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thepeacefulgarden

i-am-a-fish

don't be mean to yourself that's you

i-am-a-fish

you live there

nixscriptum

quotefeeling

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…”

— Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

mournfulroses

Virginia Woolf, from a short story featured in The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf

anxietyproblem

excuse-me-thanks

“i should take a walk for my mental health” boring, tired, i don’t even really wanna do it tbh

“i need to check the perimeter” i need to check the perimeter

yunyunbear3

im just gonna leave this here

viaalterego

trishacollins

Actually, my therapist has told me this is a healthy way of processing things. Because you can get the trauma out of your head And you can write the ending you wish it had. The trusted person rescue, the catharsis of getting to kill the one who hurt you.

It's good for your brain. It's healthier than bottling it up. Fiction is where we go for emotional release. That can be true with trauma too.

erelierraceala

so what you're saying is

character: NO

therapist: YES

vmures

Adding @dear-massacre's tags because they are so true:

#this is why it's important to remember that fictional characters are fake #they have no agency. they're made up #it hurts no one to make any character go through the horrors #it is healthy and cathartic

yeahokayillreblogthat

yeah okay ill reblog that

fruitandflowercrowns

is this what fish see? …damn they’re lucky

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mort1fied

fihh

memeuplift

oncillaphoenix

i think what bothers me about a lot of "girl power" narratives is that they function on the implicit idea on the idea that women can become worthy of respect. and i happen to think that really caring about women means believing they already are worthy of respect. that historical seamstresses and soccer moms and forgotten sisters and sweet polite little girls and someone's weird grandma matter just as much as the warriors and politicians, even if they, personally, never accomplish anything "cool."