[marshmallowmlm]

*opens up heart-shaped locket and looks fondly down at the scrap of paper inside that just says ‘Boys’*

[determined-mind-deactivated2025]

[girlwhorpsalot]

I needed this.

[mentalmentalhealth]

Thank you to all the people who posted this so I ended up seeing it. I really needed this right now. Thank you!

[aro-ace-christian]

Yeah… Not gonna lie… I cried…

[muslimintp-1999-girl]

We need more people like this

[armillary-spheres-lover]

Goddamn it stop making me feel human

[dreamsrainandwitchythings]

The therapist I wanna be.

[positivelyqueerace]

Text in the image:

“I’m a therapist and keep this poster in my waiting room, apparently it’s saved a few lives.”

I don’t like the phrase “a cry for help.” I just don’t like how it sounds. When somebody says to me, “I’m thinking about suicide. I have a plan: I just need a reason not to do it,” the last thing I see is helplessness.

I think your depression has been beating you up for years. It’s called you ugly, and stupid, and pathetic, and a failure, for so long that you’ve forgotten that it’s wrong. You don’t see any good in yourself, and you don’t have any hope.

But still here you are: you’ve come over to me, banged on my door and said, “HEY! Staying alive is REALLY HARD right now! Just give me something to fight with! I don’t care if it’s a stick! Give me a stick and I can stay alive!”

How is that helpless? I think that’s incredible. You’re like a marine: trapped for years behind enemy lines. Your gun has been taken away, you’re out of ammo, you’re malnourished, and you’ve probably caught some kind of jungle virus that’s making you hallucinate giant spiders.

And you’re still just going, “GIVE ME A STICK. I’M NOT DYING OUT HERE.” “A cry for help” makes it sound like I’m supposed to take pity on you, but you don’t need my pity. This isn’t pathetic. This is the will to survive. This is how humans lived long enough to become the dominant species.

With NO hope, running on NOTHING, you’re ready to cut through a hundred miles of hostile jungle with nothing but a stick, if that’s what it takes to get to safety.

All I’m doing is handing out sticks.

You’re the one saying alive.

[ultimate-science-nerd]

I legit cried at this. I’ve needed to hear it put this way. Bless this post.

[tea-rabbits]

Every time I see this post I stop to read the whole image. It always helps — even on the good days.

Because it wasn’t weakness. It wasn’t shameful to seek help. It wasn’t pathetic to “cry for help”. I was looking for a stick, be that from myself or from someone else. I was trying to find a way out. I was trying to heal myself.

[aurora-nerin]

this is fuckin incredible. 

[irondad-not-ironsad]

I’m sorry if I repost to many of these, but if it could be someone’s “stick” then it’s worth it

[unicornempire]

BAM!

[bunny-bumpkin]

first i eat then cilantro then i eat the parsley then i eat the lettuce then i eat the celery then i eat the

[mysharona1987]

[randalfthegray]

This? An utterly scorching take.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[bubonickitten]

I’d also like to drop recommendations for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.

They both tackle the historical evolution of modern-day mass incarceration (e.g. slavery giving way to convict leasing giving way to the modern prison-industrial complex & for-profit prisons) and how it relates to voter disenfranchisement.

[cheatcommandos-deactivated20180]

its 1:42 am and i just heard the unmistakeable sound of someone sprinting down the road wearing flip flops. good luck buddy

[oldwizardboots]

@sarsimio this tag fucking obliterated me

[cheese24k]

[rihali]

IT’S BACK

I ALMOST CRASHED ON THE FREEWAY BECAUSE I REMEMBERED THIS AND WAS LAUGHING SO HARD

[jetago]

EVERYONE NEEDS toWatCH THIS IM cRYIGN

[ohhralphie]

OH MY GOD WHAT IS LIFE.

[aleuaue]

I was laughing so hard I was crying not kidding rn

[coldforest]

This appeared again and I didn’t even need to watch it to start laughing

[littlemissblackbean-deactivated]

Why is this so funny

[sheerbadluck]

i know every single word to this video up by heart

[manda]

this makes me so happy

[memeclassheroes]

[delmondo]

we kiss our customers on the mouth with tongue

[localstarboy]

“ you got a wig on “ 😭😭💀

[7thblacksheep-deactivated201907]

Lmfaoooo the observation

[portraitofadumbassonfire]

Ok, which athletes are hotter? Baseball, Soccer, or Football players?

[saiasus]

Rugby

[portraitofadumbassonfire]

[saiasus]

[stinkloverdude]

Baseball got ass. Football got thighs. American football have pecs. RUGBY PLAYERS GOT IT ALL AND LOOK LIKE THEY COULD SPLIT YOU AND YOU’D THANK THEM

[sunflorally]

your relationship doesn’t have to be toxic to be a bad one. it can be unfulfilling, exhausting, loveless. and someone doesn’t have to be terrible to you for you to leave them. if you aren’t primarily happy in your relationship, you have a valid reason to not be in it. don’t beat yourself up because your situation “could be worse.” if it isn’t what you want, you don’t have to stay in it.

[suhyla]

[decadedances]

DO NOT GO TO THE PHOENIX PROTEST BEING ADVERTISED EVERYWHERE ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

be careful out there and if you go to ANY protest make sure you check who organized it BEFOREHAND

[narutwitter]

[typeandlettering]

Quick Tip to Draw Straight Lines & Avoid Shaky Hand Lettering by Sean McCabe

[cathedralight]

(reblog to save an artist

[the-thought-emporium-imperial]

Of all the art classes I’ve taken, this is one the most helpful thing I’ve ever learned.

[keepmeafloat]

Push straights

[inaracewithmyself]