[mothric]

I wish more people didn’t act like having a phone and internet access means you are / should be available 24/7

like when I was dating my ex, I would sometimes look at my phone in the morning to find a barrage of texts he’d sent at 2am while having an anxiety attack, but the last 5 texts would be him upset with me for not responding … like bruh I was asleep, my phone was off, wake up your roommate next time or call a hotline if you need actual assistance instead of texting your girlfriend who is physically not anywhere near you and also not conscious

I’ve had people get on my case for not responding within an hour or two of messaging me. not considering that perhaps I was in class, or at work, or doing homework, or maybe even just taking a little time to myself where I don’t have to interact with people. heck, sometimes I’ll go a whole day without looking at my phone because I have other stuff I need to get done, and this is treated like a crime. as though having a phone means I’m contractually obligated to have it on my person and on alert all the friggin time. I’m not. and I don’t.

being online doesn’t obligate me to interact with anyone either. and online/offline status isn’t a proper indicator of activity to begin with. maybe I have an app running in the background but I muted it to avoid distraction. or maybe I was using my phone for something important so I swiped your message away without reading it, making it look like I suddenly went offline. maybe I have tumblr open in a separate tab and simply forgot about it. maybe I read your message in the one minute it took me to walk from lunch to my block class and I can’t respond for at least the next 3 hours. 

maybe these are all things that people should be allowed to do. maybe, just maybe, people should be allowed to portion their time and resources the way they need instead of catering to the impatience of others.

also read receipts are highly intrusive and they need to die

[prettypositivity]

focus on getting healthy, getting money & getting your life together

[leauve]

La Perla Elements corded lace and tulle underwired bra

[puppetwithapistol-deactivated20]

tattoos I want to get

[gucci-mess-deactivated20200819]

 ATSUKO KUDO

1, 2, 3 & 4

[negrodocumentary]

In this timely interview, Angeley Crawford talks about how many AfroLatin Americans were never confused about their Blackness. Couldn’t afford to be ambivalent on the subject as it has very real and often deadly consequences…across the Diaspora. We see this consistently, whether in Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Puerto Rico, or Mexico. We all face the same social ills no matter our geography as anti-Blackness knows no borders. She points out, critical to mention, that in *this* iteration of the “AfroLatinx Movement” in the United States, that is, as Latin America has always had social movements centering negritud, the focus is on the mestizaje-fluidity confounding the “question” of race. For many, this was never even a question. We knew the answer. True to white supremacy’s function and power dynamic, Blackness and whiteness know exactly where they belong on the spectrum and she speaks to the Casta activity her students did where they arranged themselves on the spectrum of phenotype, color, and class and how this informs the access one has positioning their proximity to whiteness. The ones closer to whiteness and the ones furthest from whiteness unequivocally knew what time it was as this is the very utility of race. Angeley elaborates: “Whiteness does not differentiate and Blackness is not confused. Let’s have these hard conversations. Let’s live in the tensions that the work of decolonization requires. As the homie @diasporadash said “There is space in understanding the high cost of claiming blackness in anti black nations and space in acknowledging that many of us survived by arming ourselves in it.” We must continue to complicate the narrative.”

[onwurd]

The confusion around this issue is self-induced.

[loumargi]

Henrik Simonsen (1974, Danish- Germany )

[deactivated-blog]

Alexa release the serotonin

[jxhn-mulaney]

some of y’all have never gone to make a happy birthday card, and thought “i don’t need to trace it. i know how big letters should be,” and begun with a big-ass H, followed by a big-ass A and… oh, no! oh, god! ok, all right. real skinny P with a high hump, and then we’ll put the second P below the hump of that first P, sort of like a motorcycle sidecar situation. and now you have no room for the Y, so you do a kind of curled-up noodle Y. block letters and cursive look good together. and then you go to write “Birthday” and you totally forget the lesson you just learned with “Happy.” you’re like, “yeah, but the past is the past. big-ass B. surely more letters will fit in the same space,” and it really shows.

[moonandwomb]

17th c. posy ring bearing the inscription, “I long to have but blush to crave.”

“Posy rings, their name deriving from the term poesie or poetry, are rings with mottoes or inscriptions on a plain gold band, either in prose or verse. They were customarily exchanged between friends, relatives and lovers, and at betrothals and wedding ceremonies. The secret message was concealed inside the hoop and its content only known to the wearer and giver; it was believed that the ring’s closeness to the skin increased the emotional impact of the inscription. Here the message is poignantly strengthened by the hands holding a heart on the exterior of the band.” – Les Enluminures

[evilrashida]

Ryan Destiny photographed by Micaiah Carter. 

[dearbuddha]

Art Aquarium Exhibition in Tokyo

Visitors watch “kingyo,” or goldfish, swimming in a polyhedral aquarium on the opening day of the Art Aquarium Exhibition in Tokyo. The annual exhibition produced by Hidetomo Kimura was the collaboration of Japan’s old Edo period atmosphere, modern technology and the kingyo, the organizer said.

[venusandmadness]

Astro observations - 7

- ♡ Cancer, Aquarius, Capricorn rising/dominant usually have a bitch walk.

- ♡ Aquarians with strong influence of Saturn, can be quite negative and critical of themselves.

- ♡ Taurus tend to choose only cosmetic products and food vegan and cruelty-free.

- ♡ Aquarius females rising have a confinement between baby face with certain features quite soft and round and at the same time, have more mature and elegant features.

- ♡ Capricorn and Libra sun/rising have the most refined tastes in costumes, perfumes and music.

- ♡ Cancer Mercury may have problems modulating and verbally expressing.

- ♡ Scorpio sun/rising are those who most enjoy futuristic and eccentric tendencies, often creating their own accessories.

- ♡ Pisces and Libra Venus can conquer with an unattainable and platonic vision towards love. This makes them promise more than they can really offer.

- ♡ Aries and Taurus can be over-demanded in their work areas and any purpose in which they need to excel. This often produces mental and physical exhaustion.

- ♡ Venus in air signs, are the most playful and provocative in sex and distill ideas that can be fetish or frowned upon by third parties.

- ♡ Virgo, Aquarius, Sagittarius and Pisces usually suffer moments of quite anxiety and obsess about cleanliness and strict order. Many times they are seen as neat people with different manias.

- ♡ The sentimental relationships between water signs can be a hard challenge due to the constant confrontations provoked by the emotional changes.

[peachy-beauty]

you need to give yourself permission to be happy now. not when you lost weight, not when you found your soulmate, not when you have more money. we seek excitement from future events, but once those goals are met, the temporary pleasures will pass and they will be replaced by the next fantasy. devote your full attention to your inner self and appreciate being in the moment. happiness is never external, but a way of living and appreciating life. it’s not reality, just the way you perceive it. so go and shift your focus from the outcome to watching yourself grow.

[bimulder-deactivated20250518]

ok but like shout out to all my girls with skin conditions like eczema or acne or keratosis pilaris, etc. society paints such a false picture of women as having perfectly clear and soft skin and like….that ain’t true. so many of us have bumps and scars and dryness and redness and no matter what we do it won’t go away. but yall are perfect okay like believe me i still don’t love my skin but its so Wrong that we hate ourselves so much for something so trivial. you’re beautiful okay and so is your skin i love u.

[safrannoir]

‘The Golden Daric’ collection by Shiva Safai x Noush Jewellery — inspired by the monetary standard of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

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[transvampirerights]