#single woman travel

[pascalstar]

New picture book from my trip sola in Cuba 2013 (Small chapbook) for sale at www.thepoetrydervish.com

You can view more of my artwork at www.thepoetrydervish.com as well as my many books in both French and in English. This cuba picture book will be available for about 12-15$ shipping included in a week or two.

[lustiswhatwecurved]

Spoil me !

[lucky-clover-gazette]

i got my car searched at the border just so i could see this fucking beaver

[incognito-lionbeast]

I think in my AU Tianlang-Jun/heavenly demons in general are a (demon world variant of) Mew. So.. essentially. Big, bad gyarados Su Xiyan saw this funny little foetus cat & was like "I can't NOT have an egg with that"

Thankfully Mew knows Transform. It's fine.

[soliloquent-stark]

y'all it's my sweetheart's birthday today 🥹💗

[iceyrukia]

the ‘influencer lifestyle’ really rotted a lot of women’s ( + girls) brains and I’m not necessarily talking about the traveling part but the whole self-imposed prerequisite requirement of having to look like an instagram model before getting to live your life to the fullest as a woman. This internalized monitoring of the ‘self’ that women do when it comes to their own physical appearance, something to show off externally, is really pervasive and you can see it reflected in social media.

( and if you are familiar with the whole concept of having a ‘bikini’ body for the summer, that is a perfect example of this, like the absurd idea of women having to visualize themselves snapping a perfect bikini pic in order to fulfill this image of enjoying summer. Like they can’t just live but have to look and dress a certain way because it’s what a ‘successful’ women is supposed to look like, a status symbol to always emulate- yeah :/ )

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

just saw the 'if ur oc was canon what discourse would there be' post and suddenly i remember that actually i dont want Celia & co to be seen by a large audience.

[bmpmp3]

i do wonder if one reason i tend to go for the method of "kidnap a vague story idea and make expies of all the characters i think are relevant and make up something new and barely recognizable" instead of the much less complicated method of just "writing a fanfiction" is that i play fast and loose with lore details if i think they suck or are boring or just irrelevant and i have this very intense possibly irrational but maybe rational fear that if i write a i dunno. zelda fanfic and i dont get everything 100% right based off the official nintendo timelines that ive been ignoring since they came out that the fanbase is going to take me out back and put me down.

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread  

Margins and Murmurations

set in a near future after a climate crisis, in an oppressive militarised state somewhere in Europe

A 72yo trans woman and her friend have long since escaped, living in the woods together, until a resistance fighter arrives and they find themselves drawn back into the fight

centres queer and trans characters, sex workers, and the complicated process of activism and survivial

large cast

[nezumasa]

I think the concept of F!Osvald is fun since it also shifts the perspective if Osvald is still an academic (ie. Academia is notoriously sexist and the idea that Osvald is a chosen name to get through censors and biases), gets sent to what seems to be an all-male prison (Frigid Isle) as the first woman deemed horrific enough to be tossed there, and also the expectations that people have for women, especially mothers.

Like that rigged trial probably ended up nastier since a father killing his wife and daughter is obviously horrific, but a mother killing her husband and daughter??? There’s nuance there.

And also the male-female friendship between Osvald and Harvey and the implications of a male academic being “inferior” to a female one (and Harvey’s envy at that) and the acknowledgement (even if “false”) of a male academic to a female one. Just massive hater energy from Harvey no matter what sex Osvald gets born as.

Also I want massive scholarly muscle girls.

[ahlam910]

Please help❤️🙏

Hello everyone, I am Ahlam, 21 years old. My life before the war was simple, filled with ordinary dreams like any young woman my age. I envisioned a future full of the ability to help others. I lived with my family in a warm house full of love and security, thinking about how I could achieve my dreams and become an impactful person in society.

But suddenly, everything changed. The war swept through our city like a relentless storm. In a single night, my home became just a memory, and the city I once knew crumbled before my eyes. The sound of planes and shells became the only thing people could hear. We tried to find shelter, a safe place to hide our dreams and lives, but the war followed us wherever we went.

We were forced to leave everything behind—the house, the memories, and even the university. We became displaced, homeless, with no destination, just trying to survive. I walked with my family through unfamiliar roads, searching for a place to take us in, trying to escape danger, running from one explosion to the next, from one ruin to another.

The war didn't just destroy our city and homes, it destroyed our dreams. My dream of completing my studies became far out of reach, and every day, I feel hope slipping further away. But despite all this, something inside me refuses to give up. There is a desire to escape this reality and build a new life, a life worth living. I dream of continuing my education, I dream of standing on my own feet again and achieving the goal I was once striving for: to help others who have lived through the pain of war like me.

I ask for your help, humbly. I can't get out of these circumstances on my own. The donations you gather will help me travel to a safe place where I can continue my studies and start a new life away from war and fear. The amount I'm asking for is the key to a new life, to the dream of becoming strong again and one day helping my family and community.

Help me rebuild my life and become the person I dreamed of being. Every donation, no matter how small, is a step towards safety, a step towards a better future.

Thank you for reading my words. Many thanks and respect to you

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[sanguinifex]

I really wonder why Taylor Swift is being singled out for her private jet usage as opposed to the dozens of other celebrities and CEOs and über-rich who also heavily use private jets. I can’t find any reason in conventional logic. No, it quite escapes me…

[heauxlistictherapy]

Maybe you should just focus on something else?

1. Black women do not own black men. They can date and marry whoever they choose. And guess what sis? So can you! Instead of wasting your time insisting on having ownership over random men that you don’t even know, maybe you should just expand your own dating options. The world is huge. Men of all races are all over the globe. Travel. Stop obsessing over what black men do. They don’t seem to be interested in whatever you’re doing 🤷🏾‍♀️

2. You got bigger fish to gry sis. Instead of allowing your blood to reach the boiling point over a stranger, why not book a spa day? Most black women suffer from heart disease and stress. Why not try to relax and mind your own business? Try yoga or take a walk. Buy some Ayurvedic powder and try a deep conditioning treatment. Get a massage. Find a yoga studio. Book a flight. Schedule a therapy session with a therapist who can maybe help you to understand why you’re so bothered and triggered by strangers.

There’s so much more to life than obsessing over men who don’t choose you and don’t owe you any explanation. I hope that more black women will learn to stop making these embarrassing comments on social media. It won’t stop black men from marrying white women and honestly, it’s not your business and you shouldn’t even care. Take care of your heart health and your scalp. Stress can cause baldness and swelling in the joints.

Follow for more tips on how to improve your scalp and health by simply minding the business that pays you.

Til next time, blessed be the fruit 🍓 🧜🏾‍♀️

[mycenaae]

the problem with father brown is that i love it so much as a show on the whole, but mrs mccarthy reminds me so much of my hypocritical, gossipy, often racist, and emotionally abusive "good christian" grandmother that i have to steel myself every time she's a large part of the episode. evil evil church ladies

[viiioca]

i love heavensward: a series of bulletin points

your last ally in all the city-states is an elf who would unironically lick the sweat from your armpits in front of the entire congregation. he begs his dad to let you couch surf. one of his brothers admits to your face that he wished you would die

two members of the swiss guard arrest your children so you punch them in the neck until the judge says you're free to go. the pope personally calls you to apologize for the trouble

ilberd tries and fails to hotbox you to death

a hot elf wife takes you on vacation to a nest full of cool bugs

anytime there's a serious moment estinien challenges the tone of the scene by pulling a giant novelty eyeball out of his pants which is played 100% straight every single time. not a single soul questions this or reacts in surprise

the prettiest elf in the world gets arrested trying to yell at his dad

Occupy The Vatican Right Fucking Now!!!!

the pope stances on the deck of an airship and flies away into the sunset after his eunuch traumatizes you

the emperor of garlemald shows up to call you a dipshit, leaves, and then you don't see him personally again for 1.5 expansion packs

we summon a naked catgirl and the first thing tataru does is give her a pair of louboutins and put a bow on her little kitty tail. she is the most deadly serious person in the entire organization

you take a quick detour to visit the angriest woman who's ever lived who calls you and everyone you're with a pointless dumbfuck moron shit idiot (affectionate). then she gives you a gun she invented that sharlayan banned for being too cool

theres a flying allagan war crimes factory full of broken robots who think you're stupid. an entire legion of garleans are abandoned here to form a feral colony with the escaped lab animals. the robots make fun of them

the dad of all the dragons on the whole planet calls you his favorite in front of his real child who he hasnt talked to in 4000 years

an evil wizard tries to get revenge on you for killing his cousin but the pope loads his soul into a bong and takes the fattest rip. the next time you meet him you mostly learn about how much his wife bullied him

estinien picks up a second eyeball. surprise development!: there is an angry dragon ghost living in the eyeballs

thancred gets punched in the face

you watch two dragon brothers fight because one called the other's dead wife a foul and trifling hoe

you save your friend through the power of friendship, and littering. as soon as he feels better he jumps out of a window and doesnt talk to you for two years

the guy from the box art wont stop trying to kill you because he is actually john videogames: astral traveler

after 15 hours of wondering what happened to all the scions and learning just the ones you've been able to FIND were flung into the afterlife, you discover lyse and papalymo are fine. they werent even hurt. they have been playing desert dress up with the ala mhigans while youve been freezing your pussy off trying to end a multigenerational religious war with the dragons and depose a corrupt head of state. they tried to send one letter and then gave up

the consequences of littering catch up with you. in eorzea, the fine is $Giant Dragon