#joyful journey

[adventurealldays]

#nature #mountains #hiking #landscape #colorado #sunset #desert #joyful journey #hot spring #San Luis #san luis valley #tipi #teepee #sangre de cristos #sangre de cristo mountains #50

[sarahboyerdigiexpert]

Thankful Thursday

As we embark on another Thankful Thursday, let's not only reflect on our personal blessings but also acknowledge and appreciate the amazing qualities in those around us. From supportive family members to inspiring colleagues, let's be thankful for the people who make our journey brighter and our smiles bigger.

#Thankful Thursday #Gratitude Gang #Thankful For You #Appreciation Post #Spread Kindness #Gratitude Everyday #Joyful Journey

[nimixo]

Claim 2024

Next year will be the happiest year of your life, you deserve it.

No More 'Next Year': Claim Your Joy Now and Paint 2024 Vibrant

#NoMoreWaiting #celebrateyou #letyourlightshine #hellosunshine #newyearnewme #JoyfulJourney #happyvibesonly #laughter #celebration #resilience #NewBeginnings #positivity #joy #personalgrowth #selfloveisthebestlove #happiness #Nimixo #motivational #motivationalquote #motivationblowbyblow

#no more waiting #celebrate yourself #hello sunshine #new year new me #joyful journey #happy vibes #laughter #celebration #resilience #personal growth #personal development #motivating quotes #success

[dozy-draws]

✨🌈 happy pride everyone! 🌈✨

#from my selfship to yours: hoping you all have a joyful pride month! #flags shown are: gay. sapphic. lesbian. trans. queer. #no polyam ones cause I forgot lmao #but yea last pride month I realized I’m not bi anymore #and it was a weird but ultimately good journey! #i was happy being bi #and now I’m happy being gay! #if pride month is a tumultuous time for you I see you and I love you and it’ll all be ok! #mlp #my little pony #art #ponysona #princess celestia #oc: softheart #selfship #selfshipping #pride art #pride month #pride #oh yeah softheart’s wearing her engagement ring like last year too 💞 #softlestia

[quiltingwitch]

A project for a friend, from chaotic notes app sketch to finished quilt!

My goals for this project were to:

-use designs and colors directly inspired by my friend

-build confidence in foundation paper piecing, with the aim to understand the rules so I can design my own patterns eventually

-use as much scrap fabric as possible whenever possible

The grey background, the spines of the book designs, and the improv blocks were all made from half square triangle and strip scraps left over from a wedding quilt made for mutual friends. I think that means my friends’ quilts are siblings. ❤️

This was my favorite part, improvising fpp blocks with small scraps. No rules just right. (Ok some rules- for each block use many blues, use green once, balance with grey. But I made those rules up arbitrarily so I don’t mind following them)

The blue background fabric and border fabric were originally three thrifted shirts. I used fpp technique to make the striping precise.

I listened to a lot of tinglers while making this quilt, and in my opinion this gift for my friend proves love is real. Chuck Tingle is a very inspirational and influential artist for me. I have enormous respect for all his work and I find myself more motivated to create because Chuck trots his trot.

Just two buds and a quilt that proves love is real.

There is so much joy in watching my friends enjoy something I made. I love you guys!

I’m very happy with how this quilt turned out. I was able to pull mostly from my scrap bags for the top, the rest was reclaimed shirts. Foundation paper piecing is sometimes referred to as a technique that creates a lot of scrap, but I’ve found it to be a good way to use scrap. The extra step of piecing solids into a large enough shape to fit the fpp pattern didn’t seem to effect the overall construction, as long as I ironed the seams open. (Fpp does create paper waste though, which I can’t yet figure out how to reuse.) I certainly increased my confidence with fpp and I’m really excited to use the technique more. Best of all, the quilt helped keep my friends warm on a very cold weekend. I’m very lucky to know and be known by them.

Thank you for reading, please enjoy Jasper in his favorite spot: the forbidden blanket. I moved him from his spot many times because I was worried about pin pricks but he kept coming back. The beloved boy loves a basted quilt.

Patterns are Tall Tales by Kate Basti, North Star by Full Bobbin Designs, and Dragonfly by Full Bobbin Designs

#a journey through creating a quilt #featuring my cats #quilting #love is real #chuck tingle #tingleverse #making joyful art #quilts #fiber craft #quiltingwitch #handmade quilt #fiber crafts #fiber arts #fiber art #textile arts #textile art #textile design #handmade #foundation paper piecing #fpp

[sapphosboy]

Was talking today with a friend about how monumental it was for me as a trans person and a lesbian who was uncomfortably presenting feminine, to meet my butch best friend in college, and how just being friends with them, and hearing about their experience as a butch really allowed me the space to feel comfortable exploring my own gender expression and identity, and how I feel like I’m a more complete person for having known them because they made me feel so incredibly safe in the journey and I now feel so much more comfortable presenting the way I want to and not the way I expect people to want me to, and the friend I was talking to said that I was that for them. So dress as faggy as you fucking want to and be as loud as you want to about it. It’s your god-given right to be DRIPPING with dykery and transgenderism because you never know if you’re going to be that lightbulb moment or safe queer space for someone!

#it made me more emotional and happy than I could possibly describe #The opposite of generational trauma lol #anyway shout out to my butch best friend #for giving me my first buzz cut #and helping me find a website to order a binder from #etc #and for being so fucking supportive when I started to explore masculinity #So Teddy if you see this #Thank you for everything and I really owe this journey to myself and to you #because I know what I was like and I never would’ve made that journey when I did if it wasn’t for you and your support #I was really letting fear control my life and you were the first person who told me it didn’t have to be that way #And it changed my life in the most incredible way #I get to experience queerness and transness in such a joyful and euphoric way every single day now #so thank youuuuuuu #I love you so much and I feel so lucky to be your friend #I don’t know if you’ll ever see this #but I like the thought but it’s out there on my Tumblr and you might one day read this #and tell Soph to accept my follow request on TikTok #transgender #butch #lesbian

[fly-care]

Happy Monday

#self love #self care #healingjourney #self healing #loveyourself #self compassion #love #i am worthy #worth it #confidence #self journey #trust the journey #joyful #journey #im here #i love it here #work in progress #positive outlook #its ok <3 #starting point #mindshift #be happy #ready for this #you got this #got to believe #its a process #trust the process #work in process #process #i got this

[moregraceful]

which ahl team would you most like to relocate to california? 2. what is your favorite live music experience you've ever had? 3. what is your go-to style of shoe?

these are so juicy omg thank you.

oh god. here's the thing, california has too many ahl teams and they're all better than my team so i want them all to get lost in the san joaquin valley forever. HOWEVER i think it is a true shame the wranglers moved up to calgary and i want them back here!! reasons: 1) the stockton heat were san jose's main rivalry. now we have the tucson roadrunners. i am tired of losing to the roadrunners after a third of my team goes down in consecutive 10 minute majors. at least with the stockton heat it was like, even if we lose, we're still morally superior, bc we are not in stockton. like how am i supposed to feel superior to tucson. tucson fucken rules. MORE IMPORTANTLY 2) it really makes me mad when minor league hockey teams fuck off to canada bc i feel like it does SO much for the game in america to have cheap local hockey where the players are accessible and often very enmeshed with the fanbase and the city! canada already has so many hockey teams! mind your business canada!!! one time i was talking to a guy at a cuda game and he was telling me like, yeah, my daughter's favorite player was [some random 3rd liner that predates me] and she was devastated when he got traded to the heat and cried, so i took her up to stockton to see him and he was so happy to see her. (she was 8 years old when i was talking to the man, so i think she was pretty significantly younger.) like...i'm sorry but that's so nice, man. you don't get that kind of fan connection with major league teams. california having an assload of minor league hockey teams presents a real opportunity for growing the game in this state! and the thing about having so many ahl teams in california is you can go on little roadtrips if you so wish! if your 6 year old daughter's favorite 4th liner gets traded, you can take a day trip up to stockton and see him and make her day AND make his day! god. no more hockey teams for canada!! you guys need to get into baseball!!!

oh man...this sucks so much bc it involves ryan adams. but one of my favorite concert experiences was going alone to a ryan adams & the cardinals concert in san francisco. they played so many of my favorite songs, the crowd was so friendly and welcoming to me (demographics of a cards concert at the time: 35-65yo white male. me at the time: 21yo mixed race girl), the band laughed at me for singing and dancing along to "easy plateau", and the concert was something like...god maybe 3-4 hours long and i just really sank into the music and the experience. my sister and i were living with our dad at the time and he was never home, and i got a call from her around 12am like, did you die. and i had to call her back after the concert at 1am like no, sorry, this band just has a deep back catalog. anyway it sucks to have lost the shine of that wonderful concert experience bc ryan adams is such a piece of shit, but it does stand out as a particularly special concert experience. it was one of the last shows i went to where i just truly felt like every part of it was for me.

i recently discovered vans slip-ons. why was i wasting so much time with converse when i could be wear vans. my favorite vans slip-ons have flowers on them but i also have a pair of blue and a pair of green. i have recently become a monster who doesn't always wear socks, so it's a true dirtbag california look. beryl gave me a pair of their docs and a pair of their red wings boots so i look like a real badass in the winter, but honestly for 7 months of the year at this point i'm just rocking vans.

thank you for asking my friend!!

#every day i get closer and closer to starting that california hockey podcast that is just celebrating california ahl hockey #the only thing stopping me at this point is that i simply do not think the world needs more men talking about hockey on podcasts #even if my male hockey podcast would be better than all the other's men's hockey podcasts #bc it would a) have a hard 15 min limit and b) be JOYFUL and full of LOVE and RESPECTING OTHER PEOPLE'S JOURNEYS #but again: i do not wish to add my voice to the hockey podcasting scene. the last thing we need is more MEN. TALKING. #cage replies #hopetorun #shout out to men i love y'all but we need to stop starting podcasts :/

[crying--angel]

#joyful #joyfulmoments #joyfuljourney #joyfulliving #be happy #happy #friendship #heal #healing #healing journey

[fitforestfairy]

30 Days of Yoga - Done ✅

I’m in tears and so so very proud of myself 😭🧘🏻‍♀️

This is the first time in over a year I can complete a challenge like this. My life was falling apart and more often than not I didn’t think I would make it to the next day.

This is me learning to love myself again, learning to take care of myself again 💜

#fitforestfairy #feeling accomplished #yoga challenge #challenge accepted #challenge complete #true self love #true self care #health and wellness #fitblr #i’m just loving my journey #joyful movement #fitness journey #weight loss journey #intentional weight loss #yoga with kassandra

[celestialwife]

sometimes i just think about poe and it's like. i can't believe you mean this much to me? literally ahead of tfa i just kept scoffing at the descriptions of him, completely expected to be benevolently annoyed with him or meh at best and didn't understand why everyone went off abt how oscar was attractive (like i could tell objectively, but it's rare that i find someone subjectively attractive on a deep level), and then i just. saw poe for the first time on screen in theaters and that was it. instant attraction, and then a few minutes later realizing that oh, no i'm genuinely in love with this man. instant ride or die, we just clicked. i got him on a deeply intimate level just from those few minutes of screentime he has in the movie, that nothing about him following that ever surprised me? just. yeah that's him this makes sense.

and i remember writing what was absolutely self-insert masquerading as canon where r.ey was his best friend and i genuinely meant for it to be platonic but i kept accidentally writing a little bit something more and i genuinely think looking back on it that i probably had a crush and a squish on poe? and he may have started queerplatonic, leaning on alterous (if i'm understanding the term right). like it wasn't straight platonic because i genuinely had/have such a crush on him but it definitely wasn't straight romantic at the time either (and i still have moments where i'm like. yeah i'm definitely feeling qp feelings for him and not romantic ones). and then sometime in 2017, something I guess shifted and I wrote in an oc into that same fic who had a history with him and they both still had feelings for each other and they kissed at the end of the story but didn't wind up with each other, and then i started reading reader fic for him that same year and was like. oh I actually don't mind the idea of kissing him....i kinda wanna. and i also don't mind the idea of a relationship if it's with him, i even want it?

and like ofc things went sideways from there. i stopped reading fic bc my friend made fun of me for reading it and i felt like i was doing smth "wrong" and then the gaslighting of everyone hating him in t.lj when i didn't also severely impacted my ability to be able to enjoy him properly without trying to fold up my actual opinions to 'fit in' more and feeling anxious and not getting to enjoy it, but he was still such a cornerstone of comfort for me at the time. i even wrote my first reader fic in late 2018 to get some comfort from how awful things were in my personal life and it was of him. and then t.ros happened and the fandom got so toxic along w some friend stuff that my spin in poe almost broke (or so i thought), but like?? i spent the whole next year constantly drawn to things that reminded me of poe....read a book that was compared to the st and him a lot....bought a lot of orange things without thinking about it, developed a crush on a character that's like. basically poe with the serial numbers scratched off. all until i found my way back to him at the end of 2020 🥰 and after that i started embracing reader fic again and my romantic feelings for him and then lmao the physical/sexual attraction came in like a wrecking ball shortly thereafter which was New To Say The Least, but.

eeee i don't know i ended up gushing a lot about him but i just. sometimes i really think about the journey i've had with him, and how much good he's genuinely brought into my life. i get to feel all these emotions i never thought i would!! because of him!!! i get to explore new avenues that i wouldn't be interested in or comfortable in pursuing even mentally bc of him!!! he's helped me work through various triggers for my trauma bc they feel safe with him involved? and most importantly - i wouldn't know any of my lovely friends or partners if it wasn't for him? i stuck around in the fandom bc of poe, and that lead me right to my queerplatonic partners and family. i genuinely would not!! be the same person today if i had not fallen in love with that silly flyboy december 20th 2015!!! and isn't that just love in a nutshell?

#hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i don't normally gush but i'm heavily caffeinated rn moreso than i've been in months #i just!!!!!!!!! i cannot believe!!! #sometimes i worry when i like. mildly dissociate thinking about him and my love/interest in him bc one time that genuinely broke a spin bc #i realized it was not doing anything for me positively. but with poe everytime i'm just like #my life would genuinely not be as joyful as it is if it weren't for you. i would not be who i am today if it wasn't for you. #(tch. might not be here generally speaking) #i just. i really went from scoffing at him to 'oh no he's hot' to 'oh i'm in love' to 'i want to be his best friend in a really intimate #way' (cos i didn't know what qp/alterous was at the time) to 'i might want to kiss him but i wouldn't imagine myself w him' #to 'oh. actually i don't mind thinking about kissing him or being in a relationship w him. actually i /want/ that.' #to having to swallow my feelings for him to be diplomatic/avoid conflict for two years while still utterly adoring him and being in love w #him to subconsciously finding my way back to him!!!!! #and deciding with grim determination i'd continue loving him as much as i wanted no matter what anyone else said and YES that meant getting #kiss him on his pretty mouth. and shipping my self insert with him PROPERLY where they end up together. #and then realizing stuff that's less pg-13!!!! but no less mind blowing. like i had THAT setting. what the hell. #i just. what a journey. #he's my sweet flyboy my absolute beloved my best friend my starlight i love him to pieces u guuuuuuuuuuuys #i've had a lot of comfort characters over the years and a handful of special interests - none of them have meant as much to me as poe #he is genuinely a part of me and who i am he's my soulmate and i wuv him #okay i'm done #nym speaks #flyboy 🧡

[adventurealldays]

#nature #mountains #hiking #landscape #colorado #sunrise #Sangres #sangre de cristos #San Luis valley #joyful journey

[arvitoursandtravels]

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[nimixo]

A new year can begin

A new year can begin only because the old year ends. -Madeleine L'Engle

#JoyfulJourney #YearEndCelebration #HappyNewYear #cheerstothefuture #NewBeginnings #dance #sparkle #newyearseve #FreshStart #UnleashYourPotential #adventure #wisdom #laughter #promises #celebration #FreshStart#sunrise #countdown #resolutions #Nimixo #motivational #motivationalquote #motivationblowbyblow

#joyful journey #motivating quotes #inspirational quotes #new beginnings

[tattoos-on-my-heart]

Did you know you were amazing? Well you are! Not because you checked something off your to do list, not because you worked hard, not because you accomplished something, not because you’re where you hoped you’d be in life. You’re amazing simply because you’re you. No matter what things look like or how you feel, just know you’ve managed to get through the days you thought you couldn’t, you dried tears you thought would never end, and if you’re reading this it’s means you’re still undefeated. You’re stronger than you give yourself credit for! Show yourself some grace, be kind to yourself! You’re Amazing!!!!

#depressing life #healing #sad thoughts #joyful #uplifting #journal #thoughts #inner peace #peaceful #peaceofmind #peace #smile #inner work #inner journey #inner thoughts #be kind #be your own hero #be your authentic self #be your own biggest fan #be yourself #be your own inspiration #self care #tw selfhate #self help #inner voice #tw self destruction #self talk #tw self sabotage #love #self love

[sonego]

being misgendered every day cause no matter what you don't ""pass"" is like. really fucking shitty

#being trans can be joyful yeah but it does unfortunately get hard to like #remain positive when you've been on this journey for yeaaaars and still strangers and sometimes ppl who know you #see you and automatically go “she” #like ouch! #and then i'm like i should be more masculine i shouldn't paint my nails etc etc #but fuck that cause i like it? and in the end it's not even that cause plenty of masc people including cis men paint their nails and don't #get perceived as a woman #it's about my body shape and there's nothing i can do about that and it hurts so much!!!! #anyway. it sucks. i'm tired of everyone thinking i'm a woman. i'm tired. #delete later