her own small widgeon cries

"I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:37:08 -0400

“I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they’d get more out of life… You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there’s a time limit to that. Unless you choose to be bloody good company for the rest of your life, do you know what I mean?”

- Laura Marling (via idontbelonginacoffeeshop)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 15:34:24 -0400

newhousebooks: Cover, Canada, Your Friendly Neighbor, 1938

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:30:21 -0400

newhousebooks:

Cover, Canada, Your Friendly Neighbor, 1938

supermodelgif: “Heavy Metal” Aline Weber by Victor Demarchelier...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:46:35 -0400

supermodelgif:

“Heavy Metal” Aline Weber by Victor Demarchelier for Harper’s Bazaar October 2012

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Wed, 22 May 2013 14:31:27 -0400

mollycrabapple: Portrait of Hamza Kashgari, Saudi poet. He has...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:54:55 -0400

mollycrabapple:

Portrait of Hamza Kashgari, Saudi poet. He has been imprisoned by the Saudi government since February 2012 for tweeting these lines about Mohammed.

On your birthday, I shall not bow to you. I shall not kiss your hand. Rather, I shall shake it as equals do, and smile at you as you smile at me. I shall speak to you as a friend, no more.

On your birthday, I find you wherever I turn. I will say that I have loved aspects of you, hated others, and could not understand many more.

On your birthday, I will say that I have loved the rebel in you, that you’ve always been a source of inspiration to me, and that I do not like the halos of divinity around you. I shall not pray for you.

mothsfly: some-random-black-chick: amen #fact.

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:47:58 -0400

mothsfly:

some-random-black-chick:

amen

#fact.

"The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same...."

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:30 -0400

“The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same. You erase their experiences and perspective, their struggles and obstacles, their unique way of having to deal with those things in a world that also erases them. With the words, ‘but humans are humans’ or the bullshit dramatics of ‘we all bleed red’ normal people can simply pretend that if we all did things the way they did, then everything would work out okay. But, yes, we all bleed red but you don’t treat a papercut the same way you treat a gash, you don’t treat an infected wound the same way you treat one that isn’t, you don’t treat a wound to the leg the same way you treat a wound to the gut. You are not acknowledging someone’s personhood when you ignore the very things that make their lives different than yours, and when you refuse to understand that their circumstances have given them their own perspective that is just as valid as yours. More valid in fact – their perspective about their experiences that you haven’t been through is far more valid than anything you could ever think about it.”

- The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps)

Truth bomb if I ever saw one.

(via ikenbot)

Word of the Day: vergeture (French)

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:40:51 -0400

oupacademic:

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Wed, 22 May 2013 12:55:38 -0400

humansofnewyork: “Image is very important to me. But I’m always...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:03 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“Image is very important to me. But I’m always asking myself: ‘How much is personal expression, and how much is facade?’”

this is pretty great! but really i’m reblogging because of the caption—i feel like both “personal expression” and “facade” are hugely important parts of my sartorial outlook, no lie.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 09:13:56 -0400

psilentasincjelli: If I ever tell you I’m going to sleep and then you see me posting or liking...

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:23:25 -0400

psilentasincjelli:

If I ever tell you I’m going to sleep and then you see me posting or liking things online for about an hour immediately after that, I promise I wasn’t lying to you, I’m just bad at going to sleep and it is usually a long process that begins with disengaging from any sort of immediate contact with people (chats, for example) and ends when everything on my screen is blurry and I’m hallucinating plot points I haven’t written yet

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Wed, 22 May 2013 05:32:26 -0400

in which Our Heroine has a whole host of Life Things she sd be dealing with & is instead hunkering down like the proverbial panicked ostrich

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:58:14 -0400

aghhhhhh i can’t handle talking about my future or life plans or anything

in august i will be twenty-four & all i’ve managed to do is cross off things that don’t work

people are like, ‘well, how are you going to support yourself once we die/kick you out?’ & at some level the back of my brain is always like, ‘…idk, i guess that’ll be my cue to kill myself?’

i can’t even face the prospect of a conversation about the whole hopeless mess [by which i mean my life…] without tensing in shame

girljanitor: erikamoen: unpretty: I isolated my favorite...

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:41:58 -0400

girljanitor:

erikamoen:

unpretty:

I isolated my favorite panel from the latest Oh Joy, Sex Toy because it seemed like it would come in handy.

Yessss, spread this far and wide, wherever they are needed!

I am pretty sure that if I were to make a collage of images that represent my life, this would most likely have to be included.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 01:50:59 -0400

dear diary

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:35:46 -0400

today i:

+ woke up early;

+ went for a very long bicycle ride
+ with Little Sister and Little Sister’s BF(F)
+ to a thoroughly excellent doughnut shop;

+ painted my nails a delightful fresh lilac;

and

+ stuffed my face on chicken tikka masala and spicy spicy lamb vindaloo. :D

(alas i am burnt rather pink and a bit painfully distended, but gladly so!)

sea-change: xoxogossipcourf: straight girls are the oatmeal raisin cookies of life #straight...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:19:25 -0400

sea-change:

xoxogossipcourf:

straight girls are the oatmeal raisin cookies of life

#straight girls and also raisins are why i have trust issues

LOLZ YES

gossipgenkai: unicorniallychromantic: by Kotori...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:09:29 -0400

gossipgenkai:

unicorniallychromantic:

by Kotori Kawashima

!!!

oh my god