If Reality was like..

Call me Aroha. 21 year old. She/They. Sapphic/Lesbian. Second acc - @sapphic-sensation

[aroha-scape]

She was way too young to understand what was going on. She looked mature for you and all she wished for a life where she was less "lonely". It felt like a curse that held her back so softly she was eager to often just wrap herself in his lovely hands. It was so incredibly dark there and she was scared for scaring others. But there was a freedom that came down with loneliness. The freedom to be "Her". She often said to people "It's strange. I felt less lonely when I didn't know you." Now she could survive none of herself anymore. She begged people to stay and to love her. She felt happy with herself for a long time. They came along and she felt more and saw a different future. But some pieces of her were missing that she couldn't keep people. It felt like begging. The begging to be loved. They all screamed at her "People with good heart never win". And she still believes that it's because people with a good heart aren't in to win. And if I decide to not choose myself, I will disappoint all the versions of her that tried to keep me alive.

[hopelessvalentines]

[opossum-handz]

[megthemariner]

@ryebreadgf / The Truth About Grief, Fortesa Latifi / bone deep, m.v.e / Sidewalk, Richard Silken / @fridayiminlovemp3 / 60 hours, m.v.e / @itsblackleader / Salt, Nayyirah Waheed / @heavensghost

[hum-suffer]

I don't regret the love I have in my heart even if it did not reach the destination it was meant to. It is not homeless. It lives in me. I keep it wrapped under my ribs and save it from all the terrible things the world does because love should never be a root of regret. It should be a reason for warmth and safety and sanctuary. If my love doesn't get a sanctuary in the hands of the world, it will always have a home in my heart. I do not regret loving. I cannot.

[chibird]

It’s okay to not be okay. It can be helpful to transform that “not okay” to a “not okay yet”. I always feel more hopeful remembering that I will be okay again, and the period of not being okay doesn’t last forever. ♡

[shamelesslyimpurrfect]

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[puddlellama]

don't let a cruel world make you a cruel person. choose with every gritted breath, every grunt of pain, every drop of blood, to be kind.

we can't do this alone. a better day will come.

[opossum-handz]

[d-i-d]

[maskenwelt]

[d-i-d]

[renthony]

I was 12 when the first of my siblings was born, so I have very vivid memories of the way my mother was excluded from a lot of spaces because people find children annoying.

If you think "children should not be allowed in this space," you HAVE TO reckon with the fact that you are now excluding parents (and very often women specifically) who don't have access to childcare. You are isolating people who are poor, or rural, or single parents, or any number of other factors that might prevent someone from having on-demand childcare. You are cutting them off from being able to exist in public. You are denying parents and children the ability to fully participate in society.

My mom spent several years only leaving the house to buy groceries or take me to school, and even then, people would still come up to her to complain TO HER FACE about how she shouldn't bring a crying toddler to Walmart. Entitled strangers would literally try and demand that my mom leave and come back without the kids.

"Why can't your husband watch them?" Because he was at work, usually working extreme amounts of overtime so we didn't get evicted, because landlords don't like it when you stop paying rent.

"Why can't you send them to daycare?" Because that costs money.

"Why can't your teenager stay home with them and babysit?" Because I also deserved to be able to leave the house for something other than school, and taking me to the grocery store was how my mom taught me to manage a household budget, shop sales, and meal plan.

"Don't bring your kid in public if you can't CONTROL them and make them stop crying!" Kids cry when they're upset, and being dragged around a store is upsetting! Don't be an asshole! Children are human beings who are still learning how the world works, and they don't have a lot of agency. You'd cry, too.

"Spank them until they learn to stop crying!" That's just straight-up child abuse, Jesus Christ.

What the fuck was our family supposed to do? Never go to the grocery store? Starve because strangers couldn't handle a toddler existing in public?

[inkpressedpetals]

[lucidloving]

Fleabag (2016) // @symbiocene // Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts // Nikki Giovanni, Mirrors // cave painting // 肉包不吃肉, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun // thethingswesay.com // Brian Kershiznik // Neal A. Maxwell // Audre Lorde, "Equinox"

[saltair-and-webweaves]

burn lake - carrie foutain/the beauty of the husband: a fictional essay in 29 tangos - anne carson/ @ojibwe/ bigger than the whole sky - taylor swift/the basil and josephine stories - f. scott fitzgerald/lies about sea creatures - ada limó/zami: a new spelling of my name - audre lorde

[dionysian-mystery]

Avery Williams, tails between clenched teeth (in le petit 3, january 2025) via @feytouched | Quote by briscoepark on Instagram | Song of the Open by Walt Whitman | You're on Your Own, Kid by Taylor Swift | Pencil drawing by Anthony Cudahy | Mamma Told Me by Mother Mother | Mother by Maia Baia | From the poem Salt by Trista Mateer (book: The Dogs I Have Kissed) | Unknown | Nevermind by Michael Howard | Muslim Girlhood by Leila Chatti | Quote source | Poetry by @ojibwa | Antigone by Sophocles | Art by @nevahosking | Sylvia Plath | Poetry by @traumatizeddfox | Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Art by Tim Dayhuff | Quote by Helaena Moon @hapless-hollow | Quote by Sainteda on Wattpad (?) | Spear by Elizabeth Acevedo | White Oleander by Janet Fitch | Illustration by Carlos Alonso from Under Someone Else's Rain by Juan Gelman | Quote by S.P. | Mya G. Wolf