She's only a bird in a gilded cage,

Jenn. New Yorker. Not super active but here every now and then

[dioraura-deactivated20200527]

your perception of yourself affects your vibe. love yourself, be confident in your looks, estimate yourself highly, express your talents, let your energy shine and your aura radiate. you are perfect. you are whole. you are love and light.

[caryled]

Diego Hargreeves + tv tropes

[slaughterkeys]

[evepolastrl]

[hplyrikz]

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[kjn]

There was external factors that led to [my eating disorder]. A lot of anorexia nervosa can come from control issues or something you’ve inherited but in my case, I believe it was from external factors. I broke my back at 17 [in a car crash] and it changed my relationship with my body. It probably saved my life otherwise I’d still be anorexic now. I learned how to appreciate my body that I had taken hugely for granted and actively hurting for so long. It literally knocked some sense into me. — Jameela Jamil on society’s routine abuse of women and how it has shaped her life. 

[jennifersimba]

Gelatos 😍 🍨 • • • • • #barcelona #spain #gelato #travelgram #toppingcircus (at Gothic Quarter, Barcelona) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm3F3l9gkEJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1o9nejtkxo0pb

[unradiantly]

[hplyrikz]

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[aangs]

“She did love him. It did bother her. She did want more from him. But she wouldn’t let herself admit it or feel it. When all else fails, deny, deny, deny.”

— S.C. Stephens, Reckless (via simply-quotes)

[1112pm]

“I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s there to be ashamed of? I went through a really tough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.”

— J.K. Rowling (via kushandwizdom)

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[hplyrikz]

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[purplebuddhaquotes]

“I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.”

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Nikita Gill

[makesgoodchoices]

“You can’t go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have…is now.”

— Hannah Baker (Cassette 5: Side A)

[prncediana]

“It’s my favorite scene in the movie and it’s the most important scene in the movie. It’s also the scene that made the least sense to other people going in, which is why it’s a wonderful victory for me. I think that in superhero movies, they fight other people, they fight villains. So when I started to really hunker in on the significance of No Man’s Land, there were a couple people who were deeply confused, wondering, like, ‘Well, what is she going to do? How many bullets can she fight?’ And I kept saying, ‘It’s not about that. This is a different scene than that. This is a scene about her becoming Wonder Woman.’” -Patty Jenkins on the No Man’s Land scene

[kesus-deactivated20180911]

Young girls really are pressured now more than ever to be seen as beautiful and sexy and perfect like IG models and whatever the fuck…..like that’s why you see “me at 14 vs 14 year old girls today” posts……….we didn’t have this constant stream of content like they do…..content telling us to be perfect and to have perfect clothes and sharp eyeliner wings that look photoshopped and shit like that….I mean it’s always been there but not like this…and while I think girls should be able to dress however they want and do whatever they want…..you have to take into consideration the fact that this all stems from a toxic culture where women have to be perfect and beautiful…now at younger and younger ages….and it’s really gross…and the media continues to sexualize and like…make young girls seem older and more appealing than they actually are idk the whole thing makes me so uncomfortable and it’s only going to get worse :/

[djokovicnovak-deactivated201809]

And the wildest thing is, people will still try and justify it with the “there’s always been girls that dress older than they are!” argument. Which is true. But it was never the norm. Pre social media, most young girls were allowed be young girls. Here’s Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Lindsay Lohan at 14/15 in 2001-2007. They were arguably the biggest young stars of the time but this is how they presented

They aren’t being styled to look leagues older than they are. They’re allowed to just be their own age and look their own age. Now, here’s Millie Bobbie Brown at 13 in 2018, Veronika Bonell at 15/16 in 2017, Skai Jackson at 13 in 2015, and Caitlin Carmichael at 13 in 2017.

There is a deep problem in our society that this is what people are styling children to look like. They don’t look like children, they look like young adults. They could wear these exact same looks in 10 years and they wouldn’t be questioned because they’re dressed and made up to present as adults. This is what is presented as normal for young girls, this is the image they’re told is the “right” one, the one they should aspire to.

There’s nothing wrong with girls - or boys - wanting to be pretty. But there is a problem with young girls being constantly told that pretty for them means looking over 21 at 13.

[unradiantly]

[hplyrikz]

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