There were four. One faking sleep, the other probably truly sleeping.

I stood next to the back chairs, and the bus was full.

A couple of elderly people got in and it looked and felt familiar, you know, the way they acted.

Standing next to the front yellow seats, she right against an occupied chair, he holding the pole with one arm and between her and the corridor.

A shield, a protector.

It made me pause and look fondly.

Missing and yearning.

I’ve been in this position many times

I got so distracted by it that I missed a vacant chair, she did too, but not him.

He held her hand and parted the sea of people with his presence, she walking behind, practically hiding from the people. A knight and his ward.

He guided her lovingly to the empty space and stood next to her, hands held, smiles shared.

Someone on the chair I was next to got up, I sat down.

I still get distracted by what I saw.

A mirror.

From outside it looks as loving as from the inside.

And I’m not one to hope. Never was. Don’t think I’ve got that in me

But

It grew for a moment before I stomped it to death again

A wish, delicate as it should be

That one day someone writes about us exactly like I’m writing about the elderly couple in the bus.

atlasscrumpit:

LET THE FREAKS HAVE THEIR ONE THING

disguised-offical:

Just so we’re clear about AO3 ratings

Mature = mature topics and depictions

Explicit = porn

Stop labeling your porn as “mature.” It goes under “explicit.”

coffee-without-anesthetics:

daily mantras:

• what the hell, sure
• random bullshit go
• all shall be well
• never kill yourself
• the world is infinite

thisbibliomaniac:

thisbibliomaniac:

Reblog if you’re kinda irrelevant and don’t know a single person who actively uses tumblr

Things that will never happen because everybody who has ever used tumblr is dead :(

mostbeautifulnightmare:

Pro-censorship losers when you tell them that willingly going to the pervert factory and complain that there’s perversion makes them look incredibly fucking stupid:

People talking about how it’s gross to write perverted shit and legit claim that it’s a CRIME?? like go to the police then, show everyone how dumb you are.

also writers aren’t mad that you don’t like/criticize their stuff, they’re mad because people are accusing them of actually doing illegal things irl just because they write taboo content.

This however doesn’t extend to real life published books because of the ethical dilemma of making profit off of these disturbing topics, and it’s not because these things are written but because they are labelled as something they are not, the most common one is sexual abuse disguised as romance. And it’s bad not because it has sexual abuse but because it is labeled as romance (like how people don’t really care that the genre of splatter punk exists because it is telling you exactly what’s written as it is).

God why do we have to have this conversation almost every year I’m tired of this grandpa 🥀

alexisneverokay:

this is a psa to any wattpad users migrating to ao3 who might be tempted to report a fic for containing content you personally find offensive, controversial, wrong or illegal:

nothing will happen.

the fic you don’t like will not be removed. the author’s account will not be terminated. the author in question might not ever even know that you’ve reported their fic, because ao3 only contacts authors if their works go against the terms of service- which do not prohibit any kind of written content.

the only reason ao3 might contact an author on the content of their fic is if 1) major content warnings like rape/non-con or underage are missing (and in this case ao3 will simply ask the author to add that content warning- the fic will not be taken down), or 2) the author is in some way attempting to monetise their fics or linking go fund mes etc. that’s pretty much it.

it is an archive, not an algorithm, and censorship of any kind is not present. it is your responsibility as a reader to filter content you don’t want to see, as it is the authors responsibility to tag their works correctly.

every report on ao3 is viewed by a human moderator- please don’t waste their time by reporting works that do not go against terms of service.

devourallusurvey-deactivated202:

loveshoplifter:

devourallusurvey-deactivated202:

You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get… like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw

same but it’s black people

That’s right

huffletrax:

ommanyte:

iamthesweeper:

ommanyte:

ommanyte:

ommanyte:

i cant wait till she tries to figure out why pineco is a bug type

This has got to be the funniest discourse I’ve seen on this hellsite

butchtoks: