May 2013
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“Some men who want to compliment random women on the street are genuinely good...”
– Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot » Brute Reason (via brute-reason)
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(via misandry-mermaid)
You know, I’ll go a step further and say - there are no “men who want to compliment random women on the street [who] are genuinely good guys who just...
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Can I just?
pagangirl:
Believing/practicing magic does not mean that science and common sense are no longer valid.
Thanks.
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So about the so-called lack of boy stuff in YA
yaflash:
So I have a lot of feelings every single time I hear that people are “angry” or “annoyed” or whatever that they can’t find ONE SINGLE YA BOOK IN THE ENTIRE YA SECTION FOR BOYS TO READ and YOUNG MEN ARE FAILING BECAUSE GIRLS ARE TAKING OVER LITERATURE and HOW CAN BOYS POSSIBLY BE EXPECTED TO WANT TO TOUCH WHINY GIRLY CRAP WITH A TEN FOOT POLE?????
I have a few thoughts.
1) If you...
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TiLT: may is halfway edition (two weeks' worth)
Two weeks worth of things I love… it was a bizarre couple of weeks, too. A friend passed away last Friday, I found out that Sunday, and— well. I don’t need to write a huge amount about that here (I’ve been processing elsewhere), but suffice to say that the big portion of love for that week goes to
* Collin, in remembrance: brilliant performer, writer, director; utterly...
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the-writers-ramblings:
okayophelia said:
seriously tho; even non-dark/non-weaponized hufflepuffs should not be shamed. qualities of loyalty, honesty, hard work and fairness take so much strength of character and sense of self and compassion and open-mindedness and love of life
agreed, all the houses have qualities that make them great as well as their flaws, but no one should be shamed for...
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“How stupid!” said Howl, and began to laugh. At that Calcifer sizzled with...”
– Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air
Can I just put out there that the single most brilliant thing that DWJ does is that her characters see each other differently? HMC is Howl from Sophie’s perspective, and CITA is Howl from Abdullah’s perspective, and they both see him from very different angles....
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clumsyoctopus:
flower language has always been an intense source of disappointment for me
like, they all mean really generic things like “love” or “forever” or “i’m sorry”
i thought you could combine flowers
like you could just send someone a bouquet and from the combination of hibiscus and posies and tulips they’d understand “the rebel leader is dead, rendezvous at the docks at 8, bring the...
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bemusedlybespectacled:
if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit
just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin
ḱerberos means “spotted”
that’s right
hades, lord of the dead,...
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Lady Thought, Vision King: I love that people... →
cloudnoise:
I love that people conflate masculinity with not being “high maintenance,”
as though masculinity is synonymous with independence,
as though masculinity is actually that terrifying individualism, that hard-won (and specifically) American tenacity, survivalism,
as though masculinity isn’t such a frail and wilting architecture that the merest breath, the tiniest desire will collapse...
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goodbye
last night and this morning have been bizarre. rest in peace, collin. i still can’t really believe you’re gone. you were a beautiful soul, a kind and funny person, a talented artist. augh.
also, lesson from this entire episode: do not read the comments ever. but especially don’t read the comments when it’s on a news story of how a friend of yours died.
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cultural regions & regional theater & local pride...
Okay, so Black Watch, from the National Theater of Scotland — it was gorgeous. And Patrick & I had conversations the next night about National Theaters and what their purpose is, and that we don’t have one here in the US, and should we slash could we have one here? Is that possible?
The program notes mentioned that (part of) the purpose of the National Theatre of Scotland was, of...
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TiLT: regions, mysteries and lexicography edition
Things I love, as usual, one day late:
* Black Watch, + conversations about national theatres: oh my goodness, Black Watch was terrific, powerful, gorgeous theater, utterly engrossing and incredibly cohesive. National Theater of Scotland, I love you. & it spawned several conversations — with Patrick and then with John Langs in the car home from our community reading last night—...
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lipstickandlasers:
so I came up with a word
for the particular tone of voice men use
when they’re monologuing about Their Place in the Universe
or How Much They Identify With Hamlet’s Struggle
or Their Relationship with Jazz Music
or whatever
the word is: pontifibating
ugh, pontifibating
you’re welcome
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“Underneath all the texts, all the sacred psalms and canticles, these watery...”
– St. Hildegard von Bingen, Doctor of the Church (via getmetoanunnery)
#one of the things that cuts me to the quick #is how easily-dismissed parallels between God and sexuality are #because there’s this strange nebulous area in the human consciousness #which we have demarcated for things that feel...
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nautilid:
We live on a planet where the seas glow and the skies ripple with light, sand sings with the voices of men, and the remains of ancient beasts allow us to fly faster than the speed of sound.
We’ll be okay.
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April 2013
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