#believe yourself

[chlobeale]

{...} y o u a r e e n o u g h ♡

[ryzelliah]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's ok to be OK. If you're not stressed about some pending work. IT'S OK. No need to intentionally pressure or criticize yourself. Have faith in your ability. You will do it in time. Just give yourself time to relax.

It's OK to be OK.

[ninjakittycomics]

flags are meant to notify.

if you collect too many red flags on a person,  then that should be a clear indicator that they’re not good for you.

Red flag “this one thing is bad for me”

if a friend you’ve known for a while shows a singular red flag, you can be like... ok, how do I work around this?  can it be worked around?  etc.

If a friend you’ve known for a while suddenly shows up with a bouquet of 10 or more red flags (interesting things were learned in lockdown y’all)

perhaps, it’s time to say...wow.  the bad for me is adding up.  how do I minimize my time with this person for my own health and safety?   (minimize might not cut them out altogether.  some people are still in our lives as survival mechanisms)

and if you’re really stuck in it, just be aware, and reaffirm your senses.   “Yes I see what is.  and ok, I am going with this because I have to.”    (this is the most important gift we can give ourselves when we’re trapped)

Yellow flags (this is suss, and I’m not sure how I feel about it yet, but it’s not an overt OMG)  

again if someone brings you a bouquet of suss, pay attention, maybe you don’t want to really get involved in that?  and again, if you’re stuck in it and you’re not always comfortable with the bouquet, be aware.  reaffirm yourself.  Know what is, and know that you’re doing what you have to, because you have to.

Green flags, the omg, this person is awesome and steady in their awesome (i will be attaching the green flags post here below shortly)

someone brings you a bouquet of green?  <3 <3 <3 <3 <3   

(some green flags courtesy of another post, in case y’all been in red flag land so long that you need a refresher:  https://duskroads.tumblr.com/post/715331727484125184/wholesmememeshub-gets-to-be-rather-disconcerting  )

[poniz-lettering]

[lostinpeacesoothingemotionsnj]

It's hard, very hard , to not quit and keep on trying . Even if the process of trying is killing you. You know why because one day you will realize you didn't quit, you kept on trying till the day; battle you were fighting ,lost from you.

[vasanthdailymotivation007]

Believe in your vision motivational Quotes

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

being a student during peak pandemic was so fucking surreal like. "it's not an excuse to fall behind" I cannot stress enough to you how much A Worldwide Plague Upending Life As We Know It is literally one of The Top Three Reasons to fall behind

[prolibytherium]

One of my all time biggest pet peeves with historical(ish) fantasy is when the writer constructs a religion with a clear bias that it's stupid and false and therefore only the Stupid People and/or commoners believe in it and all the smart/elite main characters are like, quasi-atheists or otherwise just routinely flout established religious conventions of orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy because they're Too Smart for it or etc.

It's usually an extension of assumptions that people in the past were just less intelligent than in the contemporary, just being like "I know that the sun is a star millions of miles away that the earth orbits, but this ancient religion describes it as a chariot flying through the sky" and not really bothering to learn the context and just (consciously or subconsciously) settling on 'that's a crazy thing to think and was probably believed in because they were Stupid'.

And that whole attitude pisses me off so much. People were as 'smart' 10,000 years ago as they are today. These beliefs aren't just desperate, random flailing to explain phenomena that could not directly be accounted for either, it's not like people just looked at the sun and went "Uhhh I don't know what the fuck that thing is, actually. I guess it might be a chariot or a boat or something?? Yeah let's go with that." and based entire religious practices on this. Every well-established belief system exists within broader contexts of cultural values/subjective perceptions of reality/knowledge systems/etc, and exist as part of a historical continuum of religious practices that came before. Even when not Materially Correct, they have context and internal logic, they're not always dead literal with zero levels of allegory, and they're never a result of stupidity.

[hinamie]

make it vicious, take a stab

[desultory-suggestions]

You have to stop ruining things for yourself preemptively because you believe they’ll fail anyway. Give yourself a chance to succeed.

[letmebegaytodd]

It's shrimp mode monday everyone, let's get this bread(ed shrimp) 🍤

[loveesiren]

[akidwhocriedwolf]

I am NOT sorry it made you, You

[originalartblog]

Don't forget to eat to keep the demons at bay

[pavel-chekov-appreciator]

But what about Stonn, you ask?

You fool. Stonn is also a lesbian.

[trans-androgyne]

Remind yourself that this is temporary.

“This will mean I can’t transition” could be more accurately framed as “parts of my transition will have to be delayed.”

This won’t last forever. One day, your body is going to feel like a home. One day, you’ll have people who call you what you want to be called. One day, you’ll look in the mirror and see yourself. Please make sure you’re around long enough to see it. Sending you so much love.