[fadedlovemp3]

Jenny Holzer vs. Wallace Stegner

[feral-ballad]

Aria Aber, from Hard Damage; “Stone”

[tragiclore]

@tragiclore, I used to be in love

[weltenwellen]

On Seatbelts and Sunsets Hanif Abdurraqib

[98fifa]

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[bogleech]

We don't talk enough about America's permanent ongoing saturation of "Stranger Danger" hysteria. It's like this country's whole social ecosystem teaches full grown adults to perceive an invisible army of rabid bogeymen lurking around every fucking corner. And it's everywhere. Absolutely fucking everywhere, top to bottom, from true crime media and urban legends like the old Poison Halloween Candy thing to our sadistically rage-fueled, revenge-based justice system and immigration policies. The NRA and the war on drugs and post 9/11 airport security and mccarthyism and satanic panic and just E V E R Y T H I N G in America, everything that has defined its history for 100+ years is constantly nothing but this fucking FEAR TERROR FEAR TERROR.

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Soup”, Instructions for Traveling West

[pariztexas-deactivated20210721]

World of Tomorrow (2015) dir. Don Hertzfeldt

[alienaficionados]

““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””

— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[hotpinkmurex]

Ruminate. I like that.

[lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223]

I am tired of meeting people where they’re at I understand it’s like facilitating growth and compassion and detachment from ego bonding but omg. Can you meet me for once I don’t feel like moving today

[baggnshield]

peak philosophy in ao3 tags

[sleepysera]

"'I have led a toothless life,' he thought. 'A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on--and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. What's to be done?'"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (1945)

[thereignclub-trc]

I just want to remind you that sometimes your life really doesn't begin until you are 26+... Romanticizing and obsessing over our youth is harmful. Growing up is beautiful. Discovering who you are and how you interact with the world is a gift. Maturing and learning what you truly want out of life and living in that purpose brings fulfillment and peace. Your life is not over in your early 20's because you haven't figured it out yet, it's just beginning.

[free-my-mindd]

Get more acquainted with rejection, if something does not want you, you should not want it. Learn to be comfortable with that feeling.

[brionysea]

usamericans, do you remember in the incredibles when syndrome made the robot go haywire just so he could swoop in and 'save the day'

[athinginmotion-deactivated20250]

social media has got twenty year old women thinking they have to be a "clean girl" at university with a morning routine and face masks and expensive water bottles and a 9pm bedtime. I am begging the world to let young women go through a crucial developmental stage of being disgusting messy little rats. for feminism.

[ilyarepine-deactivated20170515]

Interior Design section in Tehran’s Bazaar (x)