i had a dream last night that i had been born the right way,
that i had no trouble listening and made friends easily and
straightened my hair and dated only ben from highschool
until i got married to him. that our ring was gold
even though silver is my color and i don't support diamonds
i had a dream that i hadn't ever been ugly or weird, that
we'd had enough money to actually afford the clothes
everyone was wearing and in eighth grade i actually
twisted my ankle in ugg boots. that all my memories
were now diagonally drawn across the river
i should have been raised from -
we walked down boston in the chill and i kept talking about how
lucky i was to have a wonderful husband and how my father's love
poured over our relationship in evergreen gin - i swear sometimes
i think he prefers ben - and all the girls that bullied me were now
my beautiful friends with husbands and lives of their own,
spun out in gold and rhinestones
i had a dream that i hadn't been made wrong, that god had
treated me gently, that the hole that opened in me hadn't
seeped into everything, staining all of my fingers in chaos and
lightning. i had a dream i didn't know secrets about sharp things
or how deep the hole goes or how hard someone can hit
rock bottom, the snap of the bone.
i had a dream i kept twisting the ring and turning to
my oldest friend, who was frowning. barely looking at me.
i had a dream i got straight a's and went to a different college
but it meant we lost touch after it. she wasn't the same here - strange, unloving, chilly. something is wrong, i kept saying.
we were just out for boba tea. my hair was long and pretty and
i'd never dyed it enough to turn it frizzy. something is wrong and i think it's with me.
in this world, i still went to church. in this world, i had never been
abandoned. in this world, i had never disappointed my parents. in this world, neither she nor i ever kissed girls and meant it. she hadn't met her wife. in this world, nothing ever needed fixing. i didn't ruin things
compulsively.
is it worth it? she said, watching me. is it worth it,
everything that's missing?
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I'm rereading TLT because I have horrible impulse control and i will never get over the stark contrast of the Lotus Casino scenes of both the movie and book
Because movie Percy's like:
Percy: *high on lotus flowers having the time of his life* This is amazing~
Poseidon: *godly whispera in his brain* Percy you're in trouble get out of there
Percy: Oh sh*t he's right! We gotta go
Meanwhile the absolute perfection book Percy goes:
Percy: *while playing games* Oh man I having a great time! I feel warm and happy and relaxed and safe and enjoying life! I have not felt this amazing in years!
Percy:.....
Percy: something's horribly wrong
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Men and masculinity are not inherently bad or untrustworthy things and I don't mean that in a 'misandry is real and a problem' way, I mean that in a 'I think some of you might have contracted minor radfem poisoning' way
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headcannon that aventurine loves to kiss your pulse spots.
whether it be on your wrist or on your neck he’ll press chaste kisses to them, if it’s to ground himself or to check your heartbeat it depends on how he feels, too.
after you get too upset or if your stress is up he checks it by scooping you up in his arms and pressing his lips to your neck softly to see how fast it’s beating. he then tries in his awkwardness of “comforting” to help you calm down.
he also does it when your sleep. if you’re spooning him, aventurine will sneakily slide up or turn around to bury his head in your neck; desperately trying to feel your heartbeat against his lips in the wake of it.
in fact, you could say he does it everytime your back is to him. when you cook, when you sleep, when you get ready and he groggily tries to navigate to the spot.
aventurine does it so he knows you’re still here. not someplace else that’s out of his reach. not on another planet where his only solace is your voice saved on his phone. not away somewhere he can’t reach. here with him.
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me in me and my friends zombie apocalypse AU!
original tempelate
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