When it's Dark Look for Stars

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

the question ilya poses to shane is: why wouldn’t you get to feel good? and the question shane poses to ilya is: why wouldn’t you get to be loved?

You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still

Girl are you the Hays Code the way you consider media irredeemable if it depicts anything that strays away from the norm you're comfortable with or depicts anything morally questionable without definitively condemning it and anyone associated with it, therefore creating worse stories and content and making it difficult for people to engage with complicated issues from a nuanced and controlled perspective?

the most annoying people are people who don't understand storytelling. they be like "oooo how convenient that this thing happened to the main character in the very beginning". yeah no shit. that's why the story begins here

"If this one things hadn't happened the main character wouldn't be so important" You mean the catalyst? If the catalyst of the plot didn't happen the plot wouldn't happen? Dude, that's fucking crazy. No, seriously, it's so crazy that in the book "What Happens After The Catalyst" the catalyst is the only reason the story takes place.

sometimes it's important to reread your own work and go damn bitch you're onto something

ill never stop being democracy pilled ive got that give me liberty or give me death dog in me even if my fellow americans took theirs out back and shot it

sometimes the tragedy of distance is very simple. i want to get groceries with you

learning that addiction is a progressive narrowing of the range of things that make one happy was kinda life changing for me. i apply it to everything not even just addiction i am always checking to ask if i am narrowing my range of happiness or widening it

always good to check whether your coping strategy has become something that needs its own coping strategies

at least once a day you should read a poem that slices you clean in half. and then you go to the post office or something

every girl should be allowed to lie on the floor for 16 hours a day to cope with the agonies

it must be so hard for buffy to watch spikes reform grow from his love for her (however obsessive and strange it is) when that is exactly what she could not do for angel. she tried, hard, but there was no amount she could love unsouled angel that would turn him back, and no amount she could love souled angel that would make him stay. I think this is what reveals something underneath the "soul" concept in btvs - it's actually about what remains of the underlying humanity, and excavating that from the layers of vampirism. angel was a cruel, womanizing drunk. spike was a hopeless obsessive romantic who liked pain. vampirism is just a guise, an opportunity to lean into the worst manifestations of those impulses.

“imagine caring so much about fiction” imagine being so lame that you scoff at the timeless human practice of falling in love with art and stories

you can make fun of old people all you want but then you'll be knitting with a good album on and a cup of tea and you'll be like this is excellent actually. the old ladies were right about this one. about the crosswords too, by the way