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Respect feminine rage

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A random photostudy of a South Asian dancer<3

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every time an artist lightens their god(s)'s skin an angel loses its wings. btw

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yes girl I think it’s incredibly sexy how indecisive you are about every single decision in your life. I also love how you haven’t let anything go since you were 12. can we make out now

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Day 692 of posting pictures of elephants.

Source: Tamil Nadu Forest Department

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i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

#west india #fries chips biscuits..? #biscuits ? soft drink and chocolate #cigarettes beanie cotton candy

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funniest meltdown ive seen recently. yeah for sure its hindu supremacists making zionism look bad right now….

#BRO??? #in circus fighting..

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Peacocks are hilarious, really. They really are just like

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quick redraw from that one capcom calendar

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Alestorm slaps very hard sometimes. It does happen to be about pirates tho

that is still completely valid. Pirates are cool!

#update it was very fucking good lmao i love their vibes

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they do???? why?????? also bet i will in a bit and update you

Alestorm slaps very hard sometimes. It does happen to be about pirates tho

that is still completely valid. Pirates are cool!

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Alestorm slaps very hard sometimes. It does happen to be about pirates tho

that is still completely valid. Pirates are cool!

#or did you warn me about the pirates for a different reason?? #asks

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i don't think we talk enough about how childhood bullying really just. fucks up your ability to make friends long-term.

I'm not talking about self-image or even like attachment styles, although peer emotional abuse affects that too. I'm talking about how it legitimately stunts your understanding of how positive platonic relationships even work.

Like, a few years back (pre pandemic) a classmate point-blank told me, "hey, you're pretty cool, do you wanna come out for drinks and trivia with us Thursday night?" and my first internal reaction wasn't "oh cool, a friend!" or even "I'm not really interested" but: "where is the trap?" My kneejerk response to an earnest overture of friendship from this guy was trying to figure out how he was trying to back me into a corner, trick me into something, or make fun of me. We were in goddamm GRADUATE SCHOOL.

Of course I did end up going to drinks and it was a lovely time, but sometimes I think about the sheer number of potential friendships I've missed out on because I read their intentions as potentially hostile, *even when their intent is clearly not hostile*. Getting asked out for drinks is SUPER NORMAL. Being invited to parties is normal. Meeting for coffee is normal. in fact it's a primary way of forging adult friendships. But i am immediately wary of it, because the years in which I was developing most of my crucial social skills were spent dodging cruel pranks, getting invited to fake parties or uninvited from real ones, getting asked out "as a joke", being given compliments that were actually somehow insults, and so forth.

I don't have problems making friends-- I talk to people for a living, I am overall extremely charismatic and get invited out a lot, but I struggle to forge new connections because my trained response is to be immediately suspicious of people who appear friendly, welcoming and well-intentioned -- even fifteen years later. This is why I don't get the "you should have been bullied more" crowd. Like somehow bullying makes you more "normal". It definitely doesn't, even if "normal" was a real thing. I am definitely a more antisocial weirdo as a result of prolonged peer-to-peer emotional abuse than I would have been otherwise.

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I miss them so much (⁠´⁠；⁠ω⁠；⁠｀⁠)

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He is so special to me :(