Astrid ☽

an artist in Italy trying her best to survive

[xxerlflynn]

[allfortheslay25]

[titsay]

[snakebiteback]

Mi sento spesso che devo spargere pensieri positivi a tutti, per risollevare me stesso. Ma a fine giornata arrivo che in realtà non credo a una briciola dell'allegria che metto e mi impegno a dare per gli altri perché mi guardo intorno e vedo solo il niente. Esprimere un colore sarebbe stupido e superfluo.

Se poi dovessi mandare questo messaggio a qualcuno, o pubblicare con il mondo questa informazione con la mia faccia e la mia persona probabilmente me ne vergognerei, perché ho tanto, magari mai abbastanza e mi sento di non essermi impegnato abbastanza a dare a questo mondo.

E a volte mi dà solo più fastidio rimanere in silenzio e non fare niente che stare a guardare.

Eppure sento il peso di tutto, e la volontà di vivere zero.

[theconcealedweapon]

Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

[giologyyart]

i'm in byler hell, expect more

[hyacinth-halcyon-blog]

Morning and Night Prayers to Jormungandr

Morning

Hail to the Serpent of the Shifting Seas You who shed all sorrows like shimmering scales Please show me how to shed my skin And how to leave these wounds behind So that I might stand renewed

Night

Hail to the Wolf of the Unknown Depths You of the Origin in the Terminus Who creates through destruction I thank you for your blessings and teachings Harsh as they may be

[yg-arts]

[ferenhights]

She won the kids in the divorce

[classystaches]

what if we were a demon boy band and we all ran like goofy guys? haha jk...unless? 🤔

[neal-illustrator]

Getting snacks for the team!

[mxbitters]

h-hey guys

apparently clouded leopards can use their claws to hang upside down

wild huh

[meet-again]

Pics or it didnt happen

[mxbitters]

they just.  they just do that

[meet-again]

:))))

[nightowlqueen]

best part of KPop Demon Hunters is all the ridiculous faces the girls make

[cellspex]

Nobody remembers right before Frozen came out there was an interview with a Disney animator that said there wasn’t much they could do with women’s faces because they “needed to stay pretty"

[aurin-avenir]

[homunculus-argument]

The people who go "well who's going to look after you when you're old?" when you say you're not having kids are breathtakingly naive. Our next-door neighbour, somewhere in her mid-80s, has a son, grandkids, and a grear-granddaughter, and who's the one she calls when she needs help, and checks that she's not spending christmas alone? Me and my boyfriend.

Having kids is irrelevant if the answer to that question is still going to be "the mentally ill faggots next door."

[caramelizard-deactivated2025122]

[pagan-posting]

May Ares remind the people who they are mad at, and what we have lost. Strengthen the people in the face of tyranny. Steel my resolve in the heat of conflict.

May Apollo guide my hand for any fallen friend, watch over me as I watch over them.

May Artemis grant me her precision, and grant me the strength to not fall as prey to those unworthy.

May Loki remind me what the hell I was made for, militant chaos is nothing to me.

And finally and arguably the most important, may Dionysos and Aphrodite guide me through self love and compassion in the following days. I'm gonna have a hard time coming down from this one.

[pagan-posting]

Eventful. But I am fine.