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[waffleandchickenlegs]

My biggest mistake is thinking I was as important to people as they were to me.

Mans I just keep making that same mistake

[resistdrumpf]

[lagonegirl]

this tweet is masterful

[waffleandchickenlegs]

But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland - Haruki Murakami

[kuzkuza]

[moniquill]

No guys, I need to stop and talk about something in this movie and how fucking revolutionary it was; something that I haven’t seen in a movie before or since.

This is a movie about a kid who leaves her birth family.

Not a kid who find that they have a secret lineage or something that allows them to find their ‘true family’ - this is a movie about a kid whose true birth family is made up of bad people. So she gets out. And that is played as the right thing to do. She isn’t punished for it or made to feel bad about ‘abandoning her family’. There isn’t an underlying ‘but they’re your family and you have to love them’ or ‘they’re your family and they love you even if they don’t show it well or do hurtful things’ message of the kind that I see OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER in media. Matilda gets out and lives happily ever after because of it.

We need a million more movies like this to counter the metric shit ton of movies that directly counter this message.

[glamaphonic]

 #sometimes the family you start with isn’t a good one #but you can find your own #family is not absolute #blood is not absolute

[marzipanandminutiae]

not to mention, Miss Honey is an abuse survivor herself (and in the book, she’s only 23 years old)

they both got out. they both became each other’s happy ending.

[waffleandchickenlegs]

Alright ladies, let me tell you something. No one will ever be satisfied with what you do. You will never live up to anyone's expectations. So fuck it. Live up to your own expectations. Do what YOU want to do, live your life how YOU want to live. Do you. Be happy with yourself and your life. You are amazing. You are powerful. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

[pakistaniheaux]

spare a few moments in these last few days of Ramadan and make dua for the betterment, healing and justice for sexual assault, molestation, and rape survivors.

[philyptian]

Single Muslims girls in their 20s and 30s.

Fuck society’s pressure for you to be married by now. 

If you don’t wanna get married right now, or haven’t found the one yet, or don’t have the means, or whatever it is; there is nothing wrong with you. 

You do you babe. 

[iloveyixingsomuch-blog]

[sinidentidades-blog]

People starving when tons of unsold food is thrown away globally because people couldn’t afford to purchase the food, that’s violence. 

People dying and going bankrupt to pay for their healthcare, that’s violence. 

People being evicted from their homes when there are more houses than there are houseless people, that’s violence.

[mysimpsonsblogisgreaterthanyours]

[blue-le-q]

Things come along like this that make the internet so special, I AM IN FUCKING TEARS

[politijohn-backup]

This doesn’t go with anything on my blog but OH MY GOD!!!!

[last-bi-in-town-deactivated2023]

I’m so amazed at how well this is done lmaoo

[kimreesesdaughter]

I LOVE GOOFY GIRLS BRUH 😂😂😂😂

[black--lamb-blog]

i’mma be their friend ha

[lookatasha-deactivated20180508]

Brilliant.

[waffleandchickenlegs]

LOL I TOTALLY IMAGINED YOU DOING THIS RUQIYYAH AND I DIED

[theblogofeternalstench]

[jaaays]

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[wordsnquotes]

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via uonthaa)

[pubertad]

[museedart]

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind, 1896 by Jean-Léon Gérôme

[seekers-whoarelovers-deactivate]

I’ve been thinking a lot about it and this is literally the best title of anything

[cumaeansibyl]

so I guess it was some ancient Greek who said “truth lives at the bottom of a well” and I don’t know what he meant or why it stuck, but I’ve seen a lot of 19th-century references to it (because people always love showing off how much they know about stuff)

but I like this because imagine how fucking pissed off you would be if you lived at the bottom of a well in the first place, but then you had to climb all the way out of it somehow because humans were such unbelievable assholes that you were forced to yell at them in person

[autumngracy]

“I CAME OUT OF THE WELL BECAUSE YOU NEED TO STOP”

[jake-clark]

[mikerugnetta]

My fave tumblr post got better.

[entrancedintime]

@resilienttbastard

[resilienttbastard]

That painting is my phone background

[waffleandchickenlegs]

This made me laugh so hard

[video-hall-of-fame]

modern art