Somewhere A Woman Is Mopping The Floor, Dreaming Of An Escape From Her Atrocious Home And Perhaps Finding

They do not deserve your protection!

Wonder Woman (2017) dir. Patty Jenkins

resting your head on their stomach while they play with your hair… the intimacy…. the tenderness…… peak romance

People forget that in the Disney fairy tale films, wishes and dreams represented hope: specifically, hope for a better future when current times were tough. The movies were made for people who lived through the Great Depression and Second World War. Snow White and Cinderella were survivors of abuse who wanted to be loved, Pinocchio wanted to become and be recognized as a real person, Bambi and Dumbo lost their mothers and had to find their own ways in the world. But these characters all held onto hope via their wishes and dreams.

So it feels a little demoralizing when modern Disney films try to deconstruct "wishes and dreams" as passive acts. They're trying to tell people to pick themselves up by the bootstraps, because nothing's gonna change unless you change something. Which is true, I guess.

But deconstructing wishes and dreams feels a bit like deconstructing hope itself. And maybe I'm reaching with that connection, but it doesn't sit right with me.

 Chris Evans photographed by Danielle Levitt for Variety (x)

today my anthro professor said something kindof really beautiful:

“you all have a little bit of ‘I want to save the world’ in you, that’s why you’re here, in college. I want you to know that it’s okay if you only save one person, and it’s okay if that person is you”

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

SUPERMAN         ↳ Shirt Rip

I’M HYPERVENTILATING I’M LITERALLY DYING AAAAAHHHH

HOLY SHIT FINALLY!!!!!

Inspired by the Women’s March and my firm belief that these Princesses would be out there. Dream Big, Princess!

(available for print soon)