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Self Care Tips From Tumblr: When you feel like everyone hates you, sleep. When you feel like you hate everyone, eat. When you feel like you hate yourself, shower. Someone out there feels better because you exist. 

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Honestly sometimes I just really dislike the fact I am alive in this particular moment in history. How un-fucking-comfortable.

#calm down #depression #mentalhealth #anxiety

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I love the idea of study but the idea of study doesn’t love me.

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It’s raining right now, and rainy days make me think back to when I was little. I would get home from school and my mum would have the wood fire stove lit and there would be fresh baked biscuits, it was warm and homely as I chucked on Harry Potter and snuggled up in a blanket next to the fire in our lounge room. I wish then I knew that was epitome of comfort.

#sad #nostalgia #home #homecooking #reflection

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Okay but hear me out!

Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore, a power couple… Running Howgawarts and moulding the minds of young wizards.

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Do you ever wanna start posting more but then just don’t? Like I wanna put up cute pictures and quotes and make my own aesthetic and shit, but I’m also an internet mute. 

#mute #internet #online #real life #inperson #i dont give a fuck #i dont shut up

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Wanna see a poem I started but prolly won’t finish?

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I’m in love

With cotton candy clouds

Soft light in dusk

And the smell of rain

To smell rain is to feel it

Glorious droplets dancing on skin

I’m in love

With the sound of water falling

After the rain is gone

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Like all habits, I fall out of step.

With all malice, keeping only regret.

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The light came. But it was a short lived light for my brief moment of simple pleasure was taken by grey clouds and misty rain.

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You love someone until you hate them

Is it the truth?

I tried to fight through

But I guess it’s true

Cause these days

I’m halfway

To hating you.

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I’m trying real hard to change my outlook on the world. I want to see the beauty in everything- not the horrors of nothing.

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I find comfort in sunrises, just before the light is the darkest part of the night. That darkness currently resides within me and I’m holding out for the light.

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Since joining Tumblr, I’ve met a lot of young queer people. Look, I’m a bisexual man in a gay relationship, and I’m approaching 30. I was still a kid when Matthew Shepard’s story was being covered on the news. I remember thinking, “I better keep my mouth shut about these feelings I’m having.”

And then I met Dominic when I was 12, and people could see how in love we were. And we got the shit beat out of us. The year I met him, some kids in the grade above me held me down against the bleachers in our gym and stomped on my hand until my fingers broke. Instead of sending me to the nurse, the teacher sent me to the assistant principal to explain the situation. She asked why the kids had beat me up. I said, “They were calling me gay.”

Her response was, “Well, are you?”

My, “I don’t know,” earned a call to my parents, and I was outed. Efforts were made to keep me from seeing Dom. Throughout high school, Dom’s stepmother intensified these efforts. He slept in the basement of the house. Although he was an incredibly talented student, he was prohibited from participating in any extracurriculars. He suffered a lot of physical abuse during those years.

The day he turned 18, he packed up everything he had and walked to my house, and we’ve lived together ever since. Things are better, but they’re not perfect. I’ve had trucks pull up next to me at stoplights and, seeing the pride sticker on my car, through old drinks and garbage into my window. I no longer speak to my dad’s side of the family. I haven’t been to see them for Christmas or Thanksgiving in years. One of my uncles had cornered me at Thanksgiving when I was 17 and said, “I’m not going to judge you, but I’d be happy to break your neck so God can do the judging a little sooner.”

I joined a support group for trans and intersex people. When I joined, 40 people attended regularly. Within the year, the group was half the size it had been. Some couldn’t make it anymore, because they were staying at the shelter, where their stay hinged on them agreeing to instead to attend homophobic sermons. Some were put in correctional therapy. Five of them died. Three of those, I didn’t know, but I knew Alex, the 19 year old who was fag-dragged in Kentucky and died a day later in the hospital, and I knew Stephanie, who went home to Alabama to care for her mom in hospice and was beaten to death with a baseball bat by her mom’s boyfriend.

Tumblr is not reality. The dynamic here does not reflect the dynamic out there. Here’s the part where I finally make a point, and it might be extremely unpopular - but guys, value your allies. Value each other. We are met with enough hate in our daily lives to enter an online safe-space and meet more hate from our own, over petty things. Don’t go after one another over every little thing you find problematic.

Learn to see nuance. Maybe the word “queer” bothers you, and you see a gay man using it as an umbrella term. Maybe someone called a trans man a trans woman because they’re confused about terminology, but the post where they did it was voicing support for the trans community. Maybe someone is just asking a question, wanting to learn more. Stop. Attacking. These. People.

Allies are being driven away. Members of our own community are being ostracized. Others are feeling nervous and estranged, and it’s largely because of places like Tumblr, where the social justice movement is quickly becoming violent and radical. I am begging you, stop nitpicking “problematic” things and start directing your efforts to create real change. When it comes to comes to your allies, forget the “social justice warrior” mentality and put down your torch. Educate calmly. Be respectful. Be understanding. Be forgiving. And I’m certainly not saying that your anger doesn’t have a good place - when you are met with bigots on the street, congress members who want to pass hateful laws, violent protesters, abusive parents, prejudiced teachers, that is when you need to be a warrior. That’s when it counts. In the real world. When you have the opportunity to protect people from real harm. Attacking your would-be allies via anonymous asks is just going to lose us ground in the long run. And we don’t have time for that, not when trans women of color are being murdered every day, not when states are still fighting against marriage equality, not when there are politicians in office who believe that trans people are possessed by demons, not when we’ve just lost 50 brothers and sisters to one gunman, not when the media won’t even admit that the attack was homophobic.

Please step back. Look at the big picture. Look at where we are, globally. Don’t just log on to your safe space and attack your allies over small missteps. That’s like washing the dishes in a house that’s on fire, kids. Let’s fight on the battlefield, and when we come home to each other, let’s just focus on bandaging up our wounds so we can go out and win the war.

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No offense but my female ancestors didn’t go through centuries of oppression for me to feel bad about myself all the time

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introductions are dumb

boy howdy there folks welcome to my essay here’s a hook that relates to the topic of this essay

allow to me to give you some background info on the topic that i’m about to write about

by the way, the side that i’m arguing for in this essay is _____

please enjoy this thesis statement that lists 2-3 reasons why i’m right

body paragraphs are also dumb

the first reason why i’m right is ____

here’s a quote that illustrates this reason (don’t forget to introduce the quote!)

let me explain why this quote illustrates the reason

now i’m gonna give you at least one more quote that illustrates the reason and im gonna explain that shit

in conclusion im fucking right because of this reason

now i’m gonna repeat that process with all of the other reasons why i’m right

here’s why the other side is wrong

some critics may argue that i’m wrong because _____

however

they are wrong because _____

therefore i am right

in case you have terrible short-term memory loss

let me repeat what side i took in this argument

here’s a one to two sentence summary of each paragraph

therefore i am right

because i am right, we should definitely do/start/make _____ because it’ll make the world better or bring about world peace or some shit

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