“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
— Jack Kerouac
Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “What I couldn’t explain via text”
[Text ID: “I still don’t know how / to love someone / without swallowing them.”]
【 This user is Toya Todoroki and is trying to recover from their past // This user is Dabi and is trying to recover from their past 】
Reblogs appreciated // no credit needed
when david kushner said “oh i love it and i hate it at the same time”, i thought about you
June 4, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]
Taylor Byas, from I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times: Poems; “Men really be menning”
shoutout to sysmates who feel disconnected from their system, or aren't liked by their system, or only have a few people they like in their system, etc.
Sometimes it is your fault.. Sometimes you don’t listen well enough, you’re selfish, you’re rude and you aren’t always right. Sometimes you fucked it up and tbh that’s okay. It happens, learn from it, apologize and keep it moving. Just because you fucked up doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. Don’t dwell on it
when ethel cain said “i tried to be good am i no good am i no good am i no good” which started with her self-loathing after being abused by her father and neil perry said “i was good. i was really good” and then he killed himself because he knew that he would never be good enough for his father
Dabi ; Evening Rain
Aesthetic for a dabi fictive, with themes of city rain and fire.
Every time it rains I just sit and listen
I keep getting harassed for my abusive past actions even though i'm trying my best to recover and said sorry, it makes me feel sometimes like I'm unfixable and just destined to be a monster forever, and that I deserve to feel in pain, how do I move on from that?
You aren't a monster or incapable of change. All you can really do though is keep your side of the street clean; keep doing better, and give yourself grace. We are allowed to be kind to ourselves, even when no one else is. We can't change the past, and we can't change how it affects other people, nor their response to what happened. I know it's a sucky thing to accept, and accepting that doesn't make any of those permanent, dehumanizing judgements true.
You are who you are today; not who you were before you learned better. Set boundaries as you need to, and remember there will always be people who will support and love you. People are complicated and far from perfect. There is a future for you, and that future can be bright and peaceful. Just stick around and keep going, and you'll find it. ♡
I'm so sorry I hurt you.. it feels like swallowing glass every time I think it was never your fault.
Where did everything go wrong again
My whole life someone told me to be a weapon, when all I wanted was to weep.
— Azura Tyabji & Jackson Neal, from “Black Fire Ballad (I Feel Most Evil in My Mother’s Gowns),” Teen Titans, Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom
Safia Elhillo, from Home Is Not a Country; “The Coward”
Florence Welch, from Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry; “Maybe it would be fun”
[Text ID: “I tell myself I’m not like that any more / At least I thought I was less savage / I try, I try, I try, I try, I try to do less damage.”]
Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”
Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway
Rebecca Tamás, from Poems; “Witch,” originally published c. 2019
committing a crime is fine as long as its done with love <3
Someone: *Breathes*
Me: If you don’t shut up, I will break every bone in your fucking body.
you’re in her dms, i’m on her dni, we are not the same
not mad just outside your house with a gun
Reading my Tumblr is like walking in a psych ward