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@lux-astrorum @shadow--fairy

#</3 #ely it's so wild that we live on actual opposite ends of a whole ass continent. like wtf!#jem we actually should hang out though bc I am living only 3 hr on the train from u for the next 9 months!!! philly meetup???

ocarina of time remake and jay park tour announcement the same day. connecting with my younger selves at terminal velocity

#where's that madeleine l'engle quote about being all the ages you have ever been.#//#personal

lucydacusgirl

What am I gonna do with my one wild and precious life omg it can’t be phone in bed forever

elokitties

let’s all be grown women together❤️

elokitties

let’s all get old and have wrinkles and sun damage and facial hair ❤️

elokitties

LET’S EAT FOOD AND GET GRAY HAIR😍

stsebastiens

@shadow--fairy @lux-astrorum

#where all my bad girls at🥲

atlantis-area

TAEMIN - Anti Believer (SHINee World VIII, 260529-31) [X]

#taemin

swanlqvr

do you like girls who cry to shinee’s hit song replay

yonglixx

060626🖤

#insaneeeeeeeee #//#felix

pastperfectcontinuous

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

ritavonbees

I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:

something needs to change here

this is urgent

I don’t know how to do it

death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.

you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.

this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.