please tell me

how are you doing?

[librarycards]

i am just moved by everything now. i'm porous and everything gets inside me

[journeyii]

Thought daughters after finding out their thoughts do shape reality:

[greelin]

they should invent a medicine that makes the aching jagged wound in your soul close

[foolhearteyes]

Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”

[honeyluvsw]

button pngs ! credit not necessary for pngs ! like or reblog to use <3

[primulaceas]

Eileen Myles, “Holes.” I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

[antidizionariodellamoda]

ANATOMY

Jean Paul Gaultier, catsuit for Mylène Farmer, 2009

[sacred-portal]

[tactfullyinappropriate]

It's like we all collectively forgot as a society that friendship and just connection in general takes effort. Even if you meet someone you immediately click with, it takes hanging out about 20 times (!) to become friends. And guess what, some of those 20 meetings might be awkward or unimpressive.

We all want to reap the benefits (having a friend circle, having a partner, getting married) without doing the work (going to events, interacting with people, learning to handle conflict maturely, dating). Myself included. If I could, I'd never leave the house or go on another mediocre date again... except, that's part of the process.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, the cure to the loneliness epidemic is touching some grass and building tolerance for tedious in-person interactions.

[deanwinchesterapologist]

Most unstable girl you know: I need to go to grad scjool

[soljos2023]

I’ll be using this screenshot constantly forever

[valtsv]

i will sexualise the horrifying and find the horror in the sexualised

[valtsv]

this is my campaign promise to you

[weltenwellen]

Glennon Doyle, Untamed

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, from “Otis”, Poems 1962 - 2012

[sleepy-bebby]

ultraviolence

[bogleech]

Physically deadliest monster to walk the modern earth

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

[eclipxium]

a collection (x)

swan lake, maureen seaton / post by @godlyrot / soulmate, wikipedia / art by @titsay / post by @cali / the lover's dictionary, david levithan / tweet / post by @moldavite

[valtsv]

one thing tumblr has unironically done to improve my mental health is completely rewrite how i view disgust as a concept. there is no higher compliment to me than being told i have something wrong with me and should be ashamed of myself when i'm just living my life in a way that is perhaps odd and hard to understand, but ultimately as harmless as you can get in our society. which probably wasn't the intention of all the advice i got in therapy to reframe my negative thought patterns as more positive ones, but it's doing great things for me.

[valtsv]

people around me: ugh what a freak. loser. weirdo. if i were you i'd be so embarrassed. how do you convince yourself your life is worth anything when you choose to live it like this.

me, who found some of the kindest and most passionately purposeful communities of people among the freaks, losers, weirdos, and other unwanted rejects: