Courage, dear heart ︎

Be brave*love yourself*spread kindness.

[huffylemon]

[whyactlikeahuman]

[quasikool]

#i literally crack up everytime #at least ten of the notes are from me

[gunsandfireandshit]

[bace-jeleren]

[slutdge]

"make an account to-"

[stuckinapril]

“Do it scared” “do it alone” are all great tips, but my biggest takeaway from therapy is do it messy. This is especially true if you’re getting out of a burnout, which I experience often. Literally just do it messy. You don’t need to pick the perfect trail to walk, the perfect playlist to listen to, whatever the fuck it is. You don’t need to have a meticulous to do list and wake up at the exact time you planned and drink the exact amount of water you planned to drink. Like the biggest thing for people like me to remember is sometimes it’s okay to do it messy. Put on a random yt workout and just get it done in sweats. Do 5 minutes of a daunting task and go from there. Sometimes just getting up is a win during intense burnouts or depressive funks. Literally just do it messy.

[pukicho]

I got whatever ADHD is called

[ineedtestosterone2763]

ADHD is called ADHD.

[pukicho]

That’s the one

[phantomrose96]

job interviewer: would you be willing to destroy and betray yourself for nothing?

[aunteat]

Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light by Richard Siken

[targetedknowledge]

[animentality]

[arrowandaxe]

[bee-in-your-binnet]

Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated

[power-handmaiden]

when I was in high school I had a literature teacher who had a policy of unlimited extra credit. All you had to do was read a book by a notable author (his discretion) and have a little chat with him after school to prove that you read it. No limits, no need for variety (one month I decided I really loved Kurt Vonnegut and just read everything of his I could get my hands on).

Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.

I was thinking about it again today, and only just now realized that he absolutely tricked me into being well-read, while my teenage self thought I was totally getting away with something. THAT MOTHERFUCKER. I hope he's doing well.

[burgerdotcom]

reblogs were off

[northern-punk-lad]

I hate the uk government for making me agree with Elon musk

[a-cheetosandroid]

[konarediss]

Part of Marinette's appeal to me is that she's a lil perfectionist control freak who can't kept her nose out of everyone's business and has a breakdown every ten minutes because she's convinced that its her sole responsibility to keep the world spinning.

[true-bluesargent]

the thing is is that you'll be like. 11 years old and someone will tell you that you have to shave your legs. either it will be your mum or a friend or a mean girl in the p.e. changing rooms telling you how gross it is that you have hair on your legs. so then you ask your mum about it and she says yep you have to take this razor blade and drag it across your skin under running water and just hope you don't cut yourself too badly and you have to do this every single week and maybe more frequently than that and you have to do that for fucking ever. the rest of your fucking life. because the hair that grows naturally on your legs is gross and ugly and people will laugh and boys won't like you! of course boys have hair on THEIR legs. but that's normal and even attractive and it's just not the same for you. and a few years later they'll say well you obviously should also be shaving your armpits. and then it's your arms and then it's that you have to wax your upper lip and pluck your eyebrows and ewww why do you have hair on your fingers and your toes.. you need to shave that too. and then suddenly you need to buy spray that will make invisible hairs on your face visible so that you can shave that too! and it's expensive and time consuming and difficult and it HURTS but they just say beauty is pain babe! and you're not allowed to say that maybe if beauty is pain then you don't actually want to be beautiful

[dranktwocoffees]

this is why i hate it when its brought up and ppl get defensive like "but its for me, its not for men" maybe so! but its still about patriarchal expectations for women. extra frustrating when lesbianism is brought into it; "why would i wanna impress men?" you dont! i dont either! that doesnt actually make us immune to patriarchal expectations because its not just men pushing this. i never gave a shit what boys had to say about leg hair on girls, i only started getting insecure when my sister and my mom started shaming me. if youre like 12 & everyone you love and look up to (...and everyone in general) is telling u that leg & armpit hair is disgusting and its so unhygienic (meanwhile, youve barely been alive for more than a decade and youve only had the ability to shower by yourself without mommy's help for less than one, maybe half of it), youre probably gonna develop that insecurity & the root of it is patriarchal expectations and thats okay you are not less of a feminist but its GOOD to have that self awareness & ability to look into urself and why u do what u do.. if u do that & find that its not abt others' expectations at all & u just like it, great! but you're still the exception and not the rule. as nice as the idea of "well maybe people shave bc they want to ❤" is you cannot just ignore that this is pushed on little girls by literally everyone and everything around them; women in their life included. its not bad to admit that maybe you just dont wanna be judged and maybe youve been made to feel ashamed; and even if its truly not the case for you, its not bad to acknowledge that the world doesnt revolve around you and thats the case for most other people

[stabble]

Sokka better be glad he unlearned misogyny in season one because Toph would have KILLED him

[meanbuddhist]

identifying a maladaptive coping mechanism is so bitter sweet like that’s great now i know what i need to stop doing. but that’s literally my something