#teach me about your heart

[travelersrest]

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[gentlebeard]

If I could hold you for a minute, Darling, I’d go through it again

For @edsbacktattoo & @stedesearring 💕 Show: Our Flag Means Death - Season 1 & 2 Music: Francesca by Hozier YouTube

[itspileofgoodthings]

one time my mom was talking about something, I don’t remember what, and she said “have you ever known the poverty of having nothing to say?” and when I say nothing has ever punctured my heart quite like that statement

[faaun]

my research partner and i are huddled in a blanket in paddington waiting for a too-late train i already miss you and you and you

[broodygaming]

I'm listening to the audiobooks of the His Dark Materials series again. I've read / listened to them many times but not for a few years.

Gods it's just hitting me again how awful what's happening to the kids in the first book. It's always awful, but I always forget how scary and visceral it is. You feel the fear and the finality and the tragedy of it. It's hard to even comprehend because we don't really have an equivalent in our world, right? Like maybe traumatizing a child so deeply they're never the same and then die. Die from sheer trauma to their spirit and body.

And it's just hitting me that they not only.... so deliberately ruin these children. They leave them out in the cold frozen woods to slowly die. They just. I can't even put it into words. They just ruin them and throw them away. They kill them and then kill them again.

Of all the characters in this vast series of names and places and tragedies and injustices - this little boy named Tony and his Ratter really weigh on my heart. Your alcoholic absent mother may not remember you in this fictional world, but in this real world I know I will.

[thebirdandhersong]

the miserable angry person I become when I haven't eaten is, in a word, atrocious. it is 9pm I have not had my dinner murder is about to be on the menu if I don't fix this soon

[iamunabletothinkofablogname]

MY FRIENDS ARE SO FUCKING COOL???

[daily-linkclick]

daily link click: 3/22/23

teaching maths

[whichofsummer]

Father, how did it feel when your daughter crossed the distance, her eyes gleaming even with the looming of war?

For the future in her eyes was full of love, but diverging from the one to your chest you tightly clasped.

How big a lump did your throat battle with?

How hard was it to stop yourself from already grieving?

How badly did you want to take her away, as you held out your hand, as if she was still the babe you promised the world to in an age past?

How hoarse was your voice when you finally spoke?

"Tell me," You smiled, as she set her hand in yours. Her keen eyes already seeing how hard those two words were for you to utter.

For her happiness, even with all the grief it brought, was still yours.

[strawberryscorp]

i have two wolves inside of me. one of them tells me to draw scorbus and says that i really will do it this time and ive done it before why wont i just do it for the girls and the gays the tumblr fans are starving please babygir and the other makes me paint koi fish

[travelersrest]

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[lazybakerart]

tony cavalero: “I feel like he’s done everything under the sun. So is there like a little bit of, ‘it’s okay, let me teach you,’”

me:

[itspileofgoodthings]

why is Catholic/Christian insta dating advice always like “if [ crazy obscure thing that is relevant only to the individual talking and no one else] is/isn’t happening right now in your dating life, it’s OKAY! this is actually all part of God’s plan which I will explain in the comments” like ma’am what is even being SAID alskskksekksksekksskksjeje

[thatfaerieprincess]

Feel free to skip on past this, I’ve just gotta ramble for a minute bc i cant stop thinking about this kid from work last week. They were so much like me at that age (5-6th grade) that I didn’t know how to interact with them? I didn’t know what to say to them bc I don’t know what I needed to hear back then, what I would’ve WANTED to hear? What would I have even listened to? They were almost entirely silent and looked out at the world with a hesitant curiosity, but would pull back so fast as soon as you tried to interact w them. Little to no eye contact, face hidden in hair, always looking down, following others until they could strike off on their own and just quietly explore. Intently focusing on drawing any chance they got. We did an art project and they hunched over their piece the entire time and wouldn’t let any of us see it in progress, refusing to look up or acknowledge us if we asked to see it or to know what it was. Idk. I barely interacted w them while they were with us for those few days bc I didn’t know how? It almost hurt to try? It was like looking back into a time machine and i didn’t know how to tell them that it does get better,,, I still don’t even know if where I am is better, some days feel so unsure that I don’t think I’ve made any progress at all. But seeing that kid, idk. I’ve come pretty far. And it DOES get better. Maybe it’s not the best now, or even that great at all, but it’s better. I wish I could’ve told them but I don’t think they’d have wanted to hear it anyway

[lilacerull0]

told my friend i cried yesterday because there are only 5 more weeks of histology left and she said something sooooo beautiful. basically she thinks and she is RIGHT that histology hours can't really end because histo will pop up in every subject ahead of us and there is no way for it to stop being relevant so next year being less enjoyable for me is completely impossible due to that fact alone.

[bookishjules]

i feel like the 'i could make/do that' mindset is so invaluable to have. i don't mean in the sense of like going to a modern art museum and insisting that you, a non-artist, could have made the art just as easily. no, that is condescending assholery. the mindset i'm talking about is one more of confidence, of optimism and.. i guess the willingness to put yourself out there, to ask the right questions, to try something new. and to fail, or rather for your vision not to come to fruition. maybe you don't have the tools yet, maybe you haven't acquired all the skills. but at least you could try. and you have confidence in the level of ability you do have to start. oftentimes actually sitting down and doing something is the best way to learn, and the only thing that could stop you from starting is telling yourself 'i could never make/do that'