l'étoile au milieu.

somewhere neither here nor there.

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Elle Fanning’s Fan Fantasy

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'You may not see it now,' said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, 'but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in a pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.'

The Phantom Tollbooth

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he who sleeps: i wish i had more people

me who is awake: for what?

he who sleeps: i wish i had different people

me who is awake: different people for what?

he who sleeps: cause right now we're playing 3 on 2

me who is awake: you're playing basketball?

he who sleeps: mmhmm

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And finally, to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you. As the author Anne Lamott once wrote, ‘Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.’ Although I can’t save every boat, I hope that by speaking today, you absorbed a small amount of light, a small knowing that you can’t be silenced, a small satisfaction that justice was served, a small assurance that we are getting somewhere, and a big, big knowing that you are important, unquestionably, you are untouchable, you are beautiful, you are to be valued, respected, undeniably, every minute of every day, you are powerful and nobody can take that away from you. To girls everywhere, I am with you. Thank you.

Every Woman, the Stanford survivor’s letter to her attacker

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More than poverty, natural resources, religion, or degree of democracy, violence against females is the most reliable predictor of whether a nation will be violent within itself or will use violence against another country — and gender violence has become so great that for the first time, there are now fewer females on Earth than males.

gloria steinem.

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The only interesting thing about an artist is their courage. We all have trouble dealing with who we are. Maybe the only reason to pay 20 dollars is to see someone onstage who has accepted who they are. I think that is the most endearing thing on the planet. It’s that moment of release.

Lou Doillon.

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project apollo archive.

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In the nineties there was more space to be human; ideas and personalities had time to develop. It was cool to be anonymous and just get on with your own thing with your friends. Sometimes we need to look back to go forward. Maybe it’s as basic as that.

sarah mower @ vogue.com

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rihanna's 'bitch better have my money' choreographed by tricia miranda.

[newyorker]

We have, quite likely, found at 110 Calhoun Street, in Charleston, South Carolina, the place where Columbine, Aurora, and Newtown cross with Baltimore, Ferguson, and Sanford. We periodically mourn the deaths of a group of Americans who die at the hands of another armed American. We periodically witness racial injustices that inspire anger in the streets. And sometimes we witness both. This is, quite simply, how we now live.

Jelani Cobb, on the shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17 (via newyorker)

[stonedimmaculatevintage]

[bbook]

“There’s no mythology for women. If you’re reading On Poetics or whatever, the archetypal, primal stories are all about men. With women you’re either Persephone, the innocent that’s captured in the underground, or you’re Aphrodite, the unapproachable goddess. There are no gradations,” explains Brit Marling, always the charming intellectual, speaking from the Los Angeles home where she’s working on her next script. “It’s fascinating to watch women writers and directors wrestling in real time with what it means to invent the feminine narrative from scratch. Does it not look at all like the traditional, linear hero’s journey? That very classic, traditional line that we think of as storytelling. Or does the female version look different? Is it elliptical?”

 … “There are all these things around us all the time that we can sense but can’t explain,” Marling says. “Film becomes one of the beautiful tools for attempting to get at the unseen, to talk about it and to revel in it.”

Brit Marling: Inventing The Female Narrative

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remember: our sing-a-long to the Sound of Music while playing our respective video games.

[newyorker]

The killings in Paris were an appalling offense to human life and dignity. The enormity of these crimes will shock us all for a long time. But the suggestion that violence by self-proclaimed Jihadists is the only threat to liberty in Western societies ignores other, often more immediate and intimate, dangers.

Teju Cole on national mourning, freedom of speech, and the tragedies we overlook. (via newyorker)

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h: unh-unhhh, cause you're not gonna be in that deck

d: what?

h: you're not gonna be in that deck

d: what?

h: that deck

d: what deck?

h: that you've got in your cards

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I love feeling dark. The whole of my life, when people are getting to know me, they're like, 'You're so cute!' But how I look is not how I am. If you're going to get to know me on the body that God gave me, then you're going to get a shock at some point. I look like an anime character, but inside, I feel like a warrior. Like a female mother-earth warrior in a tribe in Africa or a rainforest that we haven't discovered yet. I feel like I'm really quiet and really tall, six foot, and when I scream, all the leaves rustle and I can throw spears. I have all these big scars all over my face from where jungle animals have tried to fight me, but I've won. I've had loads of children, so my bones are strong, but my skin is all weathered. That's how I feel. I was just put in a manga character by accident.

FKA Twigs. 

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Because the bottom line is we’re telling stories for the younger generation. They’re the ones that are the true revolutionaries, they’re the ones who are going to change things. All we can do is help.

Jena Malone.