A N N - A E S T H E T I ☾

i hope we all get kissed by the luck and whimsy of april this year

oh I see. it was the crime of wanting. that's why I deserve it.

In hindsight, getting through the entirety of primary school right before widespread adolescent smartphone use, coming of age after cigarettes but before widespread vape use, graduating high school just before COVID, graduating college just before AI, and then graduating into the Biden job market during the like three years it was good might make 1998-2003 zoomers unfathomably blessed. last ones on the helicopter for real

Lest we forget being in middle school for the rise and fall of One Direction 

"I love you but you're doing wrong in a way I cannot condone" and "I hate you but you're being wronged in a way I cannot stomach" are top tier and I need more of them.

NEVER LET YOURSELF BE STOPPED BY WHAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE IF YOU STARTED EARLIER!!!!! THE ONLY TIME WE HAVE IS NOW

i love you visible brushstrokes. i love you glue warped scrapbook pages. i love you awkward poems. i love you junk journal with faded receipts. i love you poorly composed journal layout. I love you unintentionally blurry photographs. i love you asymmetrical beading. i love you curling freeform crochet. i love you fingerprints on pottery. i love you reused materials. i love you improvised instruments. i love you mistakes. i love you bravery to make it anyway. i love you creativity that hasn't been wiped clean of every drop of humanity and sanitized and commodified.

it does and I hate it, thank you

"on god's green earth" is way too fun to say even when you don't believe in god and know most of it is blue, actually

This is cheaper than journaling when you think about it

We pay in other ways

bro your whimsy. you forgot your fucking whimsy. your solemn and somber attitude is scaring the hoes

foreshadowing done well makes me go feral like there’s NOTHING better than getting to the end a book or an important storyline moment and realising that the author laced information so intricately into their writing that weren’t noticeable upon first read but when you read back sections they’re light giant red flags like wow writing is amazing

the best stories contain two stories: the one you read the first time, and the one you read every time after that

If you're a writer you're supposed to write a lot of bullshit. It's part of the gig. You have to write a lot of absolute garbage in order to get to the good bits. Every once in a while you'll be like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time writing bullshit," but that's dumb. That's exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time running all those practice laps"

pining is 100000% the most important aspect of pre-relationship fic for me. good-natured whole-hearted pining filled with lovelorn gazing and chest aching and fluttering touches, that’s my top priority. i was put on this earth to watch characters suffer over the profundity of their love for another person. unrequited love is why god made me. characters finding out that their feelings are reciprocated after long months/years of suffering is why the universe was assembled from nothingness. amen.