i'm not a violent dog...i don't know why i bite

| Amanda aka Almond | They/them | 1997 | Swedish | Vegan | Aroace | Scorpio | Fool | Colour blog: Supernaturaldirewolf

[theoptia]

Aimé Césaire, from “Lagoonal Calender”; tr. by Clayton Eshleman and Annette J. Smith

Text ID: I inhabit a sacred wound

[maybeshehasbpd]

it gets worse before it gets way worse

[pomegranateteeth]

The e in email stands for evil mail

[ewaneneollav]

a child who is persistently alone & does not want to be alone does not learn that they on occasion have time to themselves during which they can do whatever they want, they learn that occasionally they will have time to themselves throughout which they will do nothing except exactly what they do not want to do - something that is synonymous with that duration of time. if they were being made to do some or other unpleasant thing, like hold their hand on a hot stove, that would not be synonymous with the duration of time, it would be something occupying that duration of time. when they are made ito be alone, the fact that they are alive & conscious is felt as a profound lack rather than the fundamental opportunity atop which all other opportunities are built, & the passage of time becomes something to be endured because it continually implies their continued existence & awareness. life for them then becomes organized not around exploration nor seeking enjoyment or fulfillment, but around strategies for continually enduring the fact that they exist

[takethemonetandletsgogh]

Czesław Miłosz, “Notes”

[storm-of-feathers]

tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary

[petaltexturedskies]

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

[playwrongs]

remarkable. all these holes look just like my grave

[probuccalfat]

i’ve been feeling like a loser because well i’ve been engaging in loser behaviour and activities like not looking after myself

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

[moldavite]

hopefully i'll get to do something other than endure soon. that would be really nice

[kosmogrl]

they should invent a yourself you can forgive

[klapollo]

i actually think it's scary that we seem to be forgetting what regular human beings look like and that in some cases it's being deliberately accelerated by incels and their esoteric mythology of appearance now that they have the cultural microphone. it's scary that i can watch a movie from like 1991 and be like "oh if this woman was cast as a leading lady today it'd be a culture war outrage session about ugly women being shoved in our faces"

[glowcowboy]

i wasn’t supposed to be a person i should be a well-loved mug or a worn paperback book or a favorite hoodie or a keychain plushie or something

[d1gital-star]

pulling my tamagotchi out of my pocket in the same way a distinguished old man would check his pocket watch

[maxxie-or-smth]

half the thoughts i have aren't mine and i don't know where they're coming from

[thesituation]

my 100% failproof way to handle reactionaries asking why i don’t shave at all is going “because i don’t want to” it works because what they really want is an argument about the merits of feminism, and they’ll draw it out and try to convince you it’s a cult or whatever, but you can avoid it all by sticking to “i just don’t wanna. don’t feel like it” and if they argue with you about it you can use your ultimate ability, which is “i’m sorry i thought it was a free country?” which, believe me, they cannot come back from. they’ll either drop it or start harping on something you didn’t say, and it’s important you don’t take the bait at that point. when they can’t argue with what you say, they assume your beliefs and attack those. and you crucially must be visibly baffled at their change of direction because it will make them seem and possibly feel crazy (which they are). “i don’t want to shave” is a perfect response because truly it all comes down to autonomy and the ability to do what you want. they’ll try to say “feminism makes you think you have to do that” and it’s important to not take that bait. to reiterate that you don’t know what they mean and you just don’t like shaving and that it’s really weird to look into it that deep. this works i promise

[thesituation]

won’t someone think of what people who shave have to go through? the 95% of afab people who shave? imagine the slurs they get called because they shave… that must be so hard…