[webofstarwars]

[lizawithazed]

god bless mark hamil

[lakemichiganbaby-deactivated202]

womanhood is like. *has a dream about being stalked* *has a complicated relationship with ur mother* *writes poetry in the notes app* *is antagonized purposely by male coworker* *looks in the mirror for a long time* *shares knowing looks with ur female friends* *shares everything w your female friends* *has a dream about your mothers trauma* *shares trauma with every woman alive* *avoids looking in the mirror*

[everythingfox]

“This cat saying “well hi!” in a southern accent”

(Source)

[wkwz]

Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig

[dhgjskdmckdshgjasasd-deactivate]

[seabois]

“And perhaps something good has been sprouting in the small numb darkness all this while.”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via antigonies)

[ichormaze]

if shes your girl why is she on the floor wailing in unison with me and six or seven other flower crowned empathy maidens?

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

it really is one thing to realize life is about being compassionate to other people and to animals and life and the land, but it’s another thing to start to figure out what that looks like in practice and the levels at which we can achieve it (i.e. kindness on a personal, face-to-face level vs. actions that will benefit many people on a larger scale) but it is a journey worth embarking on because you can succeed right away, and over and over again.

every single day there are opportunities to be kind, to listen to others, to be patient, to be forgiving (or tough when you need to be), to experience empathy or compassion, to help others,

and I think it’s a pretty incredible thing that humans have wondered for as long as we’ve existed, “what’s the meaning of life?” and that today the answer could be as simple as helping a person in line with you pay for their groceries or helping your neighbor dig their car out of the snow or covering someone’s bus fare.

And tomorrow it could be something much much bigger or smaller, but it’s just as important.

[cloudbeam]

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”

— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth (via persephomia)

[rainbowobsidianbutterfly]

“What researchers discovered was surprising: Those who are described as ‘agreeable, conscientious personalities’ are more likely to follow orders and deliver electric shocks that they believe can harm innocent people, while ‘more contrarian, less agreeable personalities’ are more likely to refuse to hurt others. The study also found that people holding left-wing political views were less willing to hurt others. One particular group held steady and refused destructive orders: ‘women who had previously participated in rebellious political activism such as strikes or occupying a factory.’”

—

Psychologists Have Uncovered a Troubling Feature of People Who Seem Nice All the Time - Mic

u dont fucken say

(via 3liza)

haha hoho I am not surprised in the least that people who prioritise niceness are more likely to be morally bankrupt

(via alexdallymacfarlane)

In other news: sky blue, water wet. More findings to follow.

(via moniquill)

“The irony is that a personality disposition normally seen as antisocial — disagreeableness — may actually be linked to ‘pro-social’ behavior,’” writes Psychology Today’s Kenneth Worthy. “This connection seems to arise from a willingness to sacrifice one’s popularity a bit to act in a moral and just way toward other people, animals or the environment at large. Popularity, in the end, may be more a sign of social graces and perhaps a desire to fit in than any kind of moral superiority.”

[princes-heels-deactivated201912]

always remember that love will always come back to u. in a different form, different person, different hobby, different touch. but in any way, love will always come back.

[sunotes]

“Franz Kafka, the story goes, encountered a little girl in the park where he went walking daily. She was crying. She had lost her doll and was desolate.

Kafka offered to help her look for the doll and arranged to meet her the next day at the same spot. Unable to find the doll he composed a letter from the doll and read it to her when they met.

“Please do not mourn me, I have gone on a trip to see the world. I will write you of my adventures.” This was the beginning of many letters. When he and the little girl met he read her from these carefully composed letters the imagined adventures of the beloved doll. The little girl was comforted.

When the meetings came to an end Kafka presented her with a doll. She obviously looked different from the original doll. An attached letter explained: “my travels have changed me… “

Many years later, the now grown girl found a letter stuffed into an unnoticed crevice in the cherished replacement doll. In summary it said: “every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.”

-May Benatar, The Pervasiveness of Loss 

[kabaks]

sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down

[kabaks]

like the strength it must take to be truthful with yourself when you don’t even have the vocabulary to describe your own desires. when there’s no precedent. nothing but you and your heart 

[kabaks]

[catsandmisadventures]

Amy Dunne: *drops mic*

(This is probably my favorite rant in literature)

[unclefather]

[sunfortune]

"hurr durr all white people are racist" sounds like you don't want our allyship but okay

white people be like “im doing you a favor by not being racist and if you dont appreciate that im gonna start being racist” 

[januaryhoney]

little weirds, jenny slate

[horreurscopes]

i have never felt as mature as when i finally understood (through therapy) and internalized (through emotional work) that you cannot connect and communicate with some people no matter how kind, compassionate, understanding, articulate, eloquent, or smart you are, and that sometimes a person not listening to you does not reflect on your communication skills or ability to connect or straight up intelligence. in a way, it’s letting go of the belief that you have the power to make people understand you. communication is a two-way street, and needs two willing participants. some people are just walls, and it has been unbelievably helpful for my mental and emotional health to let it slide and know that it does not affect me or my self worth.