Dr. Gachey with foxglove, 1890

All our experiences, good and bad, inform what we create, but suffering is not the price of great art. Suffering is what prevents artists from completing great art.

(I bring to mind this @tkingfisher / Ursula Verson quote about once a week <3)

He could've spent 500 different days chasing someone who actually WANTED SOMETHING SERIOUS!!!!!!! But instead he made himself miserable and blames the girl for it.

500 Days of Summer (2009)

As I got older and had more romantic relationships and experiences, I definitely became more pro-Summer. I mean, “I like being on my own. Relationships are messy and people’s feelings get hurt. Who needs it? We’re young. We live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Might as well have fun while we can and save the serious stuff for later"………relatable af tbh. But also I started to realize just how much Tom projected his own shit onto Summer and how much he made her into this idealized concept, and that it was the concept that he fell for. And at the end when she tells him, “I just knew….what I was never sure of with you”, yes it’s brutal, but also like now I totally get it.

too many people interpret 500 days of summer as this “nice guys finish last” movie that paints summer as the villain and tom as the victim. however, it’s supposed to be like that. the film is the writers way of processing his own grief and is essentially his own story and point of view, so of course he’s going to see the girl that broke his heart as a villain. the film is self aware bc it showcases tom as an unreliable narrator (when he is in love with summer, he points out what he loves about her, but when they break up he points out the same things to be what he hates about her). the film was never about tom being the victim and summer being the villain. it’s about being myopic and seeing things through a limited perspective. we never see summers pov, and if we did the movie would be a lot different. that’s what we as the audience need to understand. we can’t trust tom to truthfully and completely tell the story, because we only see his pov, the same way that we can only see things from our perspective. even if someone is so seemingly perfect for you, they might not see you in the same way, and you can’t make them out to be a villain because of that. romance doesn’t solve all your problems, and the sooner you realize that, the happier you’ll be.

my toxic trait is " I can give pages of logical arguments on why Summer Finn did the right thing".

oh summer how i understand you