just doing my best

Ferida | 23 | lesbian | INTJ | radical feminist | russian woman ☀️♉ 🌕♑ ☝♌  

[kiefbowl]

I LOVE TO DRINK WATER 💦🧊🌧️🫖🌊🫧❄️🫙💧

[theambitiouswoman]

things you can do if you’re unmotivated:

1. Move furniture around in your work area. This refreshes your energy

2. Go for a short walk. It clears your mind

3. Drink cold water or make tea. It wakes you up

4. Take a quick shower. It resets your mood

5. Clean a small space. It builds momentum

6. Put on music. It shifts your state fast

7. Change your outfit. It changes how you feel

8. Open a window. Fresh air helps you think

9. Do one tiny task. It breaks the resistance

10. Set a 10 minute timer. It makes starting easier

11. Write a simple to do list. It gives direction

12. Stretch your body. It releases tension

13. Light a candle or spray a scent. It refreshes your space

14. Step outside in the sun. It boosts your mood

15. Drink something with electrolytes. It supports energy

16. Watch a short inspiring video. It sparks action

17. Change locations. New environments create focus

18. Put your phone on airplane mode. Fewer distractions

19. Do a brain dump in a journal. It takes away overwhelm

20. Remind yourself that you only need to start, not finish

[practical-hearthcraft-deactivat]

To anyone who sees this, I hope you have an experience of whimsy today. I hope you see something utterly joyful, silly, and ridiculous, and I hope you see it and smile. I wish that for you today.

[sailor-moon-rest-deactivated202]

*me, answering a girlchild who asked:* yes, that [wild animal] is a girl! Actually, about half the animals you see outside are girls!

*Parents, getting visibly uncomfortable*

*boychildren, continuing to refer to the animal as a he despite my continued emphasized use of she pronoun*

*trans/gendie coworker, getting emotional as he realizes he is just as bad as the rest of the men in calling every animal a he*

*senior staff, annoyed at me for being better at our job than him*

*supervisor, watching me carefully to make sure I am not "rocking the boat" *

*girlchildren, excitedly asking me more questions*: how can you tell she is a girl? Does it taste good when she eats [food]? Is she strong? Does she live in [habitat]? I want to be a marine biologist when I grow up and study only girl animals! Is she a mom? Can I pet her? Does she sleep? Does she dream?

Does she know there is more for her out there? Does she know the world of men can easily be escaped by simply loving wildlife? Does she see herself in nature? Has she killed the mystic man in her mind? Does she know religion, even female-centered religion, was invented to erase the natural world? Does she know she is inherently a part of this world? Does she sleep? Does she dream?

[vegantinatalist]

why must the good blogs deactivate young

[nat-20s]

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

[nat-20s]

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader

[atmyhighestpeak]

If I was JK Rowling and I wrote a plotline in my book series about a race of enslaved people whose horrible mistreatment at the hands of the bad guys is part of what establishes them as bad guys, and there were multiple crucial plot points that involve someone either being punished for dehumanizing them and/or rewarded for freeing them, and the only main character who is okay with their enslavement could not get his happy ending until he realized that he was wrong and aligned himself with freeing them, and the whole thing was a pretty explicit metaphor for the patriarchy and how some ‘tradwife’ women are complacent in their oppression but that DOESN’T make it ok for men to treat them like commodities… and then countless people online criticized me for ‘writing a plotline that excuses slavery’ ???? I would have the biggest crashout of my life. A lot of you like to say ‘Harry Potter was poorly written’ but what you actually mean is ‘I don’t have enough media literacy to understand a series written for children’

[kronkk]

DIONYSUS IS A WOMAN IDC LOOK INTO YOUR PUSSY AFTER 1 GLASS OF RED AND TELL ME THE GOD OF WINE IS A MAN

[theiliad]

question. do you believe in ghosts?

yes

no

Voting ended onNov 10, 2023

making this one binary. no ghost agnosticism allowed. but explain the nuances in the tags if you want.

[butch-reidentified]

I don't believe in mind-body dualism so no

[debelice]

Autumnal

[the-meme-monarch]

happy hallowing you can take TWO pieces

[downfalldestiny]

Moment of Solitude 🍁 !.

[salmonbyte]

WE ARE EVERYWHERE (Acrylic paint on paper, applied with paper stencil, 2023)

[luxurybrownbarbie]

I know this will bother unhealed adults, but the real world, more often than not, does give you second chances and do overs. Very rarely are things set in stone. And people, especially young people, deserve to know that. Because lording the idea that they can never mess up, even once, does a lot more damage than good.

[stantler]

First rule of being a woman is everything you do is going to be ridiculed and nothing you do is going to be seen as good enough so literally just do whatever the fuck

[swaglet-deactivated20231202]

people who are older than me. is it possible to find out how to live life on purpose when you are 22 or will that come later

[swaglet-deactivated20231202]

i feel like a living animal but not like a human person. almost like being in the headspace a bonobo would experience

[empress-hancock]

I am almost 24 and still haven’t figured it out so yeah I assume this happens later

[loser-void]

Wait.

I was like that at 22/23 then I hit 25 and time didn't matter anymore, I was more willing to wait for the things I wanted.

I also found out new and more interesting ways to get them.

[stubbornartemis]

I'm currently 23, and I think that life is all about experiencing things and trying to enjoy them as much as possible. At first, I thought that there would be a special signal of some sort, but it turned out that no one will give you a wake-up call, so instead of waiting for "the time" to come I started to do things that I always wanted, like doing something new, going out somewhere, consuming different sorts of content I've always heard of but never touched for some unknown reason. It helps to see things from different perspectives and, therefore, helps you to understand what sticks right with you. It ain't much but it's an honest work, I guess.

I also started to think less about other people's opinions and more about what I truly want and it helped a lot with finding purpose in life. Thinking about things that I could do, but others can't (because I can't control what others do, but can control myself). That helped me to figure some things out too. Putting yourself first no matter what is important. Making yourself a starting point in your life and gaining all kinds of experience is good for you.

[ofallingstar]

31 horror movies directed by women (2010-2023) for the 31 days of Halloween

American Mary (2012) | dir. Jen & Sylvia Soska

Chained (2012) | dir. Jennifer Chambers Lynch

Helter Skelter (2012) | dir. Mika Ninagawa

The Babadook (2014) | dir. Jennifer Kent

Fatal Frame (2014) | dir. Mari Asato

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) | dir. Ana Lily Amirpour

The Voices (2014) | dir. Marjane Satrapi

Evolution (2015) | dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović

The Invitation (2015) | dir. Karyn Kusama

The Lure (2015) | dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska

The Love Witch (2016) | dir. Anna Biller

Prevenge (2016) | dir. Alice Lowe

Raw (2016) | dir. Julia Ducournau

Revenge (2017) | dir. Coralie Fargeat

Friendly Beast (2017) | dir. Gabriela Amaral Almeida

Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) | dir. Issa López

Braid (2018) | dir. Mitzi Peirone

Saint Maud (2019) | dir. Rose Glass

Bulbbul (2020) | dir. Anvita Dutt

I Blame Society (2020) | dir. Gillian Wallace Horvat

Relic (2020) | dir. Natalie Erika James

Candyman (2021) | dir. Nia DaCosta

Censor (2021) | dir. Prano Bailey-Bond

The Fear Street Trilogy (2021) | dir. Leigh Janiak

Titane (2021) | dir. Julia Ducournau

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) | dir. Halina Reijin

Fresh (2022) | dir. Mimi Cave

Hatching (2022) | dir. Hanna Bergholm

Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022) | dir. Michelle Garza Cervera

Birth/Rebirth (2023) | dir. Laura Moss

My Animal (2023) | dir. Jacqueline Castel

Extended List

[balkanradfem]

One of the points of Greta Thunberg's book about the Climate, was about female land ownership, and how we need an increase of it. That actually surprised me, not that I didn't think of it before, but because it was presented as one of the solutions.

Greta actually looked at what happens to the land when women reign over it, or when women even just have access to it and are allowed to work on it, and noticed that women almost always, naturally, regenerated the land. Women will go and plant trees on their land immediately, and feed their families with the produce it makes. Women will not even stop at planting trees on their land, they'll go and re-forest the surrounding areas too, sharing secrets of the trees with others who can benefit from the extra free food. Women will plant native species, bushes, flowers, gardens, revitalize the soil, add life to the dirt and the sand, and this is something that is recorded consistently and long term with the female land ownership, land is not only regenerated, but used for immediate benefit of all life on it. That includes humans, animals, bugs, bacteria, plants and the local environment in general.

Greta also points out that most of the land that women are working on, is currently not their own. They're most often lending their hands to the land owned by their husbands, brothers, uncles, relatives or landlords, and these m*n will sometimes decide to undo all that work, and build something environmentally destructive on it in order to make a personal profit.

This is why Greta implores that is important that women own more land, personally and with full power over what happens to it. Women having full control over land is nature's way of regeneration and prevention of climate change. Give land to the women to fight climate change.