Ally the Awesome

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I think things and do things. I'm pretty sure that most people do. I'm going to become one of those people who blogs about all of the things that they think or do. This will not be an organized, coherent blog of intelligence and sophistication: It will be stupid ramblings, silliness and randomness, and other such similar nonsense.

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thirdity

“Writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.”

— Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea

havingapoemwithyou

XIII (dedications) by Adrienne Rich

mournfulroses

Franz Kafka, from a letter featured in "Kafka: The Tremendous World I Have Inside my Head,"

pdlcomics

feeling great!

mournfulroses

Franz Kafka, referring to Milena Jesenská in a letter to Max Brod featured in "Kafka: The Tremendous World I Have Inside my Head,"

hersurvival

And while I should experience

A threat of danger,

I am enamored by her blaze.

The warmth, the pure and desperate hunger

In those dancing flames,

Look more like open arms to me

Than they ever have a warning.

academia-lucifer

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

— William Faulkner.

spooksier

passages that make you whisper "oh my god"

xray-vex

batshit-auspol

Australian Federal Election 2001: Pranksters follow around Prime Ministerial contender Kim Beazley in an attempt to sneak fake microphones into news footage

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only-cat-memes

Your daily dose of cat memes

Cake!

shoutout to hedonism. get naked and eat cheese

achillieus

what a shame doctors don’t prescribe vacation to secluded seaside towns like they used to

likeagrapefruit

mary oliver already said everything

molsno

feminism will always fail as long as feminists continue to work within existing power structures. advocacy with the purpose of elevating women to the same position as men within current legal frameworks, even if successful, will only benefit the most privileged (white, cisgender, heterosexual, thin, able-bodied, neurotypical, upper-class) women, while failing all the rest. the solution to the gender wage gap, for instance, is not additional legislation, it's the abolition of capitalism and imperialism. as long as two people with the same job can be paid different wages, as long as they're not entitled to the fruits of their labor, as long as it's profitable to take advantage of low labor costs in the global south, women will continue to be oppressed. the goal of feminism MUST be to abolish the structures that allow women to be oppressed in the first place, otherwise it will fail to meaningfully liberate women.