sociallyacceptablemadness:

maculategiraffe:

I have a very vivid memory of sitting in a first grade classroom (first grade was my first actual classroom because my mom homeschooled me for kindergarten) thinking “I am literally going to die, I can’t live one more minute without reading a story, but I’ve already gotten my book confiscated for peeking at it during class and I have no backup book and I’m going to die” and then thinking in a burst of divine inspiration “WHAT IF I TELL MYSELF A STORY INSIDE MY HEAD.  THEY CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME.  PHYSICALLY THEY CANNOT.”

they could not

That’s how it begins

roxilalonde:

me, staring into space with an expression of utter and absolute fucking desolation: anyone remember how vriska killed aradia at the urging of a manipulative child predator and because aradia had reanimated the spirits of vriska’s victims as a visceral reminder of her ongoing childhood trauma. or how even then vriska was willing to just learn to live with that all the time before she laid a finger on her friend