Universal Babe

trauma is not real i drink violently for unknowable reasons and my body shakes bc im powerful

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

My favourite Kittelsen story was his reaction when he heard another Norwegian artist had started drawing Trolls as well. “How can he draw Trolls?” he is said to have asked. “He’s never seen a troll.”

call me a first level warlock the way i can do one thing before i need to lie down for eight hours

Ong

this cannot continue *continues*

i learned a while ago that the whole "most of the stars we see in the sky are actually already dead because they're so far away that we're seeing them as they were thousands of years ago" thing is a myth because stars live so long that it's unlikely many, if any, of them have burned out yet, but i'm still glad that myth exists because there's just something about the thought of the sky as a graveyard of stars that gets to me

on tumblr our funny little jokes are required to go through an ethics committee and then pass peer-review before they are allowed to be published to the greater public. whats not to get about this