Love is dead and I killed it

There is no platonic explanation for that. No, there's no romantic or sexual one either. Nope, not familial or alterous. There's no explanation ever. Love isn't real.

The God-Emperor isn't special, I too am a dehydrated and desiccated corpse suffering on a 'throne' because of the mistakes of my past (Ate something last night that my tummy disagreed with)

dating suffers, i think, from the desire that somebody will come to us fully realized so that we can be treated and loved the way we deserve. that’s a very tall order. it’s a frankly insane thing to ask of someone. you hold them to the expectation that they should know, from get, how to communicate hard things to you or how to handle your worst days or know what you need before you need it… who have you met that can do that? even our parents can’t do that. every relationship you have in life necessitates learning the wholeness of another person as best as you can and as it changes so that you can show up for them in the way they deserve. you will never have the love you desire until you learn to wait for somebody to build it, piece by piece, from the ground up with you. you want somebody to come to you fully realized when the person you’d spend the rest of your life with is somebody who’s simply willing to do the work with you.

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

I’m very entertained by the phrasing of “escaped containment” to describe posts that get shared to other sites; it implies that Tumblr is being kept under containment to begin with, as if we were some manner of SCP, or perhaps a Zoo

I know it’s mermay and all but godddddd so many mermaid aus are so boringggggg like it’s not even au you just made up entirely new characters. if you’re not going to incorporate any aspect of their canon dynamics then what is even the fucking point. btw I’m allowed to be a hater about this because my birthday is in may so I reclaim it

white people appropriating aave is always irritating but specifically the use of "-ahh" like "goofy-ahh" "stupid-ahh" bro if you are not black just say ass. ass belongs to everyone, dumbass. are you afraid of cursing?? youre stealing the language of black americans cos you don't want to be caught saying a bad word like ASS ?

just got recommended a community for "sfw tickling". now I realize tickling can be a fetish but the concept of "sfw tickling" is still inherently funny to me. appropriate tickling ONLY beyond this point

The most interesting question you can ask about any character is not what do they want. it's what do they believe they deserve. because those two things are almost never the same and the gap between them is where your entire story lives. a person can want love completely and believe they don't deserve it and that belief will destroy every good thing that comes toward them in ways they won't even notice they're doing. write the gap. the gap is the character.