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I promise you, relationship anarchy is a good thing. Tell your friends you love them. Go on dates. Domme them. Take them to weddings. Have a relationship with the sub from the dungeon where she does your taxes or you mow his lawn. Help your neighbor plant begonias and become their honorary granddaughter. Become friends with your partner’s partners. Cuddle with your book club and talk about Polysecure or something, idk.

I don’t care. Just stop expecting every relationship to follow a specific pattern and instead find the beauty you both want in your specific relationship with that other person.

Life is more than the nuclear family and strict pseudo-Christian mythological ideals.

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Reblog if you’re bisexual, support bisexual people or are actually a bunch of tiny velociraptors in a human suit

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Polyamory ask game!

💙 How did you first first hear about polyamory?

❤️ When did you realize you were poly?

🖤 What are your opinions on the polyamory flag?

💕 What’s your current dating situation and do you have to make a flow chart to describe it?

🥰 What is/what do you think would be poly-saturated for you?

🤗 Have partners ever teamed up to surprise you with something special? What was it?

👀 Are you looking for more love right now?

🤝🏽 How did you meet your partner(s)/what’s your current strategy to find some more love?

🤔 Is there a dating style that (while you may still respect it for others) you just cannot wrap your head around?

😍 What’s the BEST thing about being poly for you?

💌 How do you feel about long-distance relationships?

🥵 Do you have a type and if so how obvious is it when comparing partners/crushes?

🏡 What’s the dream living scenario for you?

🧑‍🤝‍🧑Do you get jealous? How do you deal with it?

💟 What’s your cutest group date idea?

😮 What surprised you the most as you’ve explored polyamory?

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Fourth in a series I of comics about protesting safety tips I made with @this.is.ysabel . This one is about the dangers of police surveillance and how to avoid it if possible. Keep being safe when you go out. Don’t get snatched!

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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Art by: christineowensart on Instagram

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Just because it isn’t happening right now doesn’t mean it never will

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Practice trusting that all will work out for your highest good.

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“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

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(by Vadim Sadovski) | {Instagram}

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“With mindfulness, you look at the other person and become aware of the suffering in him or in her. With just one or two seconds of looking and seeing the suffering in him, compassion is born. When compassion is born, you don’t suffer any more, and you may find something to say that will help him. With the practice, we can always open new neural pathways like that. When they become a habit, we call it the habit of happiness.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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“If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert or a cup of tea, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert or my tea when I finally have them. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and the flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will be constantly dragged into the future, miss out on life altogether, and never able to live in the present moment. Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred. In this light, no boundary exists between the sacred and the profane.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh, in “At Home in the World”. 

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“The greatest thing you can do for another being is to provide the unconditional love that comes from making contact with that place in them that is beyond conditions, which is just pure consciousness, pure essence. That is, once we acknowledge each other as existing, just being here, just being, then each of us is free to change optimally. If I can just love you because here we are, then you are free to grow as you need to grow.”

— Ram Dass (via aspiritualwarrior)

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“If you choose freedom, life will become magical. The life you’ll step into is one in which the Self is in hidden agreement with your humanness. The Self begins to harmonize with your life, and it may proceed in a way that you could never have predicted. The magical part is that the more you let go, the better it feels. The more you step into insecurity, the more you notice how secure and safe it is.”

— Adyashanti  (via earthmedicina)