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i think “i wish platonic dates with friends were a thing” is another way of saying “i want a deep emotional intimacy.” it’s a new age. shallow friends are easy to find and hard to let go. the two of you can sit for coffee, talking about nothing, secretly texting under the table that you want to leave. she begs you to come to the party but abandons you once you’re through the door. he won’t talk to you outside of class, won’t even look at you even though two weeks ago you kissed. 

it’s the age of the internet and our empathy is evolving. yes, isn’t long-distance now so easy. there’s a lot we have to be thankful for.

but there’s a lot that’s changing. there’s no words for the emotion you feel when someone is taking a picture with you that you know is only happening because they want to look fun and popular and you’re a prop; there’s no word for when you know it’s because you’re uglier than them and it makes them look good - there’s no word for watching people socialize for social media credit. we know it happens. not just “hang on let me take a picture of my food.” not just “i’ve got to text my mom back, one sec.” i mean that strange distance between two people who comment on each other’s posts but cannot connect in person. i mean you pour out your soul on twitter but then clam up in person. i mean internet loneliness; the sensation of 212 thousand followers and still so empty, knowing if the plane goes down, the ocean of the internet will wash out your memory. 

“i want a friend date,” she says, and he snorts - you mean friends?

it’s hard, sometimes. finding a best friend. when i was little i had an assignment about it. i remember crying in the hallway because i didn’t have one. everyone else in class did. i wrote about my shadow. i didn’t fit in. over the years i’ve had a couple. one turned out pure evil. a few were my best friend but i wasn’t theirs, in the end. a lot just drifted from me until we were only friends by nostalgia, not connection. but i ached for the feeling of a best friend the whole time: the person you can be silent with, the person you can be wild with, the person you can be 100% yourself with.

we live in a society where romance is said to be the only space you’re allowed to really be close with someone. how many of us have said to make sure you marry your best friend. we know from dating that there exists a kind of connection we don’t always get in our friends - even a platonic one, a connection of spirit, a freedom of behavior. 

i get it. a platonic date sounds wonderful. it’s not hurting anybody. let’s both have three seconds where we’re honest with each other in a raw kind of way. it’s terrifying. or we could just talk about what’s bothering you. i’m also still fucked up about the avatar: the last airbender ending; i also don’t get katara and aang. 

it’s about trust. about vulnerability. so yeah. maybe i’ve done all kinds of platonic-date things. but i’ve also had the opposite happen: the non-friend. someone you don’t want to cut out, not necessarily - but not someone you can tell your secrets to in the end. i think what we’re all asking for is to be less lonely. we want to get close to people, but we don’t want to seem like we’re hitting on somebody. 

come on out with me. we’ll both dress up and drink wine and split the bill and talk about deep things. be best friends for a moment. lord knows i need one. what i’m asking is for a quick moment of emotional intimacy. of reality. of not-just-here-for-the-party. i think a date sounds lovely.

#inkskinned

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2010-2011 pop was literally. katy perry doing that weird like candyland fantasy. nicki minaj queen of rap. LMFAO said 'male stripper rights'. rihanna giving sexy but make it tragic. pitbull releasing the soundtrack for like all-inclusive resort holidays to spain. ke$ha giving representation for girls who get too drunk to take their makeup off. lady gaga ended homophobia. and the cast of glee undoing all that hard work. justin bieber becoming to preteen girls what the beatles used to be for women in the 60s. 3oh!3 invented obnoxiouscore. jaaaaason deruulooo. we no speak americano

#scumfuckus

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Boat media fans are really winning this year…. first the sea shanty craze and now the suez canal……….. what’s next, a major incident of survival cannibalism????????????

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“The soul is willing to play but the body is sleepy”

(via)

#everythingfox

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tumblr is such a unique experience in 2021 because it’s probably the only place on the internet, or in real life, really, where there is absolutely no point. there is no agenda, and no purpose, it’s just a place i can create this little bubble of art, and self-expression, and poetry, and live in it peacefully. scrolling through my blog and appreciating photography, fashion, literature, etc. just feels like a beautiful respite from everything outside of this website? no news no performance no productivity just pure vibes

#darlingvita

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Laughing at your own texts before you send them because you’re so damn funny

#wetraveled

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🕯🌱💖🌟🔮✨

An emoji spell to invite heightened intuition, abundance, and love into the 2020 new year. Likes charge, reblogs cast.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ

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🌠 Reblog to attract wealth and abundance 🌠

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ive been doing a lot of youtube recipe binging lately so i was recommended this video and i was like fuck it diet soup why not

and it sounded pretty tasty so after the vid i scrolled down to see what people thought of it, and i just really need to share with you all what the comment section is like

and for the one that broke me:

#butchyena

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i didn’t do hourlies but here’s something that happened to me yesterday

#weaselhawkart

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everytime I remember that lesbian couple that have a marble statue of the two of them embracing and sleeping on a bed together over where their graves will be because the artists didn’t believe they would be able to be married before they died, so what they couldn’t have in life they could have in death, I fucking breakdown

#horrorlesbians

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I went camping when I was 6 and a bear came into my tent and I had never heard anyone snore before but I had read the Sunday comics so I layed down and started saying Z Z Z really loudly because it’s always in caps in the comics.  I was yelling Z so loudly.  It was really loud and the bear cried and it was really loud

#officialunitedstates

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I mean on the one hand, yes, shipping spongebob characters is certifiably absurd and people who do it do not deserve rights but on the OTHER hand if you took Spongebob and Squidward's personalities and dropped them into, say, a pair of anime girls from a gacha game or two white guys from a teen drama everyone would be like "oh of COURSE this is a big ship"

#doubleca5t

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“I find the sea to be both a natural expression of our human world, and a healing balm for it.” By pastel artist Jeanne Rosier Smith.

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Can you believe that there are people who live so close to the ocean that they can just think “hey, I should go to the ocean” and then they just do???

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we are all just sitting in our own little bedrooms all across the world with our headphones in listening to our little songs aren’t we

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Please stop breeding :) faces, they might be cute but they have trouble breathing. Please consider the :-) breed or the :^) breed instead. They have the same temperament as the :) breed but with none of the breathing problems.