The Getaway

Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea

[luthienne]

Frank Bidart, from Half-light: Collected Poems; “Guilty of Dust”

[khuq-deactivated20250511]

To feel safe around someone’s energy is a different kind of intimacy.

[onedaythistooshallpass]

“We are worthy and deserving of beautiful things always.”

[onedaythistooshallpass]

“I wouldn’t enjoy my work if I couldn’t be myself.”

[onedaythistooshallpass]

Life is tough but so are you

[11990904]

[pleatedjeans]

(via shopdinosaur)

[goawfma]

this is an insult

[seven-valid-libras]

x

[breanieswordvomit]

Wait. What?!

[ick-r-us-deactivated20210902]

This is hell.

[joeymanifesto]

Naw this is wild

[growaglow]

[onedaythistooshallpass]

“Speak your mind

Even if

Your voice shakes”

-RBG

[onedaythistooshallpass]

“Give yourself permission to be powerful. Even if the world won’t.”

- @yourdiagnonsense

[astrolocherry]

Keeping a stiff upper lip may be needed while around the person invalidating you, but on your own, there is every reason to be compassionate and self-­soothing. It does hurt to be invalidated” - Dr Marsha Linehan

[astrolocherry]

Venus in Capricorn - Fairy God Priestess

The Venus in Capricorn Queen accepts a heavy crown with the weight of the world on her shoulders. Through intensely laborious royal duties, she carries out her role with a dignity that cannot be trained and a style of command that attracts followers and admiration without force or coercion. She is a quiet heroine who confronts and overcomes great ordeals alone and without complaint. And just as she demotes her achievements, she minimises her pain and traumas.

She has a way of making her intentions, expectations, and presence known without fanfare or attention grabbing. There is a strong awareness of her public reception and her social reputation is important. She sublimely styles her public appearance to personify her business card or resume. It’s in this way that she is always on her game and prepared for any opportunity or chance encounter. It’s a recipe for great success, because she can wear the face of her boss babe and charm the right people at the right time. The Capricorn nature is subject to self-judgement and fear of denigration, ridicule, failure, and humiliation. So the trouble is when she views her public image through these personal lenses, and the result can be the sense she has of being judged or actively discredited. Other people could never judge her as harshly as she does herself.

The Venus in Capricorn mirror is cursed by the critical parent’s projections. There is a delicate yet strong, tender and yet commanding beauty in Venus in Capricorn that becomes more evident as her guards fall. But the mirror on her wall can be severely tormenting. She tends to feel like the provider and protector of loved ones, and therefore she must remain the ‘strong one’. The breakdowns are silent and in private, especially after somebody has questioned her love and heart. All she has ever shown is heart. 
Venus in Capricorns can be notoriously private and internalised. Though in many cases, she just has to be surrounded by the right company to relax into her interesting, insightful, kind, and comedic self. She tends to be generous, considerate, and deeply engaged with the people that spark her intrigue. Her sharp mind and observations can make her surprisingly funny with a dour, dry, and perfectly timed remark or commentary. It doesn’t take long for people who start getting to know her to realise that many early assumptions were incorrect, and she’s rather less sheltered and modest and mundane. 
 The Venus in Capricorn nature is noble and benevolent. Affection generates raw, tantalising and earthy sensuality. The heart becomes locked in what it finds valuable, and begins digging roots and blooming shoots, so relationships are long term flower projects. But she has certain expectations with relationships too, and these are not always so superficial or materialistic. It’s rather an expectation that you will equally invest as much into the relationship and into becoming the best version of yourself. She wants to see you succeed and make your dreams come true, she doesn’t want to bask in the glory that your success brings, she just doesn’t want you to sell yourself short and miss out on the life that you could make. The Venus in Capricorn heart is old as time and longs to depart its wisdom and experience. And sometimes she feels these vague aches that come with age, maybe she feels like she has loved many times over and been there and known it and now she is content or tired, or maybe it seems to have been broken too many times to mend, or that it never completely repaired. It aches and cries and longs and stops. And something the Venus in Capricorn is rarely given credit for is knowing the language and the antiquity of her heart, and it means she knows everyone else’s too. She will honour your heart and preserve its most natural, open, and loving form, and she will conserve your relationship during its golden age. She can make the best years last forever, turning your life into a traditionally beautiful old fashioned love story that future generations will retell over and over. 
-Cherry art by Jasmine Beckett-Griffith

[astrolocherry]

[gaycism]

please take a moment to really appreciate the argument of why "most cops don't live in the cities they oversee" needs to be addressed

full video here

[joelleity]

[transcript:

Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: what percent of the police live in the city?

mayor: about 5% or so

Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: 5%, so 95% don’t live in the city.

mayor: yes.

Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: so when you say that the vast majority of the percentage goes towards salaries, et cetera, fringe benefits, that means that they take their money on 81, go to outside the city, pay taxes in those communities that have some of the best schools while we have an underfunded school district--

someone else: $60 million up.

Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: so i just want to put into context what we’re talking about, because it’s really easy to say, mayor-- and with all due respect, i like you. but that was a very politician answer.

mayor: sorry, what specifically?

Yusuf Abdul-Qadir: the, “we will consider, and we will look.” what we’re saying is we’re not interested in considering and looking. what we’re saying is, actually, there’s $50 million. commit to $20 million cut, because we’re sending money-- as the mayor of Syracuse, when you don’t have a tax base, you’re sending money out of Syracuse. and not just for 30 years-- for the rest of their life because their pensions, their health insurance, their families. so we are funding for other people’s communities to have the promise of the American dream while we are denying it in our community. that’s the context that you, as the mayor, have to look at this under.

so when we talk about renegotiating union contract, what we’re saying is you can’t play around with, “maybe, um, we will--” no. y’all got to go, because you don’t provide a service that is beneficial to the community, that is meaningful to the community. the services that you provide criminalize our community, impoverish our community, reallocate resources to suburbs. we are actually funding the suburbs, both in our police departments and in our schools.

and to be clear, just to be clear, it’s not just the fact of, like, the percentage of people. we’re also funding what race of people are on the police force, the percentage of race of teachers, as well, superintendent, board president. so we want to put in context, because it’s not just a class issue. it’s a race issue. we’re telling black and brown people and poor people, you don’t matter. the devil’s in the data and in the details, mayor. respectfully, it is not acceptable for us to be here considering.]

[lakemichiganbaby-deactivated202]

“i do not dream of labor” yes u do. labor is fulfilling. u dream of a world where ur labor isnt exploited and its that or starvation. i guarantee u dream of labor. labor is a necessity and in and of itself is a good thing.

[lakemichiganbaby-deactivated202]

if u dream of having a garden, of painting murals, cooking or baking for people, researching in a lab, or writing stories, u dream of labor. which is good! we all jus hate having our labor exploited and being underpaid for the value of our work. nobody wants to just sit at home and do NOTHING as quarantine proved! in and of itself labor is fulfilling and contributes to the betterment and advancement of society, too many people are just barred by arbitrary divides (class, education) and unable to perform labor they’d be best suited for, or that type of labor (arts, service industry) is undervalued and underpaid.

[aegissi]

here’s a carrd to send pre written emails to ask for justice for several of the victims of police brutality and racism

[pwesident]

Heads up, everyone should be writing their letters, it’s easy to set up a filter and send pre-written emails directly to the trash bin or a spam folder, and it’s even more likely to happen with a hostile force like the police.

Better worded by twitter user jackcalifano

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

This is critical!!!

[luntfontanne]

[ID: twitter thread from Jack Califano @/jackcalifano dated 6/8/20 that reads

“I spent 8 months managing the email inbox of a Presidential campaign, so here’s some advice on actually getting your email read / having the biggest impact:

write your own email. write your own email. write your own email.”

“If you send a form email, and only change the name, all that tells an org is that a petition exists. If the org or office is hostile, they can just set up a filter, based on the subject line or content, and send them all to the trash.”

“If you send literally a 1 line email that uses your own words, the filter misses it! They have to read it. It takes up staff time. And it makes the demand feel *organic*, which is much scarier, and has an impact.” /end ID]