Heaven Is Here

[anarchopuppy]

"dont feed the trolls" is an even more important rule in an age where that troll is likely to be a chatbot trained on bad politics crawling tags specifically to waste ur time. do not engage

[turnupthestrobe]

[butchfemmesisters-archive]

devouring mothers by niki de saint phalle, 1972

[marypickfords]

A Dream Longer Than the Night (Niki de Saint Phalle, 1976)

[chelsamander]

“The Ostentatious Orgasm”. Illustration by Wendy Buttrose for Cosmopolitan, July 1972

[wovi]

[tenderlovingmuse]

home of vanessa bell, english painter and sister of virginia woolf

[fionaapplerocks]

"Don't call me frail. I'll beat the hell out of you."

2012 Fiona Apple video addressing Perez Hilton:

"But Perez Hilton... to hire 'experts' to comment and say that I am sick is totally, totally irresponsible, and dangerous, and you should know better, and so should everybody who's talking about me like that. And I'm not on any drugs. I had some bourbon before I came out here. I've always been honest-- why would I be dishonest about anything? Perez Hilton, TMZ, whoever you represent: I'm not invulnerable to this stuff. I've been around for many years, but it hurts.

I didn't need to hear that I'm 90 years old just because I didn't have a facelift in the last seven years. I'm fucking losing weight because I'm having trouble digesting food because your guts are connected to your brain and I have a lot of stress in my brain. So lay off with that stuff because it hurts my feelings. If for no other reason, that should be a good enough reason. Stop hurting people's feelings, stop bullying people because you were bullied.

I know that that's not what you are. It can't be. Please stop hurting my feelings, because it really fucking bothers me. Seriously. Please stop. It doesn't matter what I look like!"

Later in the concert, according to Tampa Bay Online, she gave an addendum: "And another thing, everybody, Don't call me frail. I'll beat the hell out of you."

~ via Pitchfork, October 2012

After this callout, Perez did delete some (but not all) of his mean posts about Fiona.

[grubloved]

i'm listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a "habitat restoration". when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.

later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.

then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner's garden.

[kcsmall]

This quote really got me: "The owner is a man who loves mosses, and the exercise of power. I have no doubts of his sincerity in wishing to protect them from harm, once they conformed to his landscape design.  But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the sovreignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and diminishing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone, and walked each day to see them."

- Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

[bonivers]

(girl who is already extremely private) i think i need to Move In More Silence

[eraserheadadult]

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

[mortalityplays]

learn to associate cleaning with pride instead of shame and your quality of life will improve in ways you can't even imagine btw

[afroesoteric]

[sliversoakley4]

[amandla]

remember when audre lorde said who up themming they them rn

[amandla]

[medievaljournalist]

i just checked my status effects for the first time in a while how long have i been Doomed for

[cosmonautroger]

Manjit Thapp