lillyan brooks

So There's This Open Wound At The Heart Of The Text

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

the thing about phone in bed is that it's so awesome. almost makes you feel like betraying & destroying yourself for nothing isn't all so bad

Suzanne Collins just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

developing your ocs is 50% waiting for bursts of divine inspiration like an oracle sleeping next the vapours seeping from fissures in the temple floor and 50% stalking them in your mind relentlessly like a persistence predator until they tire out enough for you to get close and scamper away with the bloody scraps of "eye colour: brown" and "dislikes: people who think they're funny" clutched in your mouth like a hunting trophy

the real reason howl kept his castle moving was tax evasion

This sounds like a joke but I read the book this is the literal reason

#excuse u he was also dodging the draft and his ex

HE WAS ALSO DODGING THE DRAFT AND HIS EX!!! I FORGOT!! LEGEND

*holding onto ur heart thru ur ribcage* so what are we

there's this character dynamic that's not necessarily enemies to lovers, where one or both parties don't initially respect or trust the other person in much the same way that a feral animal sees anyone who tries to approach it first as a threat that's like cocaine to me

indeed search for "jobs that don't make you feel like you are being chased by tigers." zero results.

“do you really wanna be on that medication for the rest of your life :(?” yes actually I would love that. I know what I’m like off it

the problem with knitting is you measure your work it's 1 inch you do 8 more rows and it's 1/5 inch long you do 8 more rows and it's 1.1 inch long 🥲

your narrative foil fucking bit me dude