#i believe in you

[littlemissshifter]

I don't know who needs to hear this but stop downplaying your efforts to change your state of self. A small step forward is still a step. Appreciate the hell out of yourself even for the littlest of things.

[enby-dragoon]

Hey, trans women who feel down because you haven't started your transition yet. Here's a tip from me to you.

You're still a woman.

Now, you might deny this, even if only in your head. Say that you have a 'male' body.

But let me put it this way: You are a woman, and this is your body. Ergo, you have a woman's body.

Now, that body might not look how you prefer, and you can and should change that.

But it doesn't change the fact that you're a woman. Remember that if you're ever feeling down. Okay?

[soracities]

pls give me some courage to study lol

THE EARTHWORM DOES NOT THINK OF ALL THE EARTH THROUGH WHICH IT MUST MOVE BUT ONLY THE 5"X5" POCKET OF DIRT THAT SURROUNDS IT IN THE HERE AND NOW THIS IS HOW IT PERFORMS ITS GOD GIVEN DUTY AND YOU ARE NO DIFFERENT FROM THE EARTHWORM AND YOU TOO HAVE YOUR 5"X5" POCKET OF SOIL AND YOU TOO NEED ONLY FIND THE SMALLEST POSSIBLE STEP YOU CAN TAKE AND DO IT AND THEN FIND THE NEXT SMALLEST AFTER THAT, AND THE NEXT SMALLEST AFTER THAT AND THE NEXT SMALLEST AFTER THAT AND THE NEXT SMALLEST AFTER THAT REMEMBER THE MOUNTAIN DOES NOT EXIST ANON ONLY THE TRACK BELOW YOUR FEET AND WHERE U TAKE THEM LOVE YOU BE THE EARTHWORM GOOD LUCK

[lover-of-mine]

#*ariana grande starts playing* break up with your girlfriend cuz im bored

[gildedmorrow]

Just persist.

that’s all you gotta do. just persist. just keep affirming. just keep spamming your thoughts with your desires. that’s all you have to do love, i promise. you don’t have to feel great, you don’t have to believe it, just pop on a song that you can vibe to and affirm affirm affirm.

if you’ve been affirming but your doubts and old story come back up, that’s your subconscious bringing up your old thinking because your new affirmations are unfamiliar— they’re quite literally coming up to be purged. so all you have to do is persist in the new story, whether you believe in what you’re saying or not.

[wilwheaton]

if you could give one piece of advice to anyone ever walking the earth, what would it be?

Be kind.

Be honest.

Be honorable.

Always do your best, and accept that your best varies from moment to moment.

Don't be a dick.

[lovekylie]

KYLIE MINOGUE by XEVI MUNTANE for "I BELIEVE IN YOU" (2004)

[freyadragonlord]

Finished Heavenly Tyrant and my first comment is.........

......... Qin Zheng was WAY too funny for how much he sucked. Made me feel so conflicted.

Anyways, Heavenly Tyrant is an amazing book, highly reccomend!!!

Power to the people ✊️

[official-wales]

My parents having been doing Welsh on Duolingo so they’ll understand me better. I really appreciate it and it’s awesome, but…

The ‘ti’/‘chi’ issue. I don’t know how many times I’ve explained the diffference but they can’t seem to grasp that ‘chi’ is plural and/or formal. I didn’t realise it would be so devastating to hear a loving parent end a phone call with ‘Caru chi’ and feeling like they’ve just referred to you as a stranger.

They’ve heard me say ‘Caru ti’ enough that they’ve adjusted it and know that i have an issue when they use ‘chi’. But they seem to think its northern or a mistake on the Duolingo course despite the fact I’ve told them otherwise (so they still get confused or call out my ‘bad’ grammar or ‘hyprocrisy’ when I say ‘Caru chi’ to refer to both of them, despite all my explanations)

It’s the ‘sut dych chi’s driving me mad now. I am not plural. I’m so single that I turned out aro/ace.

Maybe I should pretend we’re northern and introduce them to ‘chdi’… or would that make it worse?

Anyway there’s no question here I just wanted to rant about Duolingo’s Welsh course. Not that’s it’s fully awful, it’s lead to some… interesting Welsh language fanfiction on ao3

(Also congratulations to my mam. She’s English and well past the ideal age for learning a new language but she can almost hold conversations with me from Duolingo alone, and whenever she hears a phrase she thinks she could say in Welsh on TV she’ll repeat it to me and go ‘is that right?’)

This post is for your parents, in which I give full permission as Official-Wales for you to show them:

You've heard of the French tu and vous....

You've heard of the Italian tu and lei....

You've heard of all the Spanish ones that I do not understand yet, I'm sorry, I don't speak Spanish....

Now get ready for the Welsh you......

Ti is singular and informal.

I'm talking to my good friend Dafydd. He is just one man. He is okay with this. I say "Sut wyt ti, Dafydd?" He does not respond, because I just made him up.

Chi is p l u r a l and formal.

I'm talking to my bosses. There are many of them, and I want to show them respect so that I can continue earning minimum wage. I say "Sut ydych chi, pawb?" They do not respond, because they do not care about employee welfare. When I return home, I ask my many cats "Sut ydych chi, pawb?" They do not respond, because they are cats and cannot speak Welsh.

This has been your Welsh pronoun lesson for today.

[xenonsdoodles]

I think Ingrid is gay but I do not think she figured that out until well into adulthood. rip to her and to every woman who ever wondered where they went wrong with her :/

[positivelypositive]

🍁

here to remind you...

...that you've got this.

you've always come out stronger after facing tough times. that doesn't mean that it's been easy. but it means that you're capable.

that you'll come through. that you'll make it. you're strong. i believe in you ✨

[beccawise7]

Wednesdays. 💜🖤💜🖤

[ghost-with-a-teacup]

Halsin:

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

guhh i need to snuggle with Foul Legacy in a quiet room surrounded by blankets and pillows, tucked in close against him. his claws are on your head, gently patting your hair and holding you protectively, trying to block out all of the bad things in life and the world. you're tired. so, so tired from everything. it's been overwhelming lately, your days hectic and nights heavy and sad. Legacy worries about you, gently whining and nudging your shoulders and helping you drink some water or tea. you're not sick, right? you don't seem to be coughing or short of breath. perhaps your brain is being cruel to you, telling you awful things. he knows the feeling.

so Foul Legacy cuddles around you carefully, running his talons delicately over your back. he's here for you, during these days when you're on the verge of shutting down. he'll chase away every nasty, horrible thought your mind conjures up against your will, even if it takes him an eternity, even if it never goes away completely because it might make it a little bit better, and that's more than nothing at all.

Legacy makes sure that you know that you will always, always be loved.

[biowaredisasterbisexual]

I feel like too many people think they can’t write fanfic. And you can! ANYONE can!

That’s part of what makes fanfiction so beautiful.

I can already hear the arguments you’re coming up with for why I’m wrong. Why someone, or you specifically, can’t write fanfic. So let’s just answer those doubts I see most often.

“I’m bad at it.”

We were all bad at it when we started. Whoever your favorite fandom authors are? Their earliest stuff wasn’t the quality their stuff is now. I started writing fanfiction in middle school, eons ago, and whether my writing is considered good or not now I’m sure no one would recognize the stuff I posted back then as mine today (except maybe @vael-fire). But writing is a skill that you improve through practice. If you keep going you will eventually write something you are proud of.

Find friends in your fandoms, exchange ideas, participate it fun little writing memes and prompts. All of that is practice. You can absolutely write quality fanfic if you try.

“I don’t know how.”

Totally fair. No one is born just knowing how to write fiction. So find authors in your fandoms you enjoy and ask them questions! I have never met a fanfic writer who doesn’t like talking about their creations and how they crafted them! I promise, even your fandom’s BNFs (or whatever they’re called these days) are just people doing this because they love it, like you are.

Just ask! You’ll probably get an answer.

So go write! You can do it! Join the fun and the insanity!

(And for the love of whatever you consider holy, please do not use AI.)

[inseparabiles]

unhinged concept (I'm entering that stage): Lucilla actually does adopt Geta and Caracalla which ruins Acacius's life but also makes him their step-father and they finally get an actual father figure who teaches them how the fuck to hold swords and not be the worst people ever.

and we just cancel Macrinus entirely, which, I don't know what the hell happens to Lucius but that's someone else's unhinged concept to worry about.

And we put Caracalla on a leash because the boy cannot behave. That's no way to treat your mother