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Glo-Up Challenge Week one!
So iâm starting a real-deal glow-up challenge. The first week lists everything weâre trying to change right now. We need to keep a journal or a note on our phone and record everything to create awareness of our personal issues.Maybe we are good with controlling what we eat but we never put lotion on our bodies, or weâre good at doing everything except our assignments. How many people know exactly how many calories they consume a day? How many people know how much money they spend? etc. Week one of the challenge introduces good habits but also gives us the chance for introspection and adjustment.
Everyday:Â
Wake up earlier.Â
Drink water as soon as you wake up.Â
Carry a water bottle with you and refill it.Â
Pack a lunch. Make it healthy. (Sandwich, soup, salad with protein, leftovers, grilled chicken, eggs etc)Â
Drink water before you eat every meal.Â
Either make multiple snacks for throughout the day or 3 meals and one or two small snacks to keep you going. I like to set specific times I can eat, eg. breakfast at 8 and snack 2 or 3 hours later. Donât allow yourself to feel starving!
Put your phone away while eating and try to stretch the meal out for longer.
 Start your exercise off with 50 squats, 25 crunches and ten push ups. Increase this the next day. Other options include Yoga, Dance, Skipping and taking a walk.
Take 5 minutes to appreciate the outdoors if you can.
Do one thing that you have been putting off. Assignments, cleaning your room etc. Get it done.Â
Shower. Put lotion on your whole body after.Â
Put your phone away before bed. If you need to do something before you sleep, read or listen to music.Â
Progress:
-Write down all your objectives in a journal.
-Put reminders on your phone about everything from your morning alarm to the assignment that you had meant to do that day.
-Count calories and record them. Figure out what your go-to dish can be for every meal.
-Evaluate each day at the end. What did you do wrong? What can you do to fix it? -Craved sweet food? Google good chocolate bar alternatives and write them down. Know you have a healthy choice to make when you just need to eat something sweet.
-Gauge how you feel. Do you feel better or worse?
-Have a goal. Itâs so hard to be serious about anything when you have no tangible goal.Â
Extras:
-Learn one new thing.
-Read a book.
-Try a new hairstyle.
-Shoot your shot and make a new friend.
-Wear something you love but you never wear.
-Start a journal.
-Try to take a photo of something beautiful you see everyday.
-SmileÂ
-Leave your wallet at home.
-Only use debit to swipe. If you canât afford it, leave it in the store.
-Notice what you feel the need to buy. Are they needs or wants?
-Immediately remove yourself from negative situations, whether itâs a friend or the internet.
-Do a good deed.
-Watch less tv.
-Pick at least 2 items in your closet that you can give to charity.
Low self-esteem is related to many issues such poor self-image. It discourages productivity and hampers action. It is also responsible for âchronicâ unhappiness. Here are some no-nonsense tips to deal with low self-esteem.
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Self Care is one of the most important things there is. Taking care of yourself should come before everything including school, studying, hobbies and other commitments. There are infinite ways to take care of yourself but Iâm going to talk about different ways to make yourself feel better when youâre stressed, tired, or just generally overwhelmed or unmotivated.
Clean/de-clutter even a small section of your room. It seems like a chore but a clean space makes you feel so much better
Take a shower/a bubble bath
Go for a walk - even inside if you donât want to face the outside world
Take a nap. If youâre feeling overwhelmed, sometimes a nap can really help to clear your head.
Make your bed. It just makes everything look tidier
Do at least one small task. If you have a ton to do, do one small, simple thing such as reply to an e-mail. This usually motivates me to do more when I complete a tiny thing.
Play with a pet. Pets are stress relievers and a lot of the time their energy and positivity rubs off on us
Paint your nails.
Eat something nourishing. IF you donât eat or eat junk food, you will only feel worse.
Drink some water
Write. Either write down your feelings/thoughts, make up a story or just write.
Plan. Having a plan can make things seem more organised and make you realise that it is possible.
Listen to some happy tunes.Â
Create an uplifting playlist. Fill it with motivation and dance tunes and just fun songs to get you going.
Have a dance party in your room. Stick on some of those happy tunes and just let go.
Netflix/movie marathon. Grab some popcorn and let yourself watch some stuff to take your mind off of things.
Stretch. I donât know if this is because Iâm a dancer or not, but I love to have a good stretch when I feel bad.
Go outside and cloud watch.
Burn a candle. A nice smelling candle can really relax you.
Create something. Whether you draw, paint, craft, build, just make something.
Make a list of all the things youâre grateful for or nice things that have happened.
Hug someone. Hugs are instant mood lifters and stress relievers.
Make a mug of tea. This always instantly calms me and it also hydrates you.
Take your medication. If you take any, then make sure you take it. You will feel better.
Put on comfy clothes.Â
Read a nice book. Preferably one that has nothing to do with your studying or work.
|| day fifteen of the 30 day summer study challenge ||
Selfcare challenge to bring you happiness and love. Take control and change the way you view yourself by taking this 30-day self-care challenge
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make it your goal today to absolutely love your life regardless of how people are reacting around you. love yourself regardless of how people feel about you. the way that those people feel should only effect them, not you.
You keep pouring salt on your wounds and yet you wonder why it hurts.
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Heartbreak never truly goes away. Eventually, you stop crying yourself to sleep and the self-blame will dim. The questions as to why you werenât good enough along with all that lost time spent in the shower retracing your last conversation will also stop too. However, it will not be easy. You are still going to wake up with them in your mind for weeks to come and similarly, they will be all you can think about before you sleep. Heartbreak is a bit like love in that respect, you think about them constantly except the thoughts are painful this time around. Indeed, there are moments where you find shelter from these thoughts, a hot chocolate with a friend or an essay that requires your full attention. Your favourite song will come on but then that shuffled sad song will follow and trigger the thoughts all over again. This is inevitable so when it catches you off guard, let it all out. Do all you must to wash away the sadness. Call a friend, bake some cookies, go and lie on the floor with your dog and tell him youâre glad he wouldnât ever hurt you like this. Your heart will miss them so much it will use any excuse to search for them. The same model car they have will drive by while you are laughing away with your friends and suddenly you cannot breathe. You might see someone with the same curly hair or the way the person sitting in front of you on the bus drums their fingers to a song will remind you of them. This too, is inevitable. Try to appreciate these small quirks because regardless of where you have ended up, these were once pieces of a puzzle that led to you falling in love and that is a beautiful thing. Most importantly of all, you are going to want to run to them. You are going to want to share your day- whether it be good or bad- purely out of habit. You will miss the way they told you terrible jokes or sent you pictures of your favourite breed dog just to bring a smile to your face for the first time that day. You will miss how excited they got when you were excited- how happy they got when you were happy. Allow yourself to grieve this absence but remind yourself that they arenât the only person who would be willing to devote so much effort to cheering you up. Let your loved ones know youâre sad and soak in the warmth of their kind words. And then, suddenly, a few weeks have passed and you think of them for the first time in three days and you realise that you are healing. You start to fill your time with people and things that make you happy. You suddenly crave adventure and new experiences and anything that makes you feel alive again. You stop beating yourself up and start to defend your corner like you are your own best friend. You put your hands up and admit your contribution to the downfall of it all but the difference is, you refuse to defend them any longer. You validate your pain and tell yourself that it is okay to hurt and that you just need time- the art of healing requires the same patience as a few broken bones. The bond with your friends will strengthen if you let them in- please let them in. Spend time with them and regularly express how much you appreciate them. Feel good about telling loved ones that you love them. Do not shy away from this term because your heart is broken. Please remind yourself that this is not the end for you. Do not console yourself with the whole there are other fish in the sea rubbish because I know that despite how much pain they have caused, you still want them and you will continue to want them for a very long time. Instead, console yourself with the thought that your heart may be in two right now but bones do that sometimes and with a little support, healing is inevitable. My darling, to break may not be beautiful while youâre going through it but it is, donât you see? Even a glow stick has to crack to shine; think of how proud you will be when one day you can smile at yourself in the mirror and mean it again.
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20 things I learned at 20
1. You can have only one best friend and that best friend can only be you. Because you may come across a dozen lovely people but the only one who can keep the âforeverâ promise is you. 2. Family is the most important. This is the only love that is truly unconditional and absolutely pure. They love you when youâre 5 and when youâre 18. They love you in your failure and your success. Their love doesnât increase because itâs already at its maximum right from the beginning, itâs already infinite. 3. Cocktails and aerated drinks may soothe your taste buds but tea soothes your entire body. Itâs warm and calming and well, healthy. 4. Your first kiss means nothing if itâs not with the right person. And the right person doesnât mean your soulmate or someone who will never break your heart but someone who in that moment loves you as much as you love them. 5. Youâve written over 350 exams and youâve got a perfect score in some and scored miserably in others but do you remember your 9th grade math score? Do you even remember 9th grade math? Education is so important but not the stress and competitive grading that comes along with it. If you get a low score or even fail, not much will happen â you will get a retest. But if you get ill â mentally or physically, it will have undesired long term effects.
6. In 8th grade your school psychologist told you that youâre one of the few people who walk in life with open arms loving and helping everyone, not because you havenât bled but because you know you will heal and have the strength to do so. At that point you laughed at her but now, years later youâre loving, accepting and helping in spite of having both, actual and metaphorical scars. Youâre kind and admitting that doesnât make you conceited. 7. Goodbyes donât always have to be dramatic. Writing an 800 words message wonât make it hurt any less than an 8 words one. Closure usually has not much to do with the ones who wronged you but with taking your time in dealing with all the stages of grief. Some stage like anger may take only a month but acceptance may take years and thatâs okay. 8. Jealousy is a basic human trait. They can be the closest to you and yet envy your happiness and life. Envy is something you too experience and you can be happy for them and be sad for yourself at the same time because so bitter it is to view happiness from someone elseâs eyes. You arenât a horrible human being if you feel like there are better shades of green your grass could be. 9. Read at your own desire and pace. You donât have to read particular books to qualify as a bibliophile or read a specific number of books to be a bookworm either. Read what truly interests you and take your time because reading was never a task, donât make it one now. 10. Money is important. Money canât buy love but it can buy happiness. But not blood money. Money honestly earned through hard work. That kind of money is good, that kind of money is required. You have a certain standard of living and if you want to maintain that after your parents stop financing you, you must make sure to earn the same. It doesnât make you a snob or a spoiled brat, it only makes you a human aware of your wants, many of which have turned into needs by now. 11. There are somethings you just never grow out of like bubbles and glitter and your motherâs hot chocolate and hugs. Those are the kind of things that make life bearable when adulting gets too hard. Those are the little things that matter the most. 12. You cry. A lot. But you donât cry in front of people for their pity. You donât cry to manipulate situations. You cry because you accept the pain. You cry because you donât reject or lock away your emotions. You cry because your mental, emotional and physical self are in sync and thatâs healthy. Thatâs so lovely. 13. Bake cakes. They donât have to look pretty as long as they taste delicious. Paint canvases. They donât have to be a master piece as long as all the paint in your hands and face and jeans makes you feel complete. Write more. It doesnât have to a novel or even be posted online as long as it lets you breathe a little lighter and smile wider. 14. Go for walks alone, sit on the beach without your headphones, look up at the sky without a lover, buy flowers for yourself. Nature is legit free (for the most part). And itâs the richest thing that the world has. Le it bring you peace, let it help you survive. 15. Make home feel home. Sometimes you wonât have your family to make it home. Sometimes you will have to make it home by putting a part of yourself and that means investing the time, energy and money in making it feel yours, in making it feel right. It may not be your âdream houseâ, it may just be a tiny room but itâs yours. Your surroundings play a major role in affecting your mood and vibe. 16. Energy is real. You may not know much about Science beyond 10th grade but you do know this, e=mc ²  which means everything is energy, you are energy and there is positive and negative energy and you can feel it and you experience it in every person you meet, every place you visit, every room you step inside. You can and you must choose to surround yourself with positive energy. What you attract, you do get; what you attract you become. 17. Spend time with yourself. Itâs some of the best time you will have. You need to unwind, you need it to re-energize, you need it to focus and you need it for peace. You can go to a cafe by yourself, write, read, meditate, talk to yourself out loud, dance in your underwear, cook and just be. 18.  Take care of yourself- no one else can, no one else will. Drink loads of water, thereâs a reason why more than half your body is made up of water. Sleep well because staying up all night isnât something to be proud of, itâs stupid. Donât skip breakfast because skipping breakfast makes you crave fatty foods for the rest of the day. Stay healthy not because you want to look a certain way but because you want to feel strong and energetic and have an active mind, body and heart. Staying healthy emotionally and mentally is just as important. So let those who want to go, go and never say yes to something your gut wants to scream âNOâ to.
19. Love yourself. If you donât love yourself you will look for other people to love you. If you donât accept yourself, you will keep seeking other peopleâs validation and the moment they withdraw it or walk away, you will crumble. And you donât want to crumble. You want to enjoy the one personâs company you have to live with forever â yourself. Work on being a person youâd love to spend your life with because letâs face it, you donât have a choice. Itâs a long term investment and the only one that will never fail you. 20. In Shakespeareâs words, âTo thine own self be trueâ. In order to love yourself, knowing yourself is very important. Â And knowing yourself doesnât mean the adjectives that people use for you or what your zodiac sign says about you. It means what you know in your heart to be your truth. One more for good luck? 21. You laughed and thought it was very witty when you came across the quote, âDonât take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.â but god. Can it be any truer? Most things youâre stressing over now wonât even matter 3 years from now. But good days will turn into heart-warming memories that will stay with you even 2 decades later. Happiness and success are two different things but remember, they arenât mutually exclusive. At least they donât have to be.
Be strong. You can do this.
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switch your mentality from âiâm broken and helplessâ to âiâm growing and healingâ and watch how fast your life changes, for the better.

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Hey babe I know itâs been awhile since we last talked and maybe it seems a little selfish from me to ask you how you have been but I just want to hear some things. Please forgive me but I want to know how the universe has worked for you lately, do the stars still get you drunk on the night or have you replaced them with alcohol? God how much I want to know if you still drink the coffee with two sugars right before the sun comes up and with one when it flows away deep in the ocean. Babe tell me how have you been lately, I want to know everything. I want to know what stood still and what changed afer we ended.. or no please donât tell me. Maybe we are better off this way. Maybe the stars donât shine for us anymore. Maybe the sun of our love fade away. I forgive you. I hope one day you will forgive me too. Goodbye babe.
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sunday nights can be hard but just know that everything will turn out alright. this is gonna be your week. youâre gonna own it. youâll get what you need done and something great is gonna happen. just u see. you got this.