When Taurus season comes, I don’t wanna hear no slander. Your lives would be boring without us.

i don’t want a love that’s not soft, and i refuse to give a love that’s anything but soft.

What is going on tonight???!!!

Can’t decide between a rook or anti-tragus piercing

Bringing out an accused rapist? On a "for the ladies" show??? You lost Tank.

Is that Agape?? That man is so fine!

How many of us are gonna be stimming to Turtleneck? Lol

Tank really is just having fun

There comes a point when you no longer look at what you've been through as evidence of your capability. You just say "no more." Yeah I been through worse which is why i have no interest in voluntarily going through bad when i don't have to. Jobs, relationships...do not matter. Bring joy or leave

Can’t remember where I left my keys or the glasses on my face, but I can remember every word of a mortifying conversation I had two months ago. 🫩

A penny for your thoughts, a nickel for your kiss, a dime…

This is Pandora

Learning how to meditate. I gotta figure out how to turn off the noise.

Welcome home

Oh, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon Definitely the sun

Want: new book and some candy. Need: hotel key and a blindfold.

I can’t look away. 🤤

7 tats. Arms, back, ribs, and above ankle. Only the one near my ankle was spicy.

i keep forgetting to post this our rescheduled library fundraiser-- UNBANNED presents The Librarians film screening (it's so good!) & discussion 4/19/26 2:30–5:30 PM (doors open at 2 PM) + Get $5 off your order (w/proof of attendance) across the street at Awakening Bar & Grill (Black owned!)

Slowdown Reflect Grow In that order

AN ICON!!

Just saw a post about shorthand. I remember my friend and I learned it so we could pass notes in class.

Ginger beer, Ting, and strawberry Fanta

music.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQZ... Your hand on the small of my back…

How many times I actively showed myself love

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Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores www.nab2.org

I really don’t know how to “people” so I come off as unapproachable. I am also guaranteed to say something non-contextual or just plain wrong.

“Hello, Trevante? This is LaDerrick.”

This reminds me, if you haven't read The Reformatory by Tananarive Due, go remedy that

“Everybody is responsible for aftercare.”

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STRONG MESSAGING about the seriousness of the cold and wind on Saturday from the National Weather Service. Power outages possible. Longest period with subzero wind chills in 30+ years. A good day to stay inside, or bundle up big time if you have to be outside.

That I need to make sure to ask for enough money to cover the therapy and drugs required to work there.

This child ate all my damn ice cream bars and school is closed again tomorrow.

I love when they get comfortable around you and start to soften up and enjoy themselves without feeling the pressure of the world (in that moment) 🫶🏽

Watching them experience joy. It’s like the sun exists within them.

❤️

Come on!!!

My brother in Christ. Black women hear no all the time. Relationships aren’t about teaching a moral lesson or raising your spouse (it sounds like you’re speaking about a child when you say she needs to understand the word no”). You should be her safe place where she hears yes more than no.

If they ban whistles switch to cowbells. It'll be fun for all the Gen Xers. Because we need more cowbell.

Number 2 gon get you put out

Quality time. A night in. Takeout, flowers, candles, and a book. Read to me while I lie in your arms.

This child really is pissed that she can’t just hop in the car and leave. Like, do you not see how it looks outside?!!

It is totally fine for people who have been harmed to hear an apology and refuse to accept it. To acknowledge it and never trust the person saying it. To expect more than words. Get comfortable with the uncomfortable because the real world does not function like a sitcom.

Nobody has ever "so what you about to get into"d me. Ushering me out in my party dress and heels? Just throw me down a flight of stairs 😭