personally i think more stories in general would benefit from a runaway bride character. the marriage in question can be a literal or metaphorical one, but crucially they need to be fleeing from being shackled to a traditional hegemonic social ideal that they’re expected to celebrate the opportunity to continue proliferating due to romanticised misconceptions and obfuscations of what it entails.
and whatever they’re fleeing towards need not necessarily be any better - only willing to take advantage of their desperation
me: this is a background character who’s in one scene, has two lines, and is completely irrelevant to the rest of the story. i am going to stop obsessing over what to name him and use the random name generator on behindthename.com. i am going to accept the first thing it gives me and move the fuck on.
I always know when my cat has been watching snowflakes with her forelegs propped against the window-glass because when she’s done she invariably comes straight to me acting all affectionate-like and sticks her ice-cold paws directly on my face.
Y'all need to start labelling your Eddies. I got posts floating by on my dash where I don’t know if you mean Stranger Things or 9-1-1 or IT or, I don’t know, someone getting weird with Our Flag Means Death. I’m halfway through a post thinking ‘He would not say that!’ and then a new piece of context makes me go, 'Oh, but he would.’
Super fucked up that I can’t be a master-level expert in knitting AND woodworking AND silversmithing AND embroidery AND soap making AND spinning AND -
“Who would ever want to be immortal? Can you imagine the loneliness, knowing that there’s no one else like you, cursed to outlive -” shut up!! Some of us have shit to do and aren’t cowards!!
