Happy Pride

I get my media recommendations the old fashioned way: by watching someone I follow on here go on an unhinged reblog spree of media related content until I eventually decide to go "alright, what's all this then"

your life is not an optimization problem

as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.

i just love how most of phil's friends growing up were girls and his favorite celebrities have always been women and he never allowed anyone to mock his mostly female audience and he doesn't play into the tendency for gay men to show disgust for women's bodies etc etc phil was always destined to queen out

Nothing more painful than when a kind stranger tells you about some random AI feature in a way that is clearly meant to be helpful and you have to choose between nodding along in despair or turning wokezilla 3000 on them

amy pond will forever be Thee Girl Of All Time like no one was doing it like her

she doesn't fit in anywhere her whole life- she's a children's storybook character in a sci-fi show, she's a scottish girl in a small english village, she's an orphan with parents, she's a child at heart surrounded by adults her own age, she's a futuristic woman living in the past. her entire town knows her as the insane but beautiful girl who lives alone in a big house and won't give up on imaginary friends. her head is up in the stars so much that there was a timeline where she was the only one who remembered stars used to exist. the end of the universe was based entirely around what she loved and could not remember. she has memories of two different lifetimes in her head at the same time. she legally owns the colors blue and yellow. she loves arts and crafts. she is deathly afraid of the thought of growing up and everything she's ever let go of has claw marks left on it. she hypersexualized herself to get people to like her enough to look past the 'mad little girl' title they gave her. vincent van gogh dedicated her favorite painting to her. she prays to santa claus. she's been a stripper, a travel journalist, a supermodel, and a children's fantasy author. she knows exactly how cool she is. she wears motherhood like a scar. she saved a star whale. she accidentally became the doctor's mother in law twice. she has the longest legs in the known universe. she loves so deeply it transcends memory. she saved dinosaurs in space with nefertiti. she married her childhood best friend. her name sounds like a fairytale character and she wanted her daughter's name to sound like a superhero character. she met herself and immediately started flirting. she put on little red rain boots and a paddington bear coat to run away with a stranger in her garden. she spent all night out there and never really left in her head. she kept biting her psychiatrists. she's the concept of whimsy stuffed into a denim skirt. she bought her younger self ice cream to make her feel better. she has her own perfume line. a folktale was inspired by how much her and her fiancé loved each other. she probably read her own books growing up. she's unapologetic. she's confident. she's selfish and it's not a flaw. she can't drive. she loves playing dress up. she's painfully compassionate. she got to kill her and her daughter's abuser. as scared as she was of growing up, the doctor will forever remember her as a brave little girl. she's bursting at the seams with love. and her hair is SO orange.