They're Being Chased By A Monster And Yet Their First Instinct At Hearing Dustin Singing On The Radio

HOFAS spoiler below

why in the FUCK did sjm not pair tharion and ithan? two lost souls, trying to find their place in the world, trying like hell to fix their past mistakes, trying to make things right? It is literally the embodiment of home is person not a place, and I just feel soooooo meh about the female characters that were quite literally written just to give them a love interest. like.... do less, they have each other.

what could have been!!

donna tartt was a crazy woman for making julian and henrys relationship mirror that of fuckass aristoteles and alexander the great

julian is essentially just an 80s aristoteles because he lives in solitude, believes in natural hierarchies and aristocracies, places virtue and studies above all, his most famous student — alexander the great — ends up conquering the world and then when said student isnt of use to him anymore he runs away in fear

this song is so thiam coded i wanna cry i love them 🖇️

i love graffiti. "comics and jazz are the only american art forms" you forgot graffiti. did you remember graffiti? That art form birthed in Philly and NYC in the early 70s by poor Black kids. that art form that spread all over the world and influenced so many. that's used without irony in commercials when they're trying to appeal to a "young urban" customer.

did you forget graffiti? that racism broken windows theory victim? that reach the establishment takes claiming that it's exclusively violent gang members throwing up those full-color pieces and wildstyle tags in the middle of the night outsmarting fifty security cameras because the billboard was ugly anyway. as if, even if it was, it wouldn't be impressive as all hell. risking brutality and fall damage so your art can occupy the space a gentrified condo named something like "Coluumna" took away from you. proving that despite only assholes affording to live here anymore there's still a soul beneath it. an animal with dripping stripes and teeth that go clack-clack tsssss

I am feeling a bit out of sorts tonight

HELLO??!!!???!? my jaw dropped

See, Theo does this sometimes. Plays the charade of caring too well. Makes Liam think he might be able to talk about this broken glass thing that is sparkling between them, making him bleed. But Liam knows from experience that he doesn’t. Care, that is. Theo puts on the illusion of a human face and Liam falls for it over and over again. Wants to stop. Looks in Theo’s blue-green sad-happy sincere-lying eyes and his heart fumbles.

Here sits a boy who you think you want to fix. Serve recovery for him on a silver platter. He melts it into a dagger. Here sits a boy who will drag you down with him, barbed claws in flesh as he free falls into oblivion. Or maybe here is a boy that you will latch on to, think: if I can not fix you, I will break myself on you. At least then we will be broken together. Or you think, until you become familiar with the back of him.

Liam shrugs, thinks of rain.

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In a nebulous state

writing is hard but coming up with a cunty title and catchy summary will slay even god's strongest soldier