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25 Movies You Have To See Before You Turn 25

1. Almost Famous

The exact moment I decided to be a writer was while watching Almost Famous. In fact I paused the film around halfway through because I was hit by a wave of inspiration and had to go write something. A poem, I think. I’d always written, but this film made it look like something one could do as a job, and that it might lead me on strange and interesting adventures. Mostly it’s a film about being different and weird and finding acceptance for it through your art, and that spoke to me on so many levels. I’m different! I’m weird! I write! Maybe I can do this?! Thirteen years later, I’ve still not been on tour with a rock band, but I do write for a living. Thanks, Cameron Crowe. —Daniel Dalton

2. Trainspotting

Taught me the following lessons:

Don’t do heroin. Save your money. Listen to your heart, not your friends. Don’t do heroin. Scotland is interesting. Be careful who you pick up when you go to a club. Don’t do heroin. Always use protection. Fries are called chips in Scotland. Don’t hang around criminals. Don’t have kids.

And don’t do heroin. —Norberto Briceno

3. Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams is the greatest documentary ever made and was what taught me to start thinking about privilege and poverty and how that relates to “following your dreams” or whatever, when I was a young stupid teenager constantly being told to follow my dreams. —Summer Anne Burton

4. The Breakfast Club

It will remind you that individuality is the key to being happy. You do you. Never pretend to be someone you’re not. —Anna Neyman

5. Laurence Anyways

Aside from having exceptional cinematography and a soundtrack you will keep listening to after the fact, Laurence Anyways grapples with gender identity in the 21st century and what happens to everyone around you when you do decide to transition. Not only that, but Xavier Dolan was an impressive 23 years old when he directed this film. —David Bertozzi

More movies to see here.

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Your heart at Dhobi Ghat

Sometimes, I imagine my heart being wrung by a big burly woman. Who beats it against a rock, washes it in murky water and uses all her arm muscles to wring out the last drop of water. And then leaves it on a cable to dry, like she never had anything to do with it in the first place.

If your experiencing this, it is heart ache, in its true raw form, taking every ounce of strength your body has to…

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Tips from an Agent: 5 Questions to Ask About Your Manuscript

The “Now What?” Months continue, and we’re shifting our focus to the wide world of publishing! Today, Lindsay Edgecombe, a literary agent at the Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency, shares five questions to ask yourself about your manuscript before sending it out on submission:

I’m a big fan of NaNoWriMo and want to start by saying that if you are reading this with a draft of your novel complete, I am sending you my respect. That’s a huge accomplishment.

So you have the draft, you’ve let it rest, gone through some reads, and you have a hunch that somewhere in there, you have something pretty special. Something that could catch on. Something you want to publish. But how do you know when the novel itself is ready to go out into the world on submission?

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It’s Monday. I’m going home at 6pm and a middle aged man and a teenage boy are the only people left on the bus with me. I consider the fact that because the driver is also a man I am the only person left on the bus with the correct genetic makeup for boobs. I’m automatically scared, scared because of my own anatomy. I wonder how old I was when I realized that my own body was going to be the cause of the constant anxiety and fear I feel in situations like this. I get off at the last stop and the older man smiles at me while following me up the street. His smile drips, drips, drips and my heart is pounding, pounding, pounding. He turns off down another road, but I run the rest of the way home. Not all men. I’m at home on a Tuesday, beginning to plan the travels I want to go on next year. I dream of wandering the streets and meeting strangers. I just can’t wait to escape the city I’ve lived in for 17 long years. But… my mum is hesitant. She’s forever worried about the danger that being a young girl traveling alone can bring. I’ll be alone and she’s scared. Surely I’m invincible. I feel invincible. But I know, I know this danger is real and I can’t help but think to myself, if I feel unsafe in my own city, how am i going to feel in a strange place with strange men who don’t speak the same language as me? If I was my brother planning this, I would probably just be wondering if European girls are going to be hot. Not all men. Wednesday is a beautiful sunny day but I’ve always been told that I don’t have a “nice enough body” to wear a bikini on the beach. Ever since I was 6 years old I’ve thought that having tummy fat was ugly. That skin that doesn’t have a perfectly golden glow is undesirable. I amble to a clear patch of sand in my one piece and I can feel pairs of eyes latching onto me. Hairy men in speedos who I don’t look twice at eat into my body with their stares. I’m a piece of meat. I am a piece of meat? I am here for their amusement. Please don’t let me be eaten alive. Not all men. Thursday night two friends and I are walking to our god damn school dance when we hear “Jesus look at you! You sluts heading to a pole?” These words snarl out of the mouth of a respectably dressed man and we stop in horror. Shivers roll up my back in fear. It’s dark. We are alone. What. Do. We. Do??? One of us pulls the finger back. I can never be sure how quickly a sexist man can get angry so we walk quickly away. We’re angry, so so angry. But also so… deflated. I wonder if we deserve this shame. Not all men. Sitting on the internet, Friday night and scrolling down my Facebook newsfeed: “Haha, good job at the game today bro. You RAPED them!” “Damn with tits like that, you’re asking for it :P” Another sexist comment… Another sexist comment… Another sexist comment… I’m shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and I want to CRY because these boys don’t realize how small they make me feel with just pressing a few keys. I see these boys on the streets, I talk to these boys, I laugh with these boys. Dear GOD, dear GOD i hope these boys don’t think actions speak louder than words… Not all men. Three rules that have been drilled into me since I was young run through my mind at 1.30am on a Satur… Sunday Morning: -Don’t ever talk to strange men -Don’t ever be alone at night in a strange place -Don’t ever get into a car with a stranger I break all 3 of these laws as I pull open the taxi door. Making light conversation with the driver, he doesn’t see my sweaty hand clutching the small pocket knife I keep hidden on me at all times. He doesn’t even realize the fear I feel at his mere presence. He cannot comprehend it, he never will. How easy would this 15 minute car ride be if I was born a boy? Not all men. It comes to Sunday, another snoozy, sleepy, Sunday and someone has the AUDACITY to tell me not all men are rapists. I say nothing. I’m a 17 year old girl. When I am walking alone and it’s dark, it’s all men. When I am in a car with a man I don’t know well, it’s all men. When men drunkenly leer at me on the streets, it’s all men. When a boy won’t leave me alone at a party, it’s all men. Not all men are rapists. But for a young girl like me? Every one of them has the potential to be. Not. All. Men.

a piece i wrote for an english assignment about my personal experiences with rape culture, in particular with the saying “not all men” which i know has been makin a lot of controversy on the internet recently! idk just wanted to share (via trueho)

I am almost in tears because this hit me so hard

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Little did they know.

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10  Must have Typography, Lettering and Calligraphy Books.

Now that we’re almost in the holiday season, is the perfect opportunity to give to yourself a lovely gift and what more useful and funny that a book?. I’ve made a compilation of 10 (must have maybe?) typography, lettering and calligraphy books. You don’t have to know previous knowledge to read this books. For example if you want to know to very basics about typography I really recommend Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton, or if you want something more elaborate and specific rules to craft your paragraphs or style every text you prepare The Elements of Typographic Style is definitely for you. Enough to say lets go to the matter (you can click and see more details on every book’s name on the list):

Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton Ellen Lupton made the great task of shrinking the tons of information about typography and fit it into a digestible book. If want to know what kerning is, this book is for you. If want to know more advance knowledge like style your paragraph, this book is also for you.

The Elements of Typography Style by Robert Bringhurst This is more a Manual than a book, is loaded with a lot of information. From the structure of a types to style a whole book. You will find almost any typography rule here, and at the end you will learn to break the this rules. Some people say is the most complete book related to typography.

The Anatomy of Type by Stephen Coles Observing is another way to learn, Anatomy of Type is a collection of on hundred typefaces. Stephen Coles analyze every of this typefaces families including all their characters. This is not a book related to any typography topic, is more a gallery, classic and modern typefaces are included here. And yes… you will find helvetica here.

Type Matters by Jim Williams Type Matters! is a book of tips for everyday use, for all users of typography, from students and professionals to anyone who does any layout design on a computer. The book is arranged into three chapters: an introduction to the basics of typography; headline and display type; and setting text. 

Just My Type by Simon Garfield Just My Type investigates a range of modern mysteries, including how Helvetica took over the world, what inspires the seemingly ubiquitous use of Trajan on bad movie posters, and what makes a font look presidential, male or female, American, British, German, or Jewish. 

The Big Book of Font Combinations by Douglas Bonneville This little e-book is something to go straight to the point, if you don’t want to spend hours remembering the rules and make explorations, just go to this book and follow the combinations founded in there.

Reinventing Lettering by Emily Gregory This gorgeously presented book showcases the multitude of creative possibilities offered by the medium, including examples of illustrated and hand drawn lettering, digitally drawn lettering, 3D lettering and found lettering. Each chapter begins with an overview of the different techniques used in creating lettering and type and lettering, followed by informative profiles of some of the most innovative and exciting lettering designers working today, accompanied by inspirational galleries of luscious lettering.

Little Book of Lettering by Emily Gregory  This collection—large in scope but petite in size—surveys the recent lettering renaissance, showcasing a diverse range of talent in gorgeous, eye-catching examples and profiling today’s innovators. In a stunning little package that expertly combines a handmade feel with a modern aesthetic, this is the ultimate inspirational collection of contemporary lettering for design buffs and type enthusiasts alike.

Drawing Type by Alex Fowkes Part inspiration and part workbook, these hand-drawn type of images will inspire and excite any designer to draw and explore type. Drawing Type features real-world projects and sketchbooks of well-known type designers, including interviews about their processes. Playful, hand-drawn type can easily be used in a range of disciplines within design and illustration such as packaging, editorial, posters, advertising, online graphics, and signage; the hand-made aesthetic is more prevalent now than ever.

Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy by Eleanor Winters You know what copperplate is right?. This old style of writing even can be a synonymous of calligraphy, now you don’t need to awake you ancestors to learn this calligraphic style. You can do it with this book.

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GIVEAWAY!!!!

If you want to join the 8 Week Hot Body Challenge (which starts on November 10th and will help you get into that New Years Eve dress), then I wanna help you make it as easy as possible.

Here’s details on the Challenge: bit.ly/hotbodcombo

I’m giving away the new Fit Journal 2.0, an erasable pink Blogilates gel pen (seriously, so cool), and the 8 Week Hot Body Meal Guide (there’s also a vegan version).

All you have to do is REBLOG this! You can be from any country and any age! I’m picking a winner on Thursday November 6th at 11:59 PM PST.

Good luck!

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A lot of people like to explain consent in sexual encounters as “No means no.” This is true, but doesn’t capture as many crucial parts of happy fun sex and experiences as “Yes means yes!” Consent should always be informed and enthusiastic, never coerced, and you and your partner should be looking for consent continuously. Stay safe, stay happy, and have fun!

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Consent can look different for different people, but that’s why communication between partners is so important. No matter what it looks like though, consent should not hinge on any fear, discomfort, or pressure. 

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So I decided to put one of these together to refer back to and also help minimize some of my tabs.  Happy blogging dear tumblrbugs! :)

Get Organized

Weekly meal planning worksheet

Weekly Food & Exercise Recorder

Ultimate Life Planning System Organizers

150+ Organizing Tips & Tricks

52 Life Tips

"My Library List" Book Organizer

By the Hour Time Planner

Daily Planner With To-Do List

Daily Planner Printable

Home Management Binder

Personal Files Organizing

College & Studying

When to go to sleep/wake up

College Packing List

Dorm Essentials Checklist

What can I do with this major?

Time Management Tips

Studying Tips, More Study Tips

SelfControl Siteblocker

Studying Music Collection

Studying Mix 2

Study skills, presentation techniques, etc.

SimplyNoise, SimplyRain, myNoise, rainymood, coffitivity, Naturesoundplayer, NatureSounds

Tutoring with KhanAcademy

Time Management: My Daily Schedule, My Weekly Schedule, Balancing Work and College

For the Party-goers: What to Do If You’ve Been Drugged, Dealing with a Hangover

Finding, Choosing, and Applying for Internships

Reviews about Professors- By other students 

Food to Keep in Your Dorm

Pros and Cons to Joining a Sorority or Fraternity

Money Saving Tips for Students

Help with Math: MathWay, WolframAlpha

Can’t Remember a Word

Stress Relief 

The Mountain- 3:09

The Aurora- 1:55

The Water- 2:37

The Arctic Light- 3:21

The Quiet Place

The Quiet Place Thoughts Room

Seed Plant Breeder

Laugh with the Procatinator

Pick Up a New Hobby

Fly a Line (Vertigo Warning)

Paint a Nebula

Do Nothing for 2 Minutes

Stress Analyst

Paint a Picasso Face

Weave Silk

MoodGym

The Nicest Place On The Internet

Automatic Flatterer

Calming Manatee

Cute Overload

Self Help & Helping Others With Various Health Conditions

List of Hotlines

International Suicide Hotlines

International Rape Crisis Hotlines

Lifeline Crisis Chat

IMAlive-online crisis chat

List of Self-Help Channels

Self-Harm Alternatives

How to Talk to a Friend Having a Panic Attack

How to Talk to a Friend Who Self-Harms

How to Talk to a Friend With an Addiction

How to Talk to a Friend With an Eating Disorder

How to Talk to a Suicidal Friend

How to cope with depression (+)

Natural depression treatments

Ways to deal with depression/stress

Bipolar disorder and self-help

Living with bipolar disorder

Tips to beat insomnia (+) (+)

Understanding insomnia and how to cure it

First Aid for Seizures

First Aid for Heart Attacks

First Aid for Burns

First Aid for Allergic Reactions

First Aid for Heat Strokes

First Aid for Your Animal Companions

Dealing with gastritis

Rape escape (+)

How to break out of a zip-tie

Bored?

Read Any Book

Project Gutenberg -  free online books

Writing prompts and exercises

The Secret Door

Sandbox Maker

Learn a New Language

Hobbies Masterpost

Personality Tests

Simulation of Living on Minimum Wage

Boredom Masterpost

Color Matching

An Everything Post

Food

60 Great Vegan Recipes

Jamba Juice Smoothie Recipes

Maple Oat Smoothie

Vegan Blueberry PB Smoothie

Fiber & Protein Berry Smoothie

Plantation Tea

Top 5 Salad Recipes

List of Healthy Recipes

Kitchencraft Meta Masterpost

List of Awesome Healthy Food Blogs

Fitness

Workout Playlists

Online workout videos masterpost (not mine)

Blogilates Masterpost (not mine)

Youtube Workouts (not mine)

Full body cardio core 20 minute workout

Most effective 20 minute cardio workout-Tabata Style

High intensity Fat burn cardio training 

Full body circuit Boot Camp workout

Zuzana Light-ZWOD #1 

Fitness-How To Tror workout

POP Sculpt: Total Body workout

Sexy Body Exercise Video

Model workout episode 1

Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred: Level 1

Walking cardio shape up

The thanksgiving BIG BURN workout

Cardio Groove n’Burn Workout video by ExerciseTV

Pilates-Exercicios Alongamento

Bootcamp Calorie burn by ExerciseTV

Full body workout by eFit

Cardio Fat blast workout

Insanity 20 minute workout-fat burner

Total body workout 30 minutes

Fitness-suicie sweat workout

Victoria’s secret model workout

Food baby HIIT workout (POP cardio)

Bare Fitness-Girl fight

POP pilates: New body makeover

Bikini Blaster 1 HIIT it hard

15 minute total body boot camp

Fat blasting 10 minute workout

Pump it up

Killer abs workout

Tabata workout abs in 4 minutes

Sunkissed ABS workout

Hardcore ab workout with blogilates

6 minutes abs of steel ab workout

Core Rhythms Full workout

25 minutes abs and obliques workout

The Bikini abs workout

Reduce Tummy

Yummy abs workout

Lose bellyfat

Fitness-10 minute ab workout

Amazing abs workout

Best core workout ever

HIIT workout for abs and obliques

INSANE abs in 5 minutes

POP Pilates: Intense ab workout

Crazy slim abs 

Stomach exercises to lose belly fat

5 minute abs workout

Flat belly workout 

Standing abs workout routine

Flat stomach exercises

Abs of envy workout

Pumped up sexy abs workout

Bikini booty Thong workout 

MaliBooty workout

Hot booty firm up

POP Pilates: Butt blaster

Butt and Cleavage workout

How to get a perfect butt workout tutorial

10 minute booty shaking waist workout

Beach bum workout 

Best butt workout ever

What make you bootyful butt challenge

POP Pilates: Beyonce bootylicious Bum butt Badonkadonk

Bonanza 

Pilates butt burner 

3 weeks to an awesome butt

Butt like a Brazilian 

Quick butt workout

Butt lifting exercises 

Best exercises for buttocks

How to get skinny looking legs

Thinner thighs and legs workout

How to slim and tone those thighs 

Pumped up kicks workout

Squat challenge

Tone it up Thighs workout

Sexy legs workout 

10 minute Ballerina beauty, long legs, tight booty

Love your legs workout

Leg slimming exercises

FGF Ultimate Upper body workout

Awesomesauce arms

Lean, toned and strong arms workout

Best arm workout, slim arms

Upper body pulse workout

Killer sculpted arms workout

Upper back, arms and chest workout 

50 caliber arm workout

Toned triceps challenge 

20 minute Yoga class for complete beginners 

Yoga for weight loss-morning and evening routine 

Yoga for strong slim legs

20 minute weight loss & fatburning Yoga Workout

Hatha Yoga flow 55 minute class

Yoga for bedtime 

Jennifer Aniston’s Yoga ab workout

Yoga booty goddess booty

Yoga morning routine 

Hot Yoga challenge

Yoga Meltdown with Jillian Michaels

Basic Breathing-Beginner Yoga

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The Shape of Ideas by Grant Snider

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Ideas change lives

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