But how you feel love and understand love are two different things.
Tayari Jones, An American Marriage
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"I've likely rolled with punches when I should have hit back," she said. "But I rolled my way into a life I love."
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Sometimes it’s exhausting for me to simply walk into the house.
I try and calm myself, remember that I’ve lived alone before.
Sleeping by myself didn’t kill me then and will not kill me now.
But this what loss has taught me of love.
Our house isn’t simply empty, our home has been emptied.
Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed.
Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart.
When it’s gone, nothing is whole again.
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The moment, when a huge plot happened in the book your just reading and your neuroduvergend mind will be there sitting for 5 minutes and screaming 'What?' in 5.000 different nuances.
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American Television after 5 years of pushing for queer representation: I hope you wanted unnecessary drama, angst with a maybe resolution, and three unfulfilling seasons of questionably written flirtation. And that all comes before anything is half-confirmed with a singular lukewarm kissing scene between two conventionally attractive, white bisexual women!
Thai Television .3 seconds after they figured out queer content is marketable: Did you want something kinky, soft, or stupid? Did you want cat ears? We’ve got cat ears! We’ve got safe/sane/consensual OR off-the-charts bad etiquette BDSM. We’ve got college students out the ass! As long as they’re an engineer or architect, choose your flavor. Do you want an age gap or classmates? Something for adults? Teens? Everyone was childhood besties, how about that??? This is a short order restaurant and I will flip you some gays like they’re hotcakes, just tell me what you want.
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The dinner dishes are done, and now I can read.
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Home isn't where you land; home is where you launch.
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
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Human emotion is beyond comprehension, smooth and uninterrupted, like an orb made of blown glass.
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milestone event: oops... I got married
You get married as a joke.
Yes, there are limits to how much you can drink. Yes, there are limits to how insane you can get while drunk— but apparently getting married is not within that limit. You get married to some random guy— NOT SOME RANDOM GUY. SOMEONE YOU KNOW. WELL. KIND OF. You wake up to a legally signed marriage document and them in your kitchen, and you blink at the red booklet in your hands and then at your new lover at the door.
"You're going to be late for class."
"Oh. My. God."
Who did you just get married to?! || LINKED MASTERLIST
Your college professor - Ye Xuan / Cael Anselm
Your class TA - Maomao
Your roommate - Steph Brown
The cute dude you sit next to in class - Kamukura Izuru
Some random stranger at the bar - Casper
Character List:
apothecary diaries (Jinshi, Maomao)
danganronpa (Komaeda, Hinata, Kamukura, Togami)
dc (Bruce, Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian, Steph, Cass, Jaime Reyes)
a date with death (Grimmy)
lovebrush chronicles (Alkaid, Ayn, Lars, Clarence)
love and deepspace (Zayne, Xavier, Rafayel)
saiki k (Kusuo)
solo leveling (Jinwoo)
tears of themis (Vyn, Marius, Luke, Artem)
Quick Rules:
Once a character has been selected for a role, they can not be requested anymore!
Once a fandom has been selected, the fandom's characters will be off the priority list for other roles! (bold means priority)
Only five slots are open! First come first serve other than rules :3
Sample ask template to request:
Hey!!! (Character) would be such a good fit for (number/role) (and then any thoughts you have lol)
What will you get in response?
A FIC. THAT'S RIGHT. YOU WILL GET A FIC. SOONER OR LATER, YOU WILL GET A FIC THAT WILL APPEAR IN QUEUE. OVER A THOUSAND WORDS. YIPPEE :333
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Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it’s gone, nothing is whole again.
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"When she knew you weren't by yourself, she could finally let go." - Celestial, An American Marriage
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Omg. This is good. Good reason too. Man.
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