absent dream

squash1:

best of maggie’s blue lily lily blue recap (full recap)

the raven boys / the dream thieves

rizaoftheowls:

kayvsworld:

my body, tearfully: when sleep???

me: my dude we just woke up!! It’s time for wakefulness and doing things and Productivity

my body, weeping: but???? when sleep?????

me: okay, finally now is sleep

my body: no. wrong.

msmischief101:

the-modern-typewriter:

“I love you.”

“Ew, gross.”

“We’re married!”

Their partner grinned at them fondly and leaned in for a kiss.

“Ew.” Came the flat, secretly amused, nose wrinkled reply. “Gross.”

cottaegecore:

when you start reading again and it’s like oh. oh . the sun actually does still shine.

drtanner:

respectissexy:

It feels taboo as a childfree person to admit this but I actually do have concerns about who is going to take care of me when I’m old. The elder care system in our nation relies A LOT on the unpaid care labor of adult children. I just don’t think that’s a good reason to have kids.

“But you’ll have more money!” does not completely put this to rest for me. Neither does “Buy care insurance!” Even if I can afford direct personal care, who is going to advocate for me to get it? Who is going to navigate bureaucracy for me when I’m 80?

“If you do have kids, there’s no GUARANTEE that they’ll take care of you when your old!” That’s true, but doesn’t solve my problem.

I think childfree people get very defensive about this question because its used as a kind of “gotcha!” against us, but I actually do not feel we can afford to be in denial about this reality. Based on current trends of more people in their 30s stating they intend to be permanently childfree, we are going to see a huge wave of childfree adults hitting the eldercare system at once in a few decades. Childfree people in their 30s should be advocating around eldercare NOW.

We desperately need to cultivate a society in which everyone, even the most bitter, unlikeable, miserably lonely person in the world, has a social safety net that they can rely on from the day they’re born to the day they die, and that includes their elder care.

We are not going to achieve this meaningfully under capitalism. :’)

iceforcutie:

#i will always headcanon that tanner suddenly finds a reason to be Very Busy Elsewhere#whenever he sees bond and q having one of their fraught little private convos#listen. this man has enough on his plate#he doesn’t have to launch an investigation in to Inappropriate Workplace Behavior if he doesn’t KNOW about the behavior#he doesn’t have to consider the possibility that 007 and the quartermaster are having a torrid affair#if he simply Does Not Perceive The Intimacy#one weird trick to get out of doing extra paperwork!#one weird trick to avoid awkward conversations in the HR office!#tanner’s just turning to a random boffin like#‘ah. yes. please tell me about this device.’#'a laptop computer you say?’#'and how does it work?’#'no i don’t see those two whispering in the corner and making intense eye contact’#'i am very busy looking at this 'laptop computer’ you have just shown me’#'i have no ability to perceive anything else at this time’#'thank you and goodbye’#00q#also: shoutout to daniel craig’s barn door shoulders#good lord sir

bardstard:

i just heard my mum say ‘you are very naughty’ and then a meow and then another softer ‘okay but next time there will be consequences’ and then another meow and then a ‘you’re right probably not’ 

thehungergamesrenaissance:

The Hunger Games Renaissance.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part. 1 (2014), dir. Francis Lawrence
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023), dir. Francis Lawrence

“It’s the things we love most that destroy us. I want you to remember that I said that.”