the sea will drown the stars

relating to marianne sheridan is feeling awful about yourself until someone wants you, needing someone else's validation to feel good but never getting it, hating yourself but also thinking you're the smartest person in every room, achieving but things that don't even matter that much to you just to prove to yourself and everyone around you that you can, the constant need to show everyone that you're worth something but still always feeling like you're never doing enough, wanting to work more but not being able to make yourself do anything, gifted kid burnout, feeling alone most of the time, feeling like you were born sad and can never be truly happy for a longer period of time, wanting to end it but being in love with life...

the difference between fantasy and sci-fi? well there’s a “quest” and then there’s a “mission”

my role on tumblr dot com is to scroll through thousands of posts and only reblog the good ones for you to see like your personal tumblr pasta strainer

yo august slow the fuck down man

some people like gritty realism. me? I like that slippery, slippery unhinged fantasy. low viscosity make-believe. well-oiled bullshit. lubed-up whimsy.