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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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KIROKAZE
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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DEAR READER
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Claire Keane
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
$LAYYYTER
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@thewandervogel
Some things I love: - Seeing two people in love - Road trips in the sun - Laughter - The smell of fresh bread - Blooming window boxes - Cats sitting on their doorsteps 🌻 The Alsace had of all these things and more, and I finally managed to put its magic into words on the blog. It's vibrant and peaceful all in one, and a place that feels a little bit like going home. Link in my bio xo (at Riquewihr)
Mother Earth has been soooo good to me giving me a home this beautiful 🌎 I'm constantly falling more in love with this planet. Every sunset and scene I get to see amazes me and I hope that never stops. But my heart breaks knowing the negative impact humans have on her, so I wrote up a #earthday post on the blog sharing my favorite (+simple!) ways to decrease the mark we leave on her terrain. Hope you all have had the most wonderful day spent outdoors and taking in all this planet has to offer us. Just click on that link in my bio to read! Where is your favorite place on Earth? 🌞 #thewandervogel (at Orcas Island)
Here's a picture from the beginning of the year in celebration of the end of it. 🌤A new post is up as usual about the new year, and thanking these past 365 days for all they taught me. It was a reckless tidal wave of moods and emotions and events, but the current me is a whole lot wiser and stronger for it than the pictured me. Thanks for the ride and the bursts of magic, 2017, but I'm ready to see what a new year can give me. (Link in Bio xo) #newyearseve (at Greystones, Ireland)
dear universe;
hello. i am writing to let you know you did good job on the stars, and also on cats.
yours respectfully, me
dear universe,
in the original post of this, it says “dogs” where it now says “cats”. i do not know when (or how) it got changed, but i am glad that someone loved cats enough to do that, because i love my dog and i also love my cats and i felt bad about not mentioning it that first time. i’m also glad for all the tags where people told me what i should have added (like libraries and waffles and maple syrup) and i am glad for all the comments about how much they love their pets (and some people have such cool pets!)
i kind of think, universe, if we are your children, this is our macaroni art. see, see, see, you gave us a little bit of the stars, and we’ve made our own constellations. we tried to give back to you by making art and music and books and bad poetry and our laughter and our love and our tv dramadies. we took pictures of the night sky and pictures of sunsets and pictures of dew, we fell in love with space and the rivers and the rain. i personally have my desktop background as a picture of one of your nebulas. your hair looked great that day.
i think…. you did a good job, universe, on the stars, and what the stars became, because you put us together and yes, yes, things might be terrible - but good gracious did we make so many things worth loving, worth writing to you about, worth telling you - thank you, i’m taking the spark you put in me and using it to be kind, to be alive, to be wildly fierce about our gardens and gentle about our pets.
so hello. i amend my previous memo. i am writing to let you know you did a good job on the stars, and on my dog and my cats and the lizard i kept illegally in my apartment. and universe, i hope you’re watching, because some of the people you made? they’re great, universe, and they’re full of love, just endlessly capable of loving. and they give me hope.
and through them, universe, that’s you. that’s how the stars sing.
yours respectfully, me
50+ Useful Mental Health Resources When You Can’t Afford Therapy
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Topic: Mental Health, Lists, Psychology || by STAFF
Getting therapy is difficult, especially when you can’t afford it or your meds or reluctant to find support due to the stigma that accompanies mental health disorders. Luckily, the internet is a freaking amazing place, with thousands of resources you can turn to.
Find the useful list here!
Andrea Howey | @andrearhowey
Hello friends I’ve got a new name, a new layout, and a new mindset. Truth be told, I made an incredibly careless error this summer. I work as a summer camp counselor where I have minimal internet access and, in short, missed my July renewal date on TheWandervogel .com. The URL was snatched up by
A new blog post into the world tonight, tumblr. Give it a read and make a gal smile xo
I love posts like this that require like six levels of meta understanding to comprehend them.
Claire Foy’s acceptance speech for winning Best Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown
Meryl Streep Slams Donald Trump at Golden Globes 2017
Undressing, colour.
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no wonder she hasn’t got any f r i e n d s
I don’t know why, but around Christmas I always get back to drawing Harry Potter fanart…
How is virginity a social construct?
It just doesn’t exist - it’s a term created for the time period before engaging in an experience. We don’t have these terms for someone who has never been kissed, never eaten spaghetti, never been overseas or never gone skinny dipping. There’s no difference in the person before and after that first time they have sex. Nothing changes about them, and they certainly don’t ‘lose’ anything.
It’s also incredibly sexist. Men are rewarded for having sex and losing their virginities young, while women are shamed for it, and it’s seen as their ‘virtue’. To be a man who has not yet had sex is socially deemed as embarrassing, while for women it’s less so, even endearing. In some cultures, women who aren’t virgins when they marry can be exiled or even killed, on the grounds of ‘shaming their families’. Virginity is viewed as a sign of purity, and not being pure when you marry in many societies brings shame and dishonor to your family, even if you were raped. In our society, there’s a culture of a woman ‘saving it’ for a man, ‘giving it up’, and him ‘taking it’, rather than two consensual adults just partaking in an experience together.
Lastly, sex can occur in many different ways, not just the way it is defined for traditional heterosexual couples. If someone is gay or a lesbian and doesn’t partake in penetrative P-in-V sex, are they technically virgins?
It’s just an incredibly outdated perspective. I’ve been getting messages on here since I was 16 asking if I was a virgin, when I lost my virginity, etc. as if the age I responded would matter at all or change the way that person viewed me.
“The concept of virginity was invented by men who believed their penises were so important they could fundamentally change who a woman is.”
This just sums it all up. An important thing to read for everyone xx
