bittersweet.

would you still love me if i was a small iridescent freshwater fish

Give me less "being kind requires zero effort" and more "being kind is worth the effort it takes."

all i need is a sweet treat. and six thousand dollars

Emos & scene kids got this close to abolishing gender for real. I try not to think about it too much.

The idea of a popular teenage subculture where girl & boys pretty much all dress the same feels impossible now but for a while it was reality and it was beautiful.

I love tumblr more than IG bc IG feels like I’m posting looking for a job but on here it’s like I already lost the job and my wife and the house and I’m just sitting on the curb talking to myself

Don’t use AI to write. Use childhood trauma like a real poet.

we need to start legally protecting these like make this kind of bathroom part of the national park system

anyone wanna sit together in silence while you do your thing and i do my thing and we do our things. together. in silence

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

gonna be honest i don’t know how many more ‘enter the 6 digit code we sent to your phone’s i got left in me

get in loser we’re gonna try again despite it all

well, you see, the thing is: (instead of finishing my sentence i curl up comfortably in bed and go to sleep

anyway the thing about fanfic is that it's not essentially bad or good; it's essentially amateur. some people are absolutely out there writing award-worthy prose (some fic writers ARE award-winning writers IRL!), but that's not the point. the point is that we're all telling campfire stories. it's a community, and it's a way to spend some more time in the worlds and stories that we love.