for who else could i love but you?

thinkin about the chosen one story told from the pov of the person standing next to them again. thinkin about the one who has to stand by and watch the chosen one become a weapon, a sacrifice, an offering to the machinations of plot and can do nothing but make sure they’re fed and rested and soothe them when they wake up screaming from nightmares. thinkin about the fierce devotion that has to exist to follow someone to the end of the world just so they don’t have to die alone. thinkin about the terror they’d feel every step of the journey knowing it’s not their place to change how the story plays out. thinkin thinkin thinkin.

gotta be honest I think a REAL juicy dynamic is when someone has a True Love and a Soulmate and they are two different people

see this person is the love of my life I would follow them anywhere every day is brighter for having them in it. and THIS bastard shares a soul with me we'll find each other in every universe and understand each other in ways no other living being could. neither of us are particularly thrilled about this

the problem with having a decade old tumblr blog is that there are posts on it from a decade ago

i’ve become a completely different person like 5 separate times since making those posts and there are STILL people finding them somehow

hey girl are you gold and mercury. because. AuHg

For your reading pleasure: an iNaturalist forum thread about how dandelion taxonomy is so fucked up that no researcher wants to even touch it

[image id: screenshot of a post by sedgequeen that reads: "What is a species? Are species real? The variation we want to name is real. Species, however, are labels that reflect both that variation and our human need for neat, mutually exclusive words. Without species names, we can't talk effectively about the variation out there."]

Barbara <3

some of you have GOT to get comfortable with lying and situational morality and i'm not kidding

OH MY GOD I’M SAVING ALL  OF THESE RN

Sometimes they don’t love you, they just love the way you love them.

Stop posting AI-generated animal videos without disclaimer to Tumblr or I'm crashing the ship into a cliffside

Komaeda, thank god it's you, I had a horrible nightmare that there was a guy