Serena 🌸

I love when you recognize junji ito’s style and you read on not knowing if it’s going to be horrific or just cute cat stuff

the elephant literally going pogchamp everytime she pulls it off is so fucking funny, you go girl!

toll road

"spam liking will get you blocked" spam liking will get you a kiss on the mouth

There is nothing better than opening notifications and finding out that several days of your bullshit just made someone's day because they liked and reblogged everything on your dash. I would bake you cookies too if i could

"No one can love you until you love yourself" is like the worst possible way of articulating "if you don't respect and value yourself, it's very easy to become attracted to people who don't treat you right and then justify their mistreatment, so be careful."

so THAT'S what it's supposed to mean. that actually makes sense.

It's true it's difficult to be loved until you love yourself. NOT because you are difficult to love, you are NOT difficult to love, but because it is very difficult to believe you are loved when you can't see the things to love about yourself

This is very important. You aren’t doomed to be alone and unloved just because you haven’t figured out how to love yourself yet.

My dad told me that he has a coworker who’s a trans woman. She was married to this girl before her transition and they remained together after it. Everyone at work respects her pronouns. My dad is in a chiefing position at his office and he told me that nobody jokes behind her back. She and her wife have two cute dogs together and I felt like I should share this story bc I want everyone to know that this positivity and respect exists and you deserve it. Don’t ever dare think that you don’t because you do.

Update: they have three dogs now

There is a non-binary person I work with who uses they/them pronouns. Their pronouns are in their email signature and the only time I’ve heard someone not use them was one person who had previously worked with them at a time they used different pronouns, and he immediately corrected himself mid-sentence, looked embarrassed, and proceeded. I’ve never heard him or anyone else not use their pronouns again, and my workplace runs the gamut from eighty-year-olds to twenty-year-olds. No one ever discusses their pronouns or anything about their identity behind their back unless it’s to choose a bar or restaurant to hang out (in non-pandemic times) and say “no, we can’t go there, that place doesn’t have a gender neutral restroom for them”. They have been married to a delightful person for ten years and (in non-pandemic times) she would often join for social activities. They have a toddler who is the cutest thing on this earth. They’re an absolutely brilliant engineer and I have learned a great deal from them as they’re much more experienced than I am, and I appreciate how patient they’ve been when I’ve made mistakes. Again, positivity and respect exists and you deserve it every bit as much as these people. Don’t ever forget it.