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hi tonight I’m thinking of all the people who are worse off than they were this time last year. of the people who have gone downhill mentally instead of up and of the people whose lives have gotten worse instead of better.

You may be in a really awful place right now but I am telling you that there is relief ahead. You will be able to breathe again. I know you probably can’t believe that right now, so trust me instead of your own doubts. I love you.

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Songs For When...

For when you’re sad:

Don’t Try: Gerard Way

Keep Myself Alive: Get Scared

I’m Down: Ryan Ross

The Light Behind Your Eyes: MCR

The Ghost Of You: MCR

The End Of All Things: P!atd

Neon Gravestones: TØP

Where I Belong: Ryan Ross

Lonely Moonlight: Ryan Ross

Heavy: Linkin Park ft Kiiara

Northern Downpour: P!atd

For when you wanna 🅱️op:

Vegas Lights: P!atd

Literally all of IDKHOW’s songs

Most of Vices & Virtues (P!atd album)

Forever Stuck In Our Youth: Set It Off

Rare: Waterparks

11:11: Waterparks

Where Did The Party Go: Fall Out Boy

Don’t Feel Quite Right: Palaye Royale

Ma Chérie: Palaye Royale ft Kellin Quinn

Nine In The Afternoon: P!atd

Nearly all of Fever (P!atd album)

Na Na Na: MCR

Most of Danger Days actually (MCR album)

Most of Fall Out Boy’s songs tbh

Lonely Dance: Set It Off

Forever Stuck In Our Youth: Set It Off

Almost all of Violent Things

Most of Gossip (Sleeping With Sirens album)

The Hype: TØP

For *dancing agressivley*:

Pulveriser: Black Beil Brides

Most Pierce The Veil songs now that I think about it

Cemetery Drive: MCR

Give Em Hell Kid: MCR

I Never Told You What I Do For a Living: MCR

About 90% of all Green Day songs

The Drug In Me Is You: Falling In Reverse

In The End: Black Veil Brides

Most Get Scared songs

Fallen Angels: Black Veil Brides

Most Pierce The Veil Songs

Most older Sleeping With Sirens songs

When you’re just chillin:

Pacify Her: Melanie Martinez

Pompeii: Bastille

Drugstore Perfume: Gerard Way

Always: P!atd

How It’s Going To Be: Gerard Way

Most Electric Century Songs

Nearly all of Pretty. Odd. (P!atd album)

I, The Sun: Lights On (I love this one 10/10 would recommend)

For The Lost And Brave: Ray Toro

For when you’re that wierd combination of sad and chill:

Hands: Alpine

Gasoline: Alpine (both of these could also go in the “just chilling” category too)

Boring: The Brobecks (VT version)

The Bad List: Z Berg & Ryan Ross

Lonely Moonlight: Ryan Ross

Brother: Gerard Way

Action Cat: Gerard Way

The Kids From Yesterday: MCR

Dying In LA: P!atd

The Kids Aren’t Alright: Fall Out Boy

There’s still a tonne that I could add but I’ve spent half an hour on this already so 😂

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YA Retellings: Greek Mythology

I know everyone’s seen Rick Riordan’s books, so here are some others!

Hades & Persephone

The Goddess Test trilogy by Aimee Carter

Persephone by Kaitlin Bevis

Everneath by Brodi Ashton

Falling Under by Gwen Hayes

Radiant Darkness by Emily Whitman

Persephone’s Orchard by Molly Ringle

Abandon by Meg Cabot

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

Solstice by P.J. Hoover

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas

Cupid & Pysche

Painted Blind by Michelle A. Hansen

Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block

Destined by Jessie Harrell

Others

Starcrossed trilogy by Josephine Angelini (definitely my favorite)

Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs

Betrayal by Mayandree Michel

King of Ithaka by Tracy Barrett

Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney

Aphrodite by Kaitlin Bevis

Half-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Quiver by Stephanie Spinner

Snakehead by Ann Halam

The Fire of Ares by Michael Ford

Endangered by Dani Hoots

Lost in the Labyrinth by Patrice Kindl

Quicksilver by Stephanie Spinner

Antigoddess by Kendare Blake

The Scarlet Thread by D.S. Murphy

Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton

The Fire Thief by Terry Deary

The Dig by Audrey Hart

The King Must Die by Mary Renault

Pandora Gets Jealous by Carolyn Hennesy

Nobody’s Prize by Esther M. Friesner

Nobody’s Princess by Esther M. Friesner

Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs

Troy High by Shana Norris

Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep

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Recommended books (from A to Z)

A: The Awakening, Kate Chopin B: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath C: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky D: Don Juan, Lord Byron E: The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje F: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury G: The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy H: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers I: Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison J: The Joy of Reading, Charles Van Doren K: King Lear, William Shakespeare L: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill M: The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov N: Native Son, Richard Wright O: Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham P: The Persian Wars, Herodotus Q: The Quiet American, Graham Greene R: The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham S: The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes T: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith U: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera V: The Vegetable, F. Scott Fitzgerald W: Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte X: Autobiography of Malcolm X Y: The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Z: Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic

Click titles to read descriptions from Amazon

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Classic Book Recommendations For Each Hogwarts House

Gryffindor

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Beowulf

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Histories by Herodatus

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Hufflepuff

East of Eden by John Stenbeck

Othello by William Shakespeare

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

White Fang by Jack London

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Ravenclaw

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey by Homer

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Slytherin

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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Korean Poetry Book Recommendations To Read When Learning Korean

Poem books are great tools to study from when learning a language. The poetic form is short and sweet and can be endearing to read and translate, especially, if you are an avid poetry lover like myself. Here are some of my favourites I have been learning from!

I see you as I saw a flower [꽃을 보듯 너를 본다] by Na Tae-joo

This is a beautiful poem book and one of my favourites I have read thus far. Simple yet very meaningful pieces and nice to translate.

Poems of a Wanderer [og: 떠돌이의 시] by Seo Jeong-ju

This is a pretty rare vintage classic but if you can get your hands on it, please do! Jeong-ju was considered when of the best poets of the 20th century, thus for sure worth a read and well worth translating.

Distant Valleys [og: 정지용 시선] by Jeong Ji-yong

I have a love for classic literature, thus why I recommend these books. There is something about elder poets, just a different perspective I have seen when translating them against the modern day. I really loved this read, it was very fresh for the time.

Enough to say it’s far by Pak Chaesam

Considered one of the most important and unusual poets, this was a lovely book to translate for me. Another Korean poet described this books as; “the most exquisite expression of the Korean sense of han,” and I loved that thought even more and could totally get that when translating. Loved this and was probably my favourite.

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"when they still had a sense of aesthetic" is that an opinion on the early Harry Potter films as opposed to the later ones I hear?

Yes! I think the first Harry Potter film had a strong aesthetic and sense of how Wizards and their world looked and felt. The fashion we saw in Diagon Alley and at the first sorting was good weird shit but by the end of the series everyone basically wore jeans and a pullover at all times. Even Luna looked like she shopped at American Eagle. Where were the weird robes? Their pointy hats? The absolutely wild hair accessories and jewelry and charms people would have, especially twelve year old girls. Adult wizard fashion disasters? The weird stuff that would immediately separate kids raised by muggles because the wizarding world dresses so old fashioned and strange. I think the movies really just lost any strong aesthetic. The first movie feels so magical and strange in such a good way and the rest just dont.

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“WRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what you’re doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea out of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwise it will die in there.”

— Brandon Sanderson on overcoming writer’s block to create a first draft as a professional author (via almost-always-eventually-right)

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Hello, I kind of just need advice. I'm constantly worried about everything - if I've ever hurt anyone, if I'm doing things right, what I'm supposed to do right, about how I act as a person & a friend overall to the point where I'm being very careful & I get anxious, feels like it's starting to kill me I don't want to do any wrong or be that of a person. It doesn't sound so much but the feeling is really heavy. And I Hate how I am and I don't know who to be?? What should I do?

excessive worry of this sort - especially if you’re worrying so much you’ve started worrying about how much you’re worrying - is a major symptom of anxiety disorders. you’d be doing yourself a favour if you started seeing a professional about these thoughts.

in the meantime, i can tell you: yes, you’re doing shit wrong. we all are, constantly. it’s part of being human. it’s part of being alive. of course you’re not a perfect friend or person because nobody else is either, and it’s completely fruitless to worry about it this much because you’re going to destroy yourself rather than get better.

self-loathing and anxiety are obstacles on the road to self-improvement, not helping hands. you don’t have to love yourself, but accepting yourself, tolerating yourself, is absolutely essential if you want to be better. 

do what comes naturally to you. be the person you are when you’re not overthinking every move. it’s not perfect. it’s not angelic. but it’s just fine, and you don’t need to worry about it.

not everything that doesn’t work perfectly is broken. don’t try to fix what isn’t broken.

[this comic] may be of some help to you. it has some thoughts i find comforting when i get overcome by this sort of worry.

my [self-hatred] tag may also be of use to you.

good luck, friend!

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reblog this to start your ultimate weight loss journey

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Workouts You Can Do In Bed

To Get Rid Of The “Are You Pregnant?” Belly :

20 crunches

35 sit ups

10 full body crunches

50 crisscrosses

10 wide leg cross sit ups

20 leg raises

To Get Rid Of The Jello Like Thighs :

100 pillow squeezes

30 side leg lifts (Each side)

To Get That Bubble Butt :

40 butt bridges

25 lying kick backs (Each side)

50 clam lifts (Each side)

20 forward kicks (Each side)

30 knee tucks (Each side)

There is literally no reason why you shouldn’t be doing these workouts ESPECIALLY if you’re in bed. You can do this! You reach that UGW

Made by: ThisIsAnaMyFriend

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so i know stuff like this has been posted before, but i like to use this as reference when fasting; and as always please stay safe

(source: libifit.com)

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I want to wear high waisted shorts without my belly fat hanging out.

I want to wear tiny tops without my fat saggy arms showing.

I want to wear cute fake fur jackets without looking like a FAT pig.

I want to wear leggings without my saggy and fat legs showing through.

I want to wear cute flower dresses without being afraid that people will see my fat body.

I want to wear crop tops without being worried about my fat and saggy belly hanging out.

I want to wear oversized sweaters without looking oversized.

I want to wear cute underwear without feeling ashamed of my body.

I want to wear shorts in summer without being scared that people see my saggy thighs.

I don’t want to be the fat and ugly friend along my gorgeous skinny girlfriends.

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Hi yall (TW)

Im proud of myself.

I started purging yesterday, but stopped pretty quickly, and today I resisted the urge all together (with help).

I don’t think people understand how addictive it becomes, so please never do it.

💜💜 :)

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i don’t think people understand how much self hate someone has to feel to deny a basic human need as eating

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Some assholes have been putting nails in cheese and treats in dog parks in Chicago and Massachusetts. Also adding antifreeze to water bowls.

Please watch out for your dogs. And if you find out the address of someone doing this, give me the address and tell no one. I will disembowel them.

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strangers

looking around you

feeling lonely within a sea of people

maybe they are feeling the same way as you

maybe they have stories of their own

each to their own

take a step back

reflect.

#strangers #poetry #poem #lonely #reflect