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@beholdmysparkle

she/her | abby | hey siri can you teach me how to fix my broken heart? no one made it stop, i just can’t get it to start

Also while we’re here I want everyone to appreciate that This

This wild, wonderful, beautifully animated and heartfelt queer story started here

Here, on tumblr, by an art student who was wrestling with his identity, mental health, and religious trauma

Tell your stories, kids, you never know how many people will thank you for it

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twitter limiting the amount of tweets you get to read per day is ridiculous but if tiktok limited the amount of videos people got to see per day it would be the biggest win for mental health since ssris

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They are not as high-profile as the WGA, but I would like to bring everyone's attention to the imminent strike action by thousands of hotel workers in Los Angeles. They are set to go on strike tomorrow, July 1st, 2023.

More than 15,000 hotel workers are seeking higher pay, better benefits, and working conditions. This includes an across-the-board $5 an hour raise, as well as affordable healthcare and better pensions. They also are seeking a ban on the use of E-Verify, which is used to deny employment to undocumented workers and workers involved with the criminal justice system. You can follow what is happening at their Twitter.

You gotta love that Tumblr is on the rise because of Twitter and Reddit going down, and not because Tumblr has actually done anything to really improve its website.

I personally kin with a website that accidentally and coincidentally fails upwards.

The site that wins simply by remaining upright.

We are literally this meme, posted eons ago, in our ancient texts.

We already have written our story, our destiny, in the art we forget.

“As we settle in, he pulls my head down to use his arm as a pillow; the other rests protectively oever me even when he goes to sleep. No one has held me like this in such a long time. Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else’s arms have made me feel this safe.”

-The Hungre Games, Suzanne Collins

Thinking about how incredibly brave it was of Suzanne to make the main love interest a kind, sensitive, emotionally intelligent, disabled, stocky blond in 2008 when the trend at the time was skinny, tall, lanky, sarcastic, hates-everyone-but-main character, rageboy. And how absolutely genius it was to have BOTH of those types in the same series and have Katniss choose Peeta. Groundbreaking.

You can’t leave all this in the notes!! Because yes while Katniss spawned an endless stream of “not like other girls” main characters she is like other girls!!! She likes fashion. She doesn’t understand it, but she likes it. She loves the clothes Cinna makes her. But she’s also very practical. She is a fighter. She’s at turns sarcastic and sincere, so heartbreakingly sincere. And Peeta just takes it in stride and is all the more enamored by her for it. He sees her whole personhood and loves it, and is never once threatened by her. She’s a whole complex person.

catching fire is full of so many randomly funny moments despite being incredibly horrific overall (just like the rest of the hunger games trilogy tbh) but nothing in any of the books has made me laugh out loud like finnick waking up when katniss and peeta were like this close to having sex while everyone else was asleep and being like "well i'm awake now. katniss you can rest and i'll finish your watch out with peeta" and then looking at them for a second and realizing what he just interrupted and being like "oh uhhh well actually you know what i can keep watch by myself and you guys can do whatever"