Random stuff.

-I saw a really weird picture of Saddam Hussein taped to the dashboard of the bus the other day. He was photo-shopped with some tigers. I think it was supposed to be bad ass.

-Also, went and bought a candy bar at “face.book supermarket”.

-We had this assignment in communication to explain communication through a metaphor of something found in the culture. For example, the prof explained how American capitalism can be compared to football. Steven told me he was going to compare Jordan to a Mudblood at Hogwarts. I should have just let him think that was okay…

-That awkward moment when you think to yourself that you only have to make it through another day without killing a street harasser.

-Game of Thrones is exactly like a medieval version of Arrested Development. And also everyone is really attractive.

-My host family gave me a shirt as a going away present, but my head is too big to fit through the hole.

-Kind of sad when someone actually admits that they cannot have fun without alcohol.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde (via mariusge)

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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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anatomyofmelancholy:

you can tell from the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips 
and the dents in my car and the blisters on my lips
 that i’m not the carefullest of girls. you can tell from the glass on the floor and the strings that are breaking and i keep on breaking more and it looks like i am shaking
, but it’s just the temperature - then again, if it were any colder i could disengage
, if i were any older i would act my age, but i don’t think that you’d believe me: it’s not the way i’m meant to be
. it’s just the way the operation made me.



you can tell from the state of my room that they let me out too soon,
 and the pills that i ate came a couple years too late, and i’ve got some issues to work through
. - there i go again, pretending to be you: make-believing that i have a soul beneath the surface, trying to convince you it was accidentally-on-purpose…



you can tell by the red in my eyes and the bruises on my thighs
 and the knots in my hair and the bathtub full of flies
 that i’m not right now at all. - there i go again, pretending that i’ll fall
. don’t call the doctors, ’cause they’ve seen it all before: they’ll say just let her crash and burn, she’ll learn
 - the attention just encourages her

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and you can tell from the full-body cast that you’re sorry that you asked
, though you did everything you could, like any decent person would
. but i might be catching, so don’t touch (you’ll start believing you’re immune to gravity and stuff), don’t get me wet because the bandages will all come off
. and you can tell from the smoke at the stake that the current state is critical - well, it is the little things - for instance, in the time it takes to break it, she could make up ten excuses: please excuse her for the day - it’s just the way the medication makes her.

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So according to the Pre/Post testing, I didn’t progress at all this semester.

I got really sick and then depressed and homesick and my placement in Fuzha sucked and I’m pissed and I want my money and my semester back. I was really fucked up for a while and I don’t think I really let anyone know how much. Complete waste of my time educationally.

and…That just means I have to kick twice ass much ass this summer.

knowhomo: LGBTQ* Ancient Texts You Should Know Plato explains the “three sexes/soulmates” in his Symposium “In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it. The original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was man, woman, and the union of the two, of which the name survives but nothing else. Once it was a distinct kind, with a bodily shape and a name of its own, constituted by the union of the male and the female: but now only the word ‘androgynous’ is preserved, and that as a term of reproach. In the second place, the primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and the same number of feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder to correspond. He could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards as he pleased, and he could also roll over and over at a great pace, turning on his four hands and four feet, eight in all, like tumblers going over and over with their legs in the air; this was when he wanted to run fast. Now the sexes were three, and such as I have described them; because the sun, moon, and earth are three; and the man was originally the child of the sun, the woman of the earth, and the man-woman of the moon, which is made up of sun and earth, and they were all round and moved round and round because they resembled their parents.” (above translated by Benjamin Jowett from Collected Works of Plato, 4th Edition, Oxford U. Press, 1953 (189c-189d) p 520 to (193d-193e) p 525) You can watch the Hedwig and the Angry Inch video “Origin of Love” which recounts this story (spliced with other mythology) HERE.

knowhomo:

LGBTQ* Ancient Texts You Should Know

Plato explains the “three sexes/soulmates” in his Symposium

“In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it. The original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was man, woman, and the union of the two, of which the name survives but nothing else. Once it was a distinct kind, with a bodily shape and a name of its own, constituted by the union of the male and the female: but now only the word ‘androgynous’ is preserved, and that as a term of reproach.

In the second place, the primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and the same number of feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder to correspond. He could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards as he pleased, and he could also roll over and over at a great pace, turning on his four hands and four feet, eight in all, like tumblers going over and over with their legs in the air; this was when he wanted to run fast.

Now the sexes were three, and such as I have described them; because the sun, moon, and earth are three; and the man was originally the child of the sun, the woman of the earth, and the man-woman of the moon, which is made up of sun and earth, and they were all round and moved round and round because they resembled their parents.”

(above translated by Benjamin Jowett from Collected Works of Plato,

4th Edition, Oxford U. Press, 1953 (189c-189d) p 520 to (193d-193e) p 525)

You can watch the Hedwig and the Angry Inch video “Origin of Love” which recounts this story (spliced with other mythology) HERE.

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kingsoflimbs:

You’re Pretty Good Looking … For a Girl x)

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giveemhellchris:

Panic - The Smiths

Burn down the disco
Hang the blessed D.J.
Because the music that they constantly play
It says nothing to me about my life

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I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little girls who like pink are not punished for it, either. We can certainly talk about the social pressures surrounding gender roles, and the concerns that people have when they see girls and young women who appear to be forced into performances of femininity by the society around them, but let’s stop acting like they have no agency and free will. Let’s stop acting like women who choose to be feminine are somehow colluders, betraying the movement, bamboozled into thinking that they want to be feminine. Let’s stop denying women their own autonomy by telling them that their expressions of femininity are bad and wrong.

Antifemininity is misogynist. What you are saying when you engage in this type of rhetoric is that you think things traditionally associated with women are wrong. Which is misogynist. By telling feminine women that they don’t belong in the feminist movement, you are reinforcing the idea that to be feminine and a woman is wrong, that women who want to be taken seriously need to be more masculine, because most people view gender presentation in binary ways. This rewards the ‘one of the boys’ type rhetoric I encounter all over the place from self-avowed feminists who seem to think that bashing on women is a good way to prove how serious they are when it comes to caring about women and bringing men into the feminist movement.

Get Your Anti-Femininity Out Of My Feminism by s.e. smith (via nerdiestofbears)

I don’t even know how many times I have reblogged this.

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