I Love This So Much, I’m Gonna Start Saying “nuts” We Need To Bring It Back

laptop: PLEASE place me on a hard surface that does not obstruct my cooling fan I am begging you

me: shut up we are going to snuggle in bed :)

just got fired from my government job… apparently they can control the weather with space lasers now so they don’t need me to stand on a dark tower and chant in a big bellowing voice to summon clouds and winds of fear and frost

as you drive to your final destination for the day, you pass a crossroads. there is a hitchhiker posted next to the stop sign.

they approach your window. had it been brighter, had there been more people in the car, you might've picked them up. it is far too late and too lonely in your car, so you shake your head and begin to accelerate.

they seem to keep pace with your car, running alongside it until you reach 35.

you pull up to the next stop sign, and try not to look. there's a hitchhiker there. staring at you, but they seem longer than before. taller, lanky. you begin to accelerate.

they keep pace with you, for miles they run next to you car, eyes unblinking.

close your eyes, just for a moment. they've gone. you're back at the first crossroads, and nothing remains but the feeling of someone watching from a distance. just a trace, like a memory

actually can we discuss ekko and jinx narrative foils. can we discuss this

so was no one was gonna tell me that the painting saturn devouring his son was found painted directly onto the walls of the artist’s home after he died and that it may not even be depicting the greek legend, that’s just the most common interpretation??????

Writing is not about 'telling an epic story' or 'making something that will outlive you'. Writing is about going "You know what would be fucking awesome?" and then committing word crimes

jennifer’s body (2009)

"being in the military is hard" theres harder things. Like telling my mom she was wrong about something

“humanity is inherently selfish and bad” bbbrrrghuhjfkg. humanity is seeing a stranger’s grocery bag break open on the sidewalk and harvesting fruits and veggies from the branch-like cracks of the asphalt for them, just because you can. humanity is helping a lost child find their mother on a crowded beach, looking for the ladybug-patterned parasol with their hummingbird-small hand in yours. it’s an elder’s fingers wrapped around your arm as you help them up the stairs because the elevator is broken, and feeling like you’re doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing, like this is what you would’ve been doing had you been alive centuries or even millennia ago. there will always be a heavily pregnant woman who will smile at your when you give up your seat, a nice blind man in the fruit aisle who will ask you to please pick the riper plantain for him, a tired cashier whose face will light up when you compliment their tattoo sleeve. humanity is connection

My Favorite Advice/Quotes from Esteemed Authors

"To write is to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."

-Anaïs Nin

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

-Toni Morrison

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

-Saul Bellow

"You can make anything by writing."

-C.S. Lewis

"You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."

-Annie Proulx

"Writing is its own reward."

-Henry Miller

"Get is down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good."

-William Faulkner

"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have no been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."

-Natalie Goldberg

"It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style."

-P.D. James

"It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way."

-Ernest Hemingway