Natural--Beauty

"Every Saint has a past, and evey Sinner has a future." -Oscar Wilde ♡Just your average 27 year old ♡I am the Master of my fate. ♡BLM✊ ♡Lutalo😇 ♡ RVA 💜

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[sixphon6s]

ima pray ts everyday

[birdandmoon]

Real and implied birds.

[miracleunique]

A message. 🤍

[memeuplift]

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[aidashakur]

Not a soul in this world can take away what’s meant for you, remember that.

[brian4rmthe6]

[germz4u]

Me

[unbotheredmuse]

megan thee stallion

[milksockets]

'chanel on ice,' 1997 by david lachapelle in leg - diana edkins + betsy jablow (1997)

[fairygoulish]

“FINISH IN HER”, or whatever Mortal Kombat says

[i-am-aprl]

[kosmogrl]

snoopy cookies

[awed-frog]

For all my fellow oversharers out there.

[pup-dion]

As a chronic people-pleaser, this is my advice for success.

Offer as little as possible. Be terse. Get rid of all those exclamation marks and tidbits about why you want to take a sick day. State your needs clearly and concisely without reason. Start saying “No, I’m unable.” more often. Say Thank You only when the other party deserves it.

[sarahseeandersen]

[basuralindo]

If you've ever wondered why people in Hawai'i hate tourists, try to wrap your mind around the fact that there are CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, tourists sipping martinis and looking at fish within swimming range of the fresh corpses of local people who couldn't escape the overnight destruction of their entire town.

Try to comprehend that there are fully functional, high capacity boats passing through the waters in front of an area full of survivors who are stranded and in need of supplies, refusing to help. They are hosting snorkeling tours.

Really think about, try your best to actually picture over two thousand people unhoused and in need of shelter, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and nothing to return to. Understand that the island, stolen land, is littered with hotels full of air conditioned of rooms with beds and showers and toilets, each fully equipped to host hundreds of families for weeks, turning these people away because they're booked up with tourists who refuse to leave.

And understand that these tourists were offered free transport to return home or be hosted on other islands. Free. Courtesy of local tax dollars. 4,000 wealthy tourists were offered free flights shelter on Oahu and begged to leave the island, BEFORE the survivors were given shelter.

And enough still insisted on remaining and carrying out their vacations that people are left without shelter and resources while they enjoy "their stay in paradise".

[basuralindo]

In case this gains any traction, I NEED people to understand that this is not an invitation for mainlanders to get on a soapbox and start telling each other whether or not or how to visit Hawai'i. The tourism situation is complex and difficult and you don't get it if you haven't lived through it at minimum wage. You don't fully understand the complexities and you will not. And you are liable to do more harm by trying to dictate rules and ethics of visiting the islands to each other.

If you want to help, listen to local people. Seek out and boost what they're saying. Send each other local sources of information. Research from local sources. DO NOT take this crisis as an opportunity to insert your views and speak for us.

[tastefullyoffensive]