I can’t stop thinking about how perfectly Barbie portrays girlhood and growing up… How you’re born in a perfect pink world, where you make the rules and get to prioritise whimsies and friendship and beauty, and then you notice something has changed, you discover that something is wrong with you, and you’re offered an illusion of choice, but even if you’d rather keep wearing your heels and go home and be safe and comfortable, you have to choose the Birkenstock, you have to leave your home, you have to grow up. So you’re thrust into this gritty, unfeeling world, where you’re scrutinised and suppressed, where you want to disappear into yourself, because everything is harsh and big and you are tiny and fragile and inadequate. And as overwhelming and impossible as it seems, you survive it. You find truth in the things you believed in when you were young, the inherent good in humanity, connection and love; your friends who look at you while you are crying, and tell you that they cannot imagine what it is that you do not like about yourself.
one day you think: I want to die. and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book. and I want to die turns day by day into want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun, I want a cleaner kitchen, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else. I want to live.
- via duckbunny
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
- the picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"Everybody talks about cutting people off....But nobody talks about the grief that comes with having to stand firm on that decision knowing it's not what you wanted but what was necessary for your well- being."
~Anonymous
right! now I have your attention
we have a discord server and I swear to God that a) it's a vibe and b) THIS LINK WILL NOT EXPIRE I PROMISE I FIGURED IT OUT FINALLY
https://discord.gg/JQewbYeMx6
you should join if you like the starless sea or love the starless sea or have thoughts about the starless sea or are obsessed with the starless sea!
We share fanfic and fanart and headcanons and make up au ideas together! We play Minecraft in a super cool server! We have movie nights every Sunday and there's pretty much always music going on in vc! We do story time and read each other tss (sometimes in French or Italian!) or tss fanfic! We get daily pupdates on one of our members' puppies! We put Dorian in Outfits and Situations! We have a great time!
Join for us, join for your TSS blorbos, join for us <3
moment of silence for cloke rayburn when he told the Greek class about his drug business in NY and then got thrown under the bus by henry (after cloke told him not to tell the police) and had to endure the blame of bunny’s disappearance for days. poor guy.
henry is so mean it’s kinda funny tho LOL.
one moment i am in love with everything about this world and the next second my whole soul gets shattered in a thousand pieces and in both cases i am lost of all words
Gorgeous gorgeous girls get drunk on song lyrics, book quotes, and poems.
There is a stag in the snow. Blink and he will vanish. Was he a stag at all or was he something else? Was he a sentiment hanging unspoken or a path not taken or a closed door left unopened? Or was he a deer, glimpsed amongst the trees and then gone, disturbing not a single branch in his departure? The stag is a shot left untaken. An opportunity lost. Stolen like a kiss. In these new forgetful times with their changed ways sometimes the stag will pause a moment longer. He waits though once he never waited, would never dream to wait or wait to dream. He waits now. For someone to take the shot. For someone to pierce his heart. To know he is remembered.
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.
- Alison McGhee
unfortunately if you are an old friend of mine i will always care about you no matter what even if we haven't seen each other in forever because i still remember what you were like 7 years ago and i still remember how it felt to be young with you and i still have a lot of love for you in the back of my mind