Lady @Lady@cat.family

Good to be back where I’m nothing to no one: Men shaking hands at the station. Scoured the country for a reason I should try. I met a girl on borrowed time; read her letter, crying at the port in Dublin, and the snow was falling.

Honest, I was gonna call it.

But all I know is to get up, holding on, with a mouth full of blood.

I tried to be the place you run to, ’cause I loved you—your Calamity became me; you thought nothing was worth saving. But I was fighting for the last air left inside the car, when you said that loving me is hard. Not just “how it is”, or “who we are”: No, I was hard. (Was I?)

Sell the dream back to me, like you thought of it first. Like you live for the words. Mr “Tell Me How To Feel”—came all this way to miss the meal. Your promises were made to break; your parables were my mistakes. All this “It was only you”: Where were you when I needed proof? Girls are at the gate, sir. What’s it gonna take?

they could never make Mario in 2024 today’s gamers simply can’t imagine embodying a short italian-american plumber

the concept of the everyman did way more damage to American storytelling than the three-act structure

babies on the internet always be like “anime is better because of non-western story structure! google kishōtenketsu!” but no. anime is better because the protagonists all have weird fucking quirks

it’s so nice when your girlfriend rolls over and snuggles you

when i was a kid they used to say “the press is the fourth branch of government” but i didn’t understand at the time what they meant

it’s true luigi came from an elite background and worked in a privileged industry *stares at journalist* so what’s your excuse?

realizing i don’t actually know what the drainage is like around our apartment because IT HASN’T RAINED SINCE WE MOVED (it is raining now)

“merry christmas! here’s some money; we have lots”

banks have lots of money they could probably just give you some if they wanted

“culture is sacrosanct but material culture is a hindrance best automated away”