ZodiacChic Post:Scorpio
You’re probably one of the only people who ever saw it.
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#personal #horoscope #Daniel
(via thenewwomensmovement)
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“On Taking Yourself Seriously” by Sady
For anyone—but especially for girls— it can be very hard to hold on to your ambition. Even now, when it’s pretty much taken for granted that most girls will grow up to have jobs, girls are still discouraged from taking their desires for accomplishment too seriously.
Because accomplishment is hard. And accomplishment, on some basic level, is pretty selfish. To really devote yourself to achieving something—anything: becoming a writer, becoming a lawyer, becoming the world’s best mini-golf player—you have to have a vision of what you want, and you have to want it fiercely, and you have to be able to throw your whole weight behind getting it. But girls aren’t supposed to care that much about what they want for themselves. Like my awful, awful health teacher used to say: we’re supposed to put our own ambitions aside, and focus on other people. And those other people don’t even have to be babies! Consider the difference between a guy who stays in every weekend to practice guitar, and a girl who does the same thing. The guy is a brooding, intense, passionate musician. The girl is just unpopular.
That’s all a load of crap. Ambition is great. Wanting things is great. Being willing to work hard to get what you want, being willing to make sacrifices in order to fulfill your own dreams: that is all super great, and admirable, and you are going to need it. Because here’s the thing: your ambitions and desires for accomplishment are what allow you to have a sense of self. If you don’t have a sense of what you want from life, it’s easy to just define yourself around other people, and to do whatever they seem to want from you. And other people can take away their approval, at any time. But when you provide your own approval— when you know what you want, and know you have what it takes to get it—you have a basis for feeling good about yourself that doesn’t go away.An article aimed for teenage girls, yet I think it could help those of us who are a bit older than that. Personally, it helped me a lot since I have lots of problems taking myself seriously.
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in sight #dashboardconfessional #navigation #personal #southernontario (Taken with Instagram)
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am i the only person who
finds it hilarious that a blog site has a dashboard?
thus making this a
dashboard confessional
?
@9 months ago with 1 note#personal #dashboard confessional #this needs to catch on #lol #tumblr
“Blue Lights” - Pretty Girls Make Graves
#music monday #pretty girls make graves #the band not the song #personal #music
how is it that
other people’s reactions get to police my feelings about something.
for example, i identify as queer - i have been with/slept with men in the past but i have been only seeing/sleeping with womyn for about two years. a circumstance in my family life has caused me to think about safer sex and contraception, and i mentioned to a friend (and former (male identified) lover) that i would like to begin using preventative birth control again - i am just nervous of the side effects. the former lover became incredibly uncomfortable with that. and i understand - i ended a relationship with that person because i needed to be in a same sex relationship at the time. that could hurt and/or cause feelings of insecurity and self doubt in the former lover.
however, i find that it is unproductive and unsupportive to someone to treat them coldly/distantly/silently without explanation - especially in regards to their sexuality and their choices around with whom they engage in sex.
i am having a hard time reconciling this concept. i feel guilty for wanting to use preventative birth control as if i am some how “less queer” in their eyes. or i feel as though i need to censor my desires (yes, sometimes, i do want to fuck a penis, whatever. sometimes i want to fuck a vulva. sometimes i want to fuck myself. it varies.). isn’t that the point of being queer? to embrace the fluidity of gender, sex, sexuality and desire? furthermore, it’s nobody’s business who i fuck or how i fuck them.
but it certainly becomes difficult to share personal thoughts and feelings and plans with close friends when they are unable to separate the past from the present. and when it’s “nobody’s business”.
@9 months ago with 4 notes#personal #sex #nsfw #sexuality #contraception #queerness #queer grrrl problems #fucking #fuck this #dashboard confessional
Coopaar loves Norman #pupdate #puppylove #interspeciesmakeoutsession #personal (Taken with Instagram)
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