[your-coffeegal]

Whiplash

[naturaekos]

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.

Stephen King (via naturaekos)

[shitdagi-blog]

4:05 PM

Its pretty bad now. It’s fall. It’ll get worse in November it always does. Halloween I resent my friends. Thanksgiving and Christmas I resent my family. All the days in between, I resent myself

[luleiya-deactivated20200526]

[hirxeth]

Alice in the Cities (1974) dir. Wim Wenders

[haleyincarnate]

Based off of this post by @cwote.

[love-diaries]

Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like saying sorry for being real.

(via love-diaries)

[airlesscell-deactivated20151002]

Yeah bro hit me up we’ll cancel some plans sometime

[hirxeth]

The 400 Blows (1959) dir. François Truffaut

[goodreadss]

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

Sylvia Plath (via goodreadss)

[diversed]

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[naturaekos]

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

E.E. Cummings (via naturaekos)

[adirabennett2-blog]

Victim vs. Survivor

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of “victim” is simply, “one that is acted on and usually adversely affected by a force or agent.” If despite this, the word “victim” still somehow sounds derogatory to you, ask yourself why. Is it because you equate it with words like “weak” and “pathetic” and “pitiful”? Is it because it reminds you of insulting phrases like “playing the victim” and “the victim role”? 

If so, these are connotations you’ve absorbed from rape culture. Society is very uncomfortable with sexual assault survivors referring to themselves as “victims,” because the word “victim” includes within its definition that the person did not have any control whatsoever over being assaulted; the person is not to blame for what happened to them. Society prefers to focus on the fact that, well, you survived, and that’s the only part you should talk about: your survival, your healing, your thriving, not all that messy trauma stuff.

“Victim” means that we need to look elsewhere for the blame; “victim” means we need to start talking about perpetrators, and society doesn’t want to do that. We are taught a narrative of false empowerment: transform yourself from a victim (a weak person who blames others for your own problems) into a survivor (a person who is alive and okay now and that’s all that matters)! Reject that narrative. You are a victim and a survivor and that is not shameful. The shame belongs with the perpetrator.

[quotemadness]

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

Ernest Hemingway (via quotemadness)

[amargedom]

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.

Maya Angelou (via amargedom)

[rumbleday]

Everyone hates knowing that tomorrow's Monday. But... we live on. Thinking about how another fun Saturday will come around. It isn't always Monday. -JJBA (at Waltham, Massachusetts)

[quotemadness]

I’m just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

Matt Healy (via quotemadness)