Feminine Riptide

She | Bibliophile

[mortalityplays]

I highly recommend developing a tolerance for polite low level conflict, not just because it will serve you well when employers or whoever try to impose bullshit on you with the expectation you'll fold rather than expend energy arguing, but because it will make you a genuine asset to your friends and allies whenever they're in positions where they're less able to fight for themselves.

the first and most important step is learning to stay calm when someone with authority tries to pressure you. take a breath, think about what you actually believe, and respond in your own time. if they try to brush past or talk over you, you can say "excuse me, can I think about that for a moment. I'd like to give you a proper answer." self esteem. you're both just upright monkeys.

[wtf-is-hockey]

God sometimes I'm writing smut and I'll like, delete a sentence because I'm like, no, I can't write that. It's too indulgent. And then it's like. Girl, what the fuck are you even going to the candy store for if you're just going to buy raisins. Get real.

[pseudospaceship]

"what the fuck are you even going to the candy store for if you're just going to buy raisins" is honestly the thing I needed to hear today

[free-my-mindd]

[free-my-mindd]

[aidashakur]

When you love yourself, you don’t require the world to.

[mortallycrispygardener]

[shiftingbonesofapoltergeist-dea]

I'm sorry WHAT

[smallerontheoutside]

'lazy people don't feel guilty about not doing anything' is insane to me and I have been trying to make my brain believe it for a long time, it shocked me to my core when I first heard it

[astropithecus]

An important corollary to "if you were faking your mental illness, you could stop whenever you wanted."

[runestonedragon]

[Image ID: Post from @/scretladyspider on another website reading: recently read "if you were lazy you'd be having fun" and it has completely shifted my perspective on my own executive dysfunction and ADHD /End ID]

[aidashakur]

[remanence-of-love]

[audiartistmusic]

The Weeknd explores whether actors on social media feel natural or forced, opening a sharp conversation about fame, performance, image, and authenticity in the digital age.

[whorerific]

wei wuxian's core trait is that he believes that he is right. always. even when his peers and superiors tell him otherwise, even when he is up against generations of teachings, even when the entire world declares war on him he believes unshakingly that he is right and that he is doing the right thing

and that's why i can never everrrrrr vibe with interpretations of his character that have him regret helping the wens. bc he wouldn't!! not ever!!!! he had so many opportunities to turn back and he took none of them because he was so steady in his convictions!!! he would never back down from that even in death. and sure he could have some regret for the things that his decisions led to that he might not have seen coming but having him take back the choices themselves?? absolutely not. especially if those choices meant a-yuan survived. he would never say he regrets that and i would HOPE nobody would ask him to

this is one of my fav traits of his both because i find it admirable and because it my leads to him damaging so many of his personal relationships in service of his larger moral beliefs. and i feel like most people wouldn't be able to do that, in fact many narratives like to give a character strong moral convictions that then waver when the character is forced to choose between their loved ones and their beliefs.

but wwx does the opposite and he is able to do that Because he believes he is more right than everyone else, that he sees more that he knows more that he alone is strong enough to make the right choices and survive them. and this is how he's able to justify the core transfer. jc might hate him forever if he found out, but at least wwx was right, at least his experimental procedure worked, at least he did the right thing. he made the choice for jc bc in his head jc wouldn't have been strong enough to make it for himself, jc wouldve chosen wwx over having a core and wwx couldn't let him do that so he took the choice away.

idk i just love how messy it is like wwx is such a fun blend of ego and selflessness and self centeredness and kindness and control issues and self sacrificing tendencies and invincibility he rlly is the character of all time

[conarcoin]

fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

[conarcoin]

disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die

[scorpionlafemme]

[squirrelspidersquotations]

"You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts." Philip Arnold

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao Tzu

"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear." Anthony Robbins

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last." Marcus Aurelius

"No wise man ever wished to be younger." Jonathan Swift

"Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become." Paramahansa Yogananda

"The greatest prayer is patience." Buddha

"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread." D. H. Lawrence

"When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it." Rumi

[whorerific]

wei wuxian is such a lesson in contradiction like he's so nice he's a jerk he's so smart he's very naive he's friends with everyone nobody likes him he's the best cultivator alive he can't use a sword he's a whore he's a virgin he's lazy he'll work for days without sleep he's so calm under pressure his temper is atrocious his ego is massive he has no self worth he's dead he's alive he's a saint he's a monster he's a victim he's a villain he's a great teacher he's a terrible student he's a charmer he's so so annoying he saves everyone's asses he's the reason they're in this mess he's a brother but not really he's a son but not really he's a father but not really he's a sect leader with no sect he's so selfish he puts everyone before himself he made so many choices there was nothing else he could have done like no wonder it's so difficult for people to understand him he's literally everything

[free-my-mindd]

[free-my-mindd]

[acurlygirlamy1]

When you find whatever is meant for you...in career, in relationship, in life...you know it. You feel it. Don't stop until it feels right. Also, it doesn't have to feel right to anyone but you. Others may not understand but, you will.

[weirdcultstuff]

To myself, raised in an environment that glorified and romanticized restriction and suffering:

There is no victory in skipping dinner, or lunch, or breakfast, or morning coffee, or dessert.

There is no victory in refusing heaters and air conditioners and fans and heated blankets.

There is no victory in denying yourself sleep, or showers, or movement, or water, or a comfortable bed, or taking the elevator vs. the stairs.

There is no victory in refusing pain meds and heating pads and ice packs and medical help.

There is no victory in punishing yourself needlessly, in telling yourself that this pain you feel is because you are bad to the core and deserve it.

There is no victory in choking back your laughter and your tears, to keep an imagined equilibrium of safety that is really just a dry, cracked, empty, endless emotional desert.

You are here. You are in this body, and this body is yours. You deserve good things. You are alive, and that is messy and loud, and messy and loud are okay.

It’s okay to live abundantly. It’s okay to make mistakes, it’s okay to indulge. This paralysis of self-punishment, self-restriction, self-loathing is not healthy or good for you.