What You See Is Me

I'm very easily amused, I love to laugh, I love nature and when it rains, and I try to appreciate everything I get and see in life.

[pruzome]

< chris richard . danilo ricci >

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[robeblr]

pure queer joy

[facelessoldgargoyle]

ah! Everything in this! the switch leading! the hand on the back of his neck! the grace!

[villanelle-x]

[acutelesbian]

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

[fat-thin-skinny]

this fucks me up every single time

[acutelesbian]

I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

[conceitedtrash]

This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now

[blackwoolncrown]

It’s funny that we use skeletons as symbols of core human anatomy when our bones are just the scaffolding for something else.

[blackwoolncrown]

behold

a human without its suit or fuel system

[womenintheirwebs-archived]

autonomous spagetts

[roaringstream]

jellyfish

[atrailofblood]

jellyfish are damned humans, cursed to float aimlessly in the abyss without their ship

[cryoverkiltmilk]

We have to wear clothes and pay taxes, are they truly the damned ones?

[cross-country-suggestions]

this thread is everything

[the-lady-flame]

may the road rise to meet you. may the wind be at your back. may your gender be utterly imcomprehensible

[genre]

It was just one ant!

A Bug’s Life (1998)

[glozirina]

[metadefumaca]

[spidaerman]

To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.

Also, I would like to add that black lives have always mattered, will always matter.

It’s awful that we even have to say that because it should be a given. However, we need to say it loud and clear for the racists.

We cannot be silent. 

[chaotic-archaeologist]

One man’s trash is an archaeologist’s dissertation

[teaboot]

What coincidence, for one archaeologist’s dissertation is another man’s trash

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Man, when I was like 16 I got so sick of being made fun of for being the fat kid that I took an axe down inna woods, chopped down a tree, and started doing log-lifts all the time. I got strong as fuck, but I didn’t lose no weight. I actually got bigger.

Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast*, man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby.

Body-building culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or lean. You can be swole as hell and still be heavy. And that’s cool.

Embrace your inner barbarian. And when fatphobic little gym twinks try to body shame you, you should DESTROY THEM with your MIGHTY AXE

[littlegreydove]

Can comfirm, i am Quite Fat ™ but i still hit my punching bag hard enough last week make it touch the ceiling and broke a finger in the process

[systlin]

You know, I train with (martial arts) a bunch of dudes, and a few bodybuilders have showed up over the years. 

And every damn one of those huge shredded motherfuckers has the endurance of a fucking newborn puppy. Fifteen minutes into warmups and they’re panting for air like like they’re about to die. I’ve sparred them and every one of them telegraphs their moves about two weeks in advance, and are slower than my dead grandpa because their huge useless muscles get in the damn way. 

Now. I also work with a couple of guys who are not weightlifters. They do, however, do very physical jobs and are Big Dudes. Picture this sort of build. 

No abs to speak of, a bit of a tummy, and those motherfuckers can pick up one of the weightlifters and throw them. 

And they’re fast. Like, unfair fast. 

Bodybuilding culture is bullshit. Embrace your status as a giant barbarian and if anyone gives you crap throw them off a mountain. 

[weedeledledledle-deactivated202]

This is true for all humans, too!

At my heaviest (well over 300lbs) I still ran an 11 minute mile (pre-disability). And even when I was at my most active, and training intensely, I was never hardbodied despite working out full time. Functional muscle for me looks like horse legs and a big muscular butt with a soft tummy and big arms.

I’m built like a Celtic Warrior Goddess and I will never have a flat tummy and toned arms and that is fine by me because I could snap a grown man in half.

[systlin]

Yes!

Have you seen olympic powerlifters? 

This is Sarah Robles, on the USA Olympic Powerlifting team. 

Skinny? No. Could pick me up with one arm? Absofuckinglutely. 

[avishabilis]

Sarah Robles was once in an auto accident. She braced her arms against the steering wheel & by main force held it back from smashing her in the chest.

She fought her car & she won.

[systlin]

wHAT

Holy shit I love her even more. 

That would shatter my arms like glass. 

[extreme-technicality]

@warriormale @imfemalewarrior @nonbinarywarrior

[imfemalewarrior]

Embrace your body the way it is built and designed to last. 

-FemaleWarrior 

[midnight-spectrum-again]

SHE FOUGHT A CAR AND WON???

[sixpenceee]

Seen amidst the 2020 pandemic. 

[macgyvershe]

just take a couple thousand deep breaths and don’t forget that there are people working their asses off to keep you alive.

[anxietyproblem]

Instagram

[torithebardbarian]

i feel targeted

[hugtheteadrinkthekitten]

[chrinic-geadcake-deactivated202]

Oh god it’s me

[sixpenceee]

The bridge between Denmark and Sweden dips into a tunnel. 

[macgyvershe]

Beauttiful

[toshiagain]

A night America should never forget. Our people are hurting, they have been for hundreds of years, and yet we continue to value property over lives. Minneapolis said with a clear voice last night that enough is enough. George Floyd is dead, you can rebuild stores and replace merchandise, but you cannot bring back a life. Martin Luther King Jr. said that a riot is the language of the unheard, well are you listening now America? Why does fire and pepper spray get your attention but innocent black people slaughtered by police get nothing more than a pause and then return to normal? We can't return to normal because normal means continuing to terrorize communities of colour and that is unacceptable. No justice, no peace should be common sense so let's not act shocked by these pictures, instead let's see the pain being expressed and do something about it.

[sixpenceee]

On recent events.