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Don’t you dare let him ruin your favorite song. Do not turn on the radio and when the first note comes out you change it. Scream the lyrics as loud as you can. Do not let him ruin your favorite panties. The navy blue ones with the white polka dots and the lacy edges. Don’t think of the times he’d run his hand up your thigh and tell you absolute sweet nothing just to make you fall for him. Wear those panties, you spent a little more money on them than you would have ever on a pair of panties. Do not let him ruin your favorite perfume. Don’t think of the times that his lips were in the crook of your neck taking deep breaths, inhaling every bit of you. Wear that perfume, overdo it. Do whatever the hell you want. But don’t throw that 75 dollar bottle of perfume away. Do not hate your passenger seat. Do not hate where he stopped you midsentence in the parking lot of a diner to give you a kiss. Do not hate that seat, someone else will sit there and hold your hand and sing along to the radio with you one day. Keep your head held high, baby girl. It takes time. Do not hate these things, they are what are YOURS. Not HIS.

stolenkisses-pretty-lies  (via wnq-writers)

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YOU HAVE BEEN VISITED BY A BAT

you don’t have to reblog or anything, bats feed on insects not attention

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Watch: Hannah Hart has a really grounded reminder for people who have loved ones with mental illnesses– boundaries are okay!

Last Friday, YouTuber Hannah Hart sat down with R29 for an interview in which she revealed that she wrote her book, Buffering, to address the problems with how we look at mental illnesses.

WATCH THE VIDEO

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Irish politician Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (TD, Labour Party Senator) calls out the Irish government on their reaction to election of Donald Trump.

“TRUMP IS A FASCIST AND I’M EMBARRASSED BY THE GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE.”

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So we’re doin this again huh. We’re just, we’re gonna start the fake outrage train day fuckin 1. Merry War on Christmas

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employer: so what would you say is your biggest weakness?

me: probably just like who I am as a person

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Tell it to me like this

We’re seating on your bedroom floor and the food is cold but you’re rubbing my feet and saying I have weird toes. And I don’t know why I’m laughing or why you joined in, but the sound fills the room and blurs out the TV.

Tell it to me like this

We’re laying on your bed right after sex and your legs are wrapped around me and light pours out the closet door and you’re running your fingers down my back and I think “please don’t speak. Please don’t utter a word. I can hardly keep it together but if you say you love me now I might lose control.”

Tell it to me like this

Like that time you didn’t hold back and told me that you loved me until I fell apart. My insecurities swelled up in tears you brushed away, and you called me beautiful. And you meant it. Just like you meant the kiss that left me breathless in your arms. And I wanted to tell you that I love you, that I’ve loved you from the start. But we exchange ‘I love you’s too often so I want to take them back, because I mean it so much more now.

Tell it to me like this. Like we’re meant to last. Like we’re the ones they’ll talk about, because we went through hell but wound up in each other’s arms.

Little Bird

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But honestly tho. 😂 also why is it the first time I'm on tumblr in actual months, you mention me. #telepathy

When the whole squad looks good

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The Videocassette Recorder, a piece of technology already so obsolete you would be forgiven for not realizing it hadn’t died long ago, finally kicked it for good last Thursday, when Funai Corporation of Japan, the last known VCR manufacturer on the face of the Earth, announced it would cease production by the end of July. According to the New York Times, a company spokesperson said Funai will keep on selling VCRs “though its subsidiary until inventory runs out and will provide maintenance services as long as it can.”

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hate when I am wearing makeup & still look shitty like what else am I supposed to do? get enough sleep? eat right & exercise? as if

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when an artist wants to show you their art

or a writer wants you to read what they’ve written

it’s quite often an expression of trust

because a poem or a story or a painting are often things that come from the heart

little pieces of the artists themselves

and if they’re willing to share it with you

you should appreciate it

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tumblr is too damn sensitive.

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mom: what are you gonna do when school starts

me: die

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Positive parts of 2016

- the rise of old friends senior dog sanctuary - Hamilton - pokemon go - female ghostbusters - i don’t give a fuck im outta here Obama - captain america civil war - girl, black guy and latino guy leads in new star wars - deadpool - lemonade - literally???! Nothing??? Else????

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a good thing to do for your friends with anxiety disorders: if you have a question you need to ask them or something you need to tell them, explain the subject of the question/the statement in the same message as your opening one!

so basically: instead of saying “can i ask you a question?” and sending just that (which, as a person with an anxiety disorder, makes my anxiety go into hyperdrive) go “can i ask you a question about ___?”

it’s a little thing but honestly few things make me anxious like “i have a question for you” or “there’s something i need to tell you” without immediate explanation. thanks!

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Representation Matters to White People Too

Look, when I say “representation matters,” I believe that the most important thing is for people who are often ignored in arts and media to see themselves there. 

But I also mean that it’s important for white/hetero people to see people who aren’t white/hetero. 

Here’s the thing. I was raised in a very white/hetero community. Every friend I had was white. I never had a black person in my classroom until late high school. I never had a black teacher until college. There was one out-gay student at my high school. One. And I saw what shit he had to go through by being out. 

And, if I’m honest with myself, most of the adults in my life were racist and homophobic. They were good, loving people…to me. But they were also racist and homophobic. 

And as a kid through my teen years, I’d be lying if I didn’t say that didn’t affect me. I parrotted the adults in my life, which meant that I often parrotted their hate and their prejudice. I’m ashamed of those attitudes now–now that I’ve had education and met people who were different from me and travelled the world and put aside hate. 

But then? It was easy to excuse racism. People who weren’t white and straight didn’t exist in my world–and they didn’t exist in the world I saw on television and in books and on the radio. It was easier to live in the bubble of that world. 

Representation matters to white people, too. It is important for white people to see diversity. Not as a token, not as “politically correct”–the white people who feel that adding a minority character to a storyline is pandering are horrible people who are entirely missing the point. I’m talking about the white kids who don’t see minorities in their lives, but who see a black girl and a white boy being friends on Sesame Street. I’m talking about the straight teen reading More Happy than Not, I’m talking about the white teen empathizing with Malala Yousafzai. The more representation we have, the more we hold a mirror through the world rather than whiting-out people who aren’t like the majority, the better our world is.

Representation matters.