Extremely dangerous how "grooming" in the context of child sexual abuse went from being a very specific pattern of isolation and trust-building with the aim of abusing someone to "telling children anything that contradicts their parents' ultra-conservative worldview is grooming" to "selling rainbow flags in a store is grooming" to "literally anyone I don't like is a groomer".

These days the word seems to most often be used by people who don't care about what it actually means and just want an easy "this person is irredeemably evil, kill them now" button.

noticed a really fun detail. when hobie says "i'm not a role model", we get two photos of him and one of them is him flipping the bird at the camera and it's censored by a bird stamp. but what's funnier is that the stamp is upside down, cause y'know, he's flipping the bird. this movie just gets better and better ngl

Miles and Meows Morales

-Sylvia Plath

glass, irony and good, anne carson // margaret atwood // enough, suzanne buffam // linnea paskow // in conversation: kathleen turner, david marchese // haunted womanhood, heather havrilesky // where to begin, sue zhao // the stream of life, clarice lisepector

Wendy Cope, "From June to December: Summer Villanelle"

They should invent a job that i actually want to do

passports…should not expire

actually i have decided that passports shouldn’t exist at all

i love it here

Me when I'm about to do a terrorism but I am stopped by a cop asking for my passport

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'

you need to be earnest. you need to tell people that you love them. you need to speak on how you’re feeling honestly. you need to be sentimental. you need to stop letting the fear of other people laughing at you have so much control over how you express yourself. you need to get over yourself. you need to be embarrassing but true.

so fucked up that i have to take care of my body everyday. what if sometimes i feel sad about the maintenance

girl breakfast lunch dinner supper brunch etc

Early morning are so beautiful it's so mean that they put them in the early morning

i am a different person than who i was last year. my hair is longer and i cry less and i am stronger. i am a different person than who i was six months ago. i am free and different and am embracing change. i am a different person than who i was a month ago. i sit in the sunlight without worry and i don’t let things stick and i look up and smile. i am a different person than who i was last week. i explore more and look at the sky and laugh more. i am a different person than who i was yesterday. i let go and breathe. i am whole.

i’ve decided to carry some undying hope with me every day. as a treat

so apparently that final montage in Barbie are videos of mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends of the crew?! No, I am not crying.

grwm to forgive myself

The trick is to do it without shame. Literally anything could be cool if you just did it shamelessly