#draftposting

some problems are so humiliating the only solution is to solve them yourself and then continue to never talk about it

psa double chins and not perfect jawlines are fucking awesome and hot and we should never be unkind about them ever. yes, even yours. no it does not make you look bad, yes people love and cherish you deeply with no regards to your appearance, yes your double chin or not perfect jawline ALSO is really beautiful because people are beautiful regardless of their physicality

sob. They get to experience seasons together for the first time. They know how the other person looks in the dog days of summer but every other season it’s been stolen nights and fuzzy Facetime calls. Ilya watching Shane pull out all of their sweaters as summer fades into fall. The two of them raking leaves and somehow turning it into a competition over who can rake up the biggest leaf pile. In the end it doesn’t matter because they let Anya out and she immediately jumps into both piles, totally destroying them. Then they watch fall turn to winter. And Ilya always forgets how much worse his depression gets whenever the sun is barely shining anymore despite growing up in the cold. But for the first time Shane is there and he’s making sure the house always has clean warm blankets that Ilya can cocoon up into and he makes all of these hearty (healthy) stews for them when they’re not traveling and he makes sure the house always smells like pine and something else wintery and warm. Until finally the sun starts to shine again and suddenly winter is spring. And Ilya learns that Shane is a ‘stop and smell the flowers’ person. Like literally. He stops at every floral bush he sees and bends down to sniff at the buds. Sometimes he tells Ilya a fun fact about whatever flowers they’re looking at. This is also how Ilya learns his husband is extremely allergic to pollen and chooses to suffer every spring because “allergy meds could throw him off his game.” Ilya thinks that’s ridiculous so he becomes Shane’s surrogate nose, explaining the notes he’s picking up on from each flower while Anya rolls around in the grass. Shane misses sniffing for himself but he does have to admit it’s nice to not have watery eyes anymore. And then springtime heats up and the season is over and it’s summer again. They’re back at the cottage sweating and playing and enjoying their time off together. And they’ll get to do it all again with every season.

hozier walking into the woods: take me to birch

the thing about not being twelve is that, to stop being twelve, you have to become thirteen, and then fourteen and so on. you have to make the transition from childhood, where you're a thing that's surveilled and ordered around and perpetually minded by teachers who hate you and parents who are too tired to deal with you, to adulthood, where you could, traditionally, mostly do what you want. you have to stop being a teacher's pet who does what it's told and start being a person. but society has sort of decided, you know, wouldn't it be easier if we kept everyone twelve? wouldn't it be easier if we abolished the ages of thirteen to thirty? you can't go straight from twelve to thirty-one, of course, but it's still easier for them if everyone's twelve...