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"But anyone who utters Christian words without putting them into practice hurts oneself and others," - Pope Francis

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The Quantum Law of Being: Once you understand this, reality shifts.

“smile into the mirror of infinity and with some delay but invariably it will smile    back at you”

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the tradwife movement is the same as it has always been - back in the kitchen, back to breeding - it just has better branding.

when i was younger, i hated pink. i was not like other girls. this is now something i'm embarrassed of - this was not me being a "girl's girl."

but it was expressing something many of us felt at the time: i literally wasn't what girlhood was supposed to be. this is a hard thing to explain, but you know when you're not performing girlhood correctly. it isn't as easy as "i liked x when girls liked y" - because there were other girls that liked x, too - but i never figured out exactly the correct way to like x, or to be interested in y.

now there is the divine feminine. this is the same rhetoric it has always been: women are biologically driven to like pink and ribbons and submitting to our husbands.

the problem is that the patriarchy found a better PR team. because yes, actually, i want every woman to have the choice to be a homemaker. i also want her taken seriously for her legitimate home-making labor. i want her to be recognized as also having a job, just unpaid. i want men to have this opportunity, too.

but it is no longer "i made this choice and I love it." instead it is a sixteen-paragraph rant about how selfish it is that my generation isn't having kids. instead it's long videos about how if you feed your children processed foods, you're going to kill them. instead it is "this is what womanhood is supposed to be. i feel bad for any other choices you're making."

the shame spiral is just prettier. it is large houses devoid of personality. it is the implication: if you don't have this, you aren't happy. the solid, everlasting assurance: women are actually supposed to be submitting. this is the default. this is the natural state of things. all other attempts inflict suffering.

but you can no longer say i'm not like other girls. you can no longer reject this image completely. you cannot find it revolting, even if you know that the underbelly is toxic and festering. sure, it is the same repackaged patriarchy. but the internet does not have shades of grey. you should support and reward other women! your disgust is actually internalized misogyny. not because you are seeing a vision of yourself the way they're trying to train you to be. not because you feel her ghost pass within an inch of your earlobe. not because your father will eventually ask you - why can't you be like her?

because they figured out how to make it beautiful: women will sell other women on this idea, and we will find the singular loophole in feminism. sure, she's shaming you in most of her videos. sure, she implies that a different life is obscene. but she just wants you to be happy! you'd be happier if you were listening!

and the whole time you're sitting there thinking: i'd actually just be happier if i had that kind of money.

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Your reminder that you are pure magic ✨🩷

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I’m so tired of hearing, “but they really are a good person.” Let me stop you there. Just because they are good TO YOU, it doesn’t automatically make them a good person. If their good will is limited to only certain people or groups of people, while simultaneously ignoring or invalidating the experiences of others (or worse, contributing to it), it still makes them a shitty person. Hate the sin, love the sinner only gets you so far in my circle.

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my kuromi backpack and doll shoes arrived

I’M SO HAPPY !! ໒꒰ྀི⸝⸝´ ˘ `⸝꒱ྀིა

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Summer Berry Mix 🍓🫐 ♡⊹˚₊

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liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

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— Donte Collins

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so long, london - taylor swift

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Love is when someone, with all his freedom, chooses to stay. - Alexandro Gruber

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The way we view strength is a lie. You can't have intimacy without vulnerability.

I mean, look at it this way: a stronghold is only invaluable to those who seek refuge within its walls. It's the people who are willing to admit their own weakness so they might work with others--power in numbers.

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Calliope

I wrapped her up tight, put her in a box and buried her in the back yard. No one cared to hear about what was happening to her, that was the strange part. No one asked about her absence, as if they couldn't see her fading away...but really, what could I say? I had no answers for myself—why should they?

The weighty consequences of my silence, which I didn't foresee, were the stories they'd come up with to fill the void she'd left in the room.

Funny, how even silence can hurt you...

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