Untitled And Undefined

Hello my darlings my name is River. This page is mostly me fangirling, some of my thoughts and opinions, and a little about my life and adventures. I'm an artist and I'm a vegetarian. I love scuba diving, adventures, and all of my wonderful friends and family. Also, yes that is a giraffe wearing rainbow socks. 😄

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Being happy is a very personal thing—and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.

Abraham-Hicks (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

i found flaws. and they were beautiful.

Nayyirah Waheed (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

Chuck Palahniuk

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.

Anita Ofokansi

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

[stability]

[purplebuddhaquotes]

My memory loves you; it asks about you all the time.

Jonathan Carroll (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.

Louise Erdrich (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[taylortut]

y’all know that john mulaney quote “the things crazy people say mean nothing to them but everything to me?”

every time i hear that quote, i think about how i got this light-up pen

[taylortut]

i got this pen four years ago when i was working as a barista at starbucks. I was on the registers and taking the order of this woman, who ordered a nonfat latte, because she was “watching her weight”

so this guy behind her, whom no one was talking to, for some fucking reason says “wathing your weight? but what about the wait for your watch?“ (which is a completely unhinged response. like just complete Mad Hatter nonsense)

anyway this lady gets really uncomfortable and of the five people (me, him, her, the other checker, and the customer at the other register) who were now sucked into the uncomfortable silence, i decided that i should alleviate the tension by saying “you can’t wait for a watch; you don’t have the time”

and then he said “oh, quick girl!”, gave me that pen, got out of line, and left without ordering anything 

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

You pleased a mad fae trickster

[dankmemesreasonforliving]

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Healing is layers. Healing is time. Healing is excruciating. Once you think it’s done, it’s not.

Mary DeMuth (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are simply toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren’t inherently bad people, but they aren’t the right people for us

Daniell Koepke (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[sacred-portal]

[lousirthe3rd-deactivated2022080]

Me trying to find a way into the circle

[goldensweetcheeks-deactivated20]

I am cracking TF UP

[ilostmyalterego]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[sarahsaharasaurus]

this is such a weird way of phrasing “Millenials go hungry because of financial crisis we caused”

[snakebitcat]

“Why then do they not eat cake?”

[babygirlgarcia]

+Bonus:

[mithrildis]

[gahdamnpunk]

Her tuition so damn high she can wear whatever tf she wants

[smallswingshoes]

Spite goals

[meeglemore-deactivated20190117]

There’s a better thing to her story. She CONTINUED her thesis in her underwear and afterward her professor said “what would your mother think wearing those kinds of clothes”

And she responded “my mother’s a feminist also a gender and sexuality studies professor. She’s fine with my shorts”

[kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd]

i think the best part is that a majority of the class also stripped with her in solidarity

[lalaofrp]

Just to give a little more perspective after reading the story:

The sequence of events is a little jumbled in the telling above. The actual chastising from the teacher came days before the woman’s thesis, during a practice run of her presentation. This was not a spur-of-the-moment thing where she just whipped off her clothes for the sake of being angry. Chai took the time to think things through before deciding this was the way she wanted to protest. She used critical thinking and level-headedness to decide instead of becoming volatile and aggressive, she would choose non-violent protest. 

I just don’t like the way the story’s being told by others because it makes her come across as “overly-emotional” and “erratic” (as women often do in the media, because it’s easier to attribute extreme action to “hysteria”), whereas in actual news reports, she had time to think about her decision and choose the best way to handle what happened to her. 

Sources: 

New York Post

CBS

Huffington Post