Kings And Clocks And Stories

The most interesting people are passionately incomplete. To know and accept that you are in progress, and that you can know and experience more, and to pursue knowledge and experience fervently is to be the best kind of human

FOR REAL! They're so underrated!! Every time we come back to them the world eats me alive and I fall in love with the characters all over again. It's such a a delight

HEEY, ARE THERE PEOPLE WHO KNOW WONDLA?! GUYS, I'VE BEEN READING WONDLA BOOKS FOR A LONG TIME, AND MY GOD, I REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT THEM WITH SOMEONE.. (I'm telling you right away, I've known this fandom for 5-4 years somewhere)

My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

When you hold me, I feel important.

My train was late. AGAIN.

biggest reason i make so many flop posts on here is because everything i do reeks of the desperation to make a popular tumblr post. this is deliberate, because it is what protects me from ACTUALLY making a popular tumblr post. so long as i crave it, tumblr fame will never find me. it is only when i turn away, and accept my fate of obscurity, that people will lay their eyes upon me. and it WILL be because i tripped and fell on my stupid face while i was turning

secret santa gift for @hopepetal :D

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sketch dump!

What have you done.

We call him Fishiki now÷)

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