i highly recommend for women and girls to be intellectually curious and difficult to shame
the romance of sitting in a room with the person you love, each of you doing your own thing like reading a book or playing a game.... silent but full of love and warmth
i just want someone to want me, like to want to be in my life and would be willing to do anything to make that happen :( why am I never enough, why won't i ever be enough.
reminding myself that having unreciprocated feelings for people again and again doesn't mean I'm worthless, it means I'm resilient. after all the affection I’ve given, I still have more to give. optimism is never embarrassing. love is never wasted.
august is for romance! romance in friendships. romance in daily routines. romance in walking down the street
Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars
the thing that gets me about about barbie is that barbie land wasn’t even purposefully a matriarchy, barbie land came about because of the way little girls were playing with their barbies, it wasn’t created by mattel it was created by the people using the toys, so the fact that the barbies ignored the ken’s and had girls night every night wasn’t because they had some bias against him, it was just an accurate depiction of how kids play with barbies. I had some ken dolls as a child and they were essential to the plot in the sense that of course my barbie has a boyfriend because that represented the world i saw around me, but also he didn’t have any purpose in my dream world because i was only interested in what the girls were doing because they represented me and how i wanted to be, I wanted girls night every night I wanted the girls to be president and austronauts and not because of some inherent feminist idea but because I was a girl and I wasn’t thinking about boys, ken was an accessory. this movie wasn’t made to change the world but it showed a different perspective than what we usually see which I thought was fun. Men don’t have to be the centre of all our stories and its not even because we hate them, sometimes we’re just not thinking about them
i want to be so kind it echoes backwards in time and undoes the things that hurt you. i want to be so kind it radiates from me. i want to be so kind that i make someone else find faith in humanity again. there’s not much i can do, i’m small and weak and i only know so many words. but i know i can be kind. and sometimes, i believe, that changes the world.
i love you physical media ❤️ i love you cds ❤️ i love you vinyl ❤️ i love you cassettes ❤️ i love you dvds ❤️ i love you blurays ❤️ i love you paperback books ❤️ i love you comics ❤️
"I can fix him" You can't even fix your sleep schedule bestie
gentle reminder: you are very capable and I’m excited for your future
slightly less gentle reminder: you do have to work for it
*annoyed but resigned moan of frustration*