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Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

Lady Gaga — Coachella 2025

No but seriously. Normalize finding love in your 40's. Normalize discovering and chasing new dreams in your 30's. Normalize finding yourself and your purpose in your 50's. Life doesn't end at 25. Let's stop acting like it does.

I’m bothered my lover’s not a reader. I’m bothered by the way i find a way weave in how I live in LA to strangers. The way people from LA tend to do.

I’m bothered by the way I don’t read. How I don’t care to give performative energy to strangers.

I’m bothered by the way I’m shyer with my boyfriend when presented with strangers. I’m bothered by the way my comedic timing isn’t valued nor practiced amongst the men I subside with.

I’m bothered by my lack of career, OBVIOUSLY.

petaltexturedskies

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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Lady Gaga fotografiada por Nick Knight para el álbum “Born this way”, foto inédita (2010).

ladygagaqueenedit

#Throwback: Lady Gaga lanza el álbum “Born This Way”, hace 14 años hoy (23/05/2011).

sosuigeneris

What I imagined growing up would be like after reading The English Roses by Madonna as a child

bratteprincess2002

when i was a kid The English Roses by Madonna was my fav book ever!

mournfulroses

Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Joaquin Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940

petaltexturedskies

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

loveletter2you

this has been said before but I feel like it is very important to view being kind as something you do rather than something that you are because all people have the capacity for meanness and cruelty and often use it inadvertently but the point is to change your behavior and your attitude and practice paying attention and being selfless and sincere and vulnerable and putting kindness and warmth into your actions and words instead of being like oh I value kindness and thus I am such a good person. like it’s about the attempt

tlbodine

The older I get the more I realize that a great many things would benefit from being classified as actions rather than attributes.

heydestroya

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fuj0sheep

Here's a key part of the transfemme experience that is very overlooked: when you don't pass, people don't actually see you as a man, or treat you like a man.

fuj0sheep

Men are generally treated with a level of respect and seriousness that transfemme people don't get. Even if they don't see you as a woman, they still know they can talk over you, they still know to view you as a sexual object.

I think this is also why discussions of "male socialisation" are often very unproductive. I sure as hell wasn't getting treated like the other boys, my abusers definitely understood that. There must be a better word to describe it, but I think there's a huge difference between growing up as a boy and growing up as a "faggot".