the-hungry-wizard:

tilthat:

TIL when you get a sunburn, it’s not your skin cells being damaged by the sun and dying, it’s your skin cells’ DNA being damaged by the sun and them killing themselves so they don’t turn into cancer.

via ift.tt

Fucking legends all of them.

wholeheartedsuggestions:

loving you has become a habit

nebulabutch:

being a butch means choosing between being misgendered and being treated like shit, it means your heart races and your palms sweat when you walk towards a public bathroom, it means you’re nervous to talk to kids in public because what if their parents think you’re a predator, it means people have no idea how the fuck to talk to you so they just don’t, it means clothes shopping is seven kinds of hell, it means your family’s at least a little bit ashamed of you, it means you were bullied before anybody even knew what “lesbian” meant, it means you’re hungry for even a glimpse of somebody who looks like you and speaks your language, it means strangers calling you a dyke if they have the guts to do more than stare, it means dysphoria and confusion and pain

but it’s worth it all and more to hear a woman call you “handsome”, to lock eyes with a butch stranger who’s not quite your sister and not quite your brother, to step outside in a suit for the first time, to strip off years of disguises and discomfort, to have a “Ring of Keys” moment, to be someone’s “Ring of Keys” moment, to play with a child who doesn’t care what you’re wearing or what’s in your pants, to fight back against the world for once and let go of your shame, to start to like the person you see in the mirror, to dance with a woman, to hold hands with a woman, to kiss a woman, to make love to a woman, to love a woman and be loved in return, to find community and solidarity and home when you never even thought you’d live to see adulthood. I love butches and I love being butch.  

honey-whiskeys-kickin:

poputeplplkku:

So I went to my therapist the other day, and later in the appointment I mentioned that I like to write self-insert fiction to cope. I also said that I generally hide it and felt embarrassed mentioning it due to the way people treat the concept online.

She said that self-inserting yourself into art and writing is an incredibly healthy way to feel good about yourself, and that she was appalled when I told her about the way it’s mocked on the internet.

So never feel bad about self-inserting or enjoying reader insert fanfiction, 1/1 professionals agree that it’s good for you and that the jerks who say you’re doing something wrong are just uneducated and don’t understand. Never listen to the anons who try to make you feel bad ❤ 

Have a really nice day!

make that 2/2 professionals. my therapist talked about this too. she also talked about projecting onto characters and said that was an extremely healthy way to cope with things that you’re dealing with and things that have happened to you!!

salt-sass-and-lyrium:

flungouttaspace:

me: it’s awkward when men approach me because i don’t know how to turn them down without putting myself at risk

some idiot: um just tell them you’re gay sweaty

meanwhile,straight men:

Worth noting: She told the dude several times before, politely, that she wasn’t interested and he wouldn’t take no for an answer and kept following and pestering her. After turning him down multiple times, she finally said she was gay, and he snapped and started attacking her. He climbed on her windshield, kicked it in and shattered it, causing glass to get in her eyes.

Also worth noting iirc, there were numerous witnesses and not one person did anything to help this woman. They all saw this man pestering her, her turning him down, repeatedly, and him jumping up on her car to kick her windshield in and her driving to try and shake him off, that not working, and her jumping from the car to flee. And no one did anything. The police never caught him.

“Since he did this and got away with it, he had no repercussions,” she said. “He’s going to think ‘if a girl rejects me, I can do this to her. I didn’t get caught last time.’ ” (source)

How about instead of “just tell them you’re gay” we teach men how to take no for an answer?

superlova:

me, a legal adult: when i grow up,

chapsnats:

if u are about to get stabbed just say “I have too much swagger for the dagger” and they will leave u alone