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one day you think: I want to die. and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book. and I want to die turns day by day into want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun, I want a cleaner kitchen, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else. I want to live.

- via duckbunny

this is going to be difficult -> i am capable of doing difficult things -> i have done everything prior to this moment -> this difficulty will soon be proof of capability

For old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. Like, let’s do it for the love that used to be here. It is reason enough.

you get used to it, but it's tiring, because they need you to understand your own life as a series of goalposts. what college are you going to, what's your major going to be, whatcha gonna do with that, oh where will you settle down, when can i expect grandkids.

for the longest time my goals have been so blurry that they track into each other, their undefined edges slipping quietly back into the soft night. today i want to be a writer; tomorrow i will want to be a doctor, later i will wish i took that law school free ride. how the fuck do people just know what they want to do with their life?

where do you want to be in five years? i want to be alive; which is a huge step for me. ten years ago i would have said i want to be asleep and meant i hope that i'm dead by then.

but i want a yellow kitchen and a stand mixer. i want a garden and a fruit tree (cherry, if i can make that happen) and a big yard for my dogs to play in. i want to come home and read poetry out loud to someone and have them close their eyes to listen. i want a summer watergun fight. i want to make snowmen. i want to be the house to go to for halloween. i want my life to settle around me in a softness, for it to lay down gently. if i am very, very, very lucky, i want to travel; finally go someplace overseas.

of course i don't know what i want to be doing professionally. what i actually want to be doing is curling up beside my dog, settling in to read. i want to be making myself a cup of good coffee.

i can't answer the other questions. whenever people asked me what do you want to be when you grow up, i used to say i hope i'm happy.

i hope i'm still kind, five years from now. i hope i never get jaded and mean. i hope i have stayed in therapy. what do you picture yourself doing? when will you actually be an adult about this? why are you so afraid of being ambitious?

am i not ambitious? the other day i rearranged my furniture which doesn't quite fit into my apartment. i watered my plants. i'm going to try to propagate a cherry seed. my five year goal is to spend more time laughing. to lie down in a patch of sunwarm moss. to relax for a minute. to close my eyes and think oh thank god. this is why i stayed. this is finally it.

Y’all can’t tell me that Kara wouldn’t be vegan. Or at least, vegetarian.

Hear me out on this.

Her entire home planet died. People didn’t really know until it was too late and there was nothing anyone could do.

She comes to Earth after losing everything and what does she find? People here KNOW that they’re destroying the planet, but they don’t care. They deny it. They call people who believe in global warming “conspiracy theorists”.

Kara would absolutely research every last inch of Earth and she’d be the biggest and most passionate advocate when it comes to educating people on climate change.

So she’d absolutely know the devasting effect that animal agriculture has on the planet. 100%.

Hence, there’s absolutely no way she’d eat meat (possibly dairy too), knowing what the industry does to the planet.

And while we’re here, she’d be the biggest environmental warrior in general.

She’d be SO into recycling and reducing the use of plastic and using less electricity and less water and less greenhouse gases and (time for a Supercorp headcanon) she and Lena would absolutely spend hours every week theorising ways to produce more renewal energy, methods of transport that didn’t kick so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, waste disposals that didn’t have catastrophic effects on the ecosystem.

Kara would absolutely be that friend who walked around passive aggressively turning off lights after you leave a room, yelled at you for leaving the tap on while brushing your teeth. She definitely buy reusable coffee cups for all her friends, offer to fly them everywhere so they don’t have to use their cars.

And Supergirl would tirelessly make appearances where she educates humans about the true effects their actions have on the planet. Supergirl would visit schools and talk to the kids. Her speeches would start out light and fun and there would be presentations with cute animations and easy to understand facts and figures.

But maybe people don’t always listen to her, maybe she gets upset and ends up emotionally telling them just how much the loss of Krypton impacts her every single day, how she couldn’t bear it if the same thing happened to Earth.

Maybe sometimes it already is too much to bear and she goes home and cries because she already feels the loss of one planet, and she feels powerless to stop the impending loss of another.

Idk maybe I’m just projecting here but Kara Zor El is totally an environmentalist, she’s possibly vegan, definitely veggie at least, and she’d want to fight for Earth with everything in her.

Don’t @ me on this

I absolutely adore Jorge Jimenez’s art and I love Harley in his artstyle

as much as bushnell's actions has moved us all, please seek other ways to take actionable measures against the injustices we face in the world. none of us wanted him gone, and the least we can do is prevent another such tragedy by supporting each other in our efforts to enact lasting change.

Like music to my ears

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my son who i hate

“you should be at the club” Brother I should literally be sent to the seaside for my health

I work at a movie theater.

And personally? To be in the tickets booth, and see young girls, teenagers, adult women, coming in to see Barbie,

the most highlighter pink outfits, some of them coming in with the dolls they’re dressed as, laughing to each other, cheering for each other,

to see the men they’re coming to see it with, dressed in pink, cheering them on, taking their pictures with smiles and cheers in the lobby at the photo op

touches something so deep in me

I can’t say any nuances of the movie that haven’t already been said, but like, fuck man, love is so deep and so kind and to be able to see glimpses of it from behind my little ticket desk makes me a little less nihilistic.

California

star fragment beach

even if we lived in a world where every woman was systematically put in a bear trap you could make a post like “i’m a woman and i don’t like being caught in a bear trap” or “i think we should stop putting women in bear traps” and someone would still be in the notes like “well what about the women who LIKE being caught in bear traps… they’re women too. 🙂”