#were you writing a book

[bookmarksandbonfires]

I hope Matty Healy or Joe Alwyn or whoever has secretly been working on a novel or memoir that their publicist will never let them release because Taylor Swift sang "were you writing a book" I hope that's just a little throwaway line that ruins a life 🤍

[forseeingterribletrouble]

Picture this:

The girl you’ve wanted to marry since you were twelve is going through a breakup, losing her best friend of three years, and a death in the family.

All that time, you’ve been secretly sleeping with Someone Else, who you’ve known for those 4 months.

The girl you want to marry finds out and tells you that since you’ve been keeping this from her, you have to leave her life.

Therefore, five days later, you get into a relationship with Someone Else.

3 months into your relationship, the girl you want to marry apologises for being so angry and asks if you can be friends, talking once a week.

You say yes, and forgive her.

You are friends for three more months.

6 months into your relationship, Someone Else asks you to stop talking to the girl you want to marry, so you do.

Someone Else treats you incredibly poorly during your 21-month-long relationship. She breaks up with you.

Three weeks after the break up, you go back to the girl you want to marry and ask to be friends. It’s been fourteen months since you last spoke.

She is happy.

You’re happy.

You tell her that she’s “all you’ve ever wanted.”

You tell the girl you want to marry that you don’t know why you ever started dating Someone Else, and you regret what happened between you.

One day, she asks you “Do you think you have treated people in the past the same way you would have wanted / expected yourself to treat me?”

You reply,

“I like to think I have treat people very well but I feel like if they got 90 you’d get 100

No matter how I’ve treated people I think if it came to you there would’ve always been that bit more put in to it

Like there was and is definitely stuff I don’t mind doing with/for you that I don’t mind doing simply cos it’s you”

Less than three days later, you get a voice message from Someone Else and her friend.

You do not tell the girl you want to marry.

You go to the pub with Someone Else and her friend.

Someone Else stays over at your house. The house that she used to live in. With you.

You do not tell the girl you want to marry.

You haven’t spoken to her in two days.

The girl you want to marry tells you her and her boyfriend have finally broken up.

She asks you to go on a walk.

Then, and only then, do you tell the girl you want to marry about how you’ve rekindled things with Someone Else.

You say the pair of you are on “good terms,” and it’s “Nice.”

The girl you want to marry is upset by this.

A day later, she tells you that she can’t be around you, if Someone Else is too, because of what you’ve done in the past.

You don’t speak to her for three more days.

You tell the girl you’ve wanted to marry since you were twelve that, while you do want her in your life, you’ve been asked to “stop talking to people to keep talking to others too many times now”.

Is it obvious what your intentions are?

Is it obvious how you currently feel, or will likely go on to feel, about the girl you’ve wanted to marry since you were twelve?

Is,

“I like to think I have treat people very well but I feel like if they got 90 you’d get 100

No matter how I’ve treated people I think if it came to you there would’ve always been that bit more put in to it

Like there was and is definitely stuff I don’t mind doing with/for you that I don’t mind doing simply cos it’s you,”

Indicated within your response? Or within your behaviour?

I must be missing the part where you said, “unless I was put in the position where I had to make a personal sacrifice in order to have a relationship with you.”

Maybe six years worth of belief, opinions, love, development, and connection got smashed and destroyed in 66 hours.

What do you think?

[musicoftheheart]

dont mind me, just gonna go sit in a corner and go feral over 'the smallest man who ever lived'

[ronanlynchbf]

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

[fascinationstreetmp3]

ALICE

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I hope you take this as the compliment it is intended to be, but you strike the same chord of irreverence-as-love, jokes-to-showcase-sencerity that I get from Chuck Tingle, and I adore both of you.

You have bestowed the greatest honour upon me.

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

[gingerswagfreckles]

It's become extremely obvious over the past 15 months that the only reason much of the Western world ever basically agreed that the Holocaust was bad and was willing to teach about it is because for a brief period of time, Jews and gentiles in most of Europe + America had a common enemy in the Nazis. But this acknowledgement of Nazi antisemitism was only ever the same kind of acknowledgement of antisemitism that we get right now, where people are only willing to acknowledge the antisemitism of the people they already had a completely separate reason to dislike or fear. Antisemitism in this worldview is just a tool, a secondary accusation one can lodge at someone who is already for different reasons an enemy. It is never acknowledged as a form of bigotry in and of itself, that exists on its own and not as a follow up to another "more serious" form of oppression or bigotry against gentiles.

Obviously any Holocaust education we do get in Europe and the US has very much been the result efforts by Jews and our allies in a practical sense, but it is undeniable that there was a brief 70 or so year period where the white Western consciousness found it valuable (or at least politically convenient) to recognize antisemitism as wrong and the Holocaust as horrific. As true, original-brand Nazism fades, though, we see opposition to antisemitism and the Holocaust becoming less and less valuable to the white Western identity, as actual threat of Nazi occupation fades to historical memory. Newer, rebranded neo-Nazis and leftist Hamas supporters pose little to no threat to white Western gentiles. And thus, we see now not only a growing acceptance of antisemitism, but also a growing hostility towards the idea that we should study or condemn the Holocaust as anything particularly terrible. The Holocaust no longer represents a way for gentiles to additionally condemn an ideology that also threatened them, that also killed their families, that also resulted in their own countries and communities being occupied or destroyed by foreign fascist governments. It no longer represents to them an ideology that is in any way a threat to their own safety or way of life.

This is why we see such a massive rise in Holocaust denial among Gen Z, and, even more broadly than overt Holocaust denial, the rejection of the idea that the Holocaust should be particularly studied or condemned. More and more, we see people "questioning" the "propaganda" of The Jews Crying Victim All The Time, we see young people wondering why they are so cruelly forced to acknowledge on very rare occasion the suffering that the Jewish people went through in their own homes and towns. Often this is framed not only as intellectual bravery but moral bravery, as if this new generation rejecting Holocaust education is somehow fighting back against the unfair valuing of Jewish tragedy above gentile tragedy. What they don't understand, of course, and what many Jews up until now didn't understand either, is that no one ever valued the Holocaust because it WAS a uniquely horrific event in history, because it WAS the first and only industrialized genocide that gassed millions to death on a scale we can only pray the world will never see again, because it WAS only 70 years ago and is still a living part of the history of many Western countries. No. The Holocaust was only ever given the acknowledgement it was because it represented, at one time, an ideological threat that also included gentiles, though less overtly than it targeted Jews.

That ideological threat against Jews has not gone anywhere, and is in fact is seeing a new glory day dawning with the rise of fascism worldwide and the normalization/glorification of antisemitism on the left. But this new form of antisemitic hatred, be it neo-Nazism or support for Hamas, does not represent a threat to white Western gentiles, their way of life, or the integrity of their governments. And so we as we see the decoupling of the Holocaust from something that also incidentally threatens gentiles, we see standing against the Holocaust and antisemitism as a symbol of white Western identity disappearing as fast as it came.

[helenofsparta2]

R.I.P. the version of Percy Jackson, who spoke competently in front of the senate, fairly easily ridiculed Octavian, and managed to sway the romans to his side simply by providing good arguments and being a natural born leader in Son of Neptune, you will always be famous to me

[ofswordsandpens]

actually I also wanna talk about the part where Percy convinces Bob to kill Hyperion because even though Percy never says anything outright sinister, the way he handles the entire situation with such cool ease, playing on Bob’s emotions... its so insane???

Because Annabeth’s reaction to the three of them encountering Hyperion reforming is: “oh this is bad we need to get out of here” She knows if Bob remembers himself, that it's not going to play out well for Percy and her. She also thinks about how they're being pursued and don't have a lot of time. Her solution to the problem, seemingly, is to leave.

But Percy's solution is to work the situation to his advantage. He re-affirms Bob's loyalty to him:

Percy then re-establishes Bob's moral code: "Some monsters are good. Some are bad. This Titan is bad. He tried to kill me and a lot of people. He's not good like you are."

And it ends with Percy leaving the choice of whatever to do with Hyperion to Bob but of course, is it really what Bob chose to do? Bob decides to kill Hyperion. It's not what he may have done, if Percy hadn't intervened. But it's exactly what Percy was oh-so-sweetly leading Bob to do.

And listen, I'm not claiming that it was exactly morally bankrupt of Percy to take advantage of a once-evil titan who could get him and his girlfriend through hell in one piece. Percy, Annabeth, they manipulate monsters and enemies all the time. Annabeth ended the previous book with manipulating Arachne into weaving her own web. So it's not exactly like she's against using manipulative tactics, in theory.

But Bob, at this point, is not just some monster. He is so painfully sincere in his belief in Percy and their friendship, so yes, it does feel a bit sinister whenever Percy uses Bob... and he really uses Bob.

And I think what makes the scene so unsettling, it isn't just that Percy manipulated Bob, its how well Percy manipulated him. He manipulates Bob so well that Percy doesn't even have to kill Hyperion... because Bob does it for him. He manipulates Bob so well, that Annabeth couldn't tell if Percy was purposefully trying to manipulate the situation. (Newsflash, he most definitely was). Like holy shit.

[layaart]

starting the year with a meme redraw. sorry

[fahye]

novella announcement: Cinder House

CINDER HOUSE: a Cinderella retelling, a ghost story, a queer romance (of course), a novella. Coming to you in October next year.

US preorder links here, others to come!

Alt text for the book copy below the cut:

Ella is a haunting.

Murdered at sixteen, her ghost is furiously trapped in her father's house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters.

Even when she discovers how to untether herself from her prison, there are limits. She cannot be seen or heard by the living people who surround her. Her family must never learn she is able to leave. And at the stroke of every midnight, she finds herself back on the staircase where she died.

Until she forges a wary friendship with a fairy charm-seller, and makes a bargain for three nights of almost-living freedom. Freedom that means she can finally be seen. Danced with. Touched.

You think you know Ella's story: the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince.

You're halfway right, and all-the-way wrong.

[babyblankyerror]

I am a huge sucker for baby Mabel and Stan so this is the alternative Twines lives rent free in my heart.

I forgot Ford was supposed to be younger so just imagine he's really bad with kids. I accidently drew him during his break up with bill

Also, Dipper in this would be like those crazy ass brothers who are super attached to their baby sisters

Forgot to tag you sorry♡ @imjustheretofangirl003

[pangur-and-grim]

I was thinking “what could possibly be more self indulgent than writing about a dumbfuck knight and his comical attempts to get a mad sorcerer into bed”, and it turns out the answer is to write about a really sad lady who doesn’t quite fit in and is so brave but so sad :( such a brave sad lady. 

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

i will never let him live this down

SoRRY… BUT JAMIL rEALLY BE ouT hBERE LIKE

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AnD THEN GoES TO

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IS THERE A REASON WHY hE’S STROKING THAT pUMPKIN SO SEnSUALLY…

I’m not even the kind of person that would hone in on something like this (I don’t like Jamil like that or go out of my way to find this sort of content) BUT I LOCKED IN AND GASPED OUT LOUD WHEN I fIRST SAW THIS 😭 I thought I would be over it by now but NOPE even a few days later I’m still thinking about Jamil caressing produce in the grocery aisle just to feel something that isn’t annoyance for once…

HE’S SO SILLY… BEtWN THIS AnD “NiCE ShOT”/“DOKkAN” BOOK 4, HOW AM I MEANT TO TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY AnYMORE ?????

[erinwantstowrite]

personally i think the trope of "said something i wasn't supposed to while high on pain meds at the hospital" only works if it's smth actually incomprehensible. down with this trope. that and the whole "speaking out loud but the narrator doesn't know they are" trope. you should legally have to tag that i think. i know this usually happens for characters that would never admit something otherwise but actually there are a billion reasons someone would admit something they wouldn't otherwise. for example: someone else has a bomb-