I Cannot Let Myself Forget What Being Lonely Felt Like

because I cannot let myself take kindness for granted

because I cannot let myself forget the way that kindness was a miracle

because I cannot let myself forget the way I counted up each kindness and recited them

by heart to keep myself, not quite alive, but something less alone,

because I cannot let myself forget how easily a child dreams herself into a monster

because I cannot let myself (not ever in my life I swear it) walk past anyone alone

and not see myself

and stop.

Because I cannot let myself forget the strangers whom I’m sure forgot the instant it was done

because I cannot let myself forget how small a thing can save a heart. 

-31/12/2023

Dungeon Meshi - Hien & Benichidori (& a bit of Tade)

hey can we talk more about how, when you read hien and benichidori’s adventurer’s bible comics consecutively, it’s damn near textual that benichidori is in love with hien

ketchup does exist. this post is fake

Why did no one tell me I hold a pencil weird

Just letting me look like a fool while I’ve gripped my pencil suboptimally my entire life 😭

What do you mean this isn’t the right way to hold a pencil??

I just tried to hold a pencil like that and my hand felt like it was cramping

My hand is cramping just from looking at that photo

Most people hold theirs with the pencil at a more thrust out angle I notice, but I hold mine like that and I’ve noticed I write smaller than most people.

I’m guessing it gives better control over shorter strokes? I dunno if that’s the case for OP though.

BEAT HIS ASS YOUNG MIDORIYA

a handful of bat!bruce and damian requests cross posted from twitter

you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy

this is what microwaving leftover pizza feels like

stop it i was trying to be gothic

Eurovision is the absolute easiest thing in the world to boycott. It's not food owned by one of 5 food conglomerates. It's not tech that corporations have made essential. There's no "support the devs" logic to be even considered. It's literally just noise that is forgotten in a week.

This year it's noise that will be forgotten in a week that is actively supporting one state that's committing genocide to another state they're actively suppressing any discussion about.

two genocidal states: both Israel and Azerbaijan.

Felt something deep inside today. Not sure how it came out but. I don't have a lot to give but words.

After You Died

You said, make a kite

(in white cloth, with a long tail)

So that the children who look up

Will see an angel above them

Bringing back love

But the sky is full with death

Where can the kites

(in white cloth, with long tails)

The kites we make --

Where can they fly?

- AK Lee

(With the deepest of respect to Professor Refaat Alareer)

a very self-indulgent alectostasia art