desertgremlin

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i’ll be chillin and then all of a sudden i literally turn into this thing

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i // am statuesque. no colour & grotesque. i am art, i tell myself. i am worthy to be looked at, especially this way. this is love. this is love. this is —

— Lahraeb Munir, from "mother medusa," published in Pigeon Publishing

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on love arriving unannounced

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oh are you friends? or just dating.

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Game Changer | Season 7, Episode 4 | Crowd Control | "You have a gray hoodie"

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The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.

-James Baldwin

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don’t forget that it’s your life. it’s not school’s life, it’s not work’s life, it’s not your family or your partner’s life—it’s perpetually your life, for better or worse. what do you want from this life? forget happy, what motivates you to live? why are you here?

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I just added a fun activity to my life in order to make it interesting

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Four of Swords. Art by Jesse Lonergan, from The Unveiled Tarot.

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Curtis, truthfully, I didn't take your words to heart until now. I have met someone. Someone so unexpected that her happiness supersedes my former life's pursuits. I want to give her everything. Be everything for her. She is my how, and she is my why. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY (2023)

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thoughts !

I don't think I have ever felt truly so joyous and fulfilled as I do post an improv class. not to be hashtag improv guy but I literally am obsessed with it.

first day of new class today and I was on being-chased-by-a-tiger levels of heart pounding but it just ~~washed away~~ when we started going as you know I lurveee playing

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you're cute and it's tuesday

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ten years ago you were so scared of such different things, but you survived them anyway. the same goes for five years ago and two years ago. everything that has ever felt like a hurdle, you’ve passed through. so be afraid, identify your fears, and then allow yourself to remember that in just a little while, this will be another thing that you have overcome.

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its true that complimenting strangers is fun and nice. people will go "awwww really" when you say their hair is cute. people will go "thanks" and straighten up a little when you compliment the colors they're wearing. people will say "oh yeah i got it at (place)" if you say a charm on their bag is cool. people really do appreciate it and its very whimsy and you can just do this for free

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The Pitt | 9:00 am

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my current project is going strong so far

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