[Refuge]

Tell yourself the things you want others to tell you. Do the things you want others to do for you. Hold your own hand, sit with yourself, talk nicely to yourself, you are allowed to give yourself affection and care.

the version of you from five years ago would be genuinely amazed by what you’ve handled since then. sit with that for a second

tumblr is the website for if you're just someone's weird sister

if you're viewed as a conventionally attractive woman you're punished bc you need to be knocked down a peg for thinking you had any inherent value and if you're viewed as unattractive you're punished for daring to exist without permission but that's how it is innit there's no winning when the system was designed to make you lose in the first place! 🤣

oh wow you’re not gonna believe this but turns out i was unnecessarily anxious for no reason. how unexpected

god the horrible urge to vague post is eating me alive but i must

someone wronged me once

don’t wait until things are perfect before you start or you’ll never start

you've heard of death of the author, now get ready for death of the audience: where instead of basing your reaction on a thousand uninformed opinions online, you actually read the text and engage with it