mental fortress

bianca | twenty-something | operating from another world

[kafk-a]

Michael Bazzett, from The Temple

[slfcare]

every time you assume that others are thinking negatively of you or judging you behind your back, you are bullying yourself through them. at the end of the day, you don't know what thoughts are running through their heads unless they verbally express them to you. until then, every one of 'their' opinions about you is nothing more than your fear, and whatever assumption is born from your fear is yours to let go - not theirs to disprove.

[realjackoconnell]

ALL MY KIDS ☆ RICHARD CAMPBELL GANSEY

Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing.

[lakevida]

the way 'nice dichotomy idiot what lies outside of it' has saved me so many hours of being insane with my thought patterns

[reyynas]

[ Antibes in the Morning - Claude Monet // Unbelievers - Vampire Weekend ]

[tennant]

I’m old enough to know that a longer life is not always a better one. In the end you just get tired; Tired of the struggle. Tired of losing everyone that matters to you. Tired of watching everything… turn to dust.

[violentdevotion]

rose tyler hated her shitty job, wore £1 mascara, charity shop sweatpants, boxed hair bleach, couldn't keep her room clean, hated rich people, was called a slag by the queen, constantly chat shit about her mum, slapped a guy that made her mum cry, astonished herself when she could do maths, 19 year old runaway, and the most beautiful woman on my tv 2005 - 2006

[brbarou]

average high school girl soccer team

[seaoflove]

every three weeks on the dot the voice of frank ohara comes into my head and he read me that line from having a coke with you in his 60s new york accent: and what good does all the research of the impressionists do them / when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank

…… and i loose it all over again

[tlumeti]

Do you remember when you told me you were sick? I made a promise. I promised to protect you.

[pathologising]

I think another good thing I came to realize was that, in therapy, "acceptance" doesn't mean that something is okay or good. To accept a situation or emotion means to understand that any amount of wishing it didnt happen, pretending it isn't happening, or regressing into maladaptive coping mechanisms will not effectively deal with what's going on. To accept is to acknowledge, to understand what is happening or what you're feeling and cope appropriately and healthily without self-judgement.

[andrew-garfielld]

JEREMY ALLEN WHITE — Variety | Actors on Actors (June 05, 2023)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“In the library overhead the telephone began to ring, sounding, in its insistency, like a summons from a lost, unwanted world. I let it ring.”

— Daphne du Maurier, from “The House on the Strand,”

[carolsturka]

one week since the best 20 seconds of my life

[sungods-healingg]

ronance living their single room apartment friends to lovers AU

[stlowens]

Ocean Vuong, from “Dear Peter.” [ID in alt text]

[firstfullmoon]

anne boyer “the harm will come: it never doesn’t” / julia armfield “to watch a horror movie is to know that something bad is going to happen. to have a body is really the same thing” / hilary mantel “we don’t have to invite pain in, it’s waiting for us: sooner rather than later” / marie howe “you know how we’ve been waiting for the big pain to come? I think it’s here. I think this is it. I think it’s been here all along” / gregory orr “I want to go back to the beginning. we all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. but I’m wrong” / toni morrison “the hurt was always there” / torrey peters “pain that had to be endured, withstood, pain that was the same as being alive, and so without end”