what brings me joy... is life

there’s a used bookstore in rural western massachusetts (the montague book mill) whose motto is “books you don’t need in a place you can’t find” and i just feel like that summarizes tumblr too

posts you don’t need on a site you can’t search

i have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

I don't like to admit it, but sometimes I actually miss John Green.

Sometimes I can almost hear him.

How did it get up there

It’s difficult to tell - typically light fixtures are installed using some combination of screws and brackets to affix them to the wall, but in this case the actual point of connection is obscured by a cat.

One day, Ilya makes one joke too many about Shane having a "weak backhand" so, of course Shane "Anything you can do I can do better" Hollander gets a hat trick in his next game with exclusively backhanded shots. Ilya has never been so horny in his life. Ilya also does not stop making the weak backhand jokes.

cliché but classic trope: when the person who almost died wakes up in a hospital bed, looks around and sees the object of their affection sleeping uncomfortably in the chair next to them because they haven’t moved in days.

You can pry that trope from my cold dead hands.

cliché but classic sub trope of this: the person who almost died tells the object of their affection “you look like shit” despite the fact that they are the one in the hospital bed and almost died.