melancholy

it is what it is

[clleanlliness]

some of y'all weren't suicidal at 12 and it shows

[remanence-of-love]

[whatkindofnameisella]

ursula k le guin affirmations for your day:

it is our differences which make us dearer to one another

it is never too late to start loving

the enemy is not the foreigner, but the ones who tell you to hate the foreigner

everyone should have food, shelter, and work

everything is a yin and yang metaphor if you try hard enough

sci-fi is important

[midnightssea]

it’s amazing how women are able to navigate crowded rooms without ever touching a palm to a man’s lower back

[kosmogrl]

[kosmogrl]

[gumuhit]

you’re going to love again, find a job again, create art again, do what you love again, feel powerful again. you’re going to be back on track. i don’t know when, but you are going to feel like yourself again, eventually. this isn’t the end. hang in there.

[unheardoracle]

I love characters who are like "I'm a terrible person" but when you look closer it's more like

"I adapted to survive something and now I don't know how to stop being that version of myself."

[heybuddotcom]

i need to cut my hair i need to evolve i need to see a good thing when it’s in front of me i need to be respectful i need to listen i need to respond i need to move on

[innerchildabortionclinic]

mind if I come over and behave somewhat like a scared animal before I adjust

[calellon]

whoopss sorry i slipped up and hinted at the great darkness that roils within me. won't happen again

[dragongirlsweetie]

smalltalk is probably great if you've got your shit together but if you are a total fuckup of a person then seemingly innocuous questions end up forcing you to reveal information about yourself that you would have preferred people didn't know about you. i wish there was a socially acceptable way to decline a question about yourself that didn't require you to justify it somehow

[fairycosmos]

im considering bursting into tears

[kosmogrl]

depressed at 11 was crazy i should have become a child prodigy

[scenics]

what is ur blog about

me

[juniper-petunia]

the most attractive thing you can possibly be is an earnest dork

[scribeherself]

I think one of the gentlest things in the world is when a friend just gets your weird little brain. like you say half a sentence and they finish it. you reference something incredibly niche from seven years ago and they’re already nodding. they understand your strange vocabulary for emotions that don’t have real words yet. it’s being seen and known and still loved. maybe especially because you’re known. god. what a gift.

[podencos]

I’m so easily revitalized by small, loving gestures