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indefinite hiatus

I mean the title basically says it all, but for reasons that are my own, I am taking a break from social media. Not that I don't love you guys but I need to love myself more.

#personal

shencomix

This is the best place, actually.

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danigreyjoy

PHOTOS: Transgender Elders Show Us The Meaning of Survival

In the many years that Jess T. Dugan, a Boston-based trans photographer, has spent capturing images of gender-variant people, she says she’s consistently noticed a striking absence in both art and social sciences: imagery of older trans folks.

"And," Dugan explains further on her website, “those [representations] that do exist are often one-dimensional.” So Dugan set out to fill this gap, teaming up with social work researcher Vanessa Fabbre since fall 2013 to develop the evocative photo project, “To Survive on This Shore.” In the recently released collection, diverse trans elders ages 50 to 86 are pictured at home or in meaningful spaces, gazing unapologetically into the camera, as if asking the viewer to look deeper into their unique context and life story.

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loosesealbluths

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"Queue" is just "Q" followed by 4 silent letters.

nightonblogmountain

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xekstrin

i feel u buddy

cattletyrants

#so many people have reblogged this without knowing it’s hideaki anno’s cat and it’s weird #like this is not just any relatable cat this cat belongs to the man who made neon genesis evangelion

robotlyra

canadianbeerandpostmodernism

bumbleblu

From a Paris Match issue on Harlem in 1970. Jack Garofalo photographed the neighbourhood in July of that year.

1970 was such a crossroads for fashion too. The men in the top and bottom photos might be only a decade apart but their clothing seems to belong to two really different eras.

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sylphofpersonalspace

do you ever read a fanfiction line so bad…

they meant blood

its 5 letters

micdotcom

These Black History Month ads are both adorable and incredibly moving

For many kids, imagining what it’s like to be one of your heroes is a common inspirational tool. One photo series is allowing them to do just that.

Desmond Tutu, Lena Horne, Stuart Scott and more

I just finished the first draft of my fanfic paper

16 pages

I just wrote 16 pages (in 3 days) for fun

On a related note: now accepting volunteers to read over this beast

#2 weeks until the conference #just in time

katelouisepowell

Before Jaws hit theaters in 1975, great white sharks weren’t the villains we now believe them to be. But when the movie–which was purely fiction–became a blockbuster, it directly caused humans to seek out and kill sharks, causing widespread population drops in shark species across the board. The influence of that piece of fiction (coincidentally also based on a novel) even coined its own name: The Jaws Effect. When Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published, it was perceived by the public to be an erotic novel, despite the fact that it told the story of child sexual abuse through the viewpoint of an unreliable narrator. The result? To this day, we refer to sexually precocious teen girls as “Lolitas,” despite the author’s intent. Yes, 50 Shades of Grey is fiction, but fiction isn’t created or consumed in a vacuum. It is influenced by our culture, and influences our culture, and 50 Shades of Grey isn’t an exception. Even though something is “just fiction,” it can still have detrimental effects on society or expose problems that already exist in our perceptions. So when someone says “50 Shades of Grey promotes abuse as romance,” they’re not saying, “50 Shades of Grey is a totally real thing that happened and is a cautionary tale.” They’re saying that this work of fiction is having, or has the potential to create, real world effects.

Jenny Trout, “Get Over It!” How not to respond to critics of 50 Shades of Grey (via katelouisepowell)