The Heart is Human

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

[great-tweets]

AND NOW I WILL TOO

[californiadreamboy]

My soul is cleansed

[kitty]

[recktalcancer]

@mostlycatsmostly

[helpingg]

[adrenaline]

[coral]

“It’s okay to get tired sometimes. Don’t give up, everything will happen at the right time.”

— All your wishes will come true. (via coral)

[coral]

“Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.”

— Mary Schmich (via coral)

[hafael-archive]

Tessa Thompson & Lakeith Stanfield by Eric T. White for GQ

[melcdrcma]

queer eye, but with lesbians helping straight girls get out of shit relationships

[theprincessleia-deactivated2021]

Carrie Fisher hiding in the trash cans on the backlot of the Star Wars set, 1976

Carrie Fisher inside a trash can while doing promotion for The Empire Strikes Back, 1980

[orangeepen]

Moved into my new place and finally have an office space! I’m so happy with how this turned out 💛✨

[adeoetregina]

INSTAGRAM AU>> Sense8>> August 8 Cluster

[gravityofstars]

Here's the thing about shows like Sense8...

It’s not mainstream. It’s not cookie cutter. Strong female leads. Compassionate male leads. Heroic poc leads. Multiple healthy lgbt relationships. Cultures around the world being respected and celebrated. Without a doubt, we should see these things regularly in media, but we don’t. And that’s why Sense8 was set up to fail.

It was exploring stories most shows wouldn’t dare touch. Those of us here on tumblr see the need for that. We crave that. But Amy from down the street doesn’t like change. Greg from work likes detective shows. Diane from church is telling everyone to boycott that show because it’s from the devil. And those are just the people who heard of the show… It doesn’t get promotion ads during The Walking Dead. It doesn’t come on directly after Grey’s Anatomy. It doesn’t even come on a channel so that people might accidentally switch over and be captivated by its beauty.

The burden of promotion fell on Netflix. They want to claim it was too expensive. That there weren’t enough viewers to offset the cost of production. And I’m sure that’s true, but whose fault was that?

I learned about Sense8 through friends from here, where a show like Sense8 is accepted and even celebrated. Unless I actively sought out information about the show, I didn’t see anything about it on any other social media sites. I’ve seen people talk about Stranger Things, OitNB, Making a Murder, etc. all over the place, but silence when it came to Sense8.

When I think about why, the answer is pretty clear: Netflix didn’t bother to promote their own show. I don’t have cable, which means I spend a decent amount of time on Netflix, but I never saw Sense8 on the main screen. It wasn’t in my suggestions even though it is very much in line with my “type” of show. It didn’t pop up in the new arrivals sections. Hell, after I started watching it, I would often have to dig for it in my recently watched section. Even when it was the last show I watched, it would get booted to the end of the line.

Netflix took a show with the odds stacked against it from the get go and did absolutely nothing to promote it. With this type of show, word of mouth is key. It has to be promoted enough not just to pique interest but to demand viewership. They needed to shove that show down everyone’s throats the way they do with OitNB or Stranger Things or even shows that aren’t even their own like Riverdale. But they didn’t.

This is on Netflix. They failed to help a beautiful and captivating and thought-provoking show thrive. They gave up on it when it deserved so much more. And I will be bitter about it for the rest of my life.

[rustafoxdrawing]

I am also a WE.

[aquafolie]

please bring my family back

[beiinlausi]

““Who am I? Do you mean… where I’m from? What I one day might become? What I do? What I’ve done? What I dream? Do you mean… what you see? What you see or what I’ve seen? What I fear or what I dream? Do you mean who I love? Do you mean what I’ve lost? WHO AM I? I guess who I am is exactly the same as who you are. Not better than. Not less than. Because there is no one who has been or will ever be exactly the same as either you or me.””

— Sense8

[helpingg]

[percyannabeth]

Jacqueline talking about body positivity on The Bold Type (S02E03)