Flying Is Effortless, Landing Can Be A Little Bit Harder, Cornell Lab / DoC (northern Royal Albatross)

Being an old school romantic in a hookup culture is a special kind of hell.

Can we please appreciate Odysseus being a silent stalker in the shadows, taking out suitors with his bow, not deigning to speak to them as he takes them out one by one

until some of them go "we have to strike him in the darkness too! we know the halls of this palace! the odds can be tilted!"

and Odysseus, built this palace with his very hands, has to step out of the shadows like "are you this fucking stupid"

Fictional Kiss Prompts

When one of them pulls away, breathless, and whispers, “If I kiss you again, I won’t be able to stop.”

the “we shouldn’t be doing this” kiss that still happens anyway—and keeps happening.

the kiss that happens mid-argument, furious and messy, teeth and heat and unsaid apologies.

a kiss right before one of them leaves for something dangerous—“come back to me” heavy in the silence.

a surprise kiss during laughter, when one just can’t help it anymore and finally caves.

the kind of kiss that starts slow… but one hand moves to the back of the neck and it changes everything.

a desperate kiss in the rain, soaked and shaking, not sure if it’s joy or grief or both.

a forehead-to-forehead moment, eyes closed, and a soft kiss that’s more “thank you for staying” than anything else.

the silent kiss where words would ruin it, where they know and don’t need to say a damn thing.

the kiss after a long time apart, full of how dare you leave me and I missed you every second all at once.

Being a writer is wild, because I’m really sitting here, contemplating how much I should break this man, with a smile.

The dread is here again. Has it ever left? I will never know. Will I go insane? Absolutely.

See you in 5 months when the dread lessens.

The FUCKING dread got me again

I love this so much

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Writing Prompt #7

“Out of all the places I expected us to go, this was the farthest thing that I could have even thought of.”

Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huh

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

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Huh???