“I Want To Lay Her Down And Worship Her Body The Way The Goddess That She Is Deserves To Be Worshipped.

Don’t be confused

“First impressions are always unreliable.”

— Franz Kafka

“You never forget. It must be somewhere inside of you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers.”

— Neil Gaiman

Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”

— A.A. Milne // Winnie-the-Pooh

giving love to trauma survivors whose trauma made them harder, detached and insensitive.

giving love to trauma survivors whose trauma made them friendlier, more open and loud.

giving love to trauma survivors whose trauma made them paranoid and aggressive.

giving love to trauma survivors whose trauma made them kinder, softer and more sensitive.

giving love to trauma survivors whose trauma made them lose guilt, shame, or empathy.

giving love to trauma survivors whose trauma made them gain more guilt, shame, or empathy.

you are all valid.

“You’re chaos and order and everything in between. Like sunshine kept back by clouds. Like the entire world’s imploded inside you, but all I see are the stars are sewn into your skin. You’re filled with soft, dark music.”

— Tara Sim, Timekeeper