BOY DIVISION

he/she/vamp. (strange-stardust if you're seeing this pls come back)

[000l]

[runnerleckie]

put them in the pitt season 2

[coolfemmes]

[wehadfacesthen]

Native American ballerinas Maria Tallchief (front) and her sister Marjorie Tallchief. They were members of the Osage Nation. Maria was a principal with the New York City Ballet and America’s first prima ballerina. Marjorie was an étoile with the Paris Opera Ballet. Photo from the 1950′s.

[jdiarys]

Consider the Sun as the Darker Force, Not the Moon.

Unknown: Pinterest // Unknown: Pinterest // Icarus Painting // Frank Iero: .Stitches. // Adam Benedict: Sunburn // Unknown: Pinterest // transrevolutions

[maliusaidh]

[maliusaidh]

[fandom-trash-goblin]

we've got a life to love living.

[metamorphesque]

poems to read while having breakfast at the heartbreak hotel

I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) by Edna St. Vincent Millay 

I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

[you fit into me] by Margaret Atwood

You by Carol Ann Duffy

Be Near Me by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Blessed be the spectacle by Lev St. Valentine

You Are Tired (I Think) by E.E. Cummings

Hope you're well. Please don't read this by Lev St. Valentine

To Say Dark Things by Ingeborg Bachmann

Lilichka by Vladimir Mayakovski

Love and Hate by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal

Sanctuary by Jean Valentine

the winter sun says fight by Peter Gizzi

The More Loving One by W. H. Auden

A Primer For The Small Weird Loves by Richard Siken

Dirty Valentine by Richard Siken

Morning by Frank O Hara

We Don't Know How To Say Goodbye by Anna Akhmatova

You'll Live, But I'll Not… by Anna Akhmatova

from “An Attempt at Jealousy” by Marina Tsvetaeva

The Last Toast by Anna Akhmatova

In Dream by Anna Akhmatova

Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath

Talking In Bed by Philip Larkin

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats

La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats

[vaspider]

Me, starting a video that says it's going to explain how Victorian poorhouses fucked up the concept of charity forever: ok, show me what you've got

Video: it starts with the ideas of the Christian philosopher --

Me: DON'T SAY IT DON'T FUCKING SAY IT

Video: -- John Calvin

Me:

[hyperoperationfractallisation]

Who (he asks, half to piss you off and half because he genuinely doesn't know)

[vaspider]

You can't piss me off with that question, because unless you were raised like I was - deeply religiously and within an Evangelical Protestant family - you will probably have never heard of John Calvin.

In short: John Calvin was a French theologian during the Protestant Reformation. He was a philosopher in the same way that ebola is a living thing, or the same way that C4 on a bridge revitalizes a riverfront. If you're familiar with the way that many people say that Reagan is to blame for everything shitty about modern American politics, well, they're half right.

A lot of it is actually John Calvin's fault, but that's just because his shit philosophies are responsible for ~90% of the shit you hate about American life, period.

[hyperoperationfractallisation]

I'm British but wow

[vaspider]

Good (actually terrible, but) news: John Calvin is also responsible for fucking up where you live!

Anglicanism's major tenets were formed largely by Thomas Cranmer attempting to negotiate a "middle way" between Lutheranism & Calvinism. Many aspects of Calvinism were adopted into the Reformed traditions central to Anglican theology & the via media, or middle way, is unfortunately basically just two shitty people playing tug-of-war over the exact way in which Anglicanism would be terrible. This is so foundational to the Church of England that it is addressed in the 3rd paragraph of the opening section of the Wikipedia page on Anglicanism.

Sorry to be the bearer of shitty news! John Calvin is the Worst!

[asphodelimago]

Calvinism, in brief, for those unaware:

Free will isn't real. God makes literally everything happen, and if you complain about it you're complaining about God.

Why does God let bad things happen to good people? Fuck you, that's why. Are you questioning God?

God already decided if you're going to Heaven or Hell, probably before you were born. There's nothing you can do about it. It doesn't matter if you try to be a good person, or if you accept Jesus, or if you go to confession, or if you saved five thousand orphans from a burning building. If God ~mysteriously~ decides "fuck you, burn forever", that's your fate.

However, God likes to show little signs of who he likes. Say, having lots of money, or being hot, or not having horrible illnesses. Good things happen to "the elect", who are people God likes. Bad things happen to everyone else.

Rich people are probably going to Heaven, and they're just better than you, because that's God's secret sign that he likes them more than you. Why? Because fuck you.

If bad things happen to you, it's probably because you deserve it and you're going to Hell. Likewise, if you're poor, ugly, or disabled, you're probably going to Hell.

All of this bullshit has of course had a heavy influence on:

Capitalism, because having money isn't a sign that you're exploiting people, it's a sign that God mysteriously wants you to have nice things. Nothing you can do about it, free will isn't real!

Imperialism, because if you succeed in taking over a place and stealing all their stuff, that's a sign that God likes you. If God liked them, it wouldn't have happened, so you're really following God's plan. And torturing people who are already going to Hell barely even counts, they probably deserve it!

American exceptionalism specifically. Consider the above, and mysteriously, all the native people start dying, leaving vast tracts of land for your people to settle. Well, gosh! God genocided a continent to show that it was secretly always ours! He must really like us!

Witch trials, debtors prisons, insane asylums, &c. They aren't hot or rich, so by definition, they're probably evil and deserve for bad things to happen to them!

... and half of the other shitty things that happen in our society, basically. Calvinism is horrific and it underlies a lot - especially in the US and UK, because the Puritans and Roundheads were mostly Calvinists.

(This was the religious freedom that the Pilgrims were seeking. The freedom to be horrible antisocial creeps.)

[vaspider]

This is a pretty good basic summary, yep.

[businesstiramisu]

John Calvin is not obscure. I'd think he would merit a mention in any history classes that cover Early Modern Europe. Calvinism wasn't quite as big as Lutheranism in terms of adherents or political clout but it was still a huge factor in the European Wars of Religion.

Fair enough if the second poster has since forgotten the name but if he was educated in the UK I would bet he learned about the guy at some point.

[vaspider]

I don't think you have any comprehension of how much this is absolutely not taught outside of Evangelical circles in the US beneath like... college level religious history or European history classes, and a lot of the time even then the syllabus will often sort of wave to the Protestant Reformation on its way to the next war.

The reason why I am able to pull quick summaries of how Calvinism fucks up US life and mindsets is because I've had to do it over and over again for a long, long time, ever since I realized that like ... only my friends who grew up in a Religious Environment like I did had any idea who John Calvin was, why he sucked, or how he's connected to why things suck here.

It's also like... really hard to overstate how much the Puritans are lionized in most US History classes, and how most history classes in the US below the college level pretty much only glance at Early Modern European history in the context of setting up American history. You might get this covered in an AP European History class, but otherwise, below college-level classes specifically about European history? Nah.

Teaching American kids why Calvin sucks undermines some of our national self-propagandization, so it generally doesn't happen.

[stabbedinthenameofscience]

Interesting! I didn't know how much Calvin isn't really known--he was covered in my Methodist confirmation classes when I was 13. But we also had a pretty amazing pastor who taught the Methodist church foundations and history and the history of the Bible to us, so maybe she was just incredibly thorough and this wasn't a universal experience for Methodist confirmation.

[vaspider]

Methodism is an evangelical denomination, whether we're talking UMC or EMC; Wesleyan theology is very big on evangelizing & Methodists kinda... invented the tent revival. It's largely associated with Pentecostals in most people's minds, but there are still many, many Methodist tent revivals happening.

So. You had the aforementioned Evangelical Upbringing. :) That said, it's been my experience that a lot of Methodists don't cover the denomination's root in Anglicanism in depth bc since Methodists follow the Arminian doctrine (that salvation is achievable by all and salvific grace was intended for all), mentioning Calvinism is kinda like bringing up your racist granddad. It's embarrassing.

There isn't an awful lot of attention given to the ways that Calvinistic mindset still soaks into a lot of Methodist thinking, but... that's hard work. They'd rather just have a potluck in the basement instead.

(Can you guess which church I was dragged to after we moved to PA & before I started refusing to go to church as a teenager?)

[bigscaryd]

Once again, we are compelled to ask: are the goyim OK?

[vaspider]

There's a reason I stopped being one.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)

[dimensionhoppingrose]

You know what’s really disturbing to me? The culture that seems to have sprung up around fanfiction. Writers spend weeks and months working on a story – I think my record is six months on A Place For Us To Dream. And so many times readers expect to just be given a chapter even if they don’t give anything to the writer in return.

I’m going to date myself a bit here, but I’ve been reading/writing fanfiction for ten years. And when I first started it was a wonderful community. There was an unspoken rule – if you read/enjoyed it, you review it. You take thirty seconds to tell an author who probably spent anywhere from three days to a week writing that chapter you just enjoyed to tell them you enjoyed it. Even if it was as simple as “Great chapter, can’t wait to see what happens next!”

Writers spend so much time on stories, and then they post it because they have this thing that they’ve invested so many hours into and they want to share it with the world. They know how they feel about the story, and they want to know how other people feel, what other people think.

And when you read it and don’t review, you know what message you’re sending that author? That they’re not worth your time, or you didn’t enjoy their story. So why should they keep posting it? Yeah they might continue working on it in their own time, for their own enjoyment, but you might never see another chapter again because you couldn’t be bothered to take thirty seconds out of your day to tell them how you feel.

I’ve written stories in eight different fandoms, ranging from very small to very big (I’ll openly admit I wrote Twilight fanfiction once. Once. It was an Alice/Jasper story and haters can hate all they want but I’m still proud of it). I took a break for a few years because I fell out of fandoms during college, and when I came back apparently it’d become the norm to just greedily consume writing without telling writers how you feel. And that is one of the saddest things in the world to me because fanfiction is where I really started getting serious about writing. It’s how I’ve honed by skills and become the writer I am today. And that was largely in part because of all the support I got when I was an itty-bitty thirteen-year-old writing crappy W.I.T.C.H. fanfiction.

Everyone keeps saying “reviews don’t matter, you should just write for yourself.” Well, you’re wrong. Reviews make or break fanfiction. Reviews tell writers whether it’s worth their time to continue posting that story online or whether they should keep it on their hard drives and never share it with the world.

Kill the attitude that reviews don’t matter. Start telling writers you like their stories. And if you don’t, if you all just continue to be invisible readers? Don’t be surprised when that writer disappears.

[shotofstress]

Its been almost 10 years since this post and this is still a problem that has just grow each year

[mjalti]

I know it sounds fake but you really do have a lot of silent lovers on this planet who look at you and wish they had your smile or your hair color or your humor or your intellect or your intentions or your heart, your manners, your eyes, your ease, even just you. People who are too shy to tell you what they admire about you or what they wish for you or who they see themselves becoming bc of you & they’re too shy to tell you. even tho it isn’t verbalized, the universe has still heard and the universe has loved you for helping out on its creations. You’re that person. You’re you.

[katestewartt]

"I was in love with the character of Laura Palmer and her contradictions: radiant on the surface but dying inside. I wanted to see her live, move and talk." - David Lynch

[liones-s]

a big lesson for me was learning that most things are not as fragile as I’d believed. missing a class, or turning in a bad assignment, won’t instantly destroy your professor’s opinion of you. accidentally saying something harsh won’t make your friend want to end the friendship. it takes work to repair these things - it takes effort and research and sometimes a sincere apology - but you can do that because they’re not irreparably broken. what you’ve worked to build, in academia and in relationships and in life, is stronger and more enduring that your mind may teach you to believe. don’t let imagined fragility lead you to giving up

[slutforpringles]

Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda for Hugo x RB captured by Status

[schadentekkers]

+ bonus:

[licenseddoctor]

Hey kid you want a job?

Great get online and go to a job board. Indeed, Linkedin whatever. Now you're gonna search for a role that's in your city, fits your qualifications, and doesn't seem like a bad time.

See that easy apply button? Don't hit it they just throw those in the trash. Now you're gonna want to go to the company's website and check their careers page.

Oh? That job doesn't exist anymore. Cool go back to the job board and find another one.

Great you found another job, you're on the company's career page and the job exists!! So you're going to need to make an account on the career page website. They're using Workday, the same site as the last job you applied for? Who cares? You need to make another account for THIS job's workday page.

Now you're going to upload your resume. That'll autopopulate about 15 boxes with everything on your resume, except formatted wrong and with tons of errors. So just go through and painstakingly check the dates on all of that and rewrite everything you already laid out in an aesthetically pleasing format on your resume.

Ok time for the cover letter, explain why this specific job and company are deeply important to you. You love their mission statement and wouldn't even laugh if their ceo was gunned down in the street. You'll really want to reiterate the things you just spent the last 20 minutes filling out on the resume section

(Remember to include language from the job description, people who work in HR are lower than dogs and they need patterns or they get confused.) Write about a page, but hey don't sound too desperate or robotic this is where they judge your character!

Maybe add your portfolio site at the end here, who knows if that helps no one has ever clicked mine haha.

Anywayyy time to hit apply! Congrats! You'll see that confirmation email come in and you should be getting the rejection letter in about 2 weeks. Unfortunately your resume didn't have the right buzzwords and the AI auto rejected you :(

Time to start again and try not to kill yourself!