I get it now. I get it. The things that you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.
— John Green
Source: thehopefulquotes
Victor Frankenstein: I’ve created life but I refuse to put any effort into helping that life develop. I won’t teach him, love him, or defend him even though I forced him into existence with a fully operational adult brain lol. Peace, bitch.
The Monster: Am Eloquent Baby
Boomers: He’S NOt thE ViCtIM, HE’s tHe MOnsTEr
An ironic parallel considering the idea of “tough love” parenting that plenty of boomers like to use. If they buy into the idea that their kids just have to toughen up and face the real world without guidance or emotional support, I’m sure it does scare them to read a story where someone who wasn’t given any support began to resent their creator and turn on them.
it’s like that post that’s like ‘knowledge is knowing that frankenstein is the doctor; wisdom is knowing that frankenstein is the monster’. like the whole point of the post is that frankenstein’s monster is a victim of viktor frankenstein’s own monstrosity.
mary shelley did not lose her virginity on her mother’s grave just for people to misunderstand her best known work over a century later.
enjoy the now.
enjoy where you are presently rooted.
there is so much goodness to see, to explore, to bask in.
you will get where you’re going.
but don’t forget to enjoy the journey.
— k.e.
ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.
wethinkwedream
whenever i post this it works reblog if u want to feel good things & the universe will bring u something sweet
Exquisite Photography Series That Depicts Dried Flowers and Tea Sets
Artist, wife and mother, Marina Malinovaya spends her leisure hours orchestrating extravagant photographic compositions using dried up flowers, leaves and tea sets.
Source: culturenlifestyle.com
astralledaway-deactivated202103
villain boyfriend [x] // when they’re bad, they’re better.
title from @forthegothicheroine.
01. best safety lies in fear // emilie autumn
if he says he loves you - perhaps he loves you now.
02. suzerain // versailles
(my heart defects into darkness)
03. black leather // the runaways
scratch, scratch, he’s clawin’ at the door oh, no, i can’t take any more
04. monster // lady gaga
he’s a wolf in disguise but i can’t stop staring in those evil eyes
05. love is blindness // jack white
love is blindness, i don’t want to see won’t you wrap the night around me?
06. haunting // halsey
you’ve got a fire inside, but your heart’s so cold
07. the sun goes down // thin lizzy
there is a demon among us whose soul belongs in hell sent here to redeem us, she knows it all to well he comes and goes, he comes and goes she knows it all too well
but when all is said and done, the sun goes down
08. the horror of our love // ludo
i’ve murdered half the town, left you love notes on their headstones i’ll fill the graveyards until i have you
09. international small arms traffic blues // the mountain goats
my love is like a powder keg in the corner of an empty warehouse somewhere just outside of town, about to burn down
The Pacific Northwest is fucking Perfect
Holy shit
reveille413
Places where reality is a bit altered:
- playgrounds at night
- rest stops on highways
- deep in the mountains
- early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed
- trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic
- schools during breaks
- those little beaches right next to ferry docks
- bowling alleys
genesisdoes
- unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips
- your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep
- laundromats at midnight
tootsie-roll-frankenstein
• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet
you-wish-you-had-this-url
- galeries in art museums that are empty except for you
- the lighting section of home depot
- stairwells
atavanhalen
•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues
mariaschuyler
I just got the weirdest feeling I swear
you-deserve-a-rhink
OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!
A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.
The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease.
Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd.
cbulldog09
I, for one, appreciate your passion for liminal spaces and thank you for explaining it to the rest of us.
friendly advice to not revolve your life around one person, one feeling, one place, one memory, one problem. the complexity of life and the diversity of the world is beautiful and you have the right to explore it. do not settle for less. you deserve better.
