#were encouraged and valued

[proudfreakmetarusonniku]

Like honestly I think that people are genuinely unaware of how MCYT and the internet as a whole used to be because like… the space is improving. Things coming to light when they happen and not years later is a good thing. Not only is it impossible to have a space with no bad people ever, any space that appears as such is actively dangerous and suppressing the victims within the community as a way to stay “pure.” I really worry about people leaving for those sorts of spaces because in my experience they’re far more rotten than MCYT could ever be, because victims are shamed into silence and treated like dirt to keep that spotless reputation. It’s a show of purity, not any support for victims, because Victims Coming Out Is A Good Thing. It means they feel safe in the space to do that. Places that seem safer because they don’t have all that are just ones that silence any victim far worse.

#myct #psa #abuse victims coming forward is a good thing and people portraying it as a sign mcyt is uniquely rotten is fucking terrifying #because by idolising spaces that don’t have abuse victims coming out you’re encouraging them to keep silent #I’ve met many people like wilbur soot in quote unquote wholesome communities #where speaking out against them made you a pariah becuase they valued appearing free of abuse than actually stamping out abusers #I've seen way more exploitative systems than even the qsmp admin thing and if you spoke out you were the difficult one who deserved hate #communities cannot purge abusers they simply need to be open to removing them #Valuing moral purity only silences that because acting like abusers are good people is easier and looks better

[honeybabymp3]

lgbt infightings are so funny. what if we blamed homophobia on each other. crabs in a bucket ass situation

#there's a level of accountability to your community that needs to be addressed as well as constantly encouraging each other to challenge our #views of the world and how much heteronormativity that we were born and indoctrinated into we still retain #(and this of course goes triple for continuously questioning and reexamining other values and biases; esp racism but also these days kids #on the internet need like a daily reminder that misogyny exists yet still. but i digress) #these discussions are great but we can have them with like ... at least a tiny bit of compassion for starters

[agendratum]

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#i remember last summer when the situation with zzh was happening #people made lists of like tumblr accounts to not interact with basically if you #were siding towards a certain belief in that situation and wanted to keep you mental health afloating #mostly meaning you didn't wanna see people grabbing pitchforks and poisoning your time on this website and also in the fandom #yeah yeah i know “trusting other people to form opinions about people you never interacted with for you????” #i didn't care i wanted a resemblance of peace i was thinking about myself and i'm thinking about myself now #so i can tell you it saved me a lot of nerves back then #which makes me kinda wish someone would do this now #because i can tell you this #don't get me wrong i'm waiting for an official statement waiting for whatever that conference will even be like #waiting for a conclusion that would be made after an actual investigation and not a bunch of twitter infowars #but for now? i don't wanna see people jumping to conclusions based on words of someone already proven to lie and fabricate shit before #if you're distancing yourself from the situation or the person because this is too heavy for you i get it but #i also wish for you understanding if i stop interacting with you #cause that is not something i want to see i'm sorry #and if someone needs to unfollow or block me because you value your mental health i encourage you to do this #i don't really ever post much drama related shit or at least try to #but i know where i'm staying in this all for the time being and if someone doesn't wanna see that #i hope you won't force yourself #that being said #if it will be proven that he did all that and is guilty? then well fuck #but he might be you know your average person getting accused of something he didn't do #and average people might still suck! which is why again and again #i beg people to stop idolizing actors artists musicians internet personas #that involves the rest of the cast as well #you don't know any of them #they're not your friends #don't set yourself up for a disappointment please #there is not a single person in the world who “hasn't done anything wrong in their lives ever” #anyway i hope i phrased myself more or less clearly and i hope i wont make another post like this one ever again

[beemintty]

i've come to terms with the fact that my faith in god is not normal according to the church... the way i view the bible is this: truth but not necessarily complete history. like any historical script it's been translated and rewritten a thousand times so it may not speak of exactly how every event happened in complete fact but the core message is the same: trust god and love the world. my faith may look different but it is still faith, and it's still a massive part of who i am and how i walk through life.

#just thoughts to share #my thoughts #i was thinking about it again #i grew up in a christian home with parents who walked away from the church #it had started to value things that were far from the main goal of who jesus is #i also grew up being encouraged to come to my own conclusion about christianity #my faith is honestly such an integral part of me #but so is things like my part in the lgbtqia+ community and my love and complete trust in science and history #these things are often not super well included in the church and so i walked away with my family #but my faith is still as important as ever #jesus is my strength #he told me to love the world so thats what i walk through life doing #love is love #and my faith is valid #on religion #on christianity #on god #on faith #ramblings #thoughts #on life #on the church #god #christianity #faith #faith in jesus #jesus #love #on truth #this is who i am

[godofsmallthings]

thinking about the push and pull of music as art and music as play and how it can never truly fall into either category without losing something

#i genuinely don't think anti hero remix is even a bad thing #i think it's funny and it was intended as such #but it's so interesting that the industry is set up in a way to allow (and even encourage) 'joke' songs #for lack of a better term #like i'm sure they were just fucking around in the studio and were like. lol. this is so funny. let's drop it. #(and i'm sure there was a reason for the timing like a push for charts or something idk when counting periods end whatevr) #but yeah anyway i think it's stupid fun #and i think music can be valued and also be silly sometimes #(but when it can be silly and isn't valued--aka its current state--that's when it starts becoming like. an advertisement for the product #vs the actual product) #anyway i used to be so conflicted about like. justin bieber's i feel funny for example #because i was like ughhhh but noooo music is artttttt and this is diminishing its valueeeee #but also that song fucking slaps and i genuinely listen to it all the time because it's funny as hell #it has much more value in my own life than any other justin bieber song #and then you have like the opposite extreme with wu tang #with once upon a time in shaolin and it being soooo like Art that it isn't even accessible #anyway these thoughts are very half baked i need to get off tumblr and do my hw #vi is typing...

[dhaaruni]

But the greater good doesn't factor into what she wants. She's been hurt all her life, and she doesn't owe anyone anything. Her unhappy ending is still on her terms. Her call to action is not what she can do for others; it is a rage that comes sizzling out of the dark.

— "The Trouble With Carrie"

#Personal #intro post #it’s okay that I’m mad #everybody knows i’m a motherfucking monster #not to get introspective but like #my parents are truly fascinating people like most people let alone people from India that were born and raised there #teach their teenage daughters the importance and value of rage #I was 16 when I posted that #I was taught righteous anger from the womb #my mom once confronted a guy on a bus hitting his son #when she was like 21 #and the guy stopped #and this was India where corporeal punishment was not only legal but also encouraged #family blogging

[neverdoingmuch]

i feel like stranger things is going to go through exactly what marvel went through once they release their final season

#legal talks #like the way that marvel finished their big movie series and then within months people were realising how much it sucked as a whole? #same thing is going to happen with stranger things i think #people will acknowledge that season 1 and 2 were great but they'll realise that the rest of it kinda sucked #like... something something marvel films were created as such a tightly bound series of films that unless you watched all the previous #'episodes' they were largely inaccessible to viewers. a marked difference from the old marvel films that used cameos and references as #easter eggs rather than requiring the level of investment from all viewers that you would get from a television show #vs stranger things progressively making each season more and more like a 7-8 hour movie instead of a tv show and completely avoiding the #beats and pacing of television shows and encouraging that binge-watching movie-like experience #im probably not saying anything of value but like....

[jewishvitya]

A pro-Palestine Jew on tiktok asked those of us who were raised pro-Israel, what got us to change our minds on Palestine. I made a video to answer (with my voice, not my face), and a few people watched it and found some value in it. I'm putting this here too. I communicate through text better than voice.

So I feel repetitive for saying this at this point, but I grew up in the West Bank settlements. I wrote this post to give an example of the extent to which Palestinians are dehumanized there.

Where I live now, I meet Palestinians in day to day life. Israeli Arab citizens living their lives. In the West Bank, it was nothing like that. Over there, I only saw them through the electric fence, and the hostility between us and Palestinians was tangible.

When you're a child being brought into the situation, you don't experience the context, you don't experience the history, you don't know why they're hostile to you. You just feel "these people hate me, they don't want me to exist." And that bubble was my reality. So when I was taught in school that everything we did was in self defense, that our military is special and uniquely ethical because it's the only defensive military in the world - that made sense to me. It slotted neatly into the reality I knew.

One of the first things to burst the bubble for me was when I spoke to an old Israeli man and he was talking about his trauma from battle. I don't remember what he said, but it hit me wrong. It conflicted with the history as I understood it. So I was a bit desperate to make it make sense again, and I said, "But everything we did was in self defense, right?"

He kinda looked at me, couldn't understand at all why I was upset, and he went, "We destroyed whole villages. Of course we did. It was war, that's what you do."

And that casual "of course" stuck with me. I had to look into it more.

I couldn't look at more accurate history, and not at accounts by Palestinians, I was too primed against these sources to trust them. The community I grew up in had an anti-intellectual element to it where scholars weren't trusted about things like this.

So what really solidified this for me, was seeing Palestinian culture.

Because part of the story that Israel tells us to justify everything, is that Palestinians are not a distinct group of people, they're just Arabs. They belong to the nations around us. They insist on being here because they want to deny us a homeland. The Palestinian identity exists to hurt us. This, because the idea of displacing them and taking over their lands doesn't sound like stealing, if this was never theirs and they're only pretending because they want to deprive us.

But then foods, dances, clothing, embroidery, the Palestinian dialect. These things are history. They don't pop into existence just because you hate Jews and they're trying to move here. How gorgeous is the Palestinian thobe? How stunning is tatreez in general? And when I saw specific patterns belonging to different regions of Palestine?

All of these painted for me a rich shared life of a group of people, and countered the narrative that the Palestininian identity was fabricated to hurt us. It taught me that, whatever we call them, whatever they call themselves, they have a history in this land, they have a right to it, they have a connection to it that we can't override with our own.

I started having conversations with leftist friends. Confronting the fact that the borders of the occupied territories are arbitrary and every Israeli city was taken from them. In one of those conversations, I was encouraged to rethink how I imagine peace.

This also goes back to schooling. Because they drilled into us, we're the ones who want peace, they're the ones who keep fighting, they're just so dedicated to death and killing and they won't leave us alone.

In high school, we had a stadium event with a speaker who was telling us about a person who defected from Hamas, converted to Christianity and became a Shin Bet agent. Pretty sure you can read this in the book "Son of Hamas." A lot of my friends read the book, I didn't read it, I only know what I was told in that lecture. I guess they couldn't risk us missing out on the indoctrination if we chose not to read it.

One of the things they told us was how he thought, we've been fighting with them for so long, Israelis must have a culture around the glorification of violence. And he looked for that in music. He looked for songs about war. And for a while he just couldn't find any, but when he did, he translated it more fully, and he found out the song was about an end to wars. And this, according to the story as I was told it, was one of the things that convinced him. If you know know the current trending Israeli "war anthem," you know this flimsy reasoning doesn't work.

Back then, my friend encouraged me to think more critically about how we as Israelis envision peace, as the absence of resistance. And how self-centered it is. They can be suffering under our occupation, but as long as it doesn't reach us, that's called peace. So of course we want it and they don't.

Unless we're willing to work to change the situation entirely, our calls for peace are just "please stop fighting back against the harm we cause you."

In this video, Shlomo Yitzchak shares how he changed his mind. His story is much more interesting than mine, and he's much more eloquent telling it. He mentions how he was taught to fear Palestinians. An automatic thought, "If I go with you, you'll kill me." I was taught this too. I was taught that, if I'm in a taxi, I should be looking at the driver's name. And if that name is Arab, I should watch the road and the route he's taking, to be prepared in case he wants to take me somewhere to kill me. Just a random person trying to work. For years it stayed a habit, I'd automatically look at the driver's name. Even after knowing that I want to align myself with liberation, justice, and equality. It was a process of unlearning.

On October, not long after the current escalation of violence, I had to take a taxi again. A Jewish driver stopped and told me he'll take me, "so an Arab doesn't get you." Israeli Jews are so comfortable saying things like this to each other. My neighbors discussed a Palestinian employee, with one saying "We should tell him not to come anymore, that we want to hire a Jew." The second answered, "No, he'll say it's discrimination," like it would be so ridiculous of him. And the first just shrugged, "So we don't have to tell him why." They didn't go through with it, but they were so casual about this conversation.

In the Torah, we're told to treat those who are foreign to us well, because we know what it's like to be the foreigner. Fighting back against oppression is the natural human thing to do. We know it because we lived it. And as soon as I looked at things from this angle, it wasn't really a choice of what to support.

#riki babbles #I had this in my drafts for ages and I was like 'not the time' but a friend encouraged me to share so here it is #palestine

[transgender-png]

fuck it. shout out to "high functioning" neurodivergents

the ones who can mask easily, the ones who can get social cues, the ones who have managed to go most of their life not even knowing they were ND because they didn't present as the stereotypical ND person.

the ones who can pay attention in class, understand social etiquette, who understand societial expectations

the ones who don't feel neurodivergent enough bc they don't struggle in the same ways/areas a lot of NDs do, or they can't relate to other NDs' experiences because they always understood these things easily

the ones with high empathy, the ones who DO get the joke, the ones who are constantly told that they can't possibly be neurodivergent because they don't act like what you'd expect a neurodivergent person to act like.

you are neurodivergent enough. you are valid, and so are your experiences. not struggling as much as others do in some places doesn't mean you dont struggle at all. your condition and diagnosis is valid. your symptoms are valid. YOU ARE VALID. not checking all the supposed boxes doesn't mean you aren't neurodivergent. you are enough. you are valid. you are loved. you are valued. you matter. you belong in neurodivergent spaces, you deserve to use whatever resources are available to you, you are allowed to take up space in these communities. and i am so, so proud of you.

feel free to, and actually, i encourage you to reblog this with your experiences. we belong in this community as much as anyone else. please also tag this w/ any neurodivergent conditions i may have forgotten 💙

since this is getting lots of notes I'd like to add, even if you're undiagnosed or maybe self diagnosed, for whatever reason, (i.e. can't get access to a diagnosis, not being taken seriously, or just not wanting an official diagnosis, etc.) this still applies to you. actually especially to you folks. don't think for a second you're not valid just bc you don't have the paperwork or whatever to say it

#neurodivergent #neurodiversity #nd #autism #adhd #ocd #dyslexia #dyscalculia #asd #autism spectrum disorder #tourettes #tourettes syndrome #dyspraxia #hyperlexia #synesthesia #down syndrome #sensory processing disorder #schizophrenia #borderline personality disorder #bpd

[daydreamerdrew]

Iron Man (1968) #59

#ooh drama in Pepper and Happy’s relationship #when Pepper asked Tony for her job back she explained it as that #‘It’s hard just keeping ahead of inflation so Happy and I decided I need a job.’ #but it doesn’t seem that Happy is really on board with this and Pepper isn’t bringing up finances as a justification #I actually like that Happy is explicitly bringing up his discomfort with Pepper being college-educated #and his disapproval of the woman’s liberation movement- to me it's more interesting to fully depict that conflict #regarding Pepper saying ‘If I don’t grow… expand… I’ll go nuts!’ #I doubt that a secretary job is giving her complete fulfillment in terms of her personal growth #so I would suspect that there's more that she wants that she's not specifying #and regarding ‘How can you want a wife who isn’t a human being first?’ #I'm curious if she's feeling dehumanized by the role of being a wife beyond just the not working and always being in the home part #possibly Happy feeling a sense of or more of a sense of ownership over her #now I'm curious as to how Tony feels about the women's lib movement- I would think he would naturally lean conservative but #I'm sure that Tony being a playboy isn't all about protecting women's purity and the valuing the sanctity of marriage above all kinda guy #his two long-lasting relationships have been with Janice Cord and Marianne Rodgers and I feel like they were both pretty different #with Marianne I think the crux of his relationship with her was that one quote where he said #'How can a warm and loving but powerless girl harm an iron man?' #she was sweet and caring and also not someone he found threatening in any way #and she also didn't have anything else going on in her life besides their relationship like a job and was just hanging around with him #in contrast Tony was really encouraging of Janice Cord to keep her company and be a competitor to him rather than sell the company to him #and it came across to me that he felt more comfortable with that distance between them #in the sense that she not just had that other major part of her life and wasn't dependent on him but was also in competition with him #so he kind of had that as a built-in justification for when he wanted to distance himself from her #I’m curious as to how he’ll approach learning about this conflict between Pepper and Happy #also love that Tony is angrily breaking stuff in his office and they’re just on the other side of the wall awkwardly not getting involved #marvel #pepper potts #happy hogan #my posts #comic panels

[hauntedbestie]

I hope the Nemmy that had me run around Garden of Joy with him looking for hatch yesterday is having a great day. Dude deserves it

#like legit got a 2k and could have seriously had a 4k since me and the nea were both half dead with two gens left #and instead got some chase value and encouraged us to do the gens #let her go through the gate and then when i was working on opening the other one was like nah dawg #and had a little rebecca chambers following him around garden of joy until we found hatch #lex plays dbd

[velvet4510]

It amazes me that in a world where oaths are so valued and taken so seriously, Elrond does not have the members of the Fellowship swear any oath. He only encourages them to stay with the Ring-bearer for as long as they will. Yet every single member remains true to the Quest in their own way. Everyone makes contributions that make its success possible. Not because of any oath. Sam is under no oath to follow Frodo to Mordor. Boromir is under no oath to lay down his life for Merry and Pippin. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli are under no oath to follow the hobbits. But they do all these things anyway, because it is right, and because they love each other. Boromir repents for his actions toward Frodo not because he has broken a literal oath, but because he has broken his friend’s trust, and his actions were just plain wrong. Frodo has sworn no official oath, but made a vow of his own will, because he knows the task must be done by someone, and he is not forced to be the one; he chooses: “I will take the Ring.” Within the entire Fellowship is pure love and nobility and loyalty and that, rather than any oath, saves the world. From the beginning, Elrond knows this is the better option. He knows what Fëanor’s oath did to the world. He knows that there has to be another way. And it turns out there is.

#lotr #jrr tolkien #lotr books #lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #boromir #merry brandybuck #pippin took #aragorn #gimli #legolas #elrond

[vanteguccir]

Sleeping inside her | Matt Sturniolo

Matt Sturniolo x reader

Summary: Where Y/N wants to be impossibly close to Matt.

Warning: Slightly smut, cockwarming.

Author's note: That is my work, I DON'T authorize any plagiarism! | English isn't my first language, so I'm sorry if there's any grammar error.

Part 2

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Y/N had an appreciation for all love languages, practicing each one individually with her favorite people, but it wasn't news to anyone that her favorite was physical touch. The girl loves to always be very close physically to the ones she loves, giving tight hugs and kisses on the cheek, valuing moments and people that allow her to act in such a way.

When Y/N fell in love with Matt, her love language was precisely what made her feelings for him apparent, her body always seeming to seek to be next to his, her hands lightly touching Matt's arms or legs as they interacted automatically, and that was exactly what encouraged Matt to take the first step.

After Y/N and Matt started dating and Matt stated many times that he loved the girl's way of showing her love for him, she felt comfortable enough to act however she wanted; Her body began to always look for his, now being able to sit on his lap on specific occasions, place her hand on his thigh or her arms around his waist, caressing the covered or, sometimes, exposed skin with her fingers.

Kisses became frequent, a quick peck on the cheek or forehead, simple pecks on the lips or a war of tongues. For Y/N, the closer, the better.

It is well known that physical touch between a couple increases the feeling of emotional well-being and even strengthens the bond, intimacy and connection, and for Y/N and Matt, it meant many things: love, passion, excitement and rest, too, a way to recharge their energy.

That's why, when Y/N finally entered her house after a long day of work, all she thought about doing was clinging to Matt. She reached blindly for the lock on the front door, placing her key there and locking it, before walking in the dark from her living room and down the long hallway, until she reached her bedroom, which she shared with her boyfriend.

The girl knocked twice on the door, before slowly opening it. Her face lit up when her eyes found Matt sitting at the computer desk located in the corner of the room, his headphones on top of his head, muffled melodies of some Dominic Fike song coming out, while his fingers blindly typed words, his blue eyes fixed on the screen where a Word document was open. Y/N assumed he was writing some video idea for the triplets' channel or his personal channel, which he hadn't appeared in a long time.

Y/N closed the door behind her carefully, not wanting to scare Matt with a loud noise, thanking in her mind that the lights in the room were low. The girl placed her bag on the floor before walking towards her boyfriend, lightly touching his arm to show that she was there, finally gaining the brunette's attention.

Matt lifted his head, lowering his headset automatically, his eyes focused on the girl's face, a big smile stretching across his own.

"Hi baby, I didn't hear you coming." The boy whispered, Y/N smiled back, wrapping her arms around Matt's shoulders and pulling him against her, wanting to be close. The boy wrapped his own arms around her waist, taking advantage of the position created by her, while he laid his head against her clothed belly, being able to close his eyes for a few seconds and rest his mind.

"I came in slowly, 'didn't want to scare you." Y/N whispered back, leaning down a little so she could kiss the top of Matt's head, her hand stroking the area gently, smiling as she heard a contented sigh escape her boyfriend's lips. "Have you showered yet?" She asked, the fresh scent of soap answering her question.

Matt shook his head positively, looking like he didn't want to move, his computer task already forgotten.

"Turn off the computer, sweetheart. I'm going to take a quick shower and then we can go to bed." Y/N asked in a low tone, kissing Matt's head once more before pulling away, laughing at the boy's grumbling.

Y/N walked to the bathroom, taking off her jacket and throwing it on a corner chair on the way, finally being able to undress completely when she reached the small room, throwing her clothes in the laundry basket before getting into the hot shower.

Her shower was quick, her anticipation of finally being able to lie down with her boyfriend getting the best of her, and before Y/N knew it, she was already finishing drying herself off. The girl hung her towel, now damp, in the proper space inside the bathroom before leaving, the cold wind from the room meeting her naked body, making her shiver. Y/N started walking to their closet, but stopped halfway, an idea popping into her head.

She turned around with an lazy smile, walking quickly towards the door, her hands stopping on the latch and turning the key, locking it, finally being able to go to her bed where Matt was already lying under the covers and shirtless, ready to sleep.

Y/N went to her own side of the bed, lifting the blanket and laying down in the cold space from the lack of human heat, grateful to see that Matt was only wearing boxers. The girl let out a low laugh when she saw Matt's confused expression as his blue eyes runned over her body.

"What are you planning, hm?" Matt asked, turning sideways and facing her, running his large, cold hand around his girlfriend's waist, making her shiver, pulling her close.

"I need to feel you as close as possible today." Y/N whispered, looking him in the eyes. Matt quickly understood, cockwarming was not a new thing in their relationship, having discovered that they both liked it when Matt didn't take his cock out of the girl after a rough session, afraid of hurting his girl because she was too sensitive, staying there for a few hours while they talked.

"Are you needy, my love?" Matt asked quietly, lowering his hand that was still on Y/N's body to her thigh, caressing the area, pulling her impossibly close, smiling when he saw the girl sigh and nod, lowering his face enough to capture her rosy lips with his.

Their kiss was simple, just a movement of lips, no tongue involved. Matt knew that if he deepened it, the situation would take a different turn, and he was too tired for that right now.

Y/N smiled in pleasure during the kiss, her hand resting on Matt's chest, loving the contrast between her cold hand and his warm chest.

Matt broke the kiss, sealing their lips one last time before pulling away, appreciating the closeness of their bodies. Y/N took her hands to Matt's boxers, questioning him with her gaze briefly and finally lowering the piece of clothing after receiving a nod from the brunette, who raised his hips slightly to help her with her action, removing the piece completely with his legs.

Y/N opened the drawer of her bedside table and took the lubricant, opening the package and pouring some into the palm of her hand, closing it before bringing her smeared hand to her boyfriend's semi-hard cock, pumping him a few times as she watched his expression, blue eyes closing briefly at the sensation.

When the girl thought she had spread enough, she turned her body, facing away from Matt and stretching so that she put the lubricant back in the drawer, closing it. Matt took the initiative and took his hand to Y/N's leg, caressing the skin and pulling it up, his free hand taking his cock and directing it towards the girl's intimacy, inserting the head of the member into her hole.

A soft, breathy sigh left Y/N's mouth, her eyes closing in sudden pleasure. She bit her bottom lip to keep any noise from escaping as Matt slid his entire length into her.

Once fully inside, the brunette lowered her still raised leg, his right arm passing under Y/N's head carefully while his left arm wrapped around her waist, burying his face in his girlfriend's neck, holding himself back from moaning.

Matt loved the feeling of being inside Y/N, along with the heat of the sticky walls that squeezed his cock so deliciously, pulling him deeper inside, if that was even possible. The girl tried her best not to move her hips, remaining still.

Matt ran his tongue between his lips, wetting them while he also controlled himself by pressing his chest against her back and pulling air through his nose, loving the smell of the body cream and soap that exuded from Y/N's bare skin.

His blue eyes closed, feeling warm and comfortable. The girl pulled the blanket higher, preventing the cold air from the room from reaching their bodies, delighting in the feeling of Matt inside her and the warm bed, finally being able to rest in peace.

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Part 2

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[allsadnshit]

one of the craziest things I am constantly re learning is that other people can't give you something they don't know how to give themselves. that doesn't make it right or fair, but in some ways it does make it less personal when it IS hurtful. people who think their only value in the world is working will never encourage you to take time off or a break. people who never say no even when they want to won't applaud when you do. people who can't imagine more than what they have now will never believe you when you tell them your dreams. everything we put into the world is a reflection of ourselves and not in a cursed and sinister way, in a honest and true way.

when i didn't think anyone was on my side or believed my feelings, I wasn't capable of having anyone else's back. it wasn't about the situation or how valid their points were, it was the principle of the action to me in my own context that didn't change so nothing passing through it did either.

I think it's extremely natural to want to be understood and to crave reassurance. it's nothing to be ashamed of, and people are not born to walk the world alone. everything we have is because we build it together, and that's why making a commitment to healing yourself and give yourself the life you want over all else should always be your priority if you truly care about the people around you. If you give yourself freedom, understanding, kindness, loyalty, protection...then you are free to give it to another!

[jesskasb]

wish i were an artsy kind of guy

#''you could be'' yeah i could be #i dont know how the future will turn out but i wish i had been an artsy kind of guy since my youth yknow #seeing people my age who grew up with families who valued the arts and supported their creative decisions makes me .. jealous #or people who are naturally inclined to create #id have to make a great effort because it was never uhh. hmm.. my parents never really encouraged that from me? so now #i would have to motivate myself into learning and doing it #yknow? difficult stuff #and i want to do it but right now i dont have the means to #maybe one day though. maybeee #ill stick with just the guitar for now #but i wish i were an artsy kind of guy #alexchanting

[serialunaliver]

people say "CEOs are sociopaths" but I think it's more that capitalism encourages the worst in everyone. I mean, there were a TON of self-identified leftists in the notes of my post saying engineering majors shouldn't work for goddamn defense contractors who argued it's excusable because everyone needs money to survive. it's the mindset of capitalism--the "necessary evil". a mindset that teaches you that others are at fault for their suffering. some people, depending on life experience and opinion, are more likely to accept these values than others--people defending working for lockheed martin were not victims of the company's weapons. if you fail to think critically and develop cognitive empathy you'll end up no different than the CEOs you hate, and that's why you dismiss these CEOs as sociopaths, you want to believe they're different by default. but a real "sociopath" is more likely to end up in psychiatric hospital and develop substance abuse issues than become a corporate executive.

#seriousposting #might as well categorize these posts somehow