It’s gross as fuck to tell people that no one will love them until they love themselves. Loving yourself is hard. Listen: you are loved, you are worthy of love and respect, and you can be loved even on the days when you see nothing in yourself to love.
And rly, it’s not like nobody would love you until you did. It’s not like that was the price you had to pay to be lovable, the effort you had to make to be attractive. It’s not an ultimatum and it’s not about your desirability.
The “Love yourself and others will love you” thing is about self care, however clumsily and dangerously formulated it may be.
You care for yourself, you listen to your feelings and do what is good for you. That’s the basis for your existence, your stability and wellbeing. Everything else can wait until you’ve assessed the situation, realized that it IS serious and taken care of yourself to the degree that you’re safe, healthy and stable in that situation (or outside of it if you need to get away from a possibly harmful context).
When you do that, when you start giving yourself the love and taking up the space that you deserve, the good things will slowly start coming to you.
It’s not about whether or not you’re desirable company. This approach, as hard as it may initially be to overcome, will get you nowhere, because it’s still based on you trying to fulfill other people’s expectations or demands.
It’s about you putting yourself first, before anyone else and any outside obligations, and taking your actual needs and primary feelings about people or situations seriously, about finding yourself worthy enough to treat yourself with the respect you want to see in others.
Self love is to become more and more true to yourself and your feelings, and it starts with accepting what is there, letting it be and maybe allowing it to lead you new places, to new insights, perspectives and challenges that you can learn from and grow through.
Aries: wants to fight everything
Taurus: mom friend who eats a lot
Gemini: smart and a lil evil
Cancer: crybaby
Leo: actually emperor kuzco
Virgo: way kinkier than the name implies
Libra: always in love
Scorpio: evil but everyone want to fuck them
Sagittarius: the coolest bro
Capricorn: stays in their lane but gets shit done
Aquarius: antisocial hippie
Pisces: total sweetheart
He’s young and an asshole, he thinks he’s better than everyone and thinks that humans are simply funny, and never knew a vampire more powerful than him (he just knew the one who transformed him, so…)
Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.
Holy shit this is a serious contender for the best post I’ve ever seen on tumblr.
this blacksmith doesn’t know how to deal with laughing and dancing young mage.
Nornir isn’t your average handsome blood elf guy – he’s tall and bulky, slow and clumsy, and hides his scarred face and dim eyes behind illusions. One day this sullen and withdrawn blacksmith met a young mage apprentice, who could see right through Nornir’s rough illusions and wasn’t scared at all. Despite his age, Almarei, the son of a noble family, is a skilled illusionist and dispeller. He tends to spend his free time outside his family’s house, wandering forests and city streets. He also likes to spend time with Nornir and teach him magic.
BARIYAN/KOLTIRA COMMISSIONS I GOT AT YOUMACON LAST YEAR FROM shupie (a gift from okelleok) and kikiface !!! evidence leads us to believe that shauna’s pic is bari-o-vision while kiki’s depicts COLD, HARSH REALITY.
