Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

i want to shake many young women and say you can grow in private. and what i mean by that is that you don’t have to publicly self-flagellate when you don’t know something or when you say something a little insensitive or whatever else. you don’t have to report your Bad Thoughts and Ignorance to the crowd who waits to judge you. you do not have to pay penance. you do not have to issue public statements. nothing more is gained from burying yourself in shame than you could gain by thinking “oh i don’t know about this” and looking it up real quick, or thinking “hm, that wasn’t how i want to behave, i’ll do different next time” and then moving on with your life. no need to choke yourself with it.

hanging from the meat hook all by yourself, handsome?

happy belated birthday and trans day of visibility to the guy ever neil josten 🧡

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reading a fic and they have a canonically repressed character say something directly and proudly

From the bottom of my heart: im not sorry for anything i put on yalls dash, i am my own target audience and i find my taste immaculate but thank u for witnessing 💕

Had a dream last night that i was a knight and this bigger scarier knight had me on the ground and right before he swung his sword at my neck he said smth like "i mourn the loss of life for the tree who will become your coffin" which shouldnt have turned me on like it did but alas

Birds in a hands

before you write: THINK!

is it Tender?

is it Homoerotic?

is it Implicitly homosexual?

is it Noticeably repressed?

is it Kind of gay?

wow this is too intimate to share with my close friends or family let me put this on my tumblr blog for hundreds of strangers to see

Actually that no punctuation plot hole ooc wattpad fanfic written by that 12 year old will ALWAYS be better than character ai. And I love that 12 year old btw

Me and the mutual I pulled by being actually I have no idea why they followed me but I'm glad they did

I Won't Hurt You

there's more of this andrew booba brain rot over on ptrn

dialogue / inspo from this fic