I went to the beach the other day, for the first time since I was a child, I didnt wear shorts or anything to cover up, this is a massive deal for me, I hate my body even without the scars, I believe I am fat and disgusting but, I pushed through the major anxiety, shaking and almost crying and made it to the water. Its a big deal, I did it.
This took a whole fucking lot of courage to post..I think you are fucking beautiful. And im super proud of you for still being on this earth still. And for being able to work up the courage to go to the beach and take this picture with out covering up. Love, I don’t know you but I think your beautiful and I think you have so much worth. From one human to another thats struggling thank you and I love you. You give me hope. You give me courage. I’m not much and im not all that together either but please know whatever your going through, your not alone. Seriously you are so beautiful. Thank you.
She’s so pretty and her bathing suit is adorable asdfghjkl
I don’t know who you are but please know this. I think you are beautiful. And if I ever meet you ima run up and hug u :)
Her bathing suit is so cute homagaah, and she’s pretty!
(via diaphragmaticattack)
I love how in both Spiderman and Doctor Who, Andrew Garfield plays a New Yorker that hangs out in the sewers with mutations.
His destiny.
(via consultingmoosecaptain)
well that didn’t clear any thing up i think i’m both,…
well that would be because this is 50% wrong and 50% overgeneralization (and 100% harmful to how we view ourselves and other people).
This is an FYI for anyone who cares to read this.
Introversion does not mean you hate being with people. Extroversion does not mean you hate being alone.
Introversion means you recharge by being alone. After a long day interacting with other people, an introvert might need to take some time off to themselves.
Extroversion means you recharge by being with other people. After a long day of working alone, an extrovert might need to spend some time with friends and family.
That’s it.
And things like this vary per person; after all, this is describing a facet of your personality.
For example, one of my friends is about as far out on the extroversion scale as I am on the introversion scale. We are both on Tumblr, we both like hanging out with friends, we both do quite well in school… you get the point, we’re fairly similar in many ways. But while she spends most of her time with people, I find as many solo things to do to occupy myself.
Let’s look at this chart.
Actually, before I head off to bed, I’d like to add one more thing.
This post is from a blog whose purpose is to “create discussion”. I’m not exactly opposed to this; it’s a good concept… for a philosophy class, I guess.
What doesn’t work so well is the environment.
I don’t know if anyone remembers this post (probably not); there was a list of “truisms”, mostly false or misleading, which I discovered were also meant to prompt discussion. And which, when posted to Tumblr, mostly failed to do anything of the sort.
The problem is, Tumblr has about two reactions to things: take it as gospel truth, or start a revolution.
I think the latter is partly to do with the escalatory nature of the written medium; you have time to stew in everything, and make it seem like more than it is. Plus it’s easy to misinterpret things. So while Tumblr can be the most socially aware point of, like, the internet, it also tends to make a huge fuss over nothing.
On the other hand, there’s posts like these, that circulate for a long time without anyone really looking at what they’re reblogging, in the cases of the older post, or in the case of this one, without really being familiar on what they’re reblogging.
In this case, it’s understandable; introversion and extroversion are fairly new labels (at least, I believe so, because dammit, I’m succumbing to a lack of knowledge in the history department), and are poorly understood by many people.
While I don’t mean to critique the blog itself, I just don’t find that posts like these are actually very effective at all in their goal.
And I guess it bothers me, because I see 20,000 or so notes on this post which are probably from people thinking “yes, another personality test!” (and I’m not demeaning that, per se; I love personality tests, ok, shh).
I just want people to understand stuff to the same degree that I want to be sure I fully understand, well, stuff. Everything.
Unfortunately, I can’t think of a better method to achieve this, only that this one doesn’t seem to be working.
I hate it when that happens :P
(goodnight, I’ll check notes later if anyone cares to discuss, lol)
(Source: psych-facts, via underneath-thesestairs)
So I needed a way to alert the class that I was going to be showing graphic pictures of genitals on my presentation so I decided that putting this on the slide before would work
I want this on a shirt.
i want this on my underwear
“… I don’t see you arguing for an accurate portrayal of everything in your fiction all the time. For example, most people seem fine without accurate portrayal of what personal hygiene was really like in 1300 CE in their medieval fantasy media. (Newsflash: realistically, Robb Stark and Jon Snow rarely bathed or brushed their teeth or hair). In real life, people have to go to the bathroom. In movies and books, they don’t show that very much, because it’s boring and gross. Well, guess what: bigotry is also boring and gross. But everyone is just dying to keep that in the script.” — » How to be a fan of problematic things Social Justice League (via deannazandt)
(via deannazandt)
You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he wants to be your friend.
But then, then comes the fateful moment where you find out that all this time, he’s only seen you as a potential girlfriend. And then if you turn him down, he may never speak to you again. This has happened to me time after time: I hit it off with a guy, and, for all that I’ve been burned in the past, I start to think that this one might actually care about me as a person. And then he asks me on a date.
I tell him how much I enjoy his company, how much I value his friendship. I tell him that I really want to be his friend and to continue hanging out with him and talking about our favorite books or exploring new restaurants or making fun of avant-garde theatre productions. But he rejects me. He doesn’t answer my calls or e-mails; if we’d been making plans to do something before this fateful incident, these plans mysteriously fail to materialize. (This is why I never did get around to seeing the Hunger Games movie. Not to name any names, but thanks a lot, Tom.) Later, when I run into him at social events, our conversations are awkward and lukewarm. This is because the moment we met, he put me in the girlfriend-zone, and now he can’t see me as friend material.
I must say that I find this really unfair. I mean, I’m a nice girl. I have a lot to offer as a friend, like not being a douchebag and stuff. But males just don’t want to be friends with nice girls like me. They can’t help it, I guess; it’s just how they’re wired, biologically. Evolution conditioned our male hominid ancestors to seek nice girls as mates and form friendship bonds only with the other dudes that they hunted mammoths with. It’s true—I know this because I studied hominids in my fifth-grade science class.
So what’s the answer? Should I take up mammoth-hunting in an attempt to appeal to the friendship centers of men’s primal lizardbrains? Should I keep making guy “friends” and then prevent them from making a move on me by subtly undermining their self-confidence? Should I just give up on those manipulative, game-playing, two-faced bastards once and for all? I don’t know. I mean, I’d really like to have a true friendship with a guy someday, but it’s so hard to trust and respect them when they never say what they mean—and you never know when you might be relegated to the girlfriend-zone.
well that didn’t clear any thing up i think i’m both,…
well that would be because this is 50% wrong and 50% overgeneralization (and 100% harmful to how we view ourselves and other people).
This is an FYI for anyone who cares to read this.
Introversion does not mean you hate being with people. Extroversion does not mean you hate being alone.
Introversion means you recharge by being alone. After a long day interacting with other people, an introvert might need to take some time off to themselves.
Extroversion means you recharge by being with other people. After a long day of working alone, an extrovert might need to spend some time with friends and family.
That’s it.
And things like this vary per person; after all, this is describing a facet of your personality.
For example, one of my friends is about as far out on the extroversion scale as I am on the introversion scale. We are both on Tumblr, we both like hanging out with friends, we both do quite well in school… you get the point, we’re fairly similar in many ways. But while she spends most of her time with people, I find as many solo things to do to occupy myself.
Let’s look at this chart.
Plus many people don’t realise that you can be an introverted extrovert or an extroverted introvert.
But really in reality, it shouldn’t matter what you are…
Yeah.
(Actually, “my extroverted friend” is probably more of an introverted extrovert?)
I definitely wish a lot of the labels we use weren’t necessary. But so much of the time people don’t understand common curtesies like having respect for how people interact differently without them…
(Source: psych-facts)
Part 1: Free to be you and me (well, sort of)
Recently, I saw this wonderful graphic about introverts being passed around.
While there are some points that apply to everyone — “don’t reprimand them in public” is just a generally sound piece of advice — the rest do hit home for a lot of introverts, including me. If you know me, you’re probably thinking, “I’m sorry, what? You’re one of the most outgoing people I know!” In person, when someone said this to me, I laughed and told them, “Just because I’m an attention whore doesn’t mean I’m an extrovert.”
Everything about this post makes me happy.
Thank you.
well that didn’t clear any thing up i think i’m both,…
well that would be because this is 50% wrong and 50% overgeneralization (and 100% harmful to how we view ourselves and other people).
This is an FYI for anyone who cares to read this.
Introversion does not mean you hate being with people. Extroversion does not mean you hate being alone.
Introversion means you recharge by being alone. After a long day interacting with other people, an introvert might need to take some time off to themselves.
Extroversion means you recharge by being with other people. After a long day of working alone, an extrovert might need to spend some time with friends and family.
That’s it.
And things like this vary per person; after all, this is describing a facet of your personality.
For example, one of my friends is about as far out on the extroversion scale as I am on the introversion scale. We are both on Tumblr, we both like hanging out with friends, we both do quite well in school… you get the point, we’re fairly similar in many ways. But while she spends most of her time with people, I find as many solo things to do to occupy myself.
Let’s look at this chart.
(Source: psych-facts)
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