Phoenix starting off a brand new month with her usual brand of heartache - enjoy, my lovelies 💔

About ten years ago I decided that the next step I needed to take in my life was to accept and explore what it meant to be a failure and to have failed. This infuriated almost everybody in my life and clearly terrified a lot of people. People do not want you to accept failure. They dont want you to like... Sit with and think about it and pick it up and turn it arpund in your hands and really examine it. They want you to keep throwing yourself against the impossible walls until your body explodes! They do not want you to say "alright then, I've failed. What does that mean for me? Im still here. What does the life of someone who has failed look like?"

This makes people very angry and panicky.

My mental health improved in ways it had not in the previous DECADE once I stopped. And. Sat. With failure. And thought about what my failure ... Was. And looked at the structures that produced it and examined them critically.

It is so taboo to fail and admit it openly and talk about it. It is so taboo to talk about or think about failure in an accepting way rather than hiding it shamefully until you experience a degree of success in some area which allows you to present the past failure as "a stepping stone" to your current situation. Fuck that. We are put in positions of guaranteed failure by society every day and then punished and shamed for it. Lets fucking talk about failure

i love translators’ notes. i love seeing a little footnote that’s like “compare my good and grass-touching translation to the STUPID translations of smith and johnson, who rendered the passage ‘xyz’ because their heads are so far up their ass they’re giving ouroboroses body dysmorphia” or “this sentence isn’t translated very well, but that’s because the author wasn’t making any FUCKING sense”

“kids spend too much time on their devices” well what else are they supposed to do? there’s no corner shops with pinball machines in them on every corner anymore. there’s no malls or stores in small towns for teens to hang out in without being suspected of shoplifting or kicked out for loitering. sidewalks are too broken for them to ride their bikes and there’s no bike lane in the street to make it safe for them. i just don’t understand where they expect these kids to go when they keep taking places away from them. and yes having no safe public places for them is what leads a lot of teens into addiction if they end up at a place where people aren’t truly looking out for them.

south downs sketch

i’m a fan of the fact that crowley always waits for aziraphale to finish whatever he’s doing just to cuddle for hours

appreciation post for crowley's hands. he's so gentle

you still have so many years to meet so many people you never knew you could love so much

and they will love you too <3

Doctor Who | The Tenth Doctor in 3x01: Smith and Jones

Doctor Who | 4x01: Partners in Crime

Hello, person with a degree in criminology here.

This is true. This is not only true, but it's four times truer than you think it is. This is widely documented.

Thank you for your time.

Oh wow, I came across my own dash. Hello old, but incredibly correct and cool/attractive me!

Last meme post

Angst below the cut! I hope you've all had a good week so far. I've sadly spent the majority of it being ill, but I did at least get to go to London and stumble across the politest graffiti I've ever seen

Angst ahead (I couldn't decide which moment would make most sense/be more devastating, so I thought "why not both?"):

sometimes its just like *street lights reflecting off the wet asphalt at night* maybe life isnt so ugly after all

"comfort character" WHERE'S THE COMFORT???

“How long have we been friends?” “6000 years! “