jatatyla’s relationship with loreleaf is like “i used to think it was funny that i gave you scars and now i won’t let anyone else do the same thing. i resent you from the bottom of my heart because you have everything i want and i also wish i could give you everything you need. i’ll share your worst secrets with someone else to hurt you and i’ll pretend to stomp on the devils you’re hallucinating so you can sleep. we’re on different sides of the war and we’re both enemies in a half dozen different ways and when i told you i killed one of your people, you helped me wash the blood out of my hair. i lose all my most important people to you and you have the nerve to give them back to me. we’d be dead if we weren’t in each other’s lives. you’re my worst nightmare and my baby brother and i'll tell you i hate you and never mean it and i will never tell you i love you even though that's all i can do even when i'm bad at it.”
qpr (queer platonic rivalry)
really i think one of my favorite character dynamics is “i don’t actually like you but we’ve been through so much together that i’d trust you with my life and know that we will always back each others calls. but i still wouldn’t trust you with my car keys.” like “we aren’t really friends but we’ve been thrust into an intense situation where you are the only other person i know so now we’re besties.” and “if it weren’t for our years of history i would have literally nothing to talk to you about at this work dinner.” Enemies to lovers has NOTHING on general disinterest to begrudging acknowledgment to discovering that this person is now an inextricable part of your life
y’know as much as self-sacrifice gets made out to be super noble and shit in a lot of fiction, i am. very much more in favor of the message “you can live. you can want to live. it is a good thing to want to live, and it is a good thing that you are alive. you don’t have to feel guilty for being alive.”
idk it’s what i really needed to hear when shit got bad and honestly it’s what i still need to hear sometimes and it’s what i want the people i care about to believe about themselves.
Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry
tag the oc
quote: "CALL OUT REASON 1: KILLING PEOPLE
CALL OUT REASON 2: TELLING ME WHAT TO DO"