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[mysharona1987]

So, Ben is going through some things these days.

[lovely-v]

It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

[lovely-v]

It’s like. When I was told to “just be yourself” as a kid I thought it was a passive thing. Like oh easy I just have to sit here and be myself. but the reason so many people think that “being yourself” is bullshit advice is because you actually have to make active choices to do this and it WILL make your life way more fun. You have to wear t-shirts of bands that were popular ten years ago because you like them. You have to do your hair in a way that you find cute or comfortable even if it’s “so nineties”. If your friend says a food you enjoy is gross to them, you can’t be afraid to admit you casually disagree. You have to do hobbies that you’re interested in even if you’re bad at them and you cant feel like you have to get good at something before you tell people it’s an activity you do. You have to read manga and comic books in public and get piercings your relatives think are unattractive. You don’t have to tell people you dislike that you dislike them, but you don’t have to give them your time and attention either. You have to rewatch that kids show you’re nostalgic for even if you’re in your 30s. You have to change your name if you hate it, even if only a few close friends can know. You have to get fun girly drinks at the bar. You have to order hot chocolate when you don’t like coffee and black coffee when you don’t like sweet things. I am still bad at practicing this but it is the only way to make it all tolerable.

[lierdumoa]

First you have to realize that "yourself" is a construct built by the decisions you make. Then it becomes clear that being yourself is a deliberate and intentional practice, not a passive state of existence.

[transgenderer]

Riding the subway is a lot like being in the airport, which is to say pleasantly powerless. You could try to get work done but it's not actually plausible. Read a book! People-watch! Sit placidly while listening to music! It is not exactly heavenly but it is the only way heaven could actually be, the only eternal pleasure, without drama, without conflict, without disappointment, that the human mind is capable of, in my humble opinion. Heaven is an uncrowded train car, peopled with amnesiacs, who all think they've got about 10 stops left til they get home, which is just enough time to get a couple of pages in on a book.

[punkrorschach]

the legally blonde mentality isnt just for law students. u can bring that attitude with you into every field of work. be the whimsical force of positive change. wear that neon outfit. snaps for us all.

[punkrorschach]

this post was inspired by my boss telling me she couldnt "take me seriously" in a pair of dinosaur print overalls. sorry i have two degrees and a dope wardrobe. you dont need to take me seriously but You Will Take Me.

[rainsincaladan]

[soup-mother]

when someone self diagnoses there's the possibility that they're wrong, unlike formal diagnosis which is infallible and never ever weaponised against anyone ever :)

[lost-carcosa]

[inthefallofasparrow]

[charlesoberonn]

“This is my favorite axe. I’ve been using it for forty years. Had to replace the handle ten times and the blade thrice.”

[fluoresensitives]

I think you guys tend to think of lesbians in such a nasty, aggressive way, especially when it comes to men, and 9/10 you haven't even begun to unpack it. No critique we have of the patriarchy, of society, of men is taken as a legitimate grievance, everything is, "oh my god, you just hate boys. You just want to take our boyfriends away, hey what about the NICE boys" and it's so, so extremely isolating.

[milksockets]

[doggirlpaws]

The spirit of Diogenes is alive and well

[rowark]

This is funny, obviously, but even if you don't go to the extreme of the example above, this is a separate seat for one person, with a back and 4 legs:

But it's not a chair. It's a bar stool.

This, however, are all chairs:

Each one is missing at least one component of the chair definition above.

So like... it's almost like strict definitions are exclusionary.

[lizluvscupcakes]

Reblog to hit a transphobe with a separate seat for one person

[the-haiku-bot]

Reblog to hit a

transphobe with a separate

seat for one person

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[lizluvscupcakes]

[bastionofbibliophiles]

All words are made up! Real life is an incomprehensibly messy spectrum that we try to draw boxes around, but if you look too closely at any of those boxes you will be forced to confront the fact that they are completely arbitrary and make no sense.

There is no definition of "fish" that includes everything you think of as "a fish" and excludes everything that you think of as "not a fish", except for the definition "things that you personally think are fish". Same for chairs. Is a "beanbag chair" a "chair"? Are spiders "bugs"? Are shrimp "bugs" (or "fish")?

What is a "woman"? Someone who has two X chromosomes? (What about people with XXY chromosomes [Klinefelter syndrome]?) Someone without a Y chromosome? (What about XX males [de la Chapelle syndrome]?) Someone who can get pregnant? (What about people who've had hysterectomies or tubal ligation, or are in menopause, or are on birth control, or, or, or...)

Any box you try to draw around the word "woman" will necessarily include people you don't think of as "women" and exclude people you do think of as "women", whether you ignore trans/intersex people or not.

[coldswarkids]

I want you all to imagine with me, if you will, what I witnessed today.

McDonalds parking lot. teenage boy. giant polished white ford Tundra. windows down. blasting. I mean BLASTING. Beethoven's moonlight sonata. boy demolishing burger.

[domina-honoribila]

White Boy Summer

[anxeious]

[boringkate]

When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.

[damianimated]

At Target this lady told her son he couldn’t have a Wonder Woman doll because “that’s for girls” and then bought her daughter the same one. It got me thinking about how often I see people bar young boys from appreciating girls/women as protagonists and heroes, and my own experience with it as a kid.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

complimented a cashier on her turtle pin this morning and she said "oh thanks, I am a little bit of a Turtle Person" with the carefully contained energy of Cookie Monster telling you he's mildly fond of chocolate chips

I hope she and the multiple tons of turtle merch she definitely has at home are having a wonderful day

[sustancy]

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

To me in 2016: if youre still on this website, fuck you but i understand

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

girl youre not gonna believe this