I’ve just discovered the smart side of the internet! — Max, on his new-found ability to download journal PDFs from Google Scholar.
The phenomenological bent may be familiar if you were once grabbed, startled or terrified by Radiohead’s music. Most fans, I suspect, don’t gradually warm up to the band. Instead, the conversion is sudden and drastic. You probably heard Ok Computer or Kid A and were struck by something vague yet powerful and real - as if Radiohead presented sounds and rhythms from a hidden, subliminal soundtrack that plays just beneath the surface of life. — Radiohead And Philosophy, Brandon W. Forbes (via boycott-love)

“You’re my puzzle piece.”
“You’re my keychain.”
“Why do you say that?”
“You hold all of the keys to all the things I want in life, the things that make me happy. You keep them all together, on a little ring, in the same place. A safe place.”

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Anonymous asked: I think that you're really beautiful and it sucks to see you so sad.

i’ve never had an ask before. thank you for this.

i’m so tired and sad.

i tried to talk to my dad. decided it was time and i couldn’t handle his behaviour any more. i approached nicely. he started yelling. i started yelling. he didn’t realise that i know all of the truths behind what he said about me. i’m depressed. of course i know. i analyse and chew myself up every second.

it was like talking to a wall. so much shouting. just. brick wall. brick wall. i cried so much. i cried about our lack of a relationship. i cried over how it had to reach a point where i was screaming to get my point across. i cried because i realised he doesn’t care about our relationship at all any more, and i have to take the initiative to fix it. but i can’t. i can’t do it. so many years of stepping lightly and getting yelled at for being sad will do that to a person, i think.

i told them i never wanted anything but an emotionally supportive relationship. not things. and stuff. just that. and they said maybe we’ll try to get it right.

and i’m hoping so much that we will. but i feel this sinking feeling in my chest, and i kind of know… i just know… that it will never change. our relationship will be cold and distant and misunderstood. always. perpetually.