rise & carry on

debbie | 19 “Frightened and yet glad and full of dreams.” ✧ mobile links

[vanessagillings]

A few resources to help, learn, and promote:

TO HELP AND DONATE:

Black Lives Matter carrd with info, petitions, donation sites they recommend, and readings they suggest

President Obama’s List of orgs to help, things to read, and ways to get engaged

Black-led LGBTQ+ Organizations posted by Alexis Michelle

TO LEARN AND UNLEARN:

5 Ways to Take Action for all non-black people by The Conscious Kid

10-Steps to Non-Optical Allyship by Mireille Cassandra Harper 

How to Be Actively Anti-Racist by Good Good Good Co

Victoria Alexander’s recommendations on Anti-Racist Literature

TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE:

Abelle Hayford’s #drawingwhileblack Directory of Black Creatives to hire

Author Oge Mora’s List of Children’s Books by Black Authors - also check out Oge Mora’s beautiful books!

A Twitter Thread from Melissa See on Black YA novels

Karina Yan Glasser’s 100 Must-Read Children’s Books by African-American Authors

10 Black-Owned Online Bookstores to buy all these lovely books from!

Bookshop.org’s List of Independent Black-Owned Bookstores 

[thirdlooks]

River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves photographed by Gus Van Sant

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get to know me meme: [03/10] » favorite animations: my neighbor totoro (1988)

Totoro, I beg you, please protect Mei. She’ll be lost, and probably scared. Please believe me, I’ll be good for the rest of my life if I can just see her again.   

[sesiondemadrugada]

La belle et la bête (1946).

[wintersoldierarchive]

Rosamund Pike for Modern Weekly

[rosedewson]

“For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via goodreadss)

[lokidlaufeyson]

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

[mydraco]

16. light/dark We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

[timotay-chalamet]

Elle France October, 7 2016 LA Divine Photographer: Van Mossevelde + N Celeb: Jessica Chastain

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Then came the Dark Days, the uprising of the districts against the Capitol. Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated. The Treaty of Treason gave us the new laws to guarantee peace and, as our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games.

[levrathan]

“I have a taste for what is ardent and intense,”

— Anna de Noailles, tr. by Sebastian Hayes, from “My Very Own Life-Force,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[lanadelreydailysource]

Lana Del Rey photographed on the set of National Anthem.  

[julliettewarners]

favorite people: sebastian stan 

As an actor, I feel it is my duty to hold a mirror up to nature as best as I can, and to support stories that have been, and still need to be told.

[90377]

Lake in the morning mist by M Miroslav

[paleresource]

This is gonna hurt. There are no prisoners with HYDRA, just order. And order only comes through pain.

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was tagged by @gothrey thank you so much! ❤️💞 (of course this includes you to!) to spread some mutual appreciation - no particular order - so here it goes ♡ -

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[garrett-graham]

When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.