Rusty-spotted Cat | Worlds Smallest Cat

Rusty-spotted cat | World’s smallest cat

“It had been a mild, serene spring day; one of those days which towards the end of March or the beginning of April, rise shining over the earth as heralds of summer.”

— Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

parasocial relationships are inherently devoid of intimacy and they are actively rotting your brain.

if you are emotionally attached/feel bonded to a person who does not know you exist, that is unhealthy for you. relationships are meant to be mutually beneficial and what you are using to fill the need for connection will never compare to the real deal, and in fact it only temporarily masks the feeling of loneliness and leaves you feeling empty, disconnected, and depressed in the long run

youtubers are not your friends, musicians are not your friends, artists are not your friends, people on a podcast are not your friends. someone who has created a piece of media that you enjoy and relate to is not your friend unless you actually know and speak to that person.

it's okay to like things and be fans of people and their work, but your energy needs to go into creating real relationships with other people not hiding in something that will never fulfill you

Something I think is neat and really cute about fanfic is that there’s a personal version of each character in it? Like, each writer focuses on different traits and qualities and even though there can be a hundred fics with the same character, they’re really not exactly the same.

So even if you and I are writing a fic with the same characters, they can still be uniquely different despite having the same core and they’re each dear to us personally as our take on the person.

I don’t know, I just think it’s cute that each writer cherishes these characters in personal and unique ways.

““You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.””

— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin