kale

[nokose]

I’m not doing anything wrong by living at my own pace

[local-lesbian-tree-demon]

they should invent a body that feels normal to be inside of

[loveridden1999]

[figtional]

love is everywhere

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

existing in this world as a deeply sensitive person geninuely feels like being sanded down into nothing

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Goddess of Spring (1934)

[berryjellymilk]

[girlfromenglishclass]

If you're a person who wants to go to church but is nervous about what it will be like, give your church a chance to surprise you. I typically attend a fairly modern service but decided to return to the traditional sanctuary today. We have a female pastor, a greeting card that asks your pronouns, a liturgy that explicitly welcomes all backgrounds and identities. The sermon spoke about Acts 12 where Peter is freed from prison, but spoke more about the woman who answered the door and how nobody believed her when she said Peter was there. The pastor said that we must learn to listen to voices typically dismissed. We ended with the choir singing Psalm 23 "The Lord Is My Shepherd" with entirely she/her pronouns, including saying "The Mother and the Daughter."

This was not a hippie modern service. This was a completely traditional sanctuary service with a doxology and songs from the hymnal. Most people in the congregation were over 60. Give your local church a chance to surprise you.

[traumasurvivors]

By the way, you’re worthy now.

Not when you’ve healed. Not even when you started your healing journey. You don’t need to be in a certain place on your healing journey.

You are worthy now, as you are. You don’t need to “earn it”.

[irtenyev]

when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

[treethymes]

when toni morrison said “i just think goodness is more interesting. evil is constant. you can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. but you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good – and that’s complicated.”

[azbukivedii]

when simone weil said “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

[godzilla-reads]

🌼 I finished my Complete Flower Fairies collection by Cicely Mary Barker 🌺

[cosmostickers]

by YOONTORY

[cosmostickers]

by sweetwaterrrr

[glitterghosts]

I think about love on a scale from 1 to 10. Most of us find a 6 or 7, and that’s why we have divorce. It’s the truth. We settle for that 6 or 7. But I like to think Kevin is Chiron’s 10. He’s found that and he realizes that there’s no reason to settle for a 6 or a 7 because, “I know this person is my 10. Whether or not this person believes I’m his 10, I’m going to devote my life to this person entirely.” That’s why the line where he says, “You’re the only man that’s ever touched me,” for me, was the most amazing, most beautiful thing I’ve seen in cinema, period. Because that’s what we strive for as people, to find that one person because they’re there. If Kevin doesn’t feel that they should be together, Chiron is just going to die a miserable person because that’s his person and he won’t settle for anything else. But I like to think they’re together, walking in Central Park hand-in-hand when they’re 90 years old. - Trevante Rhodes

Moonlight (2016, dir. Barry Jenkins)

[machineryangel]

another important thing to remember is 1) u can pick up any hobby at any point in ur life and get outstandingly good at it & 2) the project u've been working on & aren't pleased w the current outcome so far will not be your last. u will draw/crochet/paint/sculpt/write another piece, and another, and you will have many chances to be fully content w your craft. so you should cherish the joy of making art instead of worrying ab the results & think ab how lovely it is that we're all vessels for artistry and we can share the divine act of creation!!!!!

[machineryangel]

gentle reminder that this is ur sign to pick up the hobby you quit bec you thought you weren't good enough at it. making mediocre art is the point of being alive <3

[anotherpapercut]

"summer is the worst" "no winter is!!!" actually both are. down with Big Temperature. spring and autumn for the win

[thatgirltei]

Trends are such a distraction from developing personal style. I have no desire to wear anything that doesn’t reflect me just because it’s considered cool.