sometimes the tragedy is fun! sometimes the fact that there will be no happy ending is fun! sometimes it is really neat that one character is stuck in the past at the expense of the present and the other is going scorched earth towards the future and they’ll never be on the same page ever again! i like that.
what i like about the raven cycle is that the romance feels casual. most ya books (and many books in general) always have this profuse, gigantic focus and romance, which often weakens the plot and other elements of the story like character development or worldbuilding. but in trc, it fits right into the story as maggie stiefvater doesn't force it into the story, but lets it interact with the different aspects of the book and only distributes it healthy bits.
like, the characters have a life outside of their romance arc—they have their own motives, make their choices, pursue leisure activities and bond with other characters in a platonic way.
i personally really love that about the book because it shows how you can have romance subplots (plural!) without making the readers feel that there is nothing else in the book. we have the search for glendower, the pov characters' inner conflicts, the vanishing of maura, the appearance of the villains, family problems and mundane problems like school exercises and slightly eerie, old people that stay over at your house because they want to help you find a living corpse.
it's just that the book doesn't focus on one particular aspect (especially not the romance one, which is what the blurb unfortunately indicates) and i live for it.
What my best friend sees before my phone falls on face time:
Me writing a meta for my favorite series: -Write write write evidence write perfect flow write write great organization write evidence write-
Me writing an essay at school: what the hell am i supposed to write for this crap
stunning beautiful powerful goddess queen angel women!!!!!!
Interviewer: What would you consider to be your greatest asset?
Emily, pointing at her boobs: Need I say more?
spent like about 2 weeks on this which is why I wasn’t posting for a bit sorryyyyyryr but uhm I’m really proud of the mozelle and pest tea party thing :3
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Fun ADHD hack is that you're allowed to just go to the library and reserve a study room for a couple of hours and make all your phone calls or whatever adult shit you need to do but can't because your house is for House Stuff and for some reason your brain has designated "phone calls for doctors and other such things" as School Adjacent and therefore refuses to do it in an insufficently academic environment. Like it's free. You can just do that.
life works out. i cannot stress this enough. life always works out. it always turns out in your favor even if it doesn’t go according to the original plan. you may be utterly confused and lost right now, it may feel like everything is falling apart and there is nothing you can do to salvage any of it. but believe me when i say that this is just a transition period. things are constantly changing and evolving around you even if you can’t actively see that. life is changing you to prepare you for what is to come. you are growing and as you grow you are being built into the person that you are going to be. because see, life always has this funny way of working out.
pokemon fans when they have to wait another year for the next big game with no major releases in-between
I need one of my faves to post a new fic or update or something ‘cause the last couple of fics from authors I wasn’t familiar with that I clicked on didn’t give what they was supposed to have gave lol… like they weren’t bad per se or poorly written , but they were not my cup of tea. But if y’all know of any good newer SamBucky fics that don’t take a… turn at some point, drop them in the notes please and thank you
yoru ni kakeru cover huh
born to write the beginning and ending, forced to write the middle part.
love "et cetera" like... theres soooo much more. beyond your wildest imaginations. Not gonna tell u what tho. Move on
Actually I think having kids is too normalized.
I mean like; not only has it become an expectation for people (not just talking about fascists and sexist pigs controlling women's choices) but people are just so... Out of touch with what "having a baby" actually means.
Not just for the immediate future but also long term.
"We'll cross that bridge if it comes to it!" is an alarmingly common response these days when parents are questioned about the future with their child. People seem to be so caught up in just having a child and a pretty nursery that they don't seem to think beyond that point at all.
I know so, so many people who suffered a shitty upbringing because their parents had a child because "its just what couples do." Parents who never planned for unforeseen circumstances. Parents who left crucial developmental stages to other people. Parents who never bothered to learn how to actually raise another human being.
petition to give raph an irl social media account and every post on it is just:
shut up abt spamton being a tumblr sexyman the only people ive seen be horny over him have been on tiktok