unpopular opinion
I love Gregorian vocals.
September 2012
August 2012
“It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.”
—Susane Colasanti (via sleepypsychedelia)
“Literature gives us an internal compass, a way to negotiate all life’s rough and tumble. It gives us insight, empathy, direction and warning. It is a concordance for the physical world, a magnificent prism through which reality is refracted. Much loved passages whisper in our ears. Long-dead authors hold us by the hand. Half-forgotten poems fill our mouths. Literature is present at the birth of our first child and the ordering of our morning coffee. It fills us.”
—Why Books Provide Ballast (via bookriot)
“Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it.”
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Gwen Sharp in Policing Mascuility in Slim Jim’s “Spice Loss” Ads (via biraciallyinsensitive)
Boom.
(via mehreenkasana)
“get over it” is literally the shittiest piece of advice that you can give to someone because it’s not like upon hearing that, that person is going to miraculously lift themself out of their emotional funk and never mention it again
“Telling a guy the real reasons you’re not interested — you don’t find him attractive, he’s way too old for you, you get a distinctly creepy vibe off him, whatever — or offering no explanation at all, because you just met this guy and owe him nothing, would be “rude.” And thanks to the conditioning Harriet describes, exhibiting the slightest hint of “rudeness” to any stranger who approaches you with sex on his mind makes you feel not like a normal human being with healthy boundaries, but a mean, frigid, stuck-up bitch. Worse yet, sometimes, the same man who called you beautiful and offered to buy you a drink ten seconds ago will turn aggressive when you say you’re not interested; he’ll tell you flat out you’re a bitch, or a whore, or less printable things. He’ll reject your rejection by getting in your face and losing his temper. So really, it’s a lot safer and simpler to say, “Look, you’re a nice guy, but no thanks/I have a boyfriend/I can’t.”
—No more Mr. Nice Guy (via albinwonderland)
an artist’s self esteem is a very complicated thing
you have to think that you’re the shit just enough to keep on drawing
and then you have to hate yourself enough to constantly want to improveit’s hard to maintain that balance man life is hard
every year i’m like “i’m gonna finish all my homework before going online” and every year it doesn’t happen
