red lipstick

a really perfect cup of tea

pyjama sundays

sana bakkoush ( & also yousef and the portrayal of Islam/discussion about religion on skam season 4)

can i just make a real quick public service announcement that jade is an international treasure, a beautiful salty smol who amazes me everytime we talk and is too full of talent for words to describe? okay. 

i love jade like this little aesthetic trash can is a treasure. i haven’t had the honour of writing much with you jade, which is tragic like we had a few small threads here and there in rps but never proper properly written together and i hope we get a chance to one day becayse your writing is lovely and i enjoy yelling with you and plotting with you and talking in general? whenever u were in the group chat at the same time as me was a+  u made it so entertaining and you’re sm fun to talk to.

i !! love !! your children !1 your characters !! my children love your children and i love your children. octavia is my queen she slays me tbh her and stasia nb sisters going to take over the world looking like the aesthetic goddesses that they are hello i love them, and eddie and ara nb space gays, the Ultimate Gays™. your characters are such diverse and wonderful people, and they have little quirks and nuances that make them so unique and entertaining. Also, i’ve seen your pinterest boards for your characters and the #aesthetic of them all is amazing. i am in awe. 

i also find it hilarious how petty and salty you are and also i admire how you aren’t afraid to say your views on things, and speak out against issues and call people out on their bs? you’re very real and honest and i admire that about you.

ur a gem <3

3. What is the oldest book you have ever read? (Based on its written date)

I own Plato’s Republic, which is a visually stunning book by the way, that was apparently written around 380BC, but I’ve only ever read excerpts in philosophy class. If that doesn’t count then probably Little Women. Also Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol.

22. What famous author have you not read any books by?

I’ve seen the name haruki murakami floating around a lot lately, but I haven’t read anything of his. I don’t think I’ve read anything Jane Austen either.

33. What is a book you read after seeing the movie/ TV series?

i can’t remember? i’m not sure if there is one? I’ve either already read the book when I start the movie/show, or I never read it. It could be Black Beauty, but it’s been so long I honestly don’t remember what I saw/read first. 

37. Have you read a book in a different language? What was it?

no lmao i am too language inept to ever read a book not in english. 

It should follow, you know this, like the panels of a comic strip, we should be belted in, but you still can’t get beyond your skin, and they’re trying to drive you into the ground, to see if anything                                                                                                            walks away.

✤ — Putting up their hair, showing off the back of their neck

As a person so genuinely genialand pleasant, Carmen Yarelis Wolfe does not entertain assumptions about herselffor very long. There is little doubt in the Shatterdome now that she is a forceto be reckoned with, a hurricane that just couldn’t quit. It’s been that waysince shortly after she arrived.

For most of them, it only tookthe first sparring to chisel her reputation, when the wisp of a woman removedher jacket to reveal the sinuous muscle cording her lean form and proceeded towipe the floor with her first three opponents. And if Gemma were a betterperson, she might even have tried to fib her way into convincing more than herMum that it had been the girl’s charming personality that had first caught hereye, but the truth was far from that honourable.

Truthfully, it hadn’t taken thatlong. And while the first thing that had drawn her in had definitely been thegirl in her sports bra, driving home how very very gay she was, it had been the smug smirk that had caught Gemma,supreme satisfaction sitting oddly easily on the sharp angles of her face.Carmen Wolfe is a force to be reckoned with — and she knows it. Gemma may never get over just how attractive that is, thebucketsful of confidence and strength in a woman so legitimately nice and affable. Even now, officiallypartners and used to the nuances of each other’s thought process, brainsynapses snapping together into formation in their jaeger week after week, Gemmais not used to her.

She may never be.

“And then fucking Chad, the dumb prick, says— did you justget out of the shower?”

Even now, she breaks offmid-rant, eyes widening. Her head, previously resting against her palm, slips alittle.

A soft hum answers her, not that itmatters much. Her brain does not seem to be processing much at that moment,little more than a long buzz of static. Carmen continues deftly twisting herhair up, devil woman that she is, not bothering to turn around and spare her partner’ssanity. “Douchey Chad was asking about you in the shower? Please tell me youdidn’t have to be pulled off of him.”

Gemma blinks, feelingpunch-drunk. “No? Um, what?”

“You were talking about DoucheyChad and the shower. I’m assuming fists got involved at some point.”

“Er, no, he’ll live.” The answercomes a beat too late. Gemma has yet to stop thinking about the sheer artistry she has just seen: a smoothcolumn of skin, flaring into narrow shoulders, revealed by the lift of herhair. It feels like the revelation of something private, this display of anarea that is so rarely seen. Abruptly, absurdly, she wants to kiss it. Sheimagines it might be warm. Smooth. Like a secret she hadn’t been expecting tobe included in, but is positively flushed to be included in.

She thinks it might show in theflush she can feel warming her neck as she moves to one side of the mattresslining the bottom bunk and gestures at the vacated space. “Come sit with me andI’ll tell you more about it?”

The light underlining her tonehovers dangerously close to fond.