fistful of sparklers.

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:45:02 -0700

"The trees of my childhood are not the trees of your childhood. Let me tell you about my cedars;..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:41:00 -0700

“

The trees of my childhood
are not the trees of your
childhood.

Let me tell you about my
cedars; my forsythias
and honeysuckles;
the way I used to plant
cherry pits in the front lawn
because I was greedy for their
blossoming.

Lift up my skirt and I’ll show you
where the blackberry brushes had
scratched me.

Lay me down in a hammock
hung between your childhood and the
man you have become today.

And we’ll kiss once, twice,
and a third time for luck

beneath the cherry blossom petals
that I had fallen asleep beneath
when I was too young to know anything
but innocence.

And the dark bark will be a darker midnight
against the spring it blossoms.

Skeletal. Moonless.
So heavy from the
rain.

And your hand will fold a flower
behind my ear.

The petals will be
so extraordinarily
pale.

”

- Shinji Moon, “Cherry Blossoms”(via commovente)

awkwardsituationist: cambridge university students were asked...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:49:42 -0700

awkwardsituationist:

cambridge university students were asked on campus why they needed feminism. here are 60 answers. click the link for over 600 more.

velvetlovepocket: “If You Know Someone Who Doesn’t Believe...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:07:12 -0700

velvetlovepocket:

“If You Know Someone Who Doesn’t Believe Sexism Exists, Show Them This”
Link here: [x]

This is important and it should have millions of more reblogs.

Recycled Sunlight Pieces by Robert Montgomery

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:51:14 -0700

Recycled Sunlight Pieces by Robert Montgomery

tyleroakley: buzzfeed: George Takei responds to “traditional”...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:00:17 -0700

tyleroakley:

buzzfeed:

George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans.

George Takei is flawfree.

"Ode to the murderer I imagine in every band of trees. To my blood cells, to well-ordered..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:00:13 -0700

“Ode to the murderer I imagine
in every band of trees. To
my blood cells, to well-ordered systems,
to my head absolutely thick
with disease. Ode to the dress I slept in
and wore the next day, to the cilantro
I planted in all the wrong weather.
Ode to the fucking cosmos. Ode to my face
against your face, to poems that want to
like us but don’t. Ode to being
the bloodless one, the neurotic one,
the one ignoring your spiritual journey.
To your clothes in my basement
covered in ink. To I wore this when
we first met., to .I want to hurt you like this
and then like this. Ode to quitting my job
to stay excited, to exposing myself
to my neighbors, to embedding so many
rocks in my chest. Ode to Tulsa.
Ode to the 900-foot Jesus, to keeping
my hands in my pockets most of the time.
To my brothers and sisters, to all my
enemies, to imagining every way
to die in every possible scenario.
Ode to crying when I can’t find my shoes,
to feeling like God will punish me for
sins I don’t believe in. Ode to taking
pictures in front of strangers’ houses.
Ode to my jacket covered in yellow.
Ode to how I wish you were built
out of wood panels. Ode to staring
out the window in the worst
of the house. Ode to your age,
to my age, to how I react improperly
when reenacting your fate. Ode to
so few phenomenons. Ode to
absolving myself of everything.
To singing what I’m doing, to arguing
what counts as “artifact” and “alive.”
Ode to my wandering pacemaker.
Ode to my big fat heart. Ode to
pretending I’ve never been where
I used to live. Ode to hoping you’re
a goner. Ode to grieving nothing
each time a villain is born.”

- “Poem For What I’m Not Allowed,” Anne Cecelia Holmes (via commovente)

bradofarrell: morelydia: shenaniganations: This, though. I...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:14:00 -0700

bradofarrell:

morelydia:

shenaniganations:

This, though.

I love when we reframe issues to illustrate them as they are- the perpetrator’s problem.

bradofarrell: This year at E3 during the Xbox panel during a...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:00:06 -0700

bradofarrell:

This year at E3 during the Xbox panel during a scripted “trash talk” bit someone made a scripted rape joke (male gamer to girl gamer who sucks at a game: “just wait, it’ll all be over soon.”) and then they acted like it wasn’t a big deal and then they released an expensive, anti-consumer (DRM on physical games) piece of hardware. And then Sony just released the PS4 which is just the PS3 but better graphics and $100 cheaper than the Xbox. So THAT happened.

But then Nintendo just quietly released a bunch of great looking sequels for all of it’s major franchises (Mario, Pikmin, Donkey Kong, and Smash Bros.) and every single one of those games interestingly features playable female characters who haven’t been seen in decades like Dixie Kong and Princess Peach - and Pikmin now has a new female hero.

One of my favorite things about Peach in the new Mario game is that one of the power ups is a literal “cat suit” and Peach’s “cat suit” doesn’t sexualize her at ALL. You can’t even see her boobs. She just looks like she’s wearing over-sized footie pajamas it’s so cute. Also they added a pink letter to the Mario logo just to accommodate Peach’s re-inclusion into the franchise as a character with actual agency!

So at the end of the presentation they tell you to go to the Smash Bros website to find out about new characters. And then they announced this character, Wii Fit Trainer, on the site. And in an interview the director said he gets thousands of requests for almost every video game character under the sun and he’s gotten absolutely zero requests for this character and he put her in the game to be funny and defy fan expectation. This character is literally “hey fuck you we’re the ones making the games around here, and we’ll be goofy and funny if we want to and also check it out another female character in Smash.”

Also the inclusion of the Animal Crossing villager is interesting because Animal Crossing is VERY popular with girls and even though the villager is male I’m 100% certain his alternate costumes will include the girl default villager character. So that’s neat. The three Smash characters they announced were two girl(ish) characters from two girl(ish) games and then Mega Man.

Also in the new Animal Crossing game boys are allowed to cross dress and all of the animals are explicitly genderqueer in the dialog. Characters say stuff like “Boys can ware make up if they want to, I mean, it’s 2013, who cares?” and just today a jock rhino was looking deeply into my eyes and asking me to hike a football and I asked him if he loved me (which was one of the option out of other options about sports) and he was like “Oh I guess a lot can happen when you look into someone else’s eyes like that, huh?” He didn’t even care that we’re both guys. Also in the new Pokemon game you can be black.

Basically what I’m saying is Nintendo is quietly and systematically making their games more socially progressive and Microsoft made a rape joke and then said “what? it was a joke.”

I’m enjoying the new Animal Crossing immensely, and I cannot wait for something like this to happen to me in it.

letsmakeloaf: guys why is it called the walk of shame and not the laid parade ohmygod YES!...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:15:17 -0700

letsmakeloaf:

guys why is it called the walk of shame

and not the laid parade

ohmygod YES! Immediately adopting this term forever. Reclaim the walk of shame, guys! Be proud of your sexy sleepovers and have a Laid Parade instead!

dearscience: by Holly Brinkworth

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:12:21 -0700

dearscience:

by Holly Brinkworth

old-haunts: christmasonthemoon: Kendrick Lamar: “Bitch, Don’t...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:00:10 -0700

old-haunts:

christmasonthemoon:

Kendrick Lamar: “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe”

this is on repeat until that yeezus album is out.

bowlofnouilles: YES PERFECT AGREED, INDEED

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:00:31 -0700

bowlofnouilles:

YES PERFECT

AGREED, INDEED

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: sonder

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:00:25 -0700

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: sonder:

dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…

unbear: i hope this is the sluttiest summer of my life Forever and ever, Amen.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:48:56 -0700

unbear:

i hope this is the sluttiest summer of my life

Forever and ever, Amen.

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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:22:52 -0700

Met @pugnamedgeorge on the streetcar. Poor little dude had to...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:49:28 -0700

Met @pugnamedgeorge on the streetcar. Poor little dude had to have his cone on at #woofstock yesterday. How embarrassing!

mangosheen: fragilecapricornsays: aheartbeatchanged: Attention...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:44:51 -0700

mangosheen:

fragilecapricornsays:

aheartbeatchanged:

Attention assholes: don’t sexually harass a girl when she can easily find you on Facebook and send your mom proof of your perpetuation of rape culture.

Moral of the day? Don’t mess with me.

I hope you did it. Gross mother fucker

This is disgusting

Ugh, dudes! Just…don’t ever ever send nude without being explicitly asked for them. Just. Don’t.

"All this essentially amounts to the fact I’m nervous to get into any situation where I’ll be stuck..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:31:46 -0700

“All this essentially amounts to the fact I’m nervous to get into any situation where I’ll be stuck for the rest of my life. I think that’s the problem with us 20-somethings. No matter what job we get or relationship we embark upon, the practice of doing the same thing every day is a form of monotony we’re not easily accustomed to, and the thought of it continuing on forever creates terror in our liberated souls. We just finally became independent, after all; to hell with walls and cable bills.”

- Courtney Garcia, The Huffington Post (via naisae)

mydarkenedeyes: Doug Perrine captured these stunning...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:03:57 -0700

mydarkenedeyes:

Doug Perrine captured these stunning photographs in the Maldives. The particular location (Vaadhoo Island) has a concentrated population of bioluminescent phytoplankton. Bioluminescence is a natural chemical reaction which occurs when a micro-organism in the water reacts with oxygen. When washed ashore by the tides, the phytoplankton’s chemical energy is turned into light energy, illuminating the waves.