feel the light and the words come in

Lior | 28 | they/them | Jewish | recovering follows from @cherry-alive. formerly on @honeysuckle-venom

[expressions-of-nature]

by Bernhard

[briar--rising]

bad psychosis time. not fun. scary

[loontattoo]

being vulnerable and admitting I don't understand a reference

[serenvde-art]

trans fairy to bless ur dash

[frightstricken-deactivated20260]

it could be worse. at least i'm not 17 again. or 16 or 15 or 14 or 13 or 12 or 11 or

[frostedmagnolias]

Brooch

c. 1880-1890

gold, stone

by Heinrich Kohn, Auckland

Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa

[soft-lovely]

the art of book covers

[postarcadian]

the thing I love most about how tumblr users use tags is that it’s like what if a social media website had a footnotes system

[bannertanks]

[ghosthierophant]

[sosuperawesome]

SewBeautifulx on Etsy

[elinka]

“Glow” - acrylic ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper

© Lawrence Yang

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

The thing is nobody at pride is evaluating you to determine if you’re queer enough to be there because they’re too busy thinking “it’s so hot out” and “why is this lemonade 12 dollars?”

[transgenderization]

hope tumblr lasts another 20 years so i can liveblog my midlife crisis

[cicada-heart]

some of the beaded fish jewelry i’ve made this year ✨🐚 hand stitched onto felt with vintage & salvaged beads

etsy

[starberry-cupcake]

which of these things puts you off the most from a fic you otherwise would be interested in

no paragraph separation

creator chose not to use archive warnings

tags used as stream of consciousness text rather than clear and organizational

excessive notes

self-deprecating comments in tags and/or notes

a huge block of tags

not marked as complete yet

something in the kudos/comments/hits number or ratio (clarify in tags)

grammar issues

punctuation and capitalization issues

contradicting tags

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[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

[thesweetiepienovels]

“No one is coming to save you.” I disagree ! I believe many people made up of many small moments come to save pieces of you , even if just briefly. The mentor who believed in you . The friend who said they’re proud of you. The family member that makes you laugh . The random person who held the door for you out of nothing but kindness. The teacher who took extra time to help you understand. The person who smiled at you when you walked into a store. The little kid who looks up to you. The person who randomly complimented you. Being “saved” isn’t about being whisked away and all your hardships gone, it’s about the people and things that remind you life is not all hardships, it is kindness, love, gentleness, softness, care, thoughtfulness. It is many moments made up of your lifetime that keeps you going and showing you the world is still beautiful, and will always be. Despite.