(Source: derpycats)
You don’t have to go to college. Really. Despite the nagging from everyone around you, despite the looks you might get from the snotty girls from high school (that you never really liked anyway), your decision to go to college is just that, yours. If you want to take a year off to work on yourself, it’s okay. If you want to take a year off to get drunk with your friends, do it. You can go back. You can go later. You can go never. It’s your choice.
When a boy breaks your heart and breaks you, write about it. Don’t worry if other people think it’s weird to scribble poetry on the soles of your shoes or the corner of your math test. When your friends tell you it’s been weeks, get over it, stop talking about it. Write more. Even if no one listens your notebook will. Your pen will. It will help. Eventually you won’t feel shattered, but just a little bit cracked.
Stop telling yourself that you are undeserving of love. Stop convincing yourself that your thighs have too many dimples for anyone to want to kiss. Stop looking in the mirror and believing your eyes are too close together for anyone to call you beautiful. Shut yourself up. Call yourself a kitten, everyone loves kittens. Blow yourself a kiss when you pass mirrors. Write about why you do deserve love. Start believing it.
It’s okay to kiss strangers. It’s okay to kiss the boy that calls you beautiful at the party; it’s okay not to. Don’t worry about what others think is acceptable for you to do with your body. Who you choose to share yourself with is your business. When your friend calls you “slutty” tell her to get lost. Don’t answer her calls. You don’t need that, you don’t need her.
Does your heart ache? Have you been laying in bed for a week? Don’t pretend everything is fine. It isn’t. Deal with it. Cry if you want, call the person that promises to listen, call anyone. Don’t feel bad for feeling bad. Don’t apologize for feeling like a building has collapsed on top of you. Don’t ignore it either. It will not go away without a fight. Fight for yourself. Dig yourself out of the rubble.
Don’t forget the people that never forgot you. Remember to call, remember to message, remember to email, write, sky write. Remember to listen. Remember that no feeling is forever.
(via farrahtales)
dwam:
THIS !
thia person. you are amazing. kepp it up.Hi. These are some pictures of my butt that I’ve posted on my blog. I just wanted to clear some stuff up about them. I have stopped posting them in the past because I was dating someone who 1) didn’t want other people seeing my butt and 2) was embarrassed that I would post them.
Here’s the most basic way I can say what I’m thinking.
Here’s what these pictures DON’T mean:
- I want to have sex with you.
- I want your attention.
- I want sexual attention.
- I have issues with self esteem.
- I have no self-respect.
- I have “daddy issues”.
- I will have sex with you no matter who you are.
- I am unintelligent and vapid.
Here’s what these pictures DO mean:
- The human body is beautiful.
- I have a butt.
- It’s a good butt.
- I’m proud of it.
- Here’s a picture of it.
- That’s it.
- Nothing else.
- Just a butt.
Here’s what these pictures say about me:
- Nothing.
Here’s what pisses me off:
- People who think that showing your body equates to a lack of self-respect or says something about your sexual activity.
- People who think that this justifies receiving fucked up and creepy anonymous messages of harassment.
- People who think that seeing a picture of my butt says anything about my personality, my mind, my soul, etc.
- People who say they back up feminism and body positiveness, but if their girlfriend, or a girl they were interested in, posted a picture of their body on the internet they would suddenly “lose respect” for them.
- People who think naked bodies = sex.
- People who say things like “Do you think you’ll ever get a boyfriend if you’re posting those pictures?”, “I thought you weren’t posting those pictures anymore, haha.”, or “Why would someone date you when they can just look at your blog for those pictures?”
- People who say those things and then ask me to send them pictures of my body. Fuck you.
Here’s what (I think) you should do:
- Stop leaving hateful anonymous messages.
- Stop using words like “slut” and “whore”.
- Stop having double standards.
- Stop assuming things about people.
- Stop being hateful.
- Be kind, be gentle, be respectful.
- Keep scrolling down your dashboard.
- Keep your shitty thoughts to yourself.
- Love yourself.
That’s basically all I wanted to say for now, I’m sure I’ll end up thinking of more things but this has been a massive post about being body positive and loving the way you look and not letting shitty people get you down.
(Source: awkwardlyobnoxious, via sextoyconfessions)
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"Every photo I make is a tiny act of worship. When someone won’t let me photograph them the rejection is like a religious fall from grace."
—
Clayton Cubitt always says it best
(via jisobeldelisle)
(via jisobeldelisle)
For those that didn’t know what I was talking in my last post, here is the thin privilege checklist in its entirety:
- I can be sure that people aren’t embarrassed to be seen with me because of the size of my body.
- If I pick up a magazine or watch T.V. I will see bodies…
(Source: fatshadow.com)
- Bodies are hairy. No matter the gender, your face will have hair and that is more than okay.
- Your butthole is going to have some hair too. And maybe your nipples. And your tummy. And where ever else.
- Stretch marks. Those are a thing. Everyone gets ‘em. If you don’t, you probably don’t have skin.
- Vaginas smell. Every vagina has a scent. Don’t worry about it! (Unless something seems wrong, then go get it checked out! No need to feel embarrassed or ashamed.)
- Vaginas come in all different shapes, sizes, colors, flavors. All are beautiful.
- Penises come in all different shapes, sizes, colors, flavors. All are beautiful.
- You don’t need to shave anything if you don’t want to. It’s tooootally not mandatory.
- Sometimes people get butt acne.
- You can have a vagina and want short hair and think dresses are just the worst.
- You can have a penis and want long hair and think dresses are just the best.
- You can wear whatever you want and style your hair however you want.
- You can even think whatever the hell you want.
- People might tell you that you are a girl because you have a vagina. People might tell you that you are a boy because you have a penis. People will tell you what your gender is. But in reality, you don’t have to be that gender. You don’t have to be either of those genders.
- You are what you are and it’s just the worst thing if you try and hide that.
(via galapril)
