more venturie! they had the vision but fumbled his design so bad

some of y’all clearly don't understand what it's like to avert your eyes when your friend starts changing in front of you and your heart starts pounding in your chest and you could say something, SHOULD say something, tell her to change her clothes in a different room and admit to this freakish attraction that you know she doesn't feel, ruin the friendship by coloring every moment of casual intimacy with the knowledge that you are a pervert who wants more, that you are a threat. you don’t say anything. and you look up and watch the pale expanse of her lower back from the corner of your eye as she pulls on a white blouse, and something lurches in your stomach and you laugh at the joke she just told even though you weren’t really listening to the set-up. later on you will feel sick and guilty and cry alone in a bed that feels empty, but for just a moment, you are laughing with a beautiful girl who loves you, and it doesn’t matter if it’s wrong

had a convo w my mom this morning and we talked about how traditional toxic masculinity just seems to be mostly a fucked up eternal competition where men are expected to constantly be defending their masculinity by taking other men down, and if they ever slip up they also get forced down and stomped on. like ive seen people talk about women always feeling the need to appear "sexy" even alone but i feel like a line could be drawn between that and men feeling the need to constantly be asserting their masculinity, as if even alone (for example, when using shampoo) if they aren't competing well enough they will be punished. but for some reason (hyperagency) people treat that as like. men just being weird and pedantic on purpose instead of a reaction to constantly being sent the message "you are running a race and if you ever trip up or falter you will be trampled and you will deserve it for being a failure".

im so happy i found love! <3

This is me if u even care 🦫

im sorry but there's absolutely no heterosexual explanation for this. none.

step up to the altar