B B Y T T H

I'm fine (insincere)

[bbytth]

"We passed him in the diner after 2AM, searching for a God I think you thought I might still see in him " ALTAR

[bbytth]

I’m starting here

I’m starting here.

start here.

[matchagirl]

[lamignonette]

[bbytth]

'Cruel' polaroids by Milda Ambrožaitė

[blondedboy]

[walkingmehome]

My wings

[04k96]

[bbytth]

salt on your wounds but lean in like a slow dance

[lamignonette]

[bbytth]

And the mirror said to me "you'll never be the girl that you thought you would be. At 23 she turned to me she said 'I think it's time I leave, cause what I got scars to show for? Nothing's been working so far.'"

[overthink]

Ting Cheng

[bbytth]

the shriek

[feelsgoood]

[bbytth]

big deep nothing

[kittn]

[389]

by Andres Gamiochipi

[thirdity]

“Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories. Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather an achievement society. Also, its inhabitants are no longer “obedience-subjects” but “achievement-subjects.” They are entrepreneurs of themselves.”

— Byung-chul Han, The Burnout Society

[vexheart]

[bbytth]

5 things I would tell my 23 year old self: 1. You're not going to be the first person to do anything. Do it anyway. Do it even though you're honestly kind of bad at it. Get better at doing it again, and then again. 2. That being said, know when to quit. Quit smoking, quit judging people because you're insecure, quit overlaying your eyebrows. Actually...maybe bleach them. 3. A lot of things are going to happen that feel senseless and unmanageable. I don't have words of wisdom for that. I don't know that I believe things happen for a reason, but I do think that we give stuff meaning. So when shit happens (and lol, trust and believe it will) you have to be the one to make it meaningful. 4. You weirdly have an ability to be simultaneously passive as hell *and* take things too seriously sometimes. That's fine, some of that will be useful for you, but you will also learn a lot of the things you worry about really aren't that deep, and a lot of the things you're not paying attention to you'll wish you would have some day.

5. Try to just take everything as it comes. Sometimes that means taking it day by day, sometimes it will be taking it minute by minute, just know that everything is ephemeral. Take comfort (or take heed) in knowing that nothing will feel this way forever.