take me to the lakes

rising from the dead to celebrate this W

it’s a romeo and juliette retelling set in the 1920s!! in Shanghai!! READ IT NOW READ IT GO AHEAD

like......... “This is about me and what I want. This is about me finally understanding where I want to be in ten years. Because I’m going to be alive, Kenji. I will be alive in ten years, and I’m going to be happy. I’m going to be strong. And I don’t need anyone to tell me that anymore. I am enough, and I always will be.” ??? r u kidding???

“I’ve been here before, I tell myself. I’ve been lonelier than this, more hopeless than this, more desperate than this. I’ve been here before and I survived. I can get through this.” COME ON !!!!! 

1. he has dark hair

2. he can paint

3. dilf

4. makes pancakes for his siblings (children)

5. “i came of age in the dark war. i was baptised in blood and fire [...] i killed my own father, you think i won’t kill your son?”

6. “the world can burn if my family lives” 

the way that pretty much a total of zero people had ever loved cardan before jude. and then she does. and cardan gets moments where he can’t believe it, because even his own mother rarely cared for him. 

katara: wasn’t sokka with you?