May 2013
57 posts
“At 2 am on May 15, Henson was having trouble breathing and began coughing up...”
– From Jim Henson’s wikipedia
Dude was basically too nice to get treatment.
Angela Davis and Assata Shakur’s Lawyer Denounce... →
iinventedeverything:
the FBI’s actions is an open invitation to apprehend or kill assata shakur. (lennox hinds, assata shakur’s attorney)
(keep in mind, shakur is still considered an *active terrorist threat* by the FBI—even tho what she has done in the past 30 years has been to write and give speeches. it is, as angela davis says, an act of terrorism by the FBI—it’s an attempt to terrify young...
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Spring Quarter Junior Year:
A story in which I cash in all of my academic good will and karma to escape from my last ever least favorite quarter of the year unscathed.
“I’m not trying to be a prude or even some sort of politically correct nitwit...”
– Todd VanDerWerff | The AV Club (via spectacularly-bored)
#bless you with salt #bless you with stone #bless you with steel
(via festeringfae)
Yeah actually this so much. It’s genuinely starting to irk me especially because everything else about it the show is so good.
I had two very distinct moments today.
The first was around 6 when we threw a party for a friend on a roof. It was beautiful both in view and weather. I looked around and realized that this is one of those moments you hear about. When I look back on the good times tonight will be included. Surrounded by people I love with just an unreal view and feeling happy.
Now it is around 1130....
Why Are You So Disappointed?
Person: It's ok. People forget about things.
Me: Not things that are important to them.
It’s decided. By Sunday I’m going to have said my piece. I can’t be doing this anymore.
“When you can’t run you crawl. When you can’t crawl you find...”
– Firefly
Still one of my favorite songs ever.
ladyspookypants:
liamdryden:
ravenzoe:
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“An aborted idea was to have Dredd as a non-white character. In Carlos...”
I’m gonna watch Dredd now. See y’all later!
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“Dark Horse Comics published a Hyrule Historia. If I owned it and read it I would be at least 15% happier. It is literally the only thing I want with my life right now. Well that and improving my personal life/relationships. But lets be honest that’s probably not going to happen so I want to go with the sure bet of getting the historia and reading it alone by myself.”
Why is the New Orleans Mother's Day Shooting Not... →
Tell me again that racism doesn’t exist anymore.
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Oh 5 AM we meet again. Sleep is silly.
“…and then he asked if I have no faith in God. I said you have it wrong....”
– “House of Cards” | Francis Underwood
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1001 Book Passages You Must Have Read #2
“I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.” (Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch)
“Life isn’t, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory against the League...”
– Fever Pitch By: Nick Hornby
I find it sad sometimes that I am more emotionally equipped to deal with people being terrible to me than being nice to me.
beau-friend:
queer hogwarts kids making buttons w/ preferred pronouns on them that are charmed to yell when ppl use the wrong ones
“I made room for this love, how foolish of me.”
There is always a reason not to…
I don’t want to go to sleep because then it means I am going to have more realistic dreams and wake up terrified not knowing what is real and what isn’t for a solid 15 minutes.
Why The Mandarin needed to be portrayed as he was...
fuckitfireeverything:
or, why the MCU didn’t ruin your favorite supervillain.
below the cut: Iron Man 3 spoilers, discussion of cultural appropriation, narrative arc, and analysis of how ridiculously, wonderfully meta the advertising scheme of IM3 was.
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This is a really good read if you’ve seen Iron Man 3.
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God give me strength Allah give me patience
[[MORE]]This is the third death our school community has had this year. The “how” of this one is unclear, but it looks like it could be suicide, which if proves to be the case at least two out of the three were.
At times like this I look at my own life and think about how differently it could have gone. I have come a long way, but am still not far off. As recently as last year I was...
Lemonade: Jay Gatsby was black: an explanation →
feministpixie:
stevebuscreaming:
So let me explain this theory for those of you who haven’t heard it before already.
The Great Gatsby is a story of a man that makes his fortune bootlegging and throws countless magnificent parties all in hopes of attracting the attention of his old…
