hopepunk-humanity

[hopepunk-humanity]

you can do it!

#encouragement #hopepunk #image

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Some more “what’s in my bag” posts from flickr. We have always been the same…..

#humanity #hopepunk #image set

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I think if I could be the kind stranger in someone’s memory, that’d be enough.

#choosing kindness #hopepunk #text

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My car broke down and I’m having to replace a few parts. It happened in the middle of the road and it was stressful, dangerous, and costs more than I have. This is a bad situation. But even in the midst of dealing with this, it’s been really heartwarming to see how many total strangers are willing to help. Twice my car had to be pushed, and twice people who I’ve never met got out of their own vehicles and helped me push. Both were smiling and wished me luck. My car is in a public parking lot while I work on it, and a motorcycle mechanic who drove by saw me with the hood open, turned around, and drove into the parking lot to offer his help. I needed it. He was friendly and cheerful. I’ve never met that man before in my life and I’ll never see him again, but just like the others he helped simply because he could.

Sometimes it feels like everyone is so afraid of each other that we don't help anyone anymore. It's nice to hear things like this and be proven wrong.

#humanity #hopepunk #asks answered #anonymous ask

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Last October or so at work we were pulling plants out of our clients pots- all the summer annuals and such. When I made it back to the shop, I saw a nice hibiscus in the compost pile and decided to take it home. I potted it up, lowkey stole some potting soil, and in my car it went. I watered it once I got home, and then over the next two weeks or so it dropped almost all its leaves except for one.

It was the single most severe case of transplant shock ive ever seen. Understandably, of course- it had been pulled out of the place it had lived since early May, been left in the sun in the back of a truck for a solid ten hours, with No protection or anything on the rootball, and didn't get Any water until late that evening.

I cut all the branches back some- only a few inches, because I didn't want to stress it out more. It started pushing new growth along almost every branch. Sometime over the winter it managed to produce a Single bud, and then a flower maybe two inches across. Currently it's outside again, still in the plastic pot I grabbed out of the recycle bin at work, matured dark green leaves along all of it, and pushing even more new ones along the tips, like normal. I'm proud of my little guy, and if it was able to survive all of that (I genuinely wasn't sure if it'd survive the winter, after it dropped all the leaves) I'm confident we can all make it through too :)

(I'll probably cut it back some more in a couple weeks to see if I can get it to bush out more- it's still a little rough and spindle-y. But I love it <3)

How lovely

#keep going #hopepunk #asks answered #anonymous ask

[hopepunk-humanity]

make a point to do something for your inner child today. you used to love drawing but haven’t had the time recently? doodle something, make some art. haven’t had your favorite flavor of ice cream in a while? treat yourself. do something that would make younger you happy. do something for your soul today

#joy #hopepunk #text

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it’s small joys saturday y’all let’s get it

#small joys saturday

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shoutout to slow growers, late bloomers, people whose plans got derailed by circumstances beyond their control or their own choices, people who never had a plan to begin with, people who have had to start over when theyre too old to feel like theyre supposed to be where they are, people who cant pretend theyre built for the environment theyre in, and everyone who's not living the life they thought they would. im proud of you for making it this far and i hope you keep going until youre happy ♡

#hopepunk #text

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‘I forgive the world because it has you’ always leaves me gasping for breath

#you are a good thing #hopepunk #text

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#hopepunk #art

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Ending the stigma of drug use will save lives.

#hopepunk #text

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A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

#hopepunk #image

[hopepunk-humanity]

Like it cannot be overstated how collective change is built by a collection of small, sustained individual actions. You giving what you can to one person, you helping one person when you can, you communicating with one person, sharing with one person, everything, it all adds up. That is how we build community. Its not big and dramatic and all at once. It is mundane but continuous.

#community #resistance #hopepunk #text

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As someone who grew up with "I'm not going to praise you for doing what's expected of you; that's not being good, that's doing the bare minimum" I want to encourage you to celebrate every little thing you can. Everything that takes energy and effort should be appreciated and you're allowed to be happy about trying.

#hopepunk #text

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You don’t need to go back to who you were before. It’s okay to have changed. It’s okay to put the pieces back together differently. You get to decide who you are now. One thing is certain about who you are now, and that is that you are worthy as you are. No matter where you are in your recovery, even if you haven’t started recovery. You are worthy.

#healing #hopepunk #text

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by far the best part of grocery shopping is the little babies. i was carefully selecting mushrooms when i felt upon me a piercing gaze and looked up to see a very chubby and very red-cheeked baby staring intently at me from a grocery cart with a slightly furrowed brow, hand clutching an apple for dear life. i wiggled a mushroom at her and she gasped and kept staring. i turned back to the mushrooms and heard a shriek. i turned around and the baby stared in anticipation. i wiggled another mushroom and she shrieked again in delight. she looked down at the apple in her hand, considering it for a moment. fair-minded as she was, she decided it would only be right to wiggle produce at me in return, and she held up the apple and shook it with all her might. i think i could live forever now

#connection #hopepunk #text

[hopepunk-humanity]

I love you folk music I love you drinking songs I love you sea shanties I love you work songs I love you lullabies that have helped send countless generations of children off to sleep I love you music the poor and non-white and oppressed used to fill their difficult lives with joy I love you protest songs and coded music that helped people escape to freedom and connect with each other and keep their cultures and languages alive I fucking love you "this machine kills fascists" I love you banjos and bagpipes and all those other instruments people love to hate I love you modern artists keeping these songs alive and writing new ones I love you people writing new folk songs for fictional worlds because even people who don't exist deserve to connect through song I love you queer artists finding themselves in ancient songs I love so so so much

#humanity #hopepunk #text