such eloquent graffiti

[mrsdalloway]

We’ll meet again

And fuck the man

And tell my mother not to worry

[universal-invariants]

[capacity]

This is the most legendary tweet I’ve ever read to this day

[mollymielke-blog]

by Molly Mielke

[littlealienproducts]

Jenny Holzer Embroidery by YesStitchYes

[mrsdalloway]

There is almost nothing outside of you that will help in any kind of lasting way, unless you are waiting for an organ. You can’t buy, achieve, or date it. This is the most horrible truth.

Anne Lamott

Reflecting on this and personal growth/self-reliance tonight. Also: “You are all you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”

[printed-ink]

From Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride.

[elizahdon]

Sisyphus “Take Me”

[elizahdon]

my heart is such a mess

[glompcat]

#1 hobby for cat owners:

imitating the noises your cat makes right back at them, only the way you do it sounds slightly sarcastic

[bekstek]

a friend requested an existential bird

[star-anise]

Depression-Busting Exercise Tips For People Too Depressed To Exercise - The Establishment

For when you want to move your body, but your brain won't let you.

Oh hey look, something that ISN’T TOTAL FUCKING BULLSHIT :D

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

… Step 1. Realize that you should exercise. Step 2 ? Step 3. HEALTH!

When you’re depressed, that question mark can be a barely navigable labyrinth of garbage fires fueled by physical and mental exhaustion, self-loathing, defeat, and frustration. The last time I found myself trying to hack through that mess during a particularly dark period, I started to come up with my own list of bare-bones, practical tips to help me face the idea of moving again. Now I’m sharing them, in case they might help someone else in a similar position. I stress the word “might.” If you’re depressed, the last thing you need is another a-hole telling you what you should do. But if you’re looking for somewhere to start, I’ve been there too.

[blackraincloud-deactivated20170]

First heading? “You don’t have to exercise.” I love this entire piece. It’s going on facebook, that’s how much I love it. A+

[rawraceli]

“The perfect body is a breathing one. Anything that serves those ends is worth considering. Everything else is noise.”

[mrsdalloway]

This is so good. I always try to find the best way to encourage my clients with depression to exercise without making it seem like a panacea for depression or such an overwhelming proposition that they'll never follow through.

Any movement that you enjoy is good movement. The right "exercise plan" is the one you're willing and able to do.

[wordsnquotes]

Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.

Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory   (via wordsnquotes)

[languageoclock]

what do we want? 
improved foreign language education in English speaking countries

when do we want it? 
when we’re younger and have better neuroplasticity

[allcatsarebabies]

People say, “Oh, well, pornography—that’s for masturbation, nobody can get hurt that way.” But orgasm is a very serious reward, isn’t it? Think of Pavlov’s little dogs, right? They don’t just think about salivating; they salivate. They do it because they learned it. Period. Now think about pornography. The dehumanization is a basic part of the content of all pornography without exception. Pornography in this country in the last ten years has become increasingly violent by every measure, including Playboy, including all the stuff you take for granted; and every single orgasm is a reward for believing that material, absorbing that material, responding to that value system: having a sexual response to stuff that makes women inferior, subhuman.

Andrea Dworkin, Feminism: An Agenda, 1983 (via notstr8k8)

[everyconvenience]

Danielle Clough

(via mental_floss) 

[a-pen-for-a-sword]

The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil sprit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches. A missed increase or decrease, a crooked seam, a place where the tension is uneven - the mistake is a crack left open to let in the light. The evil sprit I want to usher out of my knitting and my life is at once a spirit of laziness and of over-achieving. It’s that little voice in my head that says, I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.

Kyoko Mori, ‘Yarn’

That last phrase especially - “I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.” It really is like some kind of all-encompassing evil sprit sometimes. 

(via a-pen-for-a-sword)

[cassisfantasy-blog]

[mrsdalloway]

when all is said and done, we’re just all walking each other home

3. There is almost nothing outside of you that will help in any kind of lasting way, unless you are waiting for an organ. You can't buy, achieve, or date it. This is the most horrible truth. --from Anne Lamott’s birthday essay on facebook