Change Is Great

• 18 • APRIL • • SHE/HER • • Nüt •

[just-shower-thoughts]

When girls say “Listen, bitch” to another girl they’re likely friends, when they say “Listen, sweetie” they are definitely not friends.

[ovadrive]

[youthetrevival]

You know how mad I’d be if this happened to me in real life?

[thotty-crippin]

You’d be dead?

[youthetrevival]

Yeah, but, I’d be mad as hell about it.

[kushtrauma]

*soul levitates to the sky* “ No this nigga didn’t just kill me with my own arrow”

[lagonegirl]

[spaceprincess16]

This is the kind of content I signed up for 😂

[punsatisfying-deactivated201602]

I’m not saying that I’m an amazing actor but i HAVE won as many Oscars as Leonardo DiCaprio

[elekktra]

let’s be honest we’re all just reblogging that as long as we still can

[lagonegirl]

YES YES YES 

I love Zuri already! can’t wait!!!

This gotta bring awareness to things that really matter. Representation DOES matter!  The only people think it doesn’t, are people that are represented plenty. There gotta be a lot of Black People in cartoons for kids, and it doesn’t take much critical thinking to see why. We need Black Educated Successful Pride role models here. 

[hustleinatrap]

[chrissongzzz]

Guys this is Really Really Important….

Keep your Stick in your Pants….

Not all that Glitters is Gold….

[igotthemusic]

They exist in Haiti. Thats how my great great great grandfather died.

[11-11-1992]

Wait hold on someone explain this to me I’m so lost lol

[smilephia]

The belief is Haiti is that certain women can live under water and will lived there for years… These women are extremely beautiful and men being men can’t stay away from a good looking women are seduce and then dragged under water and are never to be seen again… My great grandmother was one of these women… One day her mother sent her to go get water from the river and she never came back 10 years later they see her come up the road in all white with beautiful jewelry all around her body sing up a storm.. When her family asked her where she was she told them she was under water… thats the story my grandma always use to tell me growing up

[smilephia]

11-11-1992

[boihedonist-deactivated20171216]

Wow

[sharea]

Sounds like daughters of Yoruba goddess

[lonewolfchick420]

I love African and African Diasporan mythology.

[thepinkcornmoon-deactivated2018]

we call them “river mumma” in Jamaica

[black-stoners]

I NEED MORE MYTHOLOGY INVOLVING BLACK CULTURES IN THE DIASPORA.

[everythingwealwayswere]

We call the “mammi water” in Nigeria

[thatgirlkalani]

I’m quite intrigued & in love with this

[starlightandtears]

The gag is that I’m at the heaviest weight I’ve ever been because of stress and my ED but my blood pressure is the best it’s ever been, my heart is fantastic, and other than the bad ear infection and the accident I had in April, my doctor is completely unconcerned about my overall health. I’m young and strong and comfy.

But I’m sure the fatphobes on here don’t care about that.

[kushandwizdom]

I bumped into an old love yesterday. Extremely random. We didn’t end on bad terms, we just grew apart. We weren’t even intimate, we were way too young at the time lol. We walked passed each other and I knew that face looked familiar, by the time I turned around he was already walking back towards me, laughing with his arms wide open. He’s changed soooooo much. I was blown away. I’m so proud of him. Even the way he stands is different. He’s a man now. He couldn’t get over how much I changed either.. ahh lmao we were so geeky when we were younger wdf man.

He said something that stuck with me, during that time, we didn’t realise how much our connection would impact our lives. He told me that I inspired him and he reminded me of a few conversations we used to have and how we’ve both stuck to goals up to today etc. He used to have the craziest ideas, he inspired me to always think outside of the box and to not fear my truth or ideas. He gave me confidence man.

It’s crazy to think, how lead by influence we truly are. It had me thinking, how much of my thoughts are uniquely mine?? or which ones originally stemmed from past encounters??

Anyway, I’m not allowing him to slip through my fingers, he’s a great person. Definitely gonna keep in touch. I love shit like that.

[bellygangstaboo]

Jay-Z went from “faggots wanna talk to Popo?” to this. We love GROWTH and ACCEPTANCE.

[negaw]

[binghsien]

How to have a conversation about a topic you’re not interested in or don’t know anything about:

Listen to what the other person has to say about the topic.

Ask a question about what they said. Asking them to clarify or explain something you don’t understand is great, but any question will do. All else fails, ask them to explain what they like about some part of the topic.

Listen to their responses and go back to step 2.

Do this until 5-15 minutes has passed, then change the subject to a topic of your interest, unless you are actually interested in learning more on this subject, in which case, go on for as long as you like.

Sometimes, they will say something like “I’m sorry to blather on about [topic].” This is an attempt at a conversational dismount. You can either say “no, it was fascinating, thanks” and then bring up your own topic, or you can say “no, it’s fascinating, please keep going” if you want to keep hearing about their topic. Note the tense difference (past -> moving on, present -> keep going).

I just thought I’d write a script for this, because someone who can’t / won’t do this came up in a Captain Awkward column, and listening about topics you have no interest in is a really useful skill to have and not often explicitly taught, particularly to boys and men.

[cartnsncreal]

Racial stereotypes are harmful 

photographer peterdevito on IG

[lagonegirl]

[setheverman]

hey, anyone got a nice house or apartment i could buy for like $6.18?

[satanhaus-deactivated20220217]

stop telling mentally ill people that no one is gonna love them if they don’t love themselves that’s actually really fucked up and you need to reconsider why you think someone who’s been brutalized into hating themselves doesn’t deserve love

[caringcoffeechats]

Okay so I’m gonna insert some commentary here. When I first heard that it was from a tennis coach, weirdly enough. My self-hatred showed in everything I did no matter how much I tried to hide it, so my tennis coach picked up on it. At the time I had no idea what he meant. But over the years I’ve learned that when someone tells you “If you don’t love yourself nobody else will” they’re warning you about society. A lot of people see that their friend/family member/partner hates themself and over time they distance themselves bc they feel the friend is “too negative” and they can’t handle it. This sounds like nonsense to empathetic people. I mean growing up every single one of my friends that had any serious problem came to me bc they knew I could be a support system to them.. I’m finding that there are not a lot of people who can do that. Just the other day this girl told a group of us “can you imagine me having to listen to other people’s problems?”. And the whole group agreed (except me obviously).. And that’s what we are dealing with like IF YOU ARE LUCKY you can find wonderful support systems, people who love you and help you get through every day.. But a lot of us won’t be that lucky. So I think when someone says “if you don’t love yourself nobody else will” they are trying to warn you about what’s to come if you are unable to love yourself. They’re not saying you don’t deserve love.. they’re saying ppl might find it hard to love you… which is like a sad reality of being mentally ill So anyway I’m hoping that we are all lucky enough to find the right ppl who won’t feel that liking us or being in any relationship with us is a hard task

[davidalleynes]

don’t date someone who looks at a kid crying and rolls their eyes. more than likely they’ll do the same when you’re crying.

[davidalleynes]

don’t spend time with anyone who thinks children shouldn’t be in public. kids live in the same world we do, they have a right to go see (age appropriate) movies the same as any adult.

[davidalleynes]

don’t be that asshole who insists children are terrible when you’re terrible to them, too. kids have a right to not like people who treat them poorly. they don’t have to be polite to you because you’re an adult.

[davidalleynes]

don’t be the dick who thinks of children as a hive mind or as having the same personality. kids are people… they’re just as varied in their personalities and opinions as any adult.

[davidalleynes]

if you don’t want to be a parent, that’s fine. parenting is the heaviest responsibility in our society yet it’s treated as a societal expectation. but just because you’re certain you don’t want to raise kids, doesn’t mean you get to treat every child, who are people deserving of respect, like they’re less than human in any shape or form.

children are people and they deserve respect. my god, i can’t believe that i have to say it, but some of y'all apparently don’t know.