If Your Feminism Doesn’t Include Brown And Black Women, Sex Workers, Poor Women, Women Who Sleep With

what does it mean to be barbie?

Katerina Marchenko on Etsy

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

Remember not to praise Disney itself for diversity and inclusion in new Baymax show. You should be thanking animators and directors for pushing this idea which Disney was probably 100% opposed to in the first place. Remember leaked emails written to Alex Hirsh? Don't get fooled.

Oh that’s really funny

one might imagine sisyphus learning by playing, winning by learning, and begin by beginning

i hope you know you're enough, right now and just the way things are. you might not agree, but this is not an opinion but a fact. and i hope you realize that you are enough for others, for your dreams and ambitions and most importantly of course, for yourself.

The most amazing post I think I’ve ever read.

this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

rare vent art from a few months ago