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— Lord Byron, from “To the Countess of Blessington.”

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She loves picking on him. I love her for it.

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Just once, I want the hero to go “your wife/sister/mother/whatever would not have wanted this!”, and the villain to go, “actually, we talked about this a lot. She was really into vigilante justice and eye for an eye stuff. She always said, if something like this happens, avenge me.”

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how much negativity is too much negativity?

#spilled ink #thoughts #writing #spilled thoughts #negative #sad but true #sad quotes #depression #depressing shit #sadnees #sad thoughts

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We need to stop romanticizing exhaustion and burn-out. Society glamorizes working to the point your body gives up. Working yourself until you become sick from it should not be a sign of "a good, committed worker", but a sign of someone who cared too much about everything and everyone but never cared enough about themselves. It's not up to society to make being exhausted as something romantic, because it is in fact a tragedy to lose your health when you aren't able to care for you because you are forced to work more than humanly possible. It's up to society to change the way we attribute worth to people, and to do so based on the fact that we are all human and inherently valuable, that we were born as valuable people, instead of basing people's worth on how much we can work and our productivity levels, and how far we can push ourselves into our jobs.

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inej and kaz having issues with touch due to trauma. kaz and wylan drowning and being reborn in the ketterdam harbor. wylan and jesper feeling like they have to hide a part of themselves due to their fathers. jesper and nina being grisha with addictions. nina and matthias being raised as a weapon rather than a human. matthias and inej being deeply religious. inej and wylan making themselves smaller because of the abuse they suffered. wylan and matthias being forced into a life of crime. matthias and kaz losing their parents and siblings. kaz and jesper being thrown into the barrel because of reckless behavior involving money. all of these characters being so different yet so similar and forever interconnected with each other because they know that no one else will understand

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“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

— Maya Angelou

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-William Wordsworth

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“I just wanted you to know there will be a piece of you in me always.”

— Spike Jonze

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“How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?”

— John Locke

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a creative block sucks. it's the worst kind of suffocation.

how do ya get out of it?

#spilled ink #thoughts #writing #artists on tumblr #writers on tumblr #designer #art #creativity #creative block #help #art block #writers block

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I see a lot of one of us is lying reviews where people are criticising how Karen wrote stereotypical teen characters, the criminal, the brain, the princess and the jock. However what I find shocking is that people aren’t realising that that is the point of the characters. That they are these stereotypes. But as the book goes on the break from these moulds. I’m just shocked that people have read this story and haven’t realised this yet.

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The best part of one of us is back is that all the main characters are part of one big friend group now. Like they all hang out together so often plus there’s no real one on one combo that doesn’t work it’s just so lovely that all these people came together and continue to support each other and I know I’m rambling but I just love it

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friendly reminder that percy forgot his one-month anniversary with annabeth because he was too busy thinking about how hot she is during that entire month

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girls will be like hm this song reminds me of the most tragic thing that has happened to me I think I'll listen to it on loop

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Me at 3am clicking “keep reading” on the most jaw dropping, earth shattering, pantie dropping, smutty fic when I have to be up in 3 hours