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If you find yourself becoming reactive, silently repeat to yourself, “Detach, detach, detach.” Make a point of consciously describing the other person in words—silently and to yourself. During a stressful interaction, this kind of mental narration can center and ground you.

Lindsay C. Gibson

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i love stock photos so much

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There is no such thing as “time wasted”... everything you’ve ever done in your life has led you to this very moment! That nap you took that was longer than you’d liked, those hours you spent researching a topic you will probably never think about again, “lazy” days where you just sit with yourself... even if it doesn’t feel productive, all those are moments of your life that have shaped you and led you to the here and now. Because nothing in your life could have happened any other way. Life really is just little brushstrokes to create one big picture...

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i’m never getting over the fact that romance as a genre, as the HIGHEST selling genre, exists largely because straight women fantasise about being loved and treated kindly by men and men constantly make fun of this because they think it’s just that unrealistic that they could cherish women and that women are stupid in the first place for wanting such an impossible thing

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Snail Bracelet by Vivienne Westwood

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Van-Gogh’s “Wheat Field with Cypresses” as a living painting at the National-Gallery 

Trafalgar Square

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“Historically, whenever women [especially young women] are interested in a form of media, we like to tell them it is bad for them and that they are bad for liking it — unless the media goes mainstream, in which case it becomes no longer feminine and hence okay. Novels are dangerous and cause insanity, until they become classics worthy of being studied in college. Beatlemania is the province of ‘the dull, the idle, the failures,’ until the Beatles become a band that everyone loves. Women are so attacked for loving the media they love that it is a radical act for a woman to love something unashamedly. And transformative fandom is the most radical act of all, because it reverses that ‘lady thing to respectable thing’ process. It takes a piece of media that may not have been designed for women and makes it for women.”

— Constance Grady, Why we’re terrified of fanfiction (via fluffycakesistainted)

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apartment “complex”? actually i find it qui-

no, no, well, uhm, ah , no thats . yeah.

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moths are precious

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If stress can make you sick, it stands to reason that love, laughter, and joy can make you healthy!

— Dr. Perry Nickelston

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Hi…he’s chirping.