there is bravery in being soft

Waterlillies {details} | Henri Biva (23 January 1848 – 2 February 1929)

dudes who are normal will be like im joker insane but women who have not felt real since they were seven will be like im average normal

I think July might save me.

I wrote this two Julys ago, in the middle of my worst summer. My empty and sad summer. But, now, things are so different. I taught myself how to bake bread. I swim in the afternoons. I eat bright things for lunch with friends I adore at my new job. I am happier, and I am kinder, and I want to keep being both of those things. I asked July to keep my sadness and it did. It took awhile, but it did. I hope you all can too.

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Eat”

couldn’t stop thinking about this post

gotta lie down every time I remember this recording and the post about it

when welcome to night vale said: “Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first, and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us, we can cope with that. We can do this together you and I.”

I think July might save me.

being touchstarved makes u absolutely buckwild when someone does smth simple like .share a chair with u

like having someone touch your hand with the tips of their fingers shouldn’t feel like So Much it shouldn’t feel like your whole body is going into anaphylactic shock but here we are. here we are.

ok 2 many of u relate

Someone gave me a compliment and reached out and squeezed my hand and I fell in love and couldn’t speak for several minutes

I was just gonna type this in the tags but I have to say this.

Growing up in North America is surreal.  Every tiny little blip of physical affection is deemed as sexual interest. Boys aren’t allowed to hug eachother because “that’s gay.” Girls can’t hold hands because “are they going out?” And GOD FORBID a female friend hugs a male friend.

Having lived in the Netherlands, and reading up about shit like this, Canadians and Americans are starving. 

I went to Japan for a school trip in 2012. I went to a highschool there. There were boys hugging, lounging on those blue gym floor mats, holding hands, trowing their arms around eachother. I was startled by how shocked I was.

This mentality of “if you’re touching you must have sexual interest in the other person” is so fucking disgusting. Hug your friends. Hold hands with them. Touch their hands when you want to reassure them.

Studies have shown that it’s detrimental to people’s health if they never get a hug that lasts six seconds. 

HUG YOUR FRIENDS. You can be the same gender or not! You can have a romantic interest in them or not! Hug your friends!