#say yes to life

[sinful-roxy]

I was furious and dumb, lighting fires through the town I'd play the fiddle and forget whatever I was pissed about I know that most of you relates to some extent And God, I know how lame it sounds But I'm glad I became more human Stay, don't go We're like halfway through the halftime show Do not let this one end Before you emerge as the winner Say yes to grace! Say no to spite! Say yes to this! Say yes to you! Say yes to me! Say yes to love! Say yes to life!

[eyesupchilsy]

Orchid, camellia!

orchid ⇢ what’s a song you consider to be perfect? I'm gonna give you my holy trifecta here but just know I have more songs that are "perfect" but these three are the songs I'd throw in the playlist first

Say Yes To Life is just THE feelgood song for me. Whenever I fall in a slump or like I'm having a trip up this is the song I put on. It's a very good "it's gonna be fine just take the leap" reminder and I think that's why I find it so perfect. I also use it as a turn up for the party song cause the 2nd half of it makes me cry happy tears and cry and just everything. I don't think there is a song I've heard that makes me feel SO MUCH as this one does. Overall it's just perfect in all those aspects and I cherish it dearly.

If you know me you know I'm a huge believer in love and romance and soulmates and that's exactly what this one is to me. It keeps me hopeful and waiting. To me the song also is very much the feeling of being in love and falling in love and just that whole excitement. And the lead up and then part where he goes "I wanna be loved, I wanna be whole again so tuck my hair behind my ears and touch my soul again" KILLS ME every time cause it hits so freaking right. Overall it's a beautiful song like the lyrics and beat and just everything just screams perfect. I could cry.

This song is one of the probably most near and dear songs to me, like this whole album to me has always been the only no skips album in my life. I think rarely anyone in my life knows how important each one of these songs is to me. Gold Steps will always be my safe haven whenever life seems like I'm in over my head. The lyrics in my mind are some of the most relatable ones I've had to myself and the music too. This is a song that 19 year old me needed and now 26 year old me couldn't live without. It was the first song I was ready to ink onto my skin and to this day I'm still waiting for the perfect way of doing that to pop up.

Also idk if yall wanted to read all that but enjoy I just really like talking about music and stuff and rarely get to do it.

camellia ⇢ what were you like when you were younger? do you think you’ve changed a lot? When I was a kid i used to be a little ball of sunshine bouncing off walls like a permanent sugar rush situation. But life happens and people happen and so shit dims your light. I like to think I'm finding my way back to that person now however cause I know old me is somewhere in there still. Being assigned Daniel Ricciardo in any quizz or "who do i remind you of" game helps a lot too ngl.

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[https-inertia]

I know everyone decided on his car, but i cant draw cars, so i went with a black hole.

click for better quality

[inkskinned]

having good & true friends will literally save and protect you in a million unfathomable ways. like okay we have written so many times about lovers. but the way a platonic friend laughs and cries with you. the way they hold your hand at 14 years old and at 34. the way they keep a little silver tie to you, touching base over and over and over. how you can go years without talking, only to re-meet and discover: oh shit! you're still cool!

there are people who have been in my life for more than half of it, and i have loved every version of them. do you know how fucking beautiful that is. yeah love will save the world. but the way friends love you is gonna save the you.

[stil-lindigo]

Bisan is calling for another global strike!

I saw some posts just outlining Jan 21st, and wanted to clarify that Bisan has called for a full seven days of action.

What a global strike would look like is:

calling in sick to work

purchasing bare essentials ahead of the week so you can observe the general boycott of goods / buying as little as you genuinely can

putting in a concerted effort to elevate Palestinian voices and make it clear that this strike is in support of a permanent ceasefire!

For those who will have to purchase necessary goods during this time, please observe the brands that the BDS movement is asking us to boycott!

♢♢♢

Right now is also a good time to mention some better uses for your money during this week.

Available e-sims in Gaza are running low!!

Mirna El Helbawi and her team are working round the clock to continue to connect Palestinians as Israel does its best to cut them off from the rest of the world.

You can learn how to purchase and send e-sims here, and below you’ll find a list of what is currently needed (the areas in brackets indicate what region you should select to buy e-sims in).

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CareforGaza is an organisation that does verifiably good work, distributing supplies directly to Palestinian families.

They have a Gofundme set up at the moment, but because of Gofundme’s poor track record regarding refusing to transfer funds to Palestinians, I’d recommend continuing to donate directly to their PayPal here.

Good luck to all of you. Don't turn away from Palestine!

[phantom-kiwi]

Venom 3 spoiler warning but like

"Ride me cowboy", "we've been together for a year?", "Sometimes I think we would've been happier you and I living a life like this", them calling each other Thelma and Louise? Them talking about future plans and the camera directly cutting and staying on literal happy newlyweds?? "BUT I NEED HIM BACK" ???? A montage of their time together???? Hello ??? Symbrock nation can you hear me !!!!

[isjasz]

[Day 365 | Ref to Day 1]

And that's a wrap 🪻🥀

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fhksjdkwjw ITS OVER. ITS OVERRRRR I MADE ITTTTT

Screaming and losing it. It only started to feel real as I'm posting this rn HRKSJAKSJLELH. A year... 365 pieces (probably a bit less bc I did post wips?) of desert duo... I would make a collage maybe but its prob a lot of work HJASKDHAHEHW

🫵 @vesperionnox @cherrysherin without u guys I wouldn't have been here <3 This challenge kinda became its own thing at some point, but I didn't forget where I started :D

💥💥💥 AAA I hope you guys enjoyed this challenge as much as I did!! but also WOOOOOOOOOOOOO FREEDOM. I WILL DEF STILL BE DRAWING DESERTDUO THO LOL BUT LETS FREAKING GO ONE YEARRRR

[cherriielle]

evan buckley i have grown quite fond of you

[blueskittlesart]

sat down to do the usual 'what if link loz dressed like i do' art and then looked down at the shirt im wearing today and decided this one would be particularly funny. for obvious reasons

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

None of our hands are clean

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[listofsideeffects-blog]

420th note on this post so I'll write about it. This statue stands out to me not just because of the flawless drapery effect here, which as it turns out is hard to do in stone; but because of what could just be my hot take on it. We are all the skeleton. Bones shrouded in flesh, masked by the thin veneer of normalcy. Our inner selves draped in the folds in our cloth. What layers we might uncover by opening ourselves up, letting our bones breathe a fresh breath of air. Our troubles may crumble as though rubble.

[julygirl67]

say yes to life

say yes to opening your heart

say yes to charity

say yes to being kind

say yes to taking a risk

say yes to forgiving

say yes to change

say yes to learning

[mxmarsbars]

third time’s a charm!

[inkskinned]

even 2 years ago people still said autism with a whisper. it was also how people sometimes whisper lesbian, like they're afraid of uttering a slur. autistic was either an insult or it was something terrible, a horrible burden only select people endure. "select people" were usually 9 year old boys and skinny white men.

they are not hispanic young adults with a dog and a life and friends. i can make (sustained, calculated, painful) eye contact. with certain people, i don't even have to count how many seconds i am holding their vision - i can just look at them. i can wear clothes that bother me, i will just have a worse day than usual. i might cry about any changes to my schedule - but change is scary! this is normal!

when i was 16 it was OCD. i mean that was the thing everyone said. i totally have ocd. they would arrange 6 colors of gel pen in rainbow order (no worry for indigo feeling left out) and they'd be "so ocd" about it.

if you struggle with intrusive thoughts, be careful at this next paragraph, but. at 16 i developed a compulsion that involved self-harm. my ocd was convinced i was simply forgetting that i'd hurt someone terribly - a thought that persisted for no clear or delineated reason.

at some point i will probably write about how the idea of "morally pure thoughts" was hell for me and others with ocd, but this was the odd dichotomy for many of us: they liked our "aesthetic", but were genuinely repulsed by our lived experience. "intrusive thoughts" now means "cutting your hair in the sink" instead of talking yourself down from believing horrible things. "so ocd" is a label without any true understanding.

it's something i've talked about before - in multiplicity - but i firmly believe in the veracity and necessity of self-diagnosis. i think it saves lives and it saves tragedies from occurring. as someone raised in a house that wasn't safe, self-diagnosis was, for many years, the only viable option. 15 and honestly googling: am i depressed or are there demons affecting my behavior.

but it is not genuine self-diagnosis anymore, most of the time. it is a strange, blanched version of that whispered word autism. now certain traits are constantly seen as "autistic" - any passing intense interest. any flubbed social interaction. people say it while laughing - a touch of the 'tism.

and i like the acceptance! i do. i like that people are talking about it. i like that if i self-identify, more people speak up and say me too, bitch. but there is something-else quietly happening, the way it happened to OCD. the quirky, "fun" parts have been washed and sanitized and removed of all suffering. now it is just something that makes you "a little bit silly."

it took me 27 years on this planet before i learned to make friends. something about me just seems incredibly odd, i guess, some kind of radiation monitoring. someone once (in a way that was almost friendly) told me i am doing the right things, but in a way that's off-putting. i have scoured myself raw attempting to be charming.

someone on tiktok does a deep dive into their particular passion. the top comment says "what kind of autism is this lol". like we are a breed of animal. like it has no influence on our experience. like our life is a fresh breeze, an open meadow.

more often for me, life was a drowning.

[bluerosefox]

Her Astrophel and Sterling

hmmm

Hmmmmmmmm

You know what.

You know those AU's where the Batfam finds or learns about either hidden or thought to be dead Al Ghul Danny! with a deaged/daughter Dani (Ellie) (I should know, I created a few of those storylines) but what if, now hear me out, what if instead of them finding Danny first its Talia.

Do I want Talia discovering her thought to be dead son to be alive? Yes. Do I want her to find him while investigating Amity Park when the League gets reports of 'Lazarus creatures/water'? Yes.

DO I WANT HER TO KNOCK ON THE FENTON'S DOOR, fully ready to pretend/honey talk her way into the house to uncover what the Fenton's know, ONLY TO MEET A LITTLE ELLIE?!

YES.

Ellie whose eyes and hair look like a copy of her Beloved but she can see bits and pieces of herself as well. Talia knows the child in front of her was not fully her's though but everything makes sense when she hears a voice, a voice she hasn't heard in ages but as a mother just knows, speak out.

"Ellie! I thought I said do not answer the door my Sterling."

"But Daddy, yous was busy fighting the hotdoggys!"

Talia's eyes widen when she finally catches sight of familiar black hair and blue eyes.

and she could only lightly whisper a old nickname she hasn't dared uttered in ages, a name she secretly gave her son due to his love of the stars "Astrophel..."