This Is What Will Be Our Glory

Hi, I'm Victoria =) Current PT student, former collegiate tennis player, and future whatever is in store for me.

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[meltedgarment]

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

[fealty-to-thee]

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

the first link broke, here you go

[annasinthewalls]

spring is coming. Spring IS COMING. You will stand on soft grass again, and feel the sun kiss your cheeks and shoulders. you will eat of the same berries as the animals returned from their hibernation. you will hear the air alive with your collective breathing.

[allsadnshit]

sometimes the right path for you is the one no one will applaud or envy sometimes its getting to know yourself intimately without outside observation in mind 

[chooseselflove-againandagain]

our brains are seriously gullible. you will really believe whatever you hear yourself say over and over. please, stop, even in “good spirits” or being funny, please stop all of the self deprication. i won’t even type out examples, but whatever you say about yourself, you should know it isn’t true or helpful to keep reinforcing.

instead, look in the mirror and tell yourself positive things. “i am doing my best. i am worthy of love and support. i am a good person. i am beautiful. i am fun to be around.” whatever you need to hear. OUT LOUD. every day. you will start to believe it, just like you have started to believe all the mean things you tell yourself. you can’t always choose what others say about you, but you can definitely choose what you say and who you spend time listening to.

[futuresabove]

Jeanette Winterson on Substack

[metamorphesque]

Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light, Richard Siken

[text ID: He is looking at the wall / and I am looking at his / looking.]

[nohohankerotomania-deactivated2]

[heaveninawildflower]

August page taken from ‘Through the Year with Birds and Poets.’

Poetry compilation by Sarah Williams.

Published 1900 by Boston, Lee and Shepard.

The Library of Congress Wikimedia.

[metamorphesque]

— Christy Bartlett, Flickwerk: The Aesthetics of Mended Japanese Ceramics

[thornsinthesoull]

[softdaisie]

write that book. publish that blog. apply for that job. dye your hair. cut your bangs. pick up that hobby that you’ve always wanted to try. wear that outfit that you loved but were too afraid to put on in public. life is way too short. be whoever you want to be, and do whatever you want. stop waiting for the right moment, because there will never be one. sometimes you just gotta say fuck it, and do it! live your life the way you want, and don’t ask for anyone’s approval.

[needtobeehealthy]

[foreverfitnesspositivity]

[cinefairy]

an epiphany i had a couple of months back…

who is stopping me from achieving my dream life? MYSELF. who can change and start enjoying life? ME!!! everything is up to me, i can control the things i want to change. i can make life enjoyable for myself, idc if it takes me a while to get the hang out of it because the end result will make me satisfied, im gonna be sitting in my dream home, in my dream couch watching my favourite show on my dream TV and be thankful that i NEVER STOPPED WANTING THE BEST FOR MYSELF, that i stopped giving attention to thoughts that only made me feel like crap.

I can finally say to myself “I did it” i manifested everything that i wanted and sit back and enjoy the beautiful life i’ve created for myself

[perfectfeelings]

[thickness-protection-program]

We can't ibuprofen our way outta this one boys

[mortalfortaxpurposes]

I love folie so much. I love the big drums and the big vocals and the big emotions. The way it's arrogant and theatrical and obnoxious and tortured. It's the grand finale. The swell of the orchestra before the screen goes black.