Listen, this Blog is A mess

"She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell." - Nikita Gill 

[feelingsinclouds]

[...] it’s the amazing inventions that stem from Tony’s mind. Tomorrow’s dreams made real.

- Steve Rogers, Tales of Suspense

[afloweroutofstone]

Bess Levin, Vanity Fair

[hazy-october]

source

[spidermxn]

Virgin shaming and slut shaming piss me off in equal amounts. There’s nothing magical or special about being a virgin, and same goes with having sex. You know what’s magical? Shutting the fuck up about people’s personal choices. 

[cillianmurphy]

#so true bestie correct him

[feministism]

[drankinwatahmelin]

4. If the car pulls up to you run in the opposite direction.

5. Walk with your keys in your hands and keep a key between each finger

6. If they put you in the trunk kick out the headlights

7. If you get lost find a woman with a child. Never ask a man for help (this one was drilled)

[bando--grand-scamyon]

That scream fire piece of advice is literally life saving

8. Watch your shadows and reflections, especially if someone is walking behind you. A split second notice is better than none and will help you.

[gaylittlepieceofsh1t]

Yes this last one really saves lives y'all I do it all the time

[uncleromeo]

girls have to learn to view the world like international intelligence agents just to be safe walking down the street. smh.

[twilightt-fantasy]

guys pls pls pls reblog and girls pls pls pls be safe out there. terrifying and so sad that we have to worry about this on a daily basis

[guiltyidealist]

(I’m an enby, but, frankly, this is helpful for anyone.)

[cryptidinks]

- always tell someone where youre at and an approx time when youll be back

[witcheshaven]

Add text replacement words in your phone if possible. Something short and memorable that you can send quickly to people in moments of emergencies.

E.g.

[whatchagonnadoabooouuutttit]

I f ing hate that we need to reblog this, people suck, but this will save lives.

DO NOT SCROLL PAST

[anonymousmothman]

Being female fucking sucks but yes this shit is important for everyone

[deadlymodern]

Also, do not walk close to walls. It will be easier for someone so walk past you and push you against it or corner you.

If your gut is telling you to cross the street or change your path, do it. Don’t risk it. Your body knows.

If you can, buy a large umbrella and walk holding it. Studies say that predators are less likely to attempt an attack on someone that could fight back. Keys around your knuckles is fine but you’ll need to get very close to do damage. Umbrellas are more precise.

Avoid wearing headphones if you are alone on an empty street. Look aware.

Again: Stay. Away. From. Walls.

Entering an uber alone? Call your father (or anyone you trust) and say “hey dad! Yep, I’m almost there, I’m sending you the route.” outloud. Then proceed to send them the route so they can follow the uber drive. This will most likely intimidate the predator.

If you see someone in an uncomfortable or possibly dangerous situation, walk up to them and say “Betty, oh my god, I haven’t seen you in so long!”. If she gets slightly confused, you can whisper and let her know you’re trying to help and that she should follow along. Walk together to another station or away from where you are. The man will most likely not follow. I have done this one 2 times and can be very helpful.

If you are unsure she needs help, you can pass her a note saying something like “hey, I noticed this man beside you is making you uncomfortable. If you’d like help, fake a sneeze right now and I will come up to you and pretend we are friends.” This is a long note, but its an example. Be discrete. If she follows along, proceed with the previous tip. This is helpful when you’re in a crowded train and you notice harassment.

Help your sisters. Trust them. Trust yourself. Be safe.

[goodgirl81]

If you ever feel unsafe or need help, anyone is welcome to run upto me and ask me for help! I’ll go all mama bear and keep you safe!!!

[v1b3ch3ckl0s3r]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/166g6Vo8Fb9H3FIZF2H6faEBHtFQSf7nVn_QxcJ9NMi0/edit?usp=sharing

I made this google doc covering 14 different self defense tips and tricks. it was made on January 15th, 2020 so it was before I decided I’d come back to tumblr jhjshdbjfh.

[the-sunflowergoddess]

EVERY TIME I SEE THIS I REBLOG BECAUSE THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT!!!!!

[durgapolashi]

[wahbegan]

I’m pretty sure the implicit message of “So if you want equality that means we can hit you now, right?” Has always just been “You are smaller and weaker than we are. We can violently destroy you at any time and most of us have wanted to, but we restrain ourselves because you’re weak and vulnerable and subservient. If you want to act like you aren’t weak and vulnerable and subservient, there will be nothing stopping me from acting on my constant desire to violently destroy you.”

[curlyhaired-twentysomething]

Somewhere out in the cosmos I hope my love for younger me reverberates back in time and shines on her.

Dear little me,

I hope you know we go so far in life. We never figure it all out, but we learn so much and grow so beautifully. You're going to get the haircut you've always dreamed of, but been too scared to try. You'll learn how to apply make up from thousands of friends across the internet, and you will feel confident and beautiful wearing it. You'll buy a leather jacket, and another, and another, and you will turn the insult of "cute" into you're own brand of adorable badassery.

You'll graduate high school, dear heart, and college, and then college again, all with honors. You'll travel the world baby girl, and visit so many places people told you you'd never reach. You'll go all the way to Germany and meet the best person of your life- You're finally going to get that sister you always wished for. And she's going to be first person in your life to pick you, to choose you to love when she has no obligation to. And you will never feel alone when you cry again, my dearest.

You're going to teach yourself so many things, like crochet and painting and cross-stitch and woodworking. Darling, you'll build yourself a throne someday. The first time you feel the buzz of a power tool in your hand it will feel like flying. The first time you use something you created you'll know what it feels like to climb Mount everest.

You're going to make so many friends and none of them will ever make you question if you are loved or wanted or understood. You won't find your other half, darling, because you're going to learn that you are whole completely on your own. But you'll find so many people whose souls sing to yours. You'll cry over boys and love them and find them maddening and mediocre and beautiful. And darling, you're going to find love in women, too. And you'll be so scared, but so happy.

You'll read books and build a good relationship with your dad and love your mom. You'll dance with your grandma at 3am on Christmas morning just because you can. Your house will never be empty, love.

It will be so good, but not all good. You're still going to be an anxious mess, but you'll finally find the words to acknowledge that out loud and let others into that terrible scribbling part of your mind. They'll help, darling, so let them. You're going to lose whole chunks of your life to a monster named depression, and I don't know if you'll win sweet one, but my God will you fight. You'll fight so hard to come back to a life that you love so much. Some days that won't feel like enough. You're going to be so angry and so tired, but my love, you're going to get up.

You're going to get sick, and then sicker, and then even sicker. And I can't tell you that will stop. You're going to rewrite your life and let go of so many wants that you have. And it's going to hurt love. It will hurt and you will always carry the sharp memory of loss for your own being. But you'll write a new story and it will be both better and worse, and you will be ok with that.

You're going to cry easily still, sweets. You'll never grow out of that, I'm afraid.  You'll learn not to hate it though- I promise someday it will become a point of pride instead of embarrassment. You will not let this world make you hard or uncaring. You will hold your empathy like a sword. Because you're going to burn baby girl. You're going to see the world exactly as it is, all the injustices, all the awful social constructs, and you're going to bring it all crashing down. You're going to carve out an ever expanding safe space with your own two hands-your teeth if you have to. And it will hurt and you will doubt and it will be one hundred percent worth it.

You'll be in so much pain darling, and so many doctors will tell you too bad. They'll tell you that's just how it is. And you will cry and hide behind your momma and let her be your voice, but you will also learn how to make your own demands, to make your needs heard, to never stop pushing the world into giving you something better to hold on to.

You will let go of your own grand plans someday my dear, and it will not be a defeat. It will be a rebirth. And you will be so much more than just content. You'll grow flowers and love people and open your house to any in need. You will drink hot coffee and cuddle the best dogs you will ever meet. People will call your life simple and quiet and quaint, but you will know it for what it is: chaotic and joyous and 100 percent yours.

You will still yearn for things, love. You're always going to be working towards something. There will be days you feel lost and days you feel found and days you do the finding. There will be days that feel catastrophic and days full of bliss, but oh my God darling, you're going to be there for them all if you just hold on.

Most of all though, you're going to drown out your own self-loathing with self-love. You're going to love yourself so much. You're going to love all of you, past, present, and future. Let me tell you now, my dearest heart, I love you, I love you, I love you.

[evilphrog]

One of my favorite parts of the Hunger Games was how, in the beginning, Katniss was jealous amd resentful of the townies for not having to work in the coal mines. Then, over time, she realizes they aren't the true enemy. Then she sees the other district kids as so much better off than she is, because at least they don't come from district 12. But then she realizes they aren't the enemy either. And then she hates the other victors, before realizing they have all been exploited just as much as she has. So the enemy must be the Capitol citizens, who benefit from the exploitation of the districts, right? Wrong again. They are just uninformed and pampered people who have been kept in the dark about the true horrors faced by the rest of the country. Most of them, when push comes to shove, are perfectly willing to help the war efforts.

And slowly, over the three books, all theses separate factions of downtrodden people start to see each other as allies instead of enemies, and that is what propells them to eventual victory over the true enemy, the government that tried to pit them against each other. Just fun, totally fictional things to think about that have nothing whatsoever to do with our current life.

[quipplepunk]

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[srsfunny]

Masha The Hero

[asryakino]

They forgot the part where the ambulance actually stopped to let the cat in

[booty-uprooter]

oh good I was worried

[dr-dendritic-trees]

What a good cat. What a kind cat. How can anyone not love cats they are so good and loving.

[squibbbly]

they also forgot the part where they only found the baby because masha was screaming her head off bc she knew this baby was in danger. she went around outside the alley the next morning and yelled at passerby until she got one to follow her to the baby. she kept him warm all night and then made sure someone found him. she was adopted after this bc she was a stray and is in a loving home and is a hero

[pon-raul]

Hero cat

[goaliesarethebest]

Thank you, Masha, you’re such a good girl.

[jenniferrpovey]

See.

Kittens can’t regulate their own body temperature. That’s why they pile up.

Cats see us as colony members.

Masha saw a kitten that was on its own, no mommy, no other kittens to cuddle with. She instinctively knew that was a cold kitten. She knew that a kitten alone on a cold night was very likely to die. Because a kitten would have died too.

So, all she was doing was what any good colony member does - protecting the abandoned kitten. Then when the abandoned kitten’s mommy didn’t come back, she called the rest of the colony for help.

People have this bizarre idea that housecats don’t have a social sense. They do, and it saved this kid’s life. And possibly Masha’s too, as life on the streets is dangerous for a kitty.

We say “good dog” all the time, but Masha was being a very, very good cat…not just by human moral standards but by feline ones.

[colubrina]

[coffeenrocknroll]

Daniel Sloss- “Jigsaw”

[the-weeping-angel-slayer-deacti]

ROMANTIC LOVE IS NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN PLATONIC LOVE!!!

[anxietyproblem]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[epiphanies]

death to 2020 (dir. charlie brooker, 2020)

[once-a-polecat]

I legitimately couldn’t tell if that was part of the script of Death to 2020 or just Samuel L. Jackson just talking.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

This was the moment this show became absolutely serious

No jokes, no comedy

Just absolute fucking rage at this unjust and shitty world