would you feel like it was the end of the world if you had to take antibiotics for an ear infection?
then why do you feel like it would be the end of the world if you got chlamydia?
getting an infection through sex is no worse than getting an infection of similar severity any other way. it doesn’t say anything bad about you. sex is nothing to be ashamed of, and neither is an STI.
stigma, shame and fear make both prevention and treatment harder. replace them with knowledge, compassion and confidence and make the choices that are right for you.
I swear i lose my mind a few times a year. For months or for seconds, sometimes just days. I can’t say i mind getting happily lost in some ways, isolated and “safe”
Every atom inside of you comes from a different star.
thoughts #83 | r.m (via rmeisel)
I just found out Mozart’s first true opera was commisioned by a university when he was 11, which all by itself was pretty impressive.
A GAY OPERA
THERE’S A DAMN GAY OPERA WRITTEN BY A 11 YEAR OLD MOZART
Me: *sees someone my age who has their life together* Me: … Me: … but, how?
Dedicate yourself to a pond in the forest
“if you gave me the chance I’d love you until the last star in the universe blinks away”
— let us try by Abby S
Sometime between Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 Woody and the gang witnessed Andy going through puberty and it probably scarred them deeply.
Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850)
— by William-Adolphe Bouguereau