it's a pirate's life for me

I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.

I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. The purpose of listening to someone else's story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding.

literally every single person’s shadow and bone s2 takes are real and valid. it was the best it was the worst it changed everything nothing made sense everything worked everything slayed. but most of all the crows came to kill and kill they did good night

I love cats they're just like "I love you." *walks all over your entire body*

"I dont like reading subtitles" stop being a little bitch

i come back from a book and its like how the hell are you people just going on like this. didnt you read the book with me. how is the real world so disconnected from the whole book world i just experienced

I want everyone to read d.gray-man but also I dont bc I'm a nice person who doesnt wish pain and suffering onto my friends

being the waitresses defense lawyer every time you go out to eat with your family. it ain’t much but it’s honest work

I might get some shit for this but one of the reasons some of you have such shit critical skills/reading comprehension is because you’re adults who exclusively consume kids’ cartoons, ya books and fanfic and staunchly refuse to engage with anything remotely challenging which is how we ended up with people thinking harry potter is the apex of world literature or that dante’s inferno is the same as fanfiction. I love easily digestible things that are simply fun to consume but I’ve heard people say “ya is a vast diverse genre” and in the same breath add “I don’t like the classics (aka books that shaped, reflected and influenced the world) because they’re all boring and one genre apparently” which is a stance that is not so much anti-elitist as it is anti-intellectual.

i’m not sure if my body can handle much more of this “getting out of bed” nonsense

the problem is that going to bed at night feels like a chore whereas lying down for a forbidden nap at 4pm feels like the pinnacle of decadence