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ironychan:

“Sex is what makes us human”. Really? Because monkeys have sex. Turtles have sex. Barnacles have sex.

Humans learn foreign languages just because they can. Humans bake cookies. Humans knit sweaters. Humans ask permission to pet other humans’ dogs. Humans argue over whether ghosts are real. Humans write stories they’re too embarrassed to show to anybody. Humans eat food so spicy it makes our noses run. Humans do google searches to find out what kind of bird is making that noise. Humans build pyramids, or travel thousands of miles to look at other humans’ pyramids.

“Sex is what makes us human”. Really?

hashtagdion:

It fascinates me how you never hear people who “tell it like it is” complimenting others. Seriously, people who pride themselves on being brutally honest or always speaking their mind should statistically be throwing out random compliments to their friends and strangers on a daily basis. Unless of course being brutally honest is just your entry fee to being an asshole.

Most millennials I know struggle with mental illness to some degree. Anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and more. I wonder how much of that anxiety comes from being told that wanting a living wage, affordable college, or adequate healthcare means that you’re being a spoiled entitled brat. It really doesn’t. The generations before us HAD a living wage, affordable college, and adequate healthcare. But now, inflation has far surpassed the minimum wage, college tuition and loan interest rates are through the proverbial roof, and medical bills are the top cause of bankruptcy in America.
These things were not caused by millennials, but after being raised on a steady diet of “you’re entitled,” we don’t even need to hear it from other people. We believe it about ourselves. As a society, we now romanticize struggle, busy-ness, and “the hustle.” If you’re not losing sleep and working two or three jobs, you must not want it enough.
What if we’re actually not crazy? What if wanting to work one full-time job and have the ends not only meet but actually overlap a little is NOT an entitled pipe dream?

The Gaslighting of the Millennial Generation – Born Again Minimalist (via sordidcrayons)

nyxserpent:

demiwritersblock:

reotheleo:

Can I just say, uh, I’m pretty sure noticing you’re asexual is harder than noticing you’re gay, straight, pan or otherwise. Like, I just read someone’s desciption of hitting puberty and, like, there’s nothing like that. There’s no sudden ‘boob’ moment, no sudden ‘fuck, I’d fuck that’ moment, not sudden anything. You just, like, plod on through life as usual going ‘oooh, that’s pretty, I’d like that hair’ or ‘oooooh, they’re nice, I’d like to be close to them’ but there’s no like, ‘oh, someone would want to fuck that but I don’t’, you know? You just- you don’t notice, you don’t realise everyone else has ‘had a moment’ but you haven’t, you just- keep going as you always have.

And then, much much later, you start to wonder why people are getting so caught up in drama for romance or sex, like, why bother? It’s not worth it, they’re not worth it, why are you doing stupid things for something that’s so- and then you wonder if there’s something wrong with you, start mentally over compensating. Like ‘uh, okay, um, who should I date? Who can I stand to date? Who could I stand to fuck?’ like- it’s not, it’s not something you want, but you want to fit in, to be normal.

Sometimes you don’t even know that you’re doing it.

Sometimes you don’t even know asexual’s a thing.

I dunno, I guess, I just feel like, uh, people should understand more?

idk sorry thank you for listening to me

Thank you for perfectly describing it.

Because sex becomes so important to all the other teens around and you know you should be having some kind of reaction to the people they point out you learn how to convincingly give the expected reactions, to be able to look at an actor/actress and convincingly speak of how they are hot as hell and you want to have sex with that when really you just are staring at their eyes wondering how they managed to get the eyelash jackpot because dammit you want lashes like that and Lords above I wish I had the body for that outfit, but it shows way more skin than I’m comfortable with even if I could wear it
(O.o the number of tags I just typed on this *headdesk* and they all get fucked up when it posts. Fixed)

^^^^^^

they will not write about us because darling
we’re not in love
and we both know that poems ought to be about lovers
or brothers
not best friends halfway in the middle
god, i’d never kiss you
but our hands fit like puzzle pieces and your smile makes my heart sing and you cried when you said you love me
voice thick with fear and awe and i knew then i could break you and that terrifies me because you deserve better but i would die for you

when i was thirteen my bedroom window looked out on the big dipper every summer and it made me feel safe but if every star in that constellation went out i’d still have your hands smoothing a brush through my hair (your eyes shine brighter than those distant suns anyway)

we are not the stuff of legends in this world where it’s only love if you fuck the stories people want to hear end in a kiss not a high five or a fistbump but if i’ve got you i don’t need to make history

and while you do not kiss away my tears you let them seep into your shirt and to me, that is just as good

not every beautiful thing has to be a love story (g.c.r.)

transyoite:

yungrufio:

megasumpex:

shout out to the kids and adults who have memory problems, who get yelled and screamed at by their families for not remembering things

or over-remembering. remembering things no one else seems to remember but still having blankets of empty in their memory and wondering why they can’t remember chunks of things or why their timelines are all off

oh my god i thought i was alone

imperatorkhaleesi:

alexandrareadsthings:

altonzm:

tbh in general there’s a lot of writing about depression which talks about recovery as a form of reclamation, like there’s this ur-personality that exists inside you that thru the power of kale/this $14.99 audiobook you’ll rediscover

I think for those of us who’ve suffered traumatic events or abuse in childhood, that can be pretty alienating bc there is no golden ‘before’ period to reclaim, but even more than that I dont think it’s apt for anyone with depression

if there is such a thing as genuine recovery, then that process by necessity renders you an entirely different person from who you were before, w a knowledge of sadness you didn’t have previously. nobody reclaims what they were before depression, if indeed there was a before

I think focusing on reclamation is a mistake and makes people feel like failures for not being some mythical version of themselves. the focus should be on building something new & syncretic, not fruitlessly attempting to wipe yourself clean of experiences that are fundamentally indelible

there is no golden ‘before’ 

I’m gonna cry because no one ever gets that, thank you for giving me more apt words to describe what that means rather than just telling someone “I don’t remember before anymore” because they insist there’s a golden period to reclaim and will accept that I don’t remember it easier than they’ll accept that there was never was one 

This is so good. Thank you for this.