adventure

Life is either a great adventure or nothing at all -Helen Keller

[loveliesttime]

being in ur 20s is just like. no i don't know what i want but i know i had it once and i know that i want it back. no i don't know what i want but i know that im needin it and i know i need it bad.

[luxlightly]

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it a thousand more times: No piece of dystopian fiction has ever been a prediction of the future. They are observations and criticisms of the present. 

[luxlightly]

“Wooow! How did Orwell predict the surveillance state so well in 1984??” 

He didn’t. He was making an observation of the surveillance state that already existed in his present, and exaggerated it to make the metaphor obvious.

Learning and discussing these works in terms of them being predictions and having test questions like “do you think his prediction came true?” is not only pointless, but actively counterintuitive. When you frame these works as being ‘people from the past knew that the future would be terrible’ you shift the entire perspective to one of some kind of nostalgia for a past that didn’t exist. 

These author’s aren’t oracles. They’re satirists. Their predictions ‘come true’ because they were already true when they wrote them. 

[copperbadge]

Octavia Butler, whose visions of the future from the 90s and early oughts feel ever more prescient, wrote an excellent essay about this called A Few Rules for Predicting The Future. 

[king-monky]

yeah i understand women. they all want daggers and swords. it’s quite simple really

[guinevereslancelot]

every film noir detective who arrested the femme fatale instead of running away w her was a fool and a coward send post

[guinevereslancelot]

"boo hoo she stole the diamonds/killed a man" yeah, and? maybe he deserved it. the diamonds look great w her outfit. you just hate to see a girlboss winning

[hope-mikaelson]

LEGALLY BLONDE (2001) dir. Robert Luketic

[decadent-hag]

Love when industries complain that they can't find skilled workers. Like obviously you can't bc no one is willing to train anyone anymore. They all want experience. Where are workers supposed to get it?

[bossuary]

Part of sex-positivity is supporting people who’re positive that they don’t want to have sex.

[guerrillatech]

u better be out here respecting trans people or your pronouns are gonna be was/were

[apatheticskeleton]

i can NOT stop thinking about when c.s. lewis introduced a character by saying “his name, unfortunately, was Eustace Scrubb” like BRUH no need to do him dirty like that 😭😭 you GAVE him that name. tf

[jedi-valjean]

You forgot he immediately followed it with “and he almost deserved it.”

[lioncalledparsley]

#clive staples you are throwing bricks in glass houses 

[jamesscarstairs]

if i was in a jane austen novel i would be the one sent to the seaside for my health

[turnipfritters]

remember how malia obama never tweeted incriminating emails of herself colluding with foreign powers. i miss that.

[ingtarwolf-deactivated20181002]

No she just smoked weed while being guarded by federal agents. But please. Keep acting like either side has a right to the moral high ground.

[algo-hermoso]

You’re really fucking stupid if you think a teenager smoking weed is comparable to a grown adult colluding with foreign powers to shift the election.

[jitterati-deactivated20190311]

womanhood and having a voyeuristic relationship with your own pain

[jitterati-deactivated20190311]

“am i suffering beautifully?” “is my agony lovable?”

[guccifloralsuits]

good morning to bitches who would have been diagnosed with female hysteria in the 19th century 😍♥️🥰 the rest of u...hi I guess 🙄

[thatspectacularpigeon]

I hate people that are like "oh you shouldn't curse. Use proper words. Only people with a small vocabulary uses curse words" like no Karen fuck is exactly the word I'm looking for.

Because saying you are and idiot is one thing

Saying you are a fucking idiot is another

[arachnofiend]

Similarly, trying to be all fancy and calling someone a “blight on the world” simply has a different energy and weight to it than calling them a fucking asshole.

You wouldn’t use a rapier in the same situation you’d use a folding chair.

[ruffboi-mags]

that last line is on fire tho.

[mercurygray]

Still watching Bridgerton, and thinking this show would be greatly improved by the inclusion of a few -  to quote my good friend and yours, Lydia Bennet - officers.

[targsdaenerys]

the complaints about the diversity in bridgerton astound me. “simon was described with piercing blue eyes” “i love black people, but segregation wasnt lifted in england at this time, they would all still be slaves” “wouldnt mind the diversity, but its not historically accurate.” 

honey. you are saying these complaints as these character waltz to instrumental Bad Guy by billie eilish in dresses and suits that are colors that didnt even exist yet adorned with plastic sequins and glitter. historical accuracy was not their goal. just say youre racist and go.

[wendimydarling]

Guys I laughed waaaaaaaaaay harder than I should have.