thejobutupaki:

— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his 2017 Nobel prize acceptance speech

jactingjoices:

i wish i could scoop out all the words and stories inside my head with a butter knife and spread it onto a document and that was it

gingersnapwolves:

Y’ALL. We have one of those cling film covers in our bathroom window for privacy and in the afternoon when the sun hits it just right, it makes rainbows, right? And today my wife sends me the best pic she’s ever taken:

tributary:

i don’t even know what a likeable character is actually. the only question is are they interesting or not

mintydad:

old-man-yuri:

old-man-yuri:

August??

What about June..what happened to that

You’re wondering about what happened to June? I’ll tell you what happened to her. Have you heard of this thing called the morphogenetic field?

evilwizard:

slonkel:

evilwizard:

business majors are like orcs to me. and not the hot kind

dnik toh eht ton dna .em ot scro ekil era srojam ssenisub

the backwards version for anyone who needs it

how many of my followers do you think are from the mirror dimension

themirrordemon:

millenniumlesbian:

I love saying shit like “condemned by the narrative” because it just means the author has framed the action negatively but it makes it sound like there’s an ominous being called The Narrative standing over every character with an executioner’s axe who they cannot see, and yet who stands in silent wait ready at a moment’s notice to serve a swift, merciless, and unrelenting justice upon them, either in response to their own choices unknowingly judged or out of a mere perforce inevitability they could not begin to fight even if they somehow comprehended its presence. and there is

tanadrin:

not all kinks are sublimated anxieties, but the readiness with which we turn our sublimated anxieties into sexual fantasies is one of the most endearing things about our species to me. like our brains are like, “hmm. don’t like this. i should jerk off about it.”

duskquil:

“wearing all pink to the barbie movie” “wearing full suits to the minion movie” the children yearn for themed parties