Let go and live

Wondering if you should do something? Do you believe in it? Trust your heart and head.

[gatheringbones]

I love your agreeable and amenable and flexible nature and how none of your wants and needs ever get priority and how nobody even knows what they are to begin with and how you never start or engage in conflicts and never express even mildly unsavory opinions and get along with everyone from every conceivable group, that’s so trustworthy. hey quick question. do you happen to have an enormous pressurized reservoir of rage and resentment you feel like you can’t ever analyze or express because that would break the rules for the kind of person you are and if so, do you think a lifetime of squashing it down might ever backfire?

[animentality]

[wovi]

[krispycl0uds]

This one resonated with me

[pikestaff]

"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

[themythicalcodfish]

To wit:

[switchelsweets]

I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.

Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕

[magnuspeccatori]

This is the most inspirational thing I've read all week. Possibly all year

[asterrisms]

as a pink lover. The ""universal""" hatred of the color pink by young girls is due to the heavy expectation of femininity forced on them. It is an expression of frustration at gender roles. It is not internalized misogyny. No you will not inevitably start liking pink as an adult and if you do that is not healing your inner divine feminine or whatever we're saying now. Its a color. 😁👍

[chick-it-out]

say hello to a friend today 🐤

[riotvixen]

My 51 year old therapist mother LOVES Pokemon go

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

my fucking privacy

[puppybeargf]

[svdcvnt]

Everything I’ve Ever Let Go Of Has Claw Marks On It

[gloriesunsung]

To save someone else going through eleventy billion reverse image searches - the sculptor is David Altmejd.

Thought 2, 2019

[deadgenerations]

in more pleasant news: this year is seeing the biggest humpback migration in Australian history, bigger than it was PRE whaling. That's right, there are more humpbacks migrating off the coast of Australia than there were BEFORE industrial whaling started.

A huge, fat W for environmentalists and Greenies. what an achievement

[lumsel]

we did it! we saved the fucking whales!!!!

[the-tao-of-fandom]

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is

Further info for those interested

[gaynfl-moved]

sometimes i get a little stressed out because i’m living in a part of history that’ll one day be talked about and discussed and papers written and what am i doing? what have i done? laundry, barely

[catgirlcaliphate]

Sometimes I used to wonder what regular folks were doing during eventful periods in history.

Now I’m living in one and yeah, it turns out the answer is laundry, barely.

[fail-boat]

It’s okay to exist in a time of historical change doing laundry, barely.

[earhartsease]

considering the majority of people actually in the history books, we’d rather just be doing laundry, barely

[sandychaos]

Free

I cannot say I have regrets

Eight years, I thought I was growing

Eight years, I thought I was investing

Eight years, I thought I was in love.

I cannot say I have regrets

I didnt see I was wilting

I didn't see I was losing

I didn't see who I was becoming

I cannot say I have regrets

Even though I was hurt

Even though I was lost

Even though I was hollow

I cannot say I have regrets

As I know now my boundaries

As I know now my expectations

As I know now I am worth more

I cannot say I have regrets

Except letting you be the one to end it.

[sandychaos]

It's been a while. It says I've still got followers, but yall probably aren't active either.

I left tumblr when I moved out of my parents place. I've come and gone since then when i hit lows. This summer I'm interning somewhere that's closer to my parents than my home (1/2 the commute). I thought I could stay here on the nights I intern. But day 1 (my birthday) my family got into a big fight again. Like it was 7 years ago- the height of my depression. It threw me back in the worst kind of way. After the fight I calmly explained to my mother how All Lives Matter directly interrupts the Black Lives Matter cause. I explained how in writing everything seems fair but in actuality those laws are not followed. I had to use a bible story to get it though to her. I'm the youngest, and somehow I was the most mature. My mother and brother both threw temper tantrums. My brother was kicked out and she kept saying that he always attacks her in their conversations. I explained that if she had that mind set everytime she spoke to him then that's what would happen. She said she doesn't want to talk to him anymore. Refused to speak with him indefinitely. Because he was disrespectful. Because neither of them could calm down enough to have an actual conversation instead of a screaming match.

And during all this I remained calm, I focused on listening and hearing what they had to say. But guess what?

I'm mother fucking pissed. Im angrier than both of them. Those fucking twats have no clue how selfish and childish their actions are. I hope my brother doesn't go to a protest, he would let his anger out and cause a fucking riot. I just turned 23 and am acting as my mother's counselor. Bitch I have a 40 hour a week internship and the other 2 days I'll be working, then in August I'll be starting classes again, doing another internship and still working whenever I can. I cannot afford to be a free fucking therapist for your damn issues when you're a fucking adult. You need therapy from a licensed doctor not your child. Both of them have their heads so far up their own asses that they can probably see out their own mouths. Grow the fuck up and stop fucking up my day. And sorry but damn I don't fucking expect world peace but stop fucking throwing tantrums ON MY BIRTHDAY!!! I get one fucking day a year, I request off from work, I want to have A FUCKING NICE DAY.

SUCK MY 14 INCH DICK AND SHUT THE FUCK UP.

[mjalti]

emotionally I’m in crisis bc I don’t know which one I believe is more truthful… this is like coming across the two-faced god who asks you which face is lying..

[mysharona1987]

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[this-is-me-irl]

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