Tag: MOOD

the-knights-who-say-book:

when i grow up i want to be a library goblin. i get paid to wander the shelves and be discovered curled up and reading in unlikely places, perhaps hissing if i am interrupted in the middle of a good part. why would a library pay for this service you ask? because it will add to the ambiance next question

glumshoe:

glumshoe:

glumshoe:

Accepting and celebrating the things that make you “different” is…. good. It can be great, liberating even, to accept that you don’t have to fit the mold or meet certain arbitrary expectations to be a fully realized person.

But sometimes you do crave certain aspects of “normalacy” that you know you’re just… not wired for, and maybe you feel guilty for that, because ideologically you reject the notion of “normal”. And yet. And yet!!!

Of course the grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence, when no grass grows on your side at all. It’s still your yard, though, grass or no grass – you can always build a rock garden. And yet…!

Honorable mention to the feeling of “I don’t actually want that, but I do kind of want to be able to want that.”

Also, the fear that expressing your sense of missing out will be used against you and turned into, “see, ‘different’ IS an aberration, you want to be ‘fixed’ and that’s proof!!!” so you just grimace and quietly arrange your rock garden without complaint.

veliseraptor:

anghraine:

God, I hate “but X experienced bad things, too, and they turned out fine” so, so, so much.

#yes there is clearly one(1) mode of response to events and any other responses aren’t really about the thing #but just indicate inherent unworthiness #ugh #ugh ugh ugh #the whole logic of ‘victim who behaves badly [for whatever value of badly applies] in consequence isn’t really victimized #because other people who are victimized by different things aren’t behaving badly! CHECKMATE’ is just … ??? #i don’t know if it’s more offensive or asinine tbh

headspace-hotel:

no i haven’t stared down the wrong end of a gun barrel but i have tilted back my glass of ice water to finish the last few drops even as the ice sticks in the bottom of the glass poised to come loose and smash into my face and that’s the same thing right