#wrote this a year ago

[vaguelyregrettable]

30

I never thought I'd make it to 30

Time was on my side, I'd wake up and die

Take the stage like a real Budd Dwyer

Put out a book detailing all my fucked fantasies

Congratulate me, master of delusion

The messianic complex of depression

I was going to be someone, I would have a voice

I wouldn't give up, I wouldn't fall in line

I was to be the pariah for all those like me

My life was supposed to mean something

Here I am now

Quiet, unknown, and unremarkable

I was never going to be a hero

My death would be a sick joke

Laughable only to those who recognized my fantasy

There's no hero, there's no dragon

Just me and my imagination

[stanpatrkive]

“Who wrote this?” Hyunjin held up the notebook that's been eyeing him since he arrived, laid out, wide open, for anyone to take a peak. The Universe was double-dog-daring him at this point. Truly sick of the Universe.

“Uh, Seungmin I think,” Jisung replied without even sparing Hyunjin a glance, too busy watching some video essay on Monster High dolls or something. “Mattel really dropped the ball with these. I can't believe I was playing with hot wheels as a kid when these were literally right there.”

“I’m pretty sure you were past the point of playing with dolls at 10.”

“Who are you to delegate how old someone needs to be to play with a cool skeleton monster girl doll? What are you the doll police? Maybe go back to reading other people’s notebooks,” Jisung rolled his eyes at Hyunjin breaking his illusions of 10-year-old Jisung having the monster high doll of his dreams. “Why are you here anyways?”

“You literally asked me to hang out, idiot” He threw one of the crumbled-up papers left over from the last writing session Hellevator had.

“Yeah well, I thought Minho was going to come with you,” Jisung said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

“First of all, ask him yourself next time, and secondly, ouch. You can’t just ask me to come banking on the fact that Minho will tag along. You would never do this to Felix.” Hyujin pouted at Jisung hoping the younger would feel an ounce of remorse.

“Well, I actually like spending time with Felix. Plus he doesn’t spend his time with me daydreaming about a guy he’s never met. I’m sure you can see where I'm coming from.” He finally paused the video to look up at Hyunjin. “Y’know it’s kinda sweet, in a pathetic kind of way. I could give him your-”

“Shut up, and please stop talking.”

[romansleftshoulderpad]

As a writer, I love going back through the comments I've gotten on AO3. I promise that the minute you take of your time has been appreciated for hours/months/years

[dailycupofcreativitea]

Little comic which is a parody of a scene in Gintama (I completely forgot what episode) 🥹

Also: they were co-parents (oh my god they were co-parents)

[nataliescatorccio]

"I always used to get a lot of impostor syndrome, and feel like I was a bad actor, because I don’t do actor-y things like [using emotional memory]. It’s kind of like a last resort for me. I have more of a technical approach to acting, where research is the bulk of it. Making sure that I understand every single thing that’s on the page, every word. I know what my character’s favourite colour is, I know how she sounds, I know how she walks. I know what her fucking middle name is." - ELLA PURNELL

[lady-shadow-and-darkness]

Hear me out :

Teen Dazai and Chuuya going around finding every single arcade in the entire city and always having the very top two high scores in most of the games to the point where every single teen who has ever lived in Yokohama and has gone to any arcade is like "I don't know who the fuck Mackerel and Slug are but they're annoying."

[my4inchdick]

I am okay. I don’t feel like I have to be a million things at once. I don’t care about people’s expectations for me anymore. I have accepted myself and everything that I am. My friends are loyal and they respect me as an equal. My mother loosened her grip and has started to trust me and respect my feelings. My brother has learned from his mistakes and now knows what is and isn’t okay to him. I feel safe and not alone. I am okay. I am okay. I am okay.

[rev-pirate]

Happy 10 year Anniversary to Tumblr Heritage Post Thrift Shoppe by Pixlriffs 

[ratbastarddotfuck]

idk man my sense of masculinity is built upon joy and strong hugs and big laughs and protecting the people around me by drawing the attention of assholes to myself. when I was younger I used to go for the "brood and be grumpy" shtick, and it just made me and the people around me feel bad. I think my power now is in the ability to unwaveringly be a silly goofy guy. I want to bring laughter & love to a space. and obviously that's not a uniquely masculine trait (there's no such thing) but it's one of the biggest factors in how I experience my transmasc gender. god. I love being big and loud and full of love. promise me you won't be afraid to be bold?

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

[bellesdiaries]

Love Between Fairy and Devil 苍兰诀 (2022) your guide to dating your own orchid plant goddess (source)

[bertoyana]

charles and erik with each other: oh dear, oh dear. gorgeous 🥺👐 charles and erik with the villain of the week/the x-men: K1LL YOURSELF 🔥🔥🔥

X-Men: First Class (2011) | X-Men Apocalypse (2016)

[clonerightsagenda]

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[originalartblog]

I can excuse Dazai not trying to nullify Shibusawa's fog because Fyodor was there, and they really could have just incapacitated Dazai and gone right back to their nefarious plan

but the facts are that Shibusawa was unknowingly keeping himself alive as a singularity and Dazai can nullify singularities, so there was a much less convoluted way to stop him.

[karvviie]

(opening my 10k word document of mainewash AU content) welcome to my twisted mind…

[warmsol]

makoa and elia are having twins! ✿