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Things that take time & many tries to get right:

learning to be a good friend/partner

healing from depression, failures or heartbreak

becoming amazing at an art or skill

overcoming anxiety, insecurities and low body image

overcoming the need to isolate yourself

changing self-hating thoughts to kinder ones

making a real connection with someone

overcoming self-defeating and self-sabotaging thoughts

learning how to study effectively

finding a sense of stability and calmness at your core

quitting habits or addictions

leaving people and behaviours that turn you into the worst version of yourself

getting used to healthier coping mechanisms & mindsets that feel fake

treating yourself like you truly care about yourself

becoming the person you always wanted to be

me, getting dressed: ok so which fictional character are we manifesting in place of a fixed identity on this dire autumn morning

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

Friedrich Nietzsche

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“To achieve perfection in writing while retaining naturalness it was important to write a great deal, to write fluently, as the pianist practices the piano, rather than to correct constantly one page until it withers. To write continuously, to try over and over again to capture a certain mood, a certain experience. Intensive correcting may lead to monotony, to working on dead matter, whereas continuing to write and to write until perfection is achieved through repetition is a way to elude this monotony, to avoid performing an autopsy. Sheer playing of scales, practice, repetition — then by the time one is ready to write a story or a novel a great deal of natural distillation and softing has been accomplished.”

—

Anaïs Nin, On Writing

“We meet ourselves time and time again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.” -Carl Jung

The universe is an ongoing explosion.

That's where you live.

In an explosion.

Also, we absolutely don't know what living is.

Sometimes atoms arranged in a certain way just get very haunted.

That's us.

When an explosion explodes hard enough, dust wakes up and thinks about itself.

And then writes about it.

i don't think we talk about dead poets society enough . and no ,i don't mean talk about the impeccable aesthetics . what i mean is that we don't talk about the tragedy of this film . a young man taking his own life at such a young age , weighed down by the expectations of everyone around him . we don't talk about how neil was already dead before that scene . you see it's sad that i've watched a lot of films in my life yet this one, this one spreads dread inside me , it makes me relate to the boy that would rather not live at all ,than live a life without passion . how many teenagers out there have their dreams crushed every single day , how many depressed adults have had to leave their passions behind in exchange for their seemingly perfect lives . how many of us are trapped inside this vicious cycle of living but not actually feeling alive .

Fuck Supernatural. Let's do a megathread of actual good lgbtq+ representation in media:

Welcome to Night Vale - no queerbating. Just shy gays at the beginning. Bonus points for domesticity, science, and 10/10 representation (gender, race, sexuality, ability. seriously 10/10) Kinda horror (?) Just listen to it.

Shameless (US) - as a Supernatural fan, you're starved for writers that actually care about continuity, and character development that pays off in a queer relationship. Let Gallavich dry your Destiel tears and turn them into Gallavich tears. You can thank me later.

Queer as Folk (US) - don't they teach you anything at gay school? These are the Sacred Texts. Do your homework, little gays. -20 points for being yt and cis as fuck. Also a bit stereotypical of the Gay Scene™ but it was the 90s and if you stick around the character development ACTUALLY PAYS OFF. What a concept!

D.E.B.S. - this cheesy 2000s film I randomly watched on tv one afternoon may or may not have been my bisexual awakening. It also might have been Kim Possible.

Carmilla - Badass loner + optimistic puppy trope. This is basically sterek but it's a lesbian vampire and the puppy is a youtuber au

Please Like Me - disaster gay being a disaster gay for 4 seasons. Bonus points for Hannah Gadsby and some mental health representation. Also hella yt.

Sense8 - international poly queers, have telepathic orgys with the mandatory YT straights that (almost) ruin everything. Directed by trans women. 9/10 representation.

Brooklyn 99 - Holt + Kevin are our dads. Rosa and Jake give my bi ass life. Bonus points for latina representation, Chelsea Peretti, and Terry Crews. -30 points for copaganda.

The Good Place - Eleanor is exactly the same kind of disaster bi Dean is but AT LEAST SHE ADMITS IT TO HERSELF and nobody around her acts like it's a big deal because it isn't dean pls just come out of the closet i-

Leave your own recs below ⬇️

“Communicate. That’s the biggest and best first thing you can ever do. Whether it be with a teacher, sibling, friend, parent or even a counselor. Being able to communicate is the first step to your life getting better. It doesn’t have to be even talking; it can be a letter or email or text…let people know what’s going on in your life, your thoughts and emotions. People can and will help you, you just need to search them out. Oh and one last thing, never EVER let someone bring you down. You’re you, and you is always good enough. Never stray from who you are because you never know who will come along and want and love “you”.”

— - Marc M. (Brampton, ON, Canada)

You don’t need to prove that you have it bad enough. You don’t need to prove that your anger or sadness or negative feelings are valid. 

Alles in Ordnung?

Fryderyk Chopin, in a letter to Tytus Woyciechowski. Warsaw, 17 April 1830

A concept: You decide to visit your local family-owned coffee shop on a brisk, rainy day. You’re greeted by the shop’s owner with a warm smile as you make your way to a seat near the window, resting your thick coat on the back of the chair before you sit down. A waitress approaches you and takes your order, a warm croissant and single black coffee, no sugar or milk. Silence falls upon the shop, as you are their only customer so early in the day. You gaze absentmindedly out of the window, thinking of your dead lover, a single tear falling as the thunder booms.

i want art galleries and libraries and museums. i want walks in the park and cosy little cafés and rain hitting the stones paving the road. i want white shirts and plaid pants and punk patches sewn on jackets. i want bike rides to the bookshop, jumping on a random bus and just seeing where it’ll take you. i want pretty sunsets and foggy mornings, cold wind and golden rays warming me up. is that too much to ask?

i really wish i could get lost in the woods or through peaceful and empty small towns instead of being here at home panicking because of too many due exams.

perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky / looking for alaska by john green / the worm king’s lullaby by richard siken / an abundance of katherines by john green / the body by stephen king

Songs Neil Perry would listen to

“Diplomat’s Son” - Vampire Weekend

“Electric Love” - BØRNS 

“Underachiever” - NOAHFINNCE

“Honey” - Johnny Balik

“LA Devotee” - Panic! at the disco

“Out of My League” - Fitz and the Tantrums

“Devil Town” - Cavetown 

“Marlboro Nights” - Lonely God

“Sweater Weather” - The Neighborhood 

“Anthropocene” - Samsa

“Like Lovers Do” - Hey Violet 

“Tongue Tied” - Grouplove

“Love Die Young” - Eric Nam 

“Come along” - Cosmo Sheldrake

“Campus” - Vampire Weekend 

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

— Neil Gaiman, Coraline

for those who do not love their education deeply

you are not 'spoilt'

you are not 'wasting' anything or anyone's time

the educational system is awful & you have every right to speak out against it

a teacher must teach you, but they must also entertain and encourage you. if they do not, that is out of your control

most dark academics are making the best of a bad situation

your mental health matters more than grades

not every subject will thrill & excite you. not enjoying literature, poetry or art doesn't make you a 'fake' academic

you can enjoy a subject without studying it & you have every right to say you enjoy it

barely passing or failing a course is not the end of the world. you will get better, whether that means continuing the course or dropping it for your true passion

sometimes you're not good at something, even if you love it. don't sacrifice your mental & physical health to pass a course that you find impossible, but let yourself enjoy it if you can

remember your worth is not in your grades.

Flowers in her hand (details)

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” Walden 1854

Henry D.Thoreau

“When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.”

— Ingmar Bergman (via lostupnorth)

“Unless you want to get trapped within yourself and die, you have to grow no matter how much it hurts — but if you stop because you’re afraid, in the end it’s inevitable that you’d remain in an immature state of mind. I chose the path to transform myself. To reveal myself to the public. To attempt to make my thoughts understood. I have to make people aware that this is the kind of person I am, and I can only be on the defensive if I know that they know.””

— Kim Jonghyun (via shimseulran)

Twin Peaks production stills

In the Land of Ever Mists II.