fate favors fearless

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is!

[xenoversus]

[am1na1992]

aziz ansari’s voice in the back of my head faintly telling me to treat myself is going to be my downfall

[miranonymous]

First Day

Well, I spent three hours grooming myself for work today, so I sure hope I feel prepared. I think it will be great. I’ve already been hit on by three of my coworkers, so at least they like me. And my legs. 

I am genuinely excited to start working though, and meet lots of people. I’m here to impress the fuck outta them, and impress the fuck outta them is what I’ll do. 

[april-ham--lincon-blog]

[flyngdream]

[extramadness]

[bankholmes]

[miranonymous]

standarded:

[miranonymous]

Grateful for the ability to think.

[owning-my-truth-deactivated2022]

We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what women do. We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs or for accomplishments— which I think can be a good thing— but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don’t mind knowing about our sons’ girlfriends, but our daughters boyfriends? ‘God forbid!’ But of course when the time is right, we expect those girls to bring back the perfect man to be their husband. We police girls, we praise girls for virginity, but we don’t praise boys for virginity. And it’s always made me wonder how exactly this is supposed to work out because *laughs* the loss of virginity is usually a process that involves *laughs*… We teach girls shame. ‘Close your legs!’ ‘Cover yourself!’ We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up—and this is the worst thing we do to girls—they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an artform.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TedxEuston (x)

I can’t stop rewatching this talk. Adichie is my hero and she just /gets/ these issues so well. She’s incredible, and everyone should watch her talk, if they haven’t already.

(via blackinasia)

[miranonymous]

When you don't call It becomes so much easier To think Of him

[femme--perdue-deactivated201404]

So I get a lot of questions about the books on my desk, if I’ve read them all, whether they’re for school or pleasure, etc. Here are some of my favorites, including Life of Pi, Lolita, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1984, The Bell Jar, Eat Pray Love, and many more! 

[desire4change-deactivated201801]

Beautiful photo

[r--e--c--k--l--e--s--s]

[homowrecked-deactivated20151223]

[fingerblaster116-deactivated201]

Isn’t it weird how houses work like there’s so many people very close to you living their own lives not thinking about that the person just feet away could be recording themselves fisting their ass thank god for walls

[fingerblaster116-deactivated201]

I had an idea of making a book of my text posts to read to my children for bed time stories and I don’t think I’m going to do that anymore

[sighsomemore]

[terrancetino]

[nobodyiswatchingus]