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You need to stop stepping on my mind with your words because I’ve realized that you’ve chained down our love with lies. I tried to survive for so long underneath all of your promises, but I think I need to stop because why the hell do I want to save us when all you do is make me feel like we’re hosting a funeral for this relationship?

— Alexa Evangelista, The Book I’ll Never Finish Writing

#words #creative writing #spilled words #feelings #truth

not-hard-to-love

#true #life quotes

anancientheart

ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.

anancientheart

whenever i post this it works reblog if u want to feel good things & the universe will bring u something sweet

haleyincarnate

I am angry. I want to break things.

“People will confuse my tongue with your tombstone and try to plant daisies in my throat.”

— Nora Cooper, “I Won’t Write Your Obituary”

#Button Poetry #Spoken Word #Poetry #Slam Poetry #Poems

chuckakot

“What we only have is now. That is why I am not afraid to kiss you.”

— Chuck Akot, n o w

art-woonz

Illustration Art By Aykut Aydoğdu

For more: artwoonz.com

#art #illustration

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#quotes

poems-and-word

“I don’t mind if there’s not much to say, sometimes the silence guides our minds.”

— The Neighbourhood, Sweater Weather (via music-and-quotes)

#lyrics #music #quotes

cannibal-rainbow

“they” (1 word) is shorter than “he or she” (3 words)

“they” is more inclusive than “he/she”

“themself” flows more naturally than “him or herself”

“they” is less clunky than “(s)he”

it’s time to replace the awkward “she or he”

edgar-allen-potpourri

“hey can you go ask they what does they want for dinner, and when is they coming over to watch movies with they?”

edrec

“Hey, can you go ask them what they want for dinner, and when they’re coming over to watch movies?”

Step one is learning how to talk like a human person.

anghraine

Friendly reminder:

“I shouldn’t like to punish anyone, even if they’d done me wrong.” —George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“A person can’t help their birth.” —William Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)

“But to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“Every Fool can do as they’re bid.” —Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738)

“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” —King James Bible, Matthew 18:35 (transl. 1611)

“God send every one their heart’s desire!” —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (~1600)

“Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.” —Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia (1580)

“If … a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayne…” —William Bonde, The Pylgrimage of Perfection (1526)

“And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, / They wol come up and offre a Goddés name” —Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale (~1380)

“þan hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiȝt houndes alle heie wodes, / til þei neyȝþed so neiȝh to nymphe þe soþe [Then hastily hied each person on horse and on foot / hunting with hounds all the high woods / ‘til they came so near, to tell the truth]” —William and the Werwolf (transl. ~1350-1375)

“Bath ware made sun and mon, / Aiþer wit þer ouen light [Both were made sun and moon / Either with their own light]” —Cursor Mundi (~1325)

advanced-procrastination

We’ve been using they/them/their pronouns to indicate a person with unspecified gender for a long ass fucking time. The only reason it’s become a big issue lately is because it can be used as a semi-respectful term for trans and non-binary folks and we can’t have that can we

These fucks are literally trying to change our language to hurt trans/nb folks, and claiming that’s just the way its always been