I need to be more present.

It's all part of the journey.

[evanbuckleyed]

one day hozier is gonna cover hallelujah and by god it’ll kill me but what a way to go

[painfulprincess]

I like big boys

itty bitty boys

mississippi boys

inner city boys

i like the pretty boys with the bow tie

get your nails did, let it blow dry

i like a big beard

i like a clean face 

i dont discriminate, come and get a taste

from the playboys 

to the gay boys

go and slay boys, you my fave boys

credit to: say-never for template

dm me for picture credits

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

not to be dramatic but we desperately need a punk movement to come in and wash away this Instagram model airbrushed picture perfect trend. it’s so damaging……teens, young adults, kids, the Grown….all of us need to just. we need to be sweaty again. we deserve it smeared eyeliner…..idk just. it’s okay if ur hair is greasy please just relax & then get mad about stuff that’s important to you.

[trashboat]

part of your twenties is shedding the idea of grandeur that your life would have and just savouring the simple joys of being

[blackqueerblog]

Arrested for what! WTF! Are you kidding me? He’s not doing anything wrong! Sickening!

[airandangels]

Here’s an article about him - it’s from early July 2019.

Alan Dornan has walked the last 530 days for undocumented immigrants. Last week, he was arrested by Homeland Security officers during a prot

“I will stay active for as long as I’m able to stay active — and I’m at peace.”

He wasn’t arrested just for walking around with a sign, though, he and a friend planned a sit-in in which they blocked the doors of a federal building housing an ICE courtroom to protest the imprisonment, neglect and abuse of migrant children separated from their parents. Getting arrested was part of the point - they were held for about an hour and a half and issued citations for a fine. He said he would not pay the fine and was seeking a court date to get further public attention for the issue. He’s deliberately using his privilege as an older white man to protest for people who have less power and are at more risk.

Go Alan Dornan!

[pumpkin-patch]

PSA to girls going to pumpkin patches to take Insta pics

Don’t pick up pumpkins by their stems! They’re too heavy and can break off. Pick them up by the bottom.

Absolutely don’t ever sit on the pumpkins! Doesn’t matter how adorable and dainty you are - even if they don’t break, you are damaging them.

Please be respectful of other peoples’ property, for the sake of both the farm/store and the people visiting it after you :)

[pumpkin-patch]

eggtooth   # i was wondering about that marilyn monroe photoshoot with the pumpkins

Marilyn will make an excellent visual guide for us

Marilyn get off the pumpkins you’re ruining everything

[deepbreathheavychest]

Directions to live by, honestly.

[girlactionfigure]

[lifeinpoetry]

I sit with my grief. I mother it. I hold its small, hot hand. I don’t say, shhh. I don’t say, it is okay. I wait until it is done having feelings. Then we stand and we go wash the dishes.

— Callista Buchen, from “Taking Care,” published in Thrush

[st-pam]

[deepbreathheavychest]

Truly enjoying my interpersonal relationships has been difficult and tense lately and I need to figure that out because I don't like it.

[whitealbum]

actually desire was invented in 1985 when bruce springsteen released i’m on fire

[y2kange-deactivated20200527]

wise words from miss eartha kitt (1982)

[trainthief]

Not to go off but as a mountaineer myself let me say that if you ascend Mt Everest you are in fact not climbing SHIT. It means nothing! Some of the key elements of mountaineering are that you’re carrying all your equipment and supplies with you, you’re tackling the mountain yourself, and you’re taking care of yourself the whole way. Everest has at this point been turned into a money maker, and absolutely anyone regardless of skill set can get their hands on a license to climb it these days as long as they’re willing to pay a large fee. Most of the money for which does NOT go to the Sherpa tribe, and to those that are essentially going to then ascend the mountain for you, but rather to the government. After you’ve paid to be there, the setup is then that the Sherpa you work with is going to carry all of your supplies and most of the equipment, leaving you only with the emergency things you yourself might need in a crisis. That alone is an insanely huge dick move in terms of climbing etiquette, but even beyond that the people who climb Everest tend to bring the most batshit luxury items. When you’re mountaineering the definition of a luxury item is like… a one pound external battery so you can keep your phone charged. Or a single bar of chocolate. The people who climb Everest are known for bringing whole ass grills so they can make their fancy food, entire extra tents just for eating in, huge amounts of ingredients because they don’t want to get sick of oatmeal…. None of which they carry, clearly. So the Sherpa you climb with is not only lugging your shit around, but is then also in charge of doing all the skilled maneuvers you’ll need to do to make it to the top and basically lugging you behind them in tow as they do it. This is extremely dangerous for them, and a good number of this small tribe die every year in the process. Even more so now that companies are promising climbers that they’ll rescue their bodies if they perish in the dead zone - the top of the mountain which is so uninhabitable your body is basically shutting down the whole time you’re there - which was previously unheard of because its such a dangerous endeavor. The Sherpa tribe has made it very clear over the years that if there was any other option to make money where they are, they wouldn’t contract themselves out to Everest tour companies. But the companies have them backed into a corner, and they absolutely know they’re doing it. I haven’t met a single real mountaineer who has any sort of respect for the people who climb Everest at all. You’re risking someone else’s life and by extension the survival of a small tribe just so you can have a great talking point for your high school reunion. Was it worth it?

[trainthief]

“But most people wouldn’t be able to climb the mountain without help from the Sherpas because the Sherpa people are better at handling altitude!” …If you can’t climb a mountain, don’t climb it. Who’s holding you at gunpoint here.

[deepbreathheavychest]

THIS.

[sistertaxon]

little girls who go around after it rains and pick up the worms off the sidewalk and throw them back in the dirt are the cornerstone of our society and we should all strive to have that level of compassion for each other and for the natural world

[acutelesbian]

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

[fat-thin-skinny]

this fucks me up every single time

[acutelesbian]

I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

[conceitedtrash]

This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

fuck it up buttercup 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

go for the kill daffodil 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

fight the power sunflower

[caughtincamorr]

These have now been adopted permanently

[givemearmstopraywith]

in 2009 florence welch said “leave all your love and your longing behind, you can’t carry it with you if you want to survive” and in 2018 she said “the loneliness never left me, i always took it with me, but i can put it down in the pleasure of your company” and that is growth