The Wandering Turtle

Who are you to love me and not call me by my name? 

[praying]

[yelverton]

“In the words of Mark Twain’s wife, Shania Twain, ‘that don’t impress me much’”

[dogteefs]

[sidneyia-deactivated20210826]

all cats are liberals, sorry i don’t make the rules

[fortidogi]

you seem to think theyre implying this cat is an republican. this cat is communist

[gyldensternn]

a cat is an anarchist

[mandatalks]

I just had the best encounter with a child at Kmart. I was in the aisle shopping, and this girl and her dad come around the corner. The girl sees me and excitedly exclaims “There’s a human here!!” to which the father replied “Yes, there’s humans everywhere.”

[just-another-secret-gaygent]

bro do you realize you met aliens

[sheepkind]

not unusual for a kmart

[ninebagatelles]

“You have to have a certain detachment in order to see beauty for yourself rather than something that has been put in quotation marks to be understood as “beauty.” Think about Dutch painting, where sunlight is falling on a basin of water and a woman is standing there in the clothes that she would wear when she wakes up in the morning—that beauty is a casual glimpse of something very ordinary. Or a painting like Rembrandt’s Carcass of Beef, where a simple piece of meat caught his eye because there was something mysterious about it. You also get that in Edward Hopper: Look at the sunlight! or Look at the human being! These are instances of genius. Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that. And it’s not Versailles. It’s a brick wall with a ray of sunlight falling on it.”

Marilynne Robinson

[kesus-deactivated20180911]

Young girls really are pressured now more than ever to be seen as beautiful and sexy and perfect like IG models and whatever the fuck…..like that’s why you see “me at 14 vs 14 year old girls today” posts……….we didn’t have this constant stream of content like they do…..content telling us to be perfect and to have perfect clothes and sharp eyeliner wings that look photoshopped and shit like that….I mean it’s always been there but not like this…and while I think girls should be able to dress however they want and do whatever they want…..you have to take into consideration the fact that this all stems from a toxic culture where women have to be perfect and beautiful…now at younger and younger ages….and it’s really gross…and the media continues to sexualize and like…make young girls seem older and more appealing than they actually are idk the whole thing makes me so uncomfortable and it’s only going to get worse :/

[djokovicnovak-deactivated201809]

And the wildest thing is, people will still try and justify it with the “there’s always been girls that dress older than they are!” argument. Which is true. But it was never the norm. Pre social media, most young girls were allowed be young girls. Here’s Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Lindsay Lohan at 14/15 in 2001-2007. They were arguably the biggest young stars of the time but this is how they presented

They aren’t being styled to look leagues older than they are. They’re allowed to just be their own age and look their own age. Now, here’s Millie Bobbie Brown at 13 in 2018, Veronika Bonell at 15/16 in 2017, Skai Jackson at 13 in 2015, and Caitlin Carmichael at 13 in 2017.

There is a deep problem in our society that this is what people are styling children to look like. They don’t look like children, they look like young adults. They could wear these exact same looks in 10 years and they wouldn’t be questioned because they’re dressed and made up to present as adults. This is what is presented as normal for young girls, this is the image they’re told is the “right” one, the one they should aspire to.

There’s nothing wrong with girls - or boys - wanting to be pretty. But there is a problem with young girls being constantly told that pretty for them means looking over 21 at 13.

[12cd12c-deactivated20220922]

[intensional]

lorde writing ribs when she was 16

[heartbeatemoji]

no offense but im gonna… take a risk… make a change… take a chance… and break away tbh

[quotemadness]

“I hope one day we can forgive each other for not being what we wanted each other to be.”

— Kriti.G

[emmersdrawberry]

in america everyone gets a free gun at birth so if we break a leg we put ourselves down like an old race horse and thats the american healthcare system

[quotemadness]

“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”

— Charles Bukowski

[writing-prompt-s]

You have the power to heal others. You are a villain.

[transgirl-link]

I am the American healthcare system

[just-shower-thoughts]

That rebellious rock and roll from the 60s and 70s is now the acceptable, soothing home depot background music

[yuricema-deactivated20230814]

Do not allow your loneliness to lower your standards.

[ameriqan]

i want to be a professor and lecture nonsensically for a few hours every day and give students vague essay prompts and read them all and laugh but still pass everyone while i slip some bourbon into my metal coffee mug that doesn’t actually have coffee in it wearing a button-up and vest with no tie but nice jeans and hella expensive shoes that i bought because i have tenure and im never losing my job

[hustlerose]

im going to the forest does anybody want anything? 

[not4u2knowbut4u2weepandwonder]

pined cone