mattfractionblog:

anianioxenfree:

versesversus:

I have a bookmarks folder called “Pep talks and reminders”. It’s a library of things I’ve found on the internet that make me feel okay about being a human. 

I’ve seen a few “self care” “master posts” recently (quote marks not used in mockery, but to acknowledge that when you’re using these terms you’re already talking to a specific, perhaps niche, audience). These are a truly great resource!

They are also very instructive and methodical. 

Sometimes I feel the pressure to be more like a machine than a person: to be productive, to be logical. Only recently have I begun to come to terms with myself as a messy collection of feelings and viscera; I am often inclined to take step 5 before step 1, and want to find my own way there. I find storytelling more reassuring than bullet points, because I know there is another person behind a story, and I can read it and think “OH THANK GOD I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME!”
I am learning to celebrate my sensitivity.

Here is a selection of the bookmarks in that folder. Because wisdom does not always announce itself, the lessons contained within don’t necessarily present themselves as lessons; many are heuristic. Perhaps you will find some solace here.

Living by Jenny Holzer 

Ask Andrew W.K.: Do You Ever Get Depressed? 

Be Your Own Bill Murray 

For women who are ‘difficult’ to love | Love Poem for a Man Who Finds Love Difficult | The More Loving One 

Limerence

Can Reading Make You Happier? 

Loneliness and Solitude: A Reading List

Cure Your Loneliness. Do the Twist. 

On Failure and Success in the Game of Fame

Acceptance is the Answer

Mindfulness and Emotions

Beta Male Misogyny 

Laura Marling: “I was like, what the fuck am I doing with my life?”

Every woman should travel alone

Wasting time

Happiness is not normal

The Art of Staying Focused in a Distracting World

A Secret Weapon in Preventing Anxiety and Depression

If you are meditating and a devil appears, make the devil meditate too.

Other Worlds Await You

this is a list, right here

Are There Any Steps To Be Taken To Keep Shit Real?

Jumpers

Has it ever occurred to you that you’re selling yourself short by taking on a series which, by your own admission, is going to be a series primarily designed to entertain?

kateordie:

snoozingcat:

sometime I just think about how easy it would be to market superheroes toward little girls and I am filled with rage

like do these people not realize how fucking easy this shit would be

there’s the dazzler she’s like a popstar and a superhero do you know how many 4-12 year old girls would dig that shit

there’s the wasp and her superpowers are seriously like zapping jerks, flying, and being cuter than everybody else. also she’s a famous fashion designer. and she’s better than you. (like she shrinks and stuff too but mainly her power is being better than you)

she-hulk is like this nerdy chick with the power to get bigger and greener and be spontaneously tougher than everybody in the vicinity like I don’t even know a little girl who wouldn’t slit someone’s throat for the ability to be stronger than all the boys when they pissed her off

little girl likes magic? scarlet witch

little girl likes science? invisible woman

little girl likes spies? black widow

little girl likes aliens? karolina dean

little girl likes bionic arms? misty knight

little girl likes flying horses? wow. guess who has one of those? valkyrie. valkyrie does.

My point is that’s it’s so fucking easy so chop-chop, Marvel, get on it. Seriously, I went ten years of my life thinking superheroes were boys. That’s ten years of you not profiting off of my inability to refrain from buying even the crappiest merchandise you offer if it has a character I love on it. Little girls are an enormous market; they will buy all your shit if you just suggest to them that maybe they’d like to.

or you could just keep on not profiting when you could be making money selling literally any object that has enough space to plaster a female superhero’s face on it. that’s cool too.

TOO TRUE

Hell, they could put together a cartoon show featuring a group of those superheros hanging out as bffs and fighting crime together, and then do a fashion doll AND action figure line. And as a cashier, I can tell you that if you create something that kids like, they will buy demand that everyone buy EVERYTHING that has those things on it.  And adults everywhere would be so happy because we are really really tired of Frozen merch.

jenniferlovely:

polecat-flyer:

micdotcom:

Michael Stokes’ stunning photos are changing the way we see injured vets 

Michael Stokes, a Los Angeles-based fitness photographer, has captured a stunning photo series featuring 14 veterans of U.S. military units involved in the Gulf War, Iraq War and Afghanistan. In each photo, he aims to turn the usual narrative on its head.

Ahem. Some fine looking gentlemen. And lady.

*perspires*

Yes, please!

Microaggressions & messages

This is also useful to remind myself that sometimes my general friendliness can become shitty behavior.

voroxpete:

kingofthesharks:

Germans: “Yeah we really fucked up with the Nazis we’re sorry about that let’s ban all their symbols and teach our kids that we were wrong.”

White Americans: “It’s our HERITAGE. I have RIGHTS, you don’t know ANYTHING ABOUT HISTORY, we didn’t even lose! It wasn’t even about slavery, it was the WAR of NORTHERN AGGRESSION.”

This really puts it into pretty fucking sharp perspective.

Ugh.  Yes.  Exactly.

toksyuryel:

nikcesco:

oolongearlgrey:

theangryviolinist:

Made rebloggable by request.

I needed this 

Me too.  Very much so.

I should make this a recurring reblog until it sinks in. It’s something that’s proven true time and time again for me yet I still keep neglecting it. Plus I know there are several people following me who also need this advice.

Always a good reminder.  Now all I need is an easy answer for my fatigue, haha (cries).

metapianycist:

theubergrump:

I keep seeing stuff about Lord of the Flies going around

Obviously, the individual experiences of the people making the posts - re: teachers, lessons, the way they were forced to study the book - aren’t up for debate

but like, I feel that people might…

Considering that the teacher I had to taught this book was the best English (aka literature) teacher I had in high school, and he didn’t mention this is a very fascinating thing.  I’d have to double check this, but he mentioned all sorts of stuff that most of my other teachers missed, so the fact that this was missed really says something.  Granted, he was Scottish, and the course was intended to prepare for the IGCSEs so I don’t know if that means anything.  Anyway, interesting thought.

warrenellis:

Why Facebook Hates Me

I don’t use Facebook in the way that Facebook would like me to use it, and so it punishes me. I’m easy to find there, I would think, but I have less than fifty “friends” — some are actual friends, some are acquaintances or fellow-travellers — and my posts are locked to “friends of friends.” I don’t post or comment often. Therefore, Facebook doesn’t know what to do with me. Sometimes it hides my…

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Since I use facebook somewhat similarly to how he does, I imagine facebook hates mee too.  Possibly moreso because I rarely log in.

obeythepizzapolice:

thevoiceinthevoid:

I need exactly 40 of these cats.

Those aren’t cats.

Those are ghibli cartoons brought to cuddly life.