"I love you just the way you are" doesn't have the same value when you're trying to change
“But you see, there is a graveyard in my mouth filled with words that have died on my lips.”
—Emily Palermo, Untitled
burn out
i don’t necessarily know who i am, but i know who you are. and that’s enough for me to go off of
im so calm and normal but also if im misunderstood by people in a way i cannot control i will tear apart the fibers of the universe
Tbh I think fandom generally needs to get better at sitting with the uncomfortable fact that a story/fanwork/meme/whatever can hurt one person and help another
{Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction page 24/ Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966/ Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden/ Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955/ Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood, page 276/ Michael Ondaatje/ Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden/ D.H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; The Plumbed Serpent/ Jean-Paul Sartre, from No Exit/ Alice Notley, from In The Pines: Poems; "In The Pines,"}
“We all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss.”
— Paulo Coelho
my negativity has been getting me through the pandemic, but these little cotton swabs keep testing me