#it all gets better

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[ered]

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

[cowboysmp3]

there’s something sooo sickening about how dunmeshis whole energy is like sometimes something terrible and awful happens to you and it changes you forever and nothing can make you the person you were before but there’s still love and there’s still sharing a meal together and there’s still living

[wizard-laundry]

QUICK REMINDER

In the US: threatening government officials is a felony under federal law (the president in particular is protected under 18 U.S.C. § 871). Even memes.

be careful with your jokes if they spill over to active officials.

[spiritsaraginghomo]

A few days ago my mom broke the news,

she got the job,

we’re moving,

we’re going to finally be stable,

we’re going to have money,

we’re going to live,

we can get a house, we can go to college without worrying about crippling debt, we can get nice things, do fun things, go on vacations, travel the world….

We did it

My parents have done nothing but fight for their lives just to make sure me and my siblings don’t end up like them,

They were uneducated

They had no future

Yet they fought, because of us

When we struggled in school or were bullied

They fought

When me and my brother came out

They loved and cared

They forsake meals and warmth for us

They got above the poverty line for us

She went to college and got the first well paying job in our family history, for us

They tried everything to get out out of here, we attempted to immigrate to other countries, and when we failed they tried everything to get jobs in another state, somewhere safe, somewhere forgiving.

For us

We had no future

We were starving

We couldn’t get the gifts we wanted

We wore old hand me down clothes and shoes

We participated in everything that gave us free meals

We grew up unaware and happy

We didn’t know what they were going through

Then we learned

We shared that suffering

I knew myself

I always knew who I was even without words to define the feelings

But they were always there

My parents always helped me experiment and explore

I learned about queerness

My mother learned of hers as I learned of mine

My father always loved and supported

I am loved

It kept me going

It kept me alive

Even when my closest friends didn’t make it

Even when blood stained the walls of my school, of my city, of my state

I hated it, why did they die, I’ll never forgive the kids who did it

The others left and fled, just so they’d be able to live

Money got tighter and tighter

More left more died

Senior year, and I became the last man standing in a pool of blood and an abandoned lunch table

Everyone I once called a friend either hated me for my identity, died trying to explore and protect theirs, or left to preserve themselves

Murder, accidents, suicide

6 forgotten names, not a single soul said a word of what happened to all of them, left to rot on news articles

Just when I thought I’d survive

Half my life disappeared, my black cat, who was starting to grey with age, dead in our own driveway

Next door the neighbors dog couldn’t handle it, she lost her best friend, not even a week after, and she simply went to sleep

All in the final month, the final stretch, things were going so well, I thought

I left school with a bloodstained diploma and a shattered heart

All that was left for me was family and my online friends

Our stories, our art

It kept me alive

For so long

I have felt like nothing but a dead man walking

Nothing but fantasy and make believe to keep me company

Yet it all changes in just a few weeks

Im going to make it

Im going to live

I have a future

I will thrive

Im sorry to those I leave behind

Im sorry to those I couldn’t protect

Im sorry I couldn’t see the bigger picture

I’m sorry that I’ve forgotten your names

Your faces

I’m sorry I wasn’t there for you all when you needed it

I wish it was different

I wished that you’d all be happy and alive

But now it’s just me

I’ll make them proud, I’ll remember their names, I’ll remember their hopes

I’m going to live

I want to make people prosper

I want to do something with meaning

I want to make the world better

Make it beautiful

Everyone deserves happiness

Everyone deserves life

It starts now

It starts with this move

It starts with these new jobs

It starts.

I finally feel like I can create for the sake of creating, that it doesn’t need to be the thread that kept me hanging

I love you mom and dad, I love my friends, I love my siblings, my cats and dogs, everyone means so much to me, thank you to everyone who has ever supported me in life and kept me going

I’m finally going to be ok

[tiredlakes]

nothing about you is rotten or wrong, you are not doomed. you can get up and try again, that is our privilege. you can always try again. you always have a second chance.

[hinamie]

mentor

[chloesimaginationthings]

The Afton kids deserved better in FNAF..

[mausolealdrift]

its baffling seeing people on here being all shocked about how other ppl didnt have sex or do drugs or drink or go to parties etc etc in high schools like. sorry i was too busy getting bullied to do all of that stuff i guess. why are you surprised that there’s losers on the cringe loser website

[uncanny-tranny]

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

[jaypentaghast]

the kisses to his temple are you fucking kidding me

[ahotknife]

the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself

[stemmmm]

more people gotta try this shit where bill has not improved and will not change but he's just chilling so its fine probably. its great

[whompthatsucker1981]

i think that gay sex cats is the new duchamp's fountain

[zillychu]

get MOLTED, idiot

[stuckinapril]

Honestly the cliche advice is true. If you fill your life w things you’re passionate about, if you challenge yourself every day, if you give your own opinion of yourself more weight than you do other people’s opinions of you, you will actually thrive. Like no one can tell u anything