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when you get this, you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. then send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers <3

Hiii! I already answered it here but I think I'll add a few more

1. My height - I like the fact I'm taller than average

2. I get really emotional at times and I think it's good that I feel things so deeply despite how much it can hurt me too

3. Being a perfectionist - again, stressful at times but SO rewarding when it works out

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Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

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Peaches and Cream - Lucy Clayton , 2019.

British , b. 1970s

Watercolour and Ink

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Maybe it’s better to have the terrible times first. I don’t know. Maybe then, you can have, if you live, a better life, a real life, because you had to fight so hard to get it away⸺you know?⸺from the mad dog who held it in his teeth. But then your life has all those tooth marks, too, all those tatters and all that blood.

James Baldwin  This morning, this evening, so soon  

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GQ published an unedited version of a David Lynch interview about happiness they’d only briefly quoted before (x)

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““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””

— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)

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why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry

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Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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© Peony Gent

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— Megan Fernandes, “Do You Sell Dignity Here?” from I Do Everything I’m Told

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I know this is gonna piss off nerds but paperbacks are superior to hardbacks

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reblog to stir prev occasionally

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Hello... I am Hani from Palestine from Gaza I am talking to you with a sad heart about what happened to me and my family, I was seriously injured in the war in my left foot 3 months ago 2024, and until today I have not been treated. I am married and have 3 children. My wife gave birth to a baby girl, but unfortunately as a result of the war, my child died due to lack of food and water, air pollution and lack of money. If you can't do this, share my story until I get to safety and achieve my goal. 💢💚Verified by @gazavetters, my number in the list has been verified (#99) 🌹🌹

Please help if you can!

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"When life gives you lemons" FALSE LEMONS ARE A HYBRID OF A BITTER ORANGE AND A CITRON, MEANING WE GAVE OURSELVES LEMONS

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– Noor Unnahar, Instagram account "noor_unnahar"

[TEXT ID: / [Lemons] / My father's mother loved lemons. Years after her passing, / we run out of everything, but never / lemons. / Nothing else shelters grief / better than memory. / It's my father way of saying, / even in your absence, you will be / cared by me. / END ID]

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Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home