swallow your sadness

nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating

[oliversarmada]

The complicated relationship between social media and grief

[letloss]

[moika-palace]

[godzuki]

[fabiolaloves]

Visit Original Link

[beverlyjean]

Rip babe ❤️

[oliversarmada]

Also 2018 is a year of queerness. More embracing my queerness, more consuming queer media, more making queer friends.

Queerness, creativity, goodness, and being healthier.

[oliversarmada]

It was my birthday today and I felt so loved and good about life and like I'm doing a good job being in the world. I'm so lucky to have a family that loves me and beautiful friends. It's such a mad time of year jumping between celebrations but I wanted to reflect on 2017 and being 22 because it was such a rollercoaster of a year and now that I'm out of it I can see it in a kinder light.

Obviously 2017 was a weird challenging time with finishing uni and committing to so many things and dealing with a national opinion poll on my basic rights and all kinds of personal and family stuff all in the context of a pretty weird and grim global political time. But I'm probably one of the luckiest humans in the entire world. I had the most amazing and bizarre experience interning in Fiji with some incredible people and my solo days lazing on the most beautiful beach honestly sustained me through this weird year. I also flew to New York and had a magical time reconnecting with a beautiful friend and fell a bit in love with the place. I also volunteered with some wonderful supportive people and grew a lot closer to some of my friends.

And so now here I am virtually finished uni, somehow managed to land my literal dream job working in actual human rights and I'm off to travel for five months and learn Spanish and it's just like the universe decided to give me everything I've wanted and worked for and so I am super insanely grateful and 2018 is going to be the most killer year ever.

[oliversarmada]

I’m trying to be a more positive and loving person even when I’m feeling terrible, and I really think it’s working!

[hipinuff]

Christopher Pratt (Canadian, b.1935), Strait of Belle Isle, 1972.

[indiexmusic]

[alltheworld-willbeyours]

[theweirdwideweb]

From the Wikipedia page about the Fermi Paradox: Given the high scientific probability for alien existence, why can we find no evidence of their existence whatsoever?

[othernotebooksareavailable]

A poem about loneliness

[oliversarmada]

This marriage equality thing is so dumb like I have so many feelings about being used as a human smoke screen to hide this government's incredible incompetence and to distract from actual real issues like the Uluru Statement from the Heart or like the government's systematic destruction of the environment. And like it's great how everyone gets to think their opinions are valid and discuss them openly even when only one opinion is valid and that is obviously that all people should be accorded basic legal equality and like it's so frustrating we as a queer community have to waste so much emotional and political energy on this instead of like disproportionate levels of queer homelessness and mental illness. I just would like to not feel like I have to publicly out myself every time people discuss this which is like every workplace conversation. And like I can't even imagine how much worse I would feel if I weren't an articulate and self confident adult. I'm happy people are sharing things in support of queer ppl but also like there's something uncomfortable about everyone making posts saying dw I think you're a valid human being who should have basic rights and I'm like thank you but also I can't believe that needs saying and like don't be too self congratulatory? Anyway like fuck the political classes and fuck Malcolm Turnbull and I hope the entire liberal party burn to death at one of their like sexist dinner party things.

[reverberationssilencieuses]

Ivan Bilibin - Lake Ilmen

[wonderwomangrad]

Life problems I anticipated as a child:

- quicksand - ghosts

Life problems I did NOT anticipate as a child:

- the crushing sense of failure associated with botched social interactions.

[oliversarmada]

Tonight at a fun and weird houseparty this obnoxious straight white dude was mouthing off about me being "a bit gay" (even after I humoured him by talking about sundews and other carnivorous plants) and I got right up in his face and asked him if he had a problem with that and I could see the blood run out of his face as he freaked the fuck out and wondered if I was going to like, scalp him or something and it was honestly the biggest adrenaline rush of my life I almost wish he didn't spend the next half hour trying pathetically to apologise.

[jointphotographicexportsgroup-d]

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