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This is so great

look: the right people will get it. the right people will see you and appreciate you for the person that you are. the right people won’t require you to dilute, censor, or edit yourself in order to be worthy of their time and affection. you don’t need to waste your time on people who are committed to misunderstanding you

shareaquote

Before I fall in love again 1. I want us to be friends. Which means, I want to be able to eat my favourite cheese crust pizza with you, while having cheese all over my face and even in my hair, without feeling embarrassed or concerned about it. I want to be comfortable with you, I want to be okay about being messy, irritating, embarrassing, disgusting, petty while with you. Because I will be petty when I see my ex best friend post a happy picture and I will be messy during my finals and I will be embarrassing when I meet your parents for I suck at meeting parents. I want to be okay with being the way I am and the only way to be okay is to know that you’re okay with me being things other than beautiful, graceful and composed at all times. 2. I want to be able to have long and passionate conversations with you not just about existential things but also about what went wrong in the ending of that book and how kids are affected by media and how tomato basil combination always works. I want to have conversations where we may not always have the same views but our fundamental values always fall in place. I want to talk to you about the beauty of the stars but I also want to talk to you about the disgusting mentality behind certain societal norms. 3. I want to see how consistent your actions are with your words. I don’t want to fall for love letters or poems, for sweet Instagram captions or long birthday texts, I want to fall in love with you showing up on time and keeping your promises. 4. I want to take it slow. I want our story to work out in years, not months. I want to respect time and space this time. 5. I want to make sure I am not seeking love from you for the lack of love I have for myself. I want to make sure you aren’t a void I am filling in, you are not an alternative to the things I can’t give myself. I want to make sure you are not doing the same. 6. I want to work out with my insecurities and fears from the past. I don’t want to project them on you, I don’t want to subject you to the doubts, suspicion and anger I carry from the people I have known in the past. 7. Before I fall in love again, I want to make a mattress with you. Of understanding and respect and trust. So when we fall, it doesn’t hurt.

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modernday-siren

i’m just out here trying to be loved as intensely as i love.

archiveofidentityconstellations

One of my favorite tropes is the power couple. Just. Two people who are equally talented and hardworking and worthy of respect at different things, and then you add them TOGETHER? Magical.

alternativeblkgal

emotionally manipulative people will drop you so quickly once they realize they won’t have all the control. once they realize that you’ll call them out on their shit and that you won’t just allow them to treat you like garbage willingly, all of a sudden it’s you and your behavior that’s “crazy”, etc.

alternativeblkgal

watch out for if you try to talk about how your feeling and they position it as an attack on them.

watch out if y'all only talk on their terms.

watch out if they get mad and will only listen or speak to you when THEY’RE ready.

my point here is if everything is on their terms…watch out.

karol-maverick

cravefoodie

Truffle Ricotta Ravioli

kreuzaderny

puckish-agent-of-change

shout out to all the kids who aren’t good at what they’re passionate about, and who aren’t passionate about what they’re good at

fandomdeluxe

This is serious.

rottencoconut

hardyness

Fried Chicken? I LOVE chicken!

glumshoe

I think LotR could have ended much differently if Frodo had just turned to Sam and said, “Hey, look, I realize you hate Gollum and don’t trust him at all, but could you please give him a chance? Genuinely be supportive of him? I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I am Projecting Heavily on him and my hope and sanity kind of hinges upon believing that he can be redeemed. I thought I was being really obvious about that but maybe not.”

animatedamerican

“That’s all very well to say, Mr Frodo, but you and Peter Jackson were both asleep the one time I tried to bond with him over cookery and it didn’t end too well regardless, and also my own stability is pretty heavily dependent on my fixed intention to protect you, so I don’t have a lot of cope left over for him, if you understand me.”