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I’m such a slut for casual intimacy. Like yesss rest your chin on my shoulder while we're in line at the grocery store, I live for that shit.

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It got better

I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

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Why would anyone want to consume it!?

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Therapy is great and all but you still have to do the work when the session is over.

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When two strong personalities meet one will always submit to the other

Overheard on the internet

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I stopped wearing heels and makeup to my job as a receptionist a year ago.

Two weeks ago I Got a new job without a speck of eyeshadow or foundation on, and haven’t worn heels so far yet. Complimented often (by other women) on how “put together I look”

We can do this y’all! Slowly normalize it and it will become the norm!

Listen, if performing femininity is an “empowering choice,” then it needs to be an actual choice. Meaning that woman can opt out of it without negative consequence. Meaning a woman can go to an academic event without heels or in a simple suit and still be “professional.” Meaning that a woman can go to a job interview without a full face of makeup and not be “tired” or “disheveled.” Meaning that a woman can walk around in shorts with unshaven legs and not be a dirty, unclean gremlin. Meaning that a little girl can play and break barriers and like STEM while wearing jeans and a t-shirt and not be considered less empowered or “just trying to be a boy.”

Meaning that a woman’s femininity and womanhood is not contingent upon the extent to which she buys and performs a time-consuming, expensive, uncomfortable mold of a very specific type of packaged femininity. 

This isn’t even going into the effect these double standards have on women who in some way, by their very existence, do not fit the standard white western beauty mold and are expected to perform hyperfemininity to be “women” at all. I.e. women of colour esp. darker-skinned women of colour, hijabi women and tznius-keeping women, fat women, disabled women, trans women, etc. 

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#venn diagram #butterfly #butter fly #butterfly knife #wholesome #havealaugh

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if you told me on election night 2016 that in 2020 under an impeached-but-acquitted trump administration, 115,000+ would be dead and 44 million unemployed from a global pandemic, and during pride month 2020, while the pandemic still rages on basically unchecked, they would roll back protections against medical and insurance discrimination of lgbtq people on the anniversary of the pulse massacre, a week before he gives a speech on race in tulsa on juneteenth, two weeks after he teargassed protesters who were outside the white house fighting to end police brutality and racism, i would have said, “why do you think i’m crying so hard i can barely breathe.”

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Remember this when you vote kids

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No but seriously we need bingo cards y’all

Someone make bingo cards PLEASE XD

~Julien

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#apocalypse bingo

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God I love 90s-2000s angsty -alternative music it’s my absolute favorite and fuck some of it is still stupidly relevant

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Reblogging so I can show my therapist

Do not let getting lonely make you reconnect with toxic people.

You should not drink poison just because you are thirsty.

#therapy #stuff i show my therapist

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based on a true story

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I play this game daily. I just want 1 password for all my job applications, one for my side business sites, and one for social & food sites like the Taco Bell app.

Half the time there’s NO special characters and half the time one is required and I *never know* which it’s gonna be

https://youshallnotpass.glitch.me/

ok, this was fun and silly. your goal is to come up with a password fitting all the criteria in each scheme, which you don’t know ahead of time but learn as your passwords progressively fail them.

(I don’t know how many schemes there are, I did not complete 3 because effort. maybe i’ll give it another try later)

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Children are just adults who aren’t finished yet. Maybe you should treat them with the kindness and respect they fucking deserve .

nessiemonster88 replied to your post “You don’t have to say you’re “exaggerating” or that it “doesn’t count”…”

Does bullying by your peers really count as abuse? I mean, for real? I was bullied almost constantly from age 8 to 16 by a number of different girls…and that would explain a lot. Like how hard I found it to make good female friends…. And how difficult it is sometimes to trust people. Ive done a fair amount of reading about Adverse Childhood Experiences, and it’s not really mentioned?

Yes.

A lot of what gets talked about in the PTSD community is very political. Veterans got together to campaign for pensions and benefits; war as a cause of PTSD got talked about. Feminists got together to talk about ending sexual violence; sexual assault as a cause of PTSD got talked about. The research is funded by politics, and politics are funded by special interest groups getting together to say, “This is what we want people to pay attention to.” So a lot of research into bullying has only really happened since the 1990s, while research on war, assault, and child abuse was up and running in the 1970s. So there’s a literal headstart where we have so much more data on other forms of abuse.

But we have enough data. Enough data to say that bullying is not only as bad as child abuse, sometimes one person’s childhood being bullied leads to even worse mental health than someone else’s childhood being abused.

And yes, this is true  even when they separate out the children who are bullied from the children who are maltreated by parents.

Even being teased by peers as a child can be a fundamental part of later anxiety disorders.  Being cyberbullied can make children 4 times more likely to have poor mental health. Even without dysfunctional family lives, bullying puts children at much higher risk for depression, eating disorders, and self-harm.

Bullying. Counts.