we get maybe seventy summers if we’re lucky. seventy times to taste peaches at their peak. seventy Augusts to swim in water so warm it feels like absolution. seventy chances to fall in love with the same person in different ways, or different people in the same way. 3/6
“History buffs” when the test is asking them about the long-term sociopolitical consequences of the French Revolution and not the diameter of a Panzer IV turret
also not true. i have a weird version of sleep paralysis where i hallucinate my own actions and i always cross myself and pray but it wont stop im just protected.
What if I say most of the Egyptian alien theories are actually because of racism? The idea that these "ancient primitive African people" couldn't build a giant stack of rocks, or carve an ear well by themselves, but the "ancient advanced Greeks" could make the Parthenon alone
btw if you're going to include religious themes in your fics Please Research like i cannot read another piece where theyre supposed to be from a strict catholic family but then they go to "service" where a "pastor" leads mass with a guitar folk band
These videos of twenty-something-year-olds staring blankly into the camera, reciting obvious& unimpressive thoughts in a performative monotone wouldn’t exist if they instead sat in front of a mirror, pretending to be interviewed, realizing mid-sentence how uninteresting they are
This is a bulletproof hypothesis because if you fall in love the second time and it works out better than the first, you can always lie to yourself and go, "Oh, I just didn't know what real love truly was that first time."