so weird how in english some words are really just used in expressions and not otherwise… like has anyone said “havoc” when not using it in the phrase “wreaking havoc”? same goes for “wreaking” actually…
reply with more, i’m fascinated
these are called fossil words! here's a whole list
If you stay up late enough you discover a new type of being horny that doesn't have anything to do with sex but is unmistakably still the same emotion as horniness... this is a kind of horny you generally only feel abt god, unconsumated psychosexual rivalries, the idea of being fed grapes while reclining, etc. and then this knowledge vanishes again as the sun rises. like the morning dew
To all those that think there is an age limit to fanfiction or you “have to be this” to write fanfiction — fuck off.
Small Things
He tells me, don't forget to pick up some milk on your way home. I don't ever forget, and I make him a cup of tea when I get in, and with each stir of the spoon I tell him silently, you matter.
He buys a vase in Trastevere, on our first trip away together. It's meant to be for Molly, but when we get home he puts it beside the bed, and I keep it filled with fresh flowers all year round. Sometimes when he wakes he looks at it silently, and then he always smiles and says, remember when we bought that? And I tell him that I do, I remember, and he knows I mean that I remember him—will always remember him—on the Via San Francesco Ripa with his eyes creased against the sun, and the taste of granita al limone, and the feel of his smiling mouth eager under mine.
Sometimes he gets too drunk, and when I undress him and put him to bed, he leans into me like he thinks I'm going to leave, and the defensive curl of his spine is a long cool line under my soothing hand. He says, I can't forget their faces. He says, I couldn't save them.
I know he's talking about all the dead ones, and I know he's right—he can't forget them, and he couldn't save them. I say, remember all the people you helped. I say, remember you saved the world that time. I say, remember you died too.
I don't say, you are so, so good. But he knows exactly what I mean.
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I wrote this for a drabble challenge (prompt "Remember when...", word count 272) but then I wrote a different one to submit for the challenge. But waste not, want not. Words are words! So I didn't want to just chuck this one, and thought I'd post it here instead.
Dracula love ballad is not how I expected this chonker of an episode to end, but it was amazing
A QUICK GUIDE TO TRANSCENDENTAL HORROR
the ecstasy of the agony by sean t collins / annihilation (2018) / apostle (2018) martyrs (2008) / jennifer’s body (2009) / the vvitch (2015)
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