hi. i'm mary! i'm 22 and i live in canada and frequently make trips to the beautiful state of florida! i like to doodle a lot of dogs in my spare time. i enjoy such things as animation, being bored, collecting things, comic books, cuddling, curiosity, cute people, dance parties, disney, flailing, florida, forgetting lyrics, hockey, ikea, inkblot cartoons (or just cartoons in general!), nice weather, nintendo 64, nostalgia, nutella cookies, organization, pixar, pop culture, public transportation, recycling, sandwiches, sleep, smoothies, smores, sports guy chest bumps, stuffed crust pizza, stuffed animals, sweaters, uno: the card game, wild things, window shopping, yelling and zombies.
Wow, are you gay? That’s amazing. Holy shit. You’re gay? Are you gay? Do you like girls? Holy SHIT, my GOD, everyone, get in here, look at this. It’s crazy. Gay. Incredible.
1. The friends you have at the beginning of the year can completely change by the end of it. People change, and if they aren’t improving your life in some way, it’s okay to drop them.
2. Take many pictures. Don’t let it take over your life, though. You don’t want to look back and see that you only captured your memories with your camera lens and not within your mind and heart.
3. Find your safe place. Whether it be in the arms of a certain person or on the balcony of Barnes and Nobles with a cup of soup, find it and don’t let it go. You can have more than one safe place.
4. Be nice to everyone. You honestly don’t know what skeletons people are hiding in their closets. Everyone has their skeleton. Every person on this earth has something in their life or past worth collapsing on the ground in uncontrollable sobs over.
5. Reading is so important. Highlight the things that you read that you find intriguing. Read a lot, it can only do good things for you.
6. Writing always helps.
7. The girl with anxiety has the deepest thoughts. The autistic boy has the kindest heart, and the schizophrenic has the ability to put a smile on your face in seconds. Do not judge character based on a mental illness.
8. Music has an indescribable ability to connect and heal. Let it do its thing.
9. Her prettiness doesn’t make your prettiness any less pretty.
10. Getting close and letting someone in is scary as hell. You know what else it is? Worth it.
11. The minute you feel your happiness being dictated by someone else, take a break from them.
12. Adventuring is a must. Sunsets always help the soul, showing that endings can be as beautiful as beginnings.
13. Spend more time with your parents doing things they enjoy. Later in life, you’ll be wishing you’d spent more time with them than on your Netflix account.
14. Home is not always a place, but whatever you love with your whole heart. I have many homes, and it’s okay if one home doesn’t feel like home anymore.
15. Making someone smile and feel genuinely happy has the ability to warm your heart from the inside out. No matter how much pain someone is going through, you made them forget about it for a few seconds. Isn’t that something?
16. Feel everything and let it hurt, but don’t go back to what broke you.
17. Don’t let fear hold you back from what you want. The view from the other side is spectacular.
18. Tell people how you feel. Even if you’re scared it’ll burn your life to the ground. You say it loud.
19. You find the most extraordinary things in the most ordinary places.
20. Swollen lips and sweaty “I want you’s” can make you feel again, but I don’t want to feel anything if it means having to sit there feeling like the wind is constantly being knocked out of me when he stops calling back.
21. Sometimes the way you think of someone isn’t the way they actually are.
22. Never underestimate the amount of joy the holiday season can bring you. Try and find ways to feel that way all year long.
23. Timing is never going to be perfect; if you care about something enough, you’ll make the time. It’s all about priorities.
24. If women used their words to build each other up instead of tearing each other down, our world would change drastically.
25. Recovery can take 2 weeks or 5 years. You aren’t any less of a person if it takes you longer to find a way to let go of what’s hurting your heart.
26. You only need yourself, but having people by your side trying to understand means a lot more than you might think.
27. You find your truest friends in your darkest hours.
28. You can feel the whole world in a month and nothing after 2 years. Time does not define love.
29. Always say yes to dessert.
30. Concerts make life worth living. So does yelling your favorite song along with your best friend in the car with your best friend with hands intertwined. These are things that show you that you don’t need to be on drugs to feel invincible.
31. So does kissing.
emmuuhhhhh, 31 Things I’ve Learned Coming Into 2016 (via wnq-writers)
No matter where you fall on the aromantic/asexual spectrum, you are real and valid. You don’t have to “prove” your identity to anyone. The fact that that’s how you feel is enough. You are enough.
remember when we were teenagers and the first Twilight movie came out, and we were all supposed to have crushes on Robert Pattinson, and now it’s a decade later, and Kristen Stewart is gay, and we’re all gay for her.
me: I’m an adult now.. It’s scientifically proven that in order to live a healthy lifestyle, you have to go to bed early. So, from now on, my ass is going to bed at 9 pm, no excuses!! Fitness for life, yeah! Sixpack, here I come biatch!
Griffin: You f–k up a whole lot when you start doing a podcast, and you hear from people who really, really, really like you, who let you know very politely that you hurt their feelings and ostracized them, and then you stop doing it. And then after enough of those, you kind of stop doing it to everybody, or you try your f–king best to. Literally, that’s it. I think it’s easy to get defensive, but I just always felt so miserable when I heard, “I’m a big fan of yours and you hurt my feelings.”
Travis: When someone tells you, “Hey, what you just did hurt me,” you have two options. One is to say like, “You’re wrong, and I didn’t do anything wrong.” Or your other option is to say, “Okay, well if you feel that way, let me take a step back and really look at what I did.” Do that second one every time.
The McElroys answering the question “How do you build a brand that revolves around positivity and compassion in comedy?” in this TV Guide interview about the MBMBaM Seeso show. (via rockatanksy)
So here it is! After so much work, sweat and tears it’s finally done! I said this before but I’ll repeat, this was one of the most challenging pieces I’ve done in a while! It was so hard to balance the right amount of elements to make this understandable and balanced, but I guess I’m satisfied with the results! Special thanks to @jamiedraws , @l-sula-l , @jen-iii , @tricornking , @atta , @nina-rosa-draw and jasper.quartz_ for being so supportive and kind to me! I don’t know what I did to deserve you guys, but I’m forever grateful ✨
edit: because forgot to add the print stores! yes, you can buy this as a print! If you do, please take a photo and send me! I would love to see that!
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