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“the year of letting go, of understanding loss. grace. of the word ‘no’ and also being able to say ‘you are not kind’. the year of humanity/humility. when the whole world couldn’t get out of bed. everyone i’ve met this year, says the same thing ‘you are so easy to be around, how do you do that?’. the year i broke open and dug out all the rot with own hands. the year i learnt small talk. and how to smile at strangers. the year i understood that i am my best when i reach out and ask ‘do you want to be my friend?’. the year of sugar, everywhere. softness. sweetness. honey honey. the year of being alone, and learning how much i like it. the year of hugging people i don’t know, because i want to know them. the year i made peace and love, right here.”

— Warsan Shire (via oaluz)

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The universe is indifferent. We ought not to be.

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things from sappho to call your girlfriend

ἀστέρων πάντων ὀ κάλλιστος (of all the stars, the fairest)

πόλυ πάκτιδος ἀδυμελεστέρα, χρύσω χρυσοτέρα (far sweeter-sounding than the lyre, far more golden than gold)

τὰν ἰόκολπον (violet-tressed, one with violets in her lap)

ὦ κάλα, ὦ χαρίεσσα κόρα (o beautiful, graceful girl)

ἦρος ἄγγελος ἰμερόφωνος ἀήδων (nightingale, sweet-voiced messenger of spring)

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The remedy to despair… remember that our power is in our hope and action.

Art by Grace D. Chin

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“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”

-Brianna Wiest, in Thought Catalog

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I agree completely

i love buzzfeed unsolved (Click for higher resolution if it looks blurry)

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would that be enough?

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Washington: ladies and gentlemen, you could've been anywhere in the world tonight

Washington: literally anywhere

Washington: why do you want to watch us discuss a financial plan

Washington: seriously get a life

Washington: *under his breath* nerds

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Burr: Hamilton doesn't hesitate

Hamilton: *off in distance* FIGHT ME

Burr: he exhibits no restraint

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how accurate is hamilton

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well first of all its a rap musical u can;t expect perfect historical accuracy here,, lets just go by song, ill just name the historical inaccuracies (under the cut)

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the world was wide enough

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The two extremes (an observation)

Jamilton Thomas: asshole, arrogant, snarky, proud, can be rude or mean, absolutely drop dead gorgeous, lives and breathes money (to impress/show off)

Jeffmads Thomas: self-conscious, awkward, social anxiety, needs support, confidence is a facade, a literal mess, lives and breathes money (to hide his insecurities)

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If only Pokémon GO was Presidents GO then we could be out catching William Howard Tafts in drive-thrus and James Madisons in libraries and Bill Clintons in the bedroom sections of IKEA

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"too young and blind"?? burr, you were 48

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1am: that pasta feeling

3am: Big Thorst™

4am: the sads

5am: God sold me weed behind an Aspen Dental

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physically, yes, i could fight a bird. but emotionally? imagine the toll

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dogs deserve to live forever