“But longing is momentum in disguise: It’s active, not passive; touched with the creative, the tender, and the divine. We long for something, or someone. We reach for it, move toward it. The word longing derives from the Old English langian, meaning ‘to grow long,’ and the German langen—to reach, to extend. The word yearning is linguistically associated with hunger and thirst, but also desire. In Hebrew, it comes from the same root as the word for passion. The place you suffer, in other words, is the same place you care profoundly—care enough to act.”
— Susan Cain, from Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole (Crown, 2022)
Is this pick n mix or am I missing something? Haven’t had them in ages but I like those shrimp things and the foam bananas. The pleasure is in the mix though right
i just told my bf, who grew up very privileged, that there are times where i had to ‘borrow’ eggs and bread from my neighbors bcs i didn’t have money. he is now crying and hugging me. well, he’s asleep bcs he was tired from crying. i really don’t know if it’s a good thing? ik it’s not bad reaction, but it wasn’t a particularly sad moment of my life. i thought those days were funny? what should i do with him?
My sweet life do you find them funny or is your humour a coping mechanism? Not a sage guiding question but actually checking
That’s quite a mad reaction imo. Not just being moved to a sad and painful protectiveness and like feeling a bit raw but actual crying what is going on there? Bless him though. See how he is when he’s adapted to the idea I dunno
I miss youuu where have you been? How’s life treating you lately? What’s going on with your life? 💗💗💗
Babyyy I’ve missed you toooooo. I’m here! I haven’t had any random Qs to bring me out of hiding lately tbh (miss them) but also I’ve been quite busy. I’m always quite busy tbf. Excitingly got headhunted for a job - as an extremely unambitious and lazy girl who can’t apply for anything and floats through life this is my dream! I will do any job if someone asks me not the other way around! So pray that comes off and they want to pay me well please.
Been on a couple of dates with a very eccentric and older guy, thought I’d try something new.
Off to my first ever Glastonbury soon 🥹
Summer has finally hit the UK
Had a fab time in Scotland recently with Sally (unsphere editor Sally)
something about your beautiful work, Unsphere the Stars, still has me speechless. I’ve been on a fanfic binge spree for almost 2 months now, but once I reached this I can’t seem to take anything else seriously. It’s seriously so incredibly well written and beautiful. I actually cried when it got to the part where Tom was losing his humanity the more horcruxes he created. You see this beautiful thing between them turn so bitter and heartbreaking.
“I remember. But you made me weak with your soft skin and your soft lips and your fire and your dreams and hopes”
And then the Tom Riddle was a liar monologue was so captivating, had me in goosebumps. It’s like you accurately nailed down canon Tom Riddle and made it your own.
When they meet in the pub a decade later, that chapter also had me crying. “He didn’t need a soul to desire her”, “He had put his heart in a locket for her, and she'd turned away. (He had put his heart in a locket for her, and he had found an empty chest was a grey and lonely thing.” Absolutely speechless.
The way you wrote his resurrection and his redemption was so creative and out of the box. As I was reading the third segment I had a sinking feeling the ending wouldn’t be happy, but I was still happy Hermione had achieved so much, and then to see that they actually end up together literally made my day. I loved it so much. I’m so sad about Harry and Hermione’s falling out though, but I suppose given the circumstances it makes sense, still heartbreaking </3
thank you so much honestly your work is so *chefs kiss*
Wow thank you so much what a beautiful beautiful message 😭😭😭🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🥹💙💙💙
Reading UTS again and Would've, Could've, Should've by Taylor Swift fits the fic perfectly.
"Give me back my girlhood. It was mine first"
and
"And I damn sure never would've danced with the devil At nineteen And the God's honest truth is that the pain was heaven And now that I'm grown, I'm scared of ghosts Memories feel like weapons And now that I know, I wish you'd left me wondering"
Those just scream UTS!Hermione, especially after they parts way.
Aha it is a banger!! Unsphere Hermione is so old and so powerful in my mind I can’t say it chimed with me, but I definitely know what you mean about the war stealing her girlhood
re reading Romantic Comedy and wow i think it’s even better the second time
every time sally starts projecting and fucking shit up i feel it so deeply in my bones
noah is still amazing ofc. still don’t know if anyone like him actually exists in terms of this level of open and honest communication but i hope so! (will say i come from a small midwestern town where people just repress their feelings and anxieties so maybe it’s more normal to be fully authentic elsewhere lol)
Man I cannot fucking wait, I need to get it off my friend who I lent it to
non english speaker here, i just want to ask, do you have difficulty understanding other regions accent? or for you is it just english but different tone?
