things happen

25 | adulthood makes no sense

[k-luna]

due to not wanting to, i will not. thanks.

[traveller-of-the-knight]

*ok, but what is Jake's stragle?*

[things-that-are-happy]

I have a crush.

It's not mutual.

Someone has a blatantly obvious crush on me.

It is not mutual.

We shall both suffer.

[rigormortisbabyd0ll]

People who say sadness doesn’t hurt physically apparently never experienced feeling so sad. I’ve felt it in my legs, my jaw, my head, my quivering lips, aching eyes, and my aching chest. It hurts my chest the most because it literally feels like your heart is in pain.

[things-that-are-happy]

As kids, we wanted to look older, more mature because that was what was expected from some of us. Also, it looked a lot of fun to just be able to buy whatever whenever for whomever.

As adults, we try our hardest to look as young as possible? Why? Cause the feeling of just being a kid never went away. Everyone is just trying their best to deal with what was given to them. We get that funny feeling whenever someone ID's us even though we've been proper adults for ages. I don't think we really miss being kids but the freedom given to them without hidden agendas is what we miss the most.

What people don't tell you is that at some point, at a certain age, people dump their expectations on you and when you can not meet them it is somehow your fault they have this delusion of a perfect you.

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— A book i will never write

[things-that-are-happy]

"Let's not waste each others' time. I will no longer chase your shadow for I know you will never look back to what we once had."

[thekimonogallery]

By Japanese costume maker Yuki Okawa@cocon costume closet @yuki_cocon2016

[gloomcat-mess]

@magiciansvoyage okay but this definitely screams wizardwear

[firstfullmoon]

Alex Dimitrov, “October,” in Love and Other Poems [ID in alt text]

[myboyrozanovv]

I hate you preserving beauty at the cost of enjoyment.

I saw a video of a woman with extremely thick hair doing a thinning method at home. One comment said "my hairdresser heart weeps" because apparently her method may lead to frizz and impact a unified hair look. The woman had so much hair it was giving her headaches.

Its the same as people telling me when I had long hair never to cut it because its so impressive. Its people telling natural redheads never to dye their hair because its such a rare pretty colour.

Its transmasc people being told they were so pretty as a girl and are wasting that.

Its girls being told they are wasting their figure/physical attributes because they are not displaying them constantly and wearing comfortable baggy clothes.

It's people telling you to never go in the sun, not smile and not to use a straw because it will give you wrinkles. Its being told not to eat certain foods because they are bad for your skin, or to do eat other foods because they are good for your skin regardless of whether you enjoy either of those foods. It's being expected to put hours into your skin care and prioritise it over activities you enjoy so you have younger looking skin when you are old.

It's being expected to wear clothes that are uncomfortable because they make you look thinner/more like an hourglass. Not to move in certain ways because it will be unflattering.

It's telling people not to prioritise themselves and their interests in their decisions but instead to prioritise their skin/hair/figure/etc.

I did not agree to preserve whatever natural features i was born with like a one man historical society for myself just because i happened to be made of those genes. I have every right to use and enjoy my body in ways other people don't think fitting and that don't preserve features that currently fit societal beauty standards. I do not agree to hold aesthetic pursuit over comfort and health and happiness.

I know one thing. When i am old i will certainly regret every single day i ate a papaya for breakfast (i hate papaya) instead of a pancake and didn't go into the sun. I will not regret having wrinkles, i just hope they are from laughing.

[bluberry-parfait]

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis // @i-wrotethisforme // Jorge Louis Berges // @smokeinsilence //@viridianmasquerade //Jorge Louis Berges // @honeytuesday // Kaveh Akbar // F. Scott Fitzgerald // AKR //Olivie Blake, from “Alone With You in the Ether” // Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrimage

[deviika]

—Chris Mc Geown

[things-that-are-happy]

I aint a doctor

I aint anything professional

But my dude

If you ever felt unseen for remembering all those punishments your parents gave you thats borderline inhumane according to caucasians

I feel you

I had to sleep standing up behind a door and beside boxes filled with things that could definitely crush 8 years old me

Because I refused to eat a damn vegetable

I feel you

I see you

Getting hit with all those insecurities and a hanger was not worth that childhood pettiness

[bananatwinky]

[things-that-are-happy]

Me and my sleep paralysis

[thecrownedadonis-deactivated202]

“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”

— Anne Carson, from “Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides”

[narrativefoiltrope]

“In a sense, I’m the one who ruined me: I did it myself.”

— Haruki Murakami (via 89words)

[finalgirlguy]

growing & healing & learning

1. Garden Song, Phoebe Bridgers 2. Interlude: I'm Not Angry Anymore, Paramore 3. The Orange, Wendy Cope 4. The Return, Mary Oliver 5. What The Living Do, Marie Howe 6. Ending, Johny Bulc 7. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Raymond Carver 8. Spring, Mary Oliver 9. Witch Burning, Sylvia Plath 10. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, Jeanette Winterson