The idea's out there today that the job of an op-ed page is to publish pieces making the case for (as well as against) every topic or proposal that's in the news, "even if the policy is bad." This may seem reasonable and it's a thing I struggled with when I was an op-ed editor, so I have thoughts. +
Interdimensional portal of the day (sadly I’m more than an inch too tall to be granted entry).
If you are losing hope you should know that perfect boyfriend is even more perfect than he used to be now that i know he’s not perfect and true love does happen sometimes
This! I was grew up essentially feral in the woods and fields except when i was making giant puppets for free public art performances, swimming naked in the sea, or reading anarchist fantasy and doing all-night solstice rituals with my friends while literally singing kumbaya and drumming
Yeah and it’s not genitals the government is obsessed with in my experience. It’s conditioning. The body is just the excuse.
I told my children, stop trying to save the world for now. Just try to keep yourself and your loved ones alive. Care for each other. This is the apocalypse, i said. We’re going to lose a lot of people. Don’t lose the ones you love for strangers. It’s too much. We won’t make it.
I can’t stop thinking about this.
Psst!
*Leans in*
As soon as you say bad people shouldn't get legal representation, the government will say everyone who needs legal representation is a bad person.
(They're already doing it, in fact, and some of you are falling for it.)
If it feels like your life has turned upside down, try to find a way to embrace it.
Look at the world from a new perspective.
Learn to thrive off-kilter.
Become Queen of the Upside Down.
drawing of a woman on a balcony, looking down at a huge mermaid-like creature. the street is covered in water and everything looks old and rundown
alleyway meet up
My favorite alarm clock is his kisses.
That’s not true.
We all know what part of him is my favorite alarm clock
Increasingly convinced that yeah people should get more judgmental about certain things. Like yes, i have made a decision based on morality while you are making one based on expediency, i am in fact better than you
sentinel. graphite on paper, 2018
You do not know fury until you have forced a white US person from a gated community to consider other people exist
skull of a HELL HERON , the newly discovered unicorn spinosaurus, next to a pet lizard.
source: kaijutegu on tumblr
And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions.
maybe your "purpose" in life is to simply create joy for yourself & find ways to sustain it
Good morning Edmonds! You’ve bern off of my algorithm and it’s good to see you again, out here on the myriad waters of the world…
What body of water best matches your mood?
1. murky pond
2. dispirited puddle
3. raging river
4. stormy sea
He starts to gently snore in my ear, and I think of all the times that sound was the only reason I could sleep. His body relaxes and his fingers disengage from their grip on my ribs. The grey light begins to warm, ever so slowly, into the day.
5/5
I can’t stop smiling. He opens his eyes a little, says “I love you baby,” in his sleepy voice, and pulls me even closer, nuzzles his face into my neck. Later, when I ask him, he won’t remember waking up and saying anything. I kiss the lines of his shoulder.
4/
His brown skin pours a gentle heat into the bed and I melt into it, my body soft from 3 years of healing my fears in the arms of this man. He stirs, dissatisfied, as if it’s not enough, and pulls me closer, tucks every curve and corner of my small body into his.
3/
wanting to process this moment, share it’s unassuming beauty with all of you. He rolls onto his side and gathers me up and pulls me in closer, tucks my hips into his, wraps his arm around my ribcage. I kiss his face and snuggle in to his chest and start to write again.
2/
I wake up early into the quiet grey light, my man’s strong warm body next to mine, our limbs still tangled up, like our words, from three days of intimacy like I have only ever known with him. It is good to be home. I pick up my phone and start writing,
1/
You can tell I’m not with my boyfriend because I’m posting
Otherwise I’d be having sex
I know things are so hard right now but my life used to be really scary and lonely and now it’s really good and full of love so sometimes things do get better
Minnesota still needs your attention
The only reason these guys don’t just say “oh my god I took my kids there one day and I didn’t know and I’m horrified and embarrassed” is because IT’S NOT TRUE.
They are NOT horrified or ashamed.
THEY KNEW.
I wish I was there!!!
