who up experiencing emotions they can talk to no one about

Elizabeth Bishop, from The Selected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop; "The Burglar of Babylon,"

oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through

Studio Ghibli: ‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’ (1984) dir. Hayao Myazaki

it's not that I need a quiet day or a day off exactly; it's that I need a pocket of time that exists entirely outside of linear time as we know it that would allow me to get things done without time passing in the real world, and frankly, I don't think that's too much to ask.

one hyperfixated tumblr mutual has the power of six hundred thousand ad campaigns

btw. your search for the most morally upright and ethical piece of media that has the most correct “representation” will destroy your ability to find the most profound and beautiful and human of stories. and may even destroy the stories themselves before they are created. if you even care.

the bravery of a girl who has to decide what is for dinner and then cook it and then wash dishes every day forever and ever.

the thing is that spike would absolutely still be deeply in love with and attracted to buffy as an old lady like it would never fade for him. he would love her thoroughly until the day she died. hed kiss her scars and her wrinkles and hed run his hands through her gray hair and rub her back and he would be so proud of her for being a badass elderly slayer and think she was so sexy still. its never gonna fade. for either of them. they really get each other and stand by each other through it all. they would tease each other and communicate without words and they would have their daytime wedding (plenty of parasols around for spike) and their first dance would be to wind beneath my wings for buffy and spike would roll his eyes at the song and buffy would blush but shed be so happy and therefore so would he. they would have lazy days where they stay in bed and watch passions (buffy would get bored and sexy times would ensue) and they would go on trips to the beach at night and spike would throw her over his shoulder and run into the water and they would laugh together. neither of them can cook and its a disaster whenever they try but they do try sometimes. they would always have each others back when slaying and every other time as well. also they would wear matching glittery nail polish together in their respective colors (pink and black)

sometimes it’s better refrain from deep introspection and allow yourself to just be.

Sabrina the Teenage Witch – 2.11: Oh, What A Tangled Spell She Weaves

Listen Up Columbia! — Portraits from a campus in crisis Photographed by Gabriella Gregor Splaver

"Lesbian Weddings" by Wendy Jill York

source: The Femme Mystique, edited by Lesléa Newman

Just saw a post saying a castle was “infested with vampires” and as a biologist am disgusted. That’s their natural habitat. They live there