tara

#the way alicent just kind of repeatedly squeezes her arm like ’ are you here? are you staying? are you going to let me touch you again?’#and rhaenyras thumb just moving in comforting circles like ‘in my mind i never left’ (via @alicentsgf )

If reincarnation is real I want to come back as a bookstore cat

i literally am unfit for human relationships but im being so brave about it

do you think it feels good for wolves to go awoo i think it feels good

"i love you/it'll pass" and "i don't know what to do with it/with what?/all the love i have for her, i don't know where to put it now" and "don't make me an optimist, you'll ruin my life" and "love is awful, it's painful, it's frightening, it's all any of us want and it's hell when we get there, so no wonder it's something we don't want to do on our own" and "i want someone to tell me how to live my life, Father, because so far i think i've been getting it wrong" and "women are born with pain built in, we carry it within ourselves throughout our lives" and "i think you know how to love better than any of us, that's why you find it all so painful" and "people make mistakes, that's why they put rubbers at the end of pencils" and "don't make me hate you, loving you is painful enough" and

“women in STEM” what about women in Victorian nightgowns? women in bloodstains? women in creaking old houses, and a state of barely contained homosexual desire?

i recently had a thought. which, as you can imagine, was stressful

not writing, not not writing, but a secret third thing

letting my stories spin around my head like a microwave

a dude came into the library stoned out of his mind and was like, “do I need a library card to look at books?” And I said, “to take books home, yes. To look at them, no” and he looked so relieved. bro was staring at a fish encyclopedia for like an hour and then just left.

this is literally all society needs to be

i’m not sure if anyone has pointed this out before, but the laundry and taxes line in eeaao actually translates more accurately to “if there is a next life, i would still choose to do taxes and open a laundromat with you” (instead of just “i would’ve really liked”), and the distinction is so important because it emphasises the gravity of the each minuscule choice we make, and how it is the significance of these choices that makes our seemingly insignificant lives have meaning. choosing to do laundry and taxes with her conveys a sense of certainty and assuredness that he would still actively make that decision in another life, as opposed to “i would’ve liked” which implies that he is merely a product of his circumstances with no agency over them instead of a result of his individual autonomy. it also reinforces waymond’s own philosophies about optimism as a choice we must constantly make and hold steadfast to despite despite despite. the act of choosing begets sacrifice, but choosing love, choosing kindness, choosing to believe that the darkness is transient and surmountable is the most important thing we could do in a world where succumbing to despair and hopelessness is so easy, and i think the way this film navigates this subject of choice is so beautiful