rilee

"You will often be subjected to uncomfortable situations in public and you should learn to navigate that" and "if you play your music out loud in a public hike then the other hikers should be allowed to hunt you for sport" are two sentiments that can and should co-exist

I know next to nothing about botany but the phrase “feral sunflower” is hilarious to me

trying to explain to a 50 something criminal profiler that suicidal teenagers are people responding to internal logic with root causes rather than mindless droids who catch social contagions via rock music and tiktok

“but they seemed so happy!” yeah that’s the oldest suicide cliche in the book. it’s called hiding things and the more you act like suicidality is some irrational external contagion that can be prevented by taking away freedoms the more you train your kid to hide things.

Hollanov are always going to have crushes on each other. They're gonna be married for over a decade and Ilya is still gonna puff up and preen when he makes Shane laugh at one of his snarky comments or goofy bits, which Ilya said specifically to make Shane laugh. Because he has a crush on him. Shane is gonna smile and flush and sort of bury his face into the pillows when he wakes up to Ilya already looking at him, eyes heavy lidded. He's gonna mumble "Hi~" all shy and bashful. Because he has a crush on him. They are perpetually crushing on each other. Any minute now I'm gonna start sobbing

last night was talking to my dad about career plans and he goes "i dont know if you should do a trade, you should print tshirts and sell them at the oceanfront"