eterna-forest

♔ "Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well." kelsey/F/18/TN/ISTJ♔ ✝ shinda sekai sensen ✝

[eterna-forest]

It’s been a while. Where have I been?

My last post was way back on June 8. It was queued. I actively stopped browsing Tumblr sometime in May.

Over the summer I fell into a pretty intense depression. I was not happy with how my life was going. I couldn’t get a summer job and I was dreading going back to school (more on that in a minute). This “blog” was a chore. I pretty much logged in to look in the Overwatch tag and then leave. While my sense of humor hasn’t changed (currently laughing as I scroll down my feed) I’ve grown past this website and it’s time to let it go.

A lot of things are changing in my life right now. In about 50 days I will be embarking on a new adventure. I began university this August and I was never looking forward to it. The school, the location, my major... I hated it all. It took me until October to realize I could not feasibly take another semester at this college without going insane. I was intensely nervous before going to class every morning, sitting in my car stressing out over my ~8 hour school day ahead of me. It took weeks for it to finally dawn on me: this is the same way I felt before I left high school.

Something had to change.

The day I decided on what to do I cried in my car before going to class. It felt like a weight came off my shoulders. I was free. I was getting out. It’s over. I don’t have to feel like this anymore.

So I am proud to announce I am actually doing all the things I said I was doing before I left my account here dormant for 5-6 months. I am moving out.  I am going to my dream college. I am becoming a computer science major. I will no longer be in my toxic household, but 100 miles away going to college in the mountains.

I couldn’t be happier.

Only you can control your happiness. You know what’s best for you. Don’t be afraid to take a plunge if you think it’ll help you in the long run. You do you.

I’ll be keeping my blog up as a memory and also because some of my posts are referenced elsewhere and I don’t want to post them somewhere else lmao. I spent quite a few good (yet some embarrassing) years here. 

If you’re just seeing this now and you don’t follow me on other social media: I hope you didn’t  forget about me!

If you’d like to continue following me, links/accounts should still be correct on my about page.

-Kelsey

[overwatch-arts]

https://twitter.com/asukaziye1

[sharapwna]

legend

[weloveshortvideos]

[wdwpics]

[sarahlee]

another friendly reminder to take your medication

[carolinefrumentoart-blog]

[akunohomu]

Mercy by Haje714 (@haje714)

[mediamattersforamerica]

These are the stories the media needs to be telling. 

[thehorseisthewhiteoftheeyes-dea]

This fucker should be rotting in jail, not running for president of the United States. 

[complicatedmerary]

You know what? I’m not even going to bother censoring any names, this is the kind of shit that needs to be exposed. Skai Jackson is merely fourteen years old and grown men and women think they can harass her like this? And don’t give that bull that it doesn’t matter because she has money or dresses well, she is a CHILD, no adult should be focused on a little girl in such way.

If you think this is funny or justify it, I hope you never have children or go near them.

[erevshelshoshanim]

Seriously wtf is wrong with people

[annyongchingu]

the objectification and sexualization of girls - esp black girls - starts fucking young. i know it starts younger than this, too.

[astro-vee]

if you’re seriously looking at a picture of a 14 year old girl and wondering why she doesn’t look exactly like a full grown woman then i don’t know what to tell you except there’s a reason for that… so damn gross.

[renaissanceenby]

SHE’S A LITERAL BABY SO WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT HER ASS?????? if you look at this photo of a happy teenage girl having fun captioned with an inspirational, confident message and you can only focus on her butt then you’re honestly disgusting please leave this planet.

[yasboogie]

This. Is. Privilege.

[overpricedvodka]

Convicted (white college athlete) rapist to likely serve 3 months of possible 14 years.

Brock Allen Turner, a 20-year-old swimmer formerly enrolled at Stanford, was convicted of “sexually penetrating an intoxicated and unconscious person with a foreign object,” and given that the foreign object in question was his penis and having sex with someone who can’t consent is rape, I’m not sure why all the flowery language is necessary.  Turner raped a girl behind the dumpsters, was caught by two passersby on bikes who then held him until police arrived, and then he was convicted by a jury.  The maximum sentence allowed was 14 years, the prosecution recommended six years, and the judge gave him six months in county jail, of which he will probably serve three and be on his merry way.

The 23-year-old victim delivered an emotional speech at the hearing, decrying rape culture and asking that the judge send a strong message about the severity of Brock’s attack on her.

“We cannot forgive everyone’s first sexual assault … The seriousness of rape has to be communicated clearly. We should not create a culture that suggests we learn that rape is wrong through trial and error.”

(cont.)

“We should not create a culture that suggests we learn that rape is wrong through trial and error.”

And the judge basically said screw that, this young boy with a bright future might be traumatized if he ends up having to actually pay for his crimes so I’ll give him a slap on the wrist and a stern reminder not to do that again.  Case closed.

Keep reading

[angrymuslimah]

The purpose of a girl’s existence is not so she can belong to a man someday

[zvyezda]

why do russians end their sentences with) while texting. ??

[thepolyglotdream]

Yeah I was wondering the same thing! Can anyone explain?

[kimsbian2point0]

ooh i’m glad to explain this! see this smiling face :) ? well! in Russia we somehow ended up not using the eye part. so if someone texts you with lots of “))“s in the end of their message, they are just trying to be friendly and smile! same with (, if a russian person ends their message like that((, it means they are sad. hope that helped!)

[loverboylen]

#russians dont have eyes

[overwatch-arts]

OVERWATCH logPY

[official-daft-punk-deactivated2]

ok so the other day i was at sears. I was in the baby section. Im standing there looking at clothes and a lady who works there comes up and is like “oh are you expecting?” And i was like “uhhhh” and because im a dumbass i was like “no i already delivered.” And she was like “How long ago?” And i was just like “two weeks.” And she said “wow! You look great! When i had my first son, i looked like a mess for six months. Is it a boy or a girl?” And i was just awkwardly like “a girl….” And she asked her name and i said Chernobyl and she was like “oh what a cute name! It sounds really familiar.” And i honestly just stood there going through all that and pretending i had a human baby two weeks ago named Chernobyl because i didnt wanna tell this poor lady i was buying baby clothes for my fucking baby opossum

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

Three years into the water crisis

And nobody gives a sh*t

[bikonciousnessa]

i only heard about this 2 months ago. its been 3 years????

[daggers-drawn]

Remember this started because Snyder switched Flint from a freshwater mountain lake to the polluted Flint River simply to allow his wife’s company to use the lake for bottling instead. This is a manufactured crisis of corruption and capitalism.

[fruitprom]

Also remember that the pipes corroded because they refused to pay for the chemical used to make the water less acidic.

Remember that when the first E. coli outbreak from the water popped up, the city hall was given water coolers by the state, free of charge, all while denying that the water could be unsafe to drink.

Remember that, despite having a huge budget surplus and a “rainy day fund,” set aside that could easily cover the cost of relocating the residents by buying their houses/paying their debt, or could cover a large chunk of the cost of replacing the pipes, the state has decided to continue to only put in the minimal amount of effort.

Remember that flint is majority POC, majority impoverished, and is still being faced with crippling water bills from the Detroit water supply company, where they are often charged $50 a month just to use the service, on top of the cost of their water bill.

Remember that there will now be an entire generation of children who will now be damaged by lead poisoning and damage from the multitude of neurotoxins.

Remember that this is what privatized natural resources looks like. Remember that these people are being punished for having the audacity to dare to be poor in an economy that won’t let them be anything but.

[daggers-drawn]

At every level, this has not been a mistake.

The State and City are most upset that people know its happening and are resisting nation-wide.

But if we lose focus they lose even the small amount of aid they’ve managed to get.

This is how they do it. It’s a siege on the public empathy. Eventually we become numb to the problem and despair. Or something bigger happens.

Then its business as usual again.

[mismaggius]

*Flint has a BLACK majority. Not a POC one. But Black.