being in elementary school and every single adult in my life, including my parents, happily telling me that i was so "independent" and "mature" for my age

I deserve everything that is beautiful in this lifetime.

when it comes down to it everything is about ghosts except ghosts, which are about love

ALT

do support on KO-FI

“Fiction is usually seen as escapist entertainment, [but] it’s hard to reconcile the escapist theory of fiction with the deep patterns we find in the art of storytelling […]. Our various fictional worlds are—on the whole—horrorscapes. Fiction may temporarily free us from our troubles, but it does so by ensnaring us in new sets of troubles—in imaginary worlds of struggle and stress and mortal woe. […] [This paradox] was first noticed by Aristotle in the Poetics. We are drawn to fiction because fiction gives us pleasure. But most of what is actually in fiction is deeply unpleasant: threat, death, despair, anxiety, Sturm und Drang. […] Literature offers feelings for which we don’t have to pay. It allows us to love, condemn, condone, hope, dread, and hate without any of the risks those feelings ordinarily involve.”

— Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
(via exhaled-spirals)

freddie mercury was so true when he said ‘each morning i get up i die a little’

my soul is so tired