kensatou]

"we know how to move our bodies, but i didn't know how to manage my heart, so you need help for this"

hi we need to talk more about judo gold medallist christa deguchi.

[andstuffsketches]

girl who lives in a cave

[color-ns]

Sometimes tweeter people know their stuff- this is the right kind of toxic angst I want to read.

[timetravelsong]

𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈’𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.

excerpts from a book I’ll never write

[datcravat]

DANDADAN

[tempo-takoyaki]

Listen, I love the "XL helps HC to see how beautiful he is" scenario as much as the next person... But I also see it like this.

[chimchiri]

gideon & harrow OR rd and sf as cowboys please please please

It's the cowgirl necro and her gunslinger cav! Who is so damn extra she's got three guns: one left, one right, and one in pole position! (She swears the ladies love it!)

[yumishisu]

wade calling him everything but logan