“I Love Sleep. My Life Has The Tendency To Fall Apart When I’m Awake, You Know?”

Looks like my summer vacation is... over.

Trauma didn't make me nice, I consciously made me nice because I don't want anyone else to suffer like I did. Trauma didn't make me strong, I made me strong. Don't you dare ever tell me my trauma made me anything but scared, broken, and confused. Don't give credit to the abusers for me being a good person. They didn't make me good, I made myself good.

I think a surprising amount of writers don’t realize that tragedies are supposed to be cathartic. They’re intended to result in a purging of emotion, a luxurious cry; the sorrow caused by a great tragedy is akin to fear caused by a good horror movie – it’s a “safe” sorrow, one that is actually satisfying to the audience. It can still be beautiful! It’s isn’t supposed to just be salting the earth so nothing can grow.

But that’s how you get grimdark: writers who don’t realize that they’re supposed to be doing something with the audience instead of to the audience.

‘sun-sets’

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“If you live to be a 100, I want to live to be a  100 minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

the difference between medicine and poison is in the dose // circa survive

Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü / White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) Dir. Arnold Fanck & Georg Wilhelm Pabst

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