cel

only here to find whimsy

[lewis akgae @dreamoflewis]

i hope lewis holds the team hostage after this and there’s waterboarding involved

[𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗢𝗳𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 ⏻ @Rebel0fReality]

People saying it was wrong for them to say this are so damn spineless and show a severe lack of respect for women.

Milly Alcock was getting dragged for months before she said a single word solely because of her looks not matching men’s standards.

When she actually did start talking and saying very reasonable things about women in superhero media, outlets deliberately decided to misinterpret what she said and farm outrage.

More reporters then started asking her about shit that isn’t even relevant to the film just to create even more outrage.

Variety, one of the biggest news outlets, went out of their way to write one of the most mean spirited reviews of the film where they spent a paragraph criticizing Milly’s looks in the most disgusting way possible.

And then she ended up on Fox News.

And she’s 26 years old.

If you’re actually going to sit here and say that they shouldn’t have called out this behavior and defended their actresses (as if being quiet helped Brie Larson in any way), then you’re part of the problem.

[susa @prinkasusa]

"We don't need feminists
anymore."

785 husbands were killed by wives over 5 years but 800 wives are killed by husbands every 30 days.
https://t.co/KFEq69nxAn

[kera @2inthesinbin]

it’s time avs faithful

[fiona 🎩🗡️ @thefionen]

oh my dear winter lamb, you deserve the entire world and so much more ❤️

[audrey hepburn enthusiast @darylandfilms]

no cause you don't understand.. i would die for this lamb

[Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team @visacashapprb]

AI will never replace graphic designers.

#F1 #VCARB #MiamiGP

[gigi⁷ on tour🪭⟭⟬ ⊙⊝⊜ @gigiscenery]

come collect ur shirts

[NASA's Kennedy Space Center @NASAKennedy]

The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍

This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: https://t.co/kcP12dhsI2

[positivity moon @arrtnem]

YES.

Not because babies are bad. Not because motherhood is some scam in the abstract. Not because every woman secretly wants the same sterile, hyper-independent, softly lit apartment with one plant and no interruptions.

The reason that number hits so hard is simpler.

For once, a statistic sounds like breath.

For once, it sounds like millions of women looking at the script they were handed - marry, shrink, accommodate, reproduce on schedule, call the exhaustion purpose - and saying, maybe not. Maybe not yet. Maybe not like this. Maybe not for a world that treats women’s bodies like public infrastructure and then acts confused when they hesitate to donate the rest of their life to the machine.

That’s what makes the “YES” feel so primal.

It is not anti-child.

It is anti-automatic.

For too long, womanhood was sold with this built-in conveyor belt fantasy. You are a girl, then a young woman, then a wife-shaped person, then a mother, and everybody around you acts like the sequence is as natural as weather. Not one option among many. The option. Miss the timing and suddenly the room changes temperature. People start speaking to you in coded language. “Do you want kids someday?” becomes “What are you doing with your life?” “There’s still time” becomes “Your body is a clock and everyone can hear it except you.”

That pressure sits in the body in gross little ways.

A family dinner. Someone asking when it’s your turn while cutting chicken.
A coworker saying “you’ll understand when you have kids” like your current life is just a waiting room.
A doctor looking at your age before they look at your actual needs.
A random man online talking about fertility like your ovaries are a public market report.

Then this number drops and suddenly it feels like a lot of women are quietly, finally, stepping out of formation.

52%.

That is not a fringe.
That is not a tiny rebellion.
That is not a sad leftover category of women who “couldn’t.”
That is a social reality.

Which means millions of women are living in the gap between what was expected and what is actually happening. Working. surviving. dating. leaving. healing. freezing eggs. not freezing eggs. traveling. caregiving. paying rent. staring at the ceiling at 01:12 wondering if they want children or if they just want the shame to stop.

That distinction matters.

Because a lot of women were never given the luxury of asking the clean question:
Do I want this.

The question came wrapped in a hundred other anxieties.

Will I regret it.
Will I be judged.
Will anyone stay if I say no.
Can I afford it.
Can my body handle it.
Can my mind handle it.
Do I even have enough self left after work and bills and trauma and modern life chewing through my nervous system every day.
Do I want a child, or do I want a life that feels meaningful and loved and less lonely.

That last one is the knife.

A lot of people confuse the hunger for meaning with the hunger for motherhood.
A lot of people confuse the fear of emptiness with the desire for children.
A lot of people confuse social approval with instinct.

Women know this in their bones now, even if they do not always have the language for it. The world is too expensive. Too loud. Too unstable. Too extractive. Housing is a joke. Healthcare is a joke. Work follows you into the bed. Childcare costs feel like a threat. People barely have enough energy to text their friends back, and somehow society still acts shocked that women are not sprinting joyfully toward irreversible, body-altering, life-swallowing responsibility.

It is not a mystery.

A woman sits in her car at 18:47 after work, forehead on the steering wheel, not even crying, just empty, and someone somewhere is still asking why she is “waiting so long.”

Waiting for what.
For her life to become survivable.
For partnership to stop looking like unpaid labor.

[Kia 🧸ྀི @xevekiah]

i mean y’all forget you have mothers when you rape, insult, molest, stalk, abuse women.

[jyson toast @matbarzys]

ugh idk this is so hard😭😭 the vegas golden knights

[daily jason todd @jayson_toodd]

woke up and immediately saw this, kyle higgins make this one count and i will kiss that brain of yourse

[formularacers @formularacers_]

🚨 | BREAKING: Haas unveil their Godzilla livery for the Japanese GP.

[Ping 🍃 @creator_ping]

watched Hoppers and I swear the crossover crossed themselves

[✨ @Iilithsternin]

“kms”: basic, boring

“see you on the roof xo” or “I’m going on sabbatical”: new, innovative, lets everyone know you’re going through it AND love HBO’s The Pitt

[🦈 mj ･ ｡ﾟ☆⁶ @6ickinson]

edit so good i felt like i was being drafted 😭😭😭😭