Alina Khan

I'm a socially awkward, OG pimpstah. Oh, and my name is Alina.

[torontomami-deactivated20160330]

I’m really bad at texting unless I’m in love with you

[nevver]

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, Patrick Joust

[northernlightsandhighlands]

I wanna go away, far away

[nobrashfestivity]

Katushika Hokusai, Variations of Mt Fuji 

Including 凱風快晴  South Wind, Clear Sky, “Fuji Blue” and the rare “Pink Fuji” (#4)

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[allyouryeahs]

“the palace of gold”

manvitha mallela, teesta dalvi, and namrata tripathi by omkar chitnis

[thequotejournals]

Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.

Esther Perel (via wordsnquotes)

[just-shower-thoughts]

The amount of times l’ve said “I love my life” sarcastically compared to the number of times I’ve said “I love my life” genuinely is a depressing ratio

[dennys]

[lifetoldbyalina]

I worry about Denny's sometimes

[wordsnquotes]

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight (via wordsnquotes)

[just-shower-thoughts]

Most people treat depression as if the depressed person sat down in a room, weighed out the pros and cons, and decided being depressed was a great option.

[durshika]

Well said.

[angrymuslimah]

Finally someone said it

[mazeratiii-deactivated20160722]

And if that’s what you want, marry a maid.

[sunnah-swag-deactivated20150425]

Even a the maid would become your wife, and therefore this will still stand. There’s no ways around it. It’s simple. Your wife is not a slave.

[anemiaman]

Visit Original Link

[anemiaman]

I DIDNT CHECK TH E SONG FULLY BEFORE POSTING THIS I FUCKED UP

[anemiaman]

congratulations!!! through doubt, you have unlocked backstory!!!

imagine, if you will, innocent, overly-trusting me listening to the mario galaxy ost and getting to the honeyhive galaxy theme, and thinking “wow! this song would go great with a pokemon walking gif!”

a brilliant idea! i immediately search up the song, and oh, how naive i was.

the third result is very official-looking!! a perfect candidate for a quick youtube rip–it’s just a meme, it won’t hurt anybody.

the first few second autoplay, and it seems legit! i quickly copy the url and download the file, then make the post

at this point, i haven’t seen the gif along with the song i’d intended to put with it, so i have a listen!!

and let me tell you, the surprise i got,

[doctor-roman]

@bace-jeleren

[pizzaotter]

JESUS I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT 😂

[janefondasmugshot-deactivated20]

i used to think i was unphotogenic then i found out i was just ugly

[peachyroyalty]

Trying to propagate this from a steam cutting. I hope it doesn’t die like my tulips did.

[fuckyeahbrutalism]

Forum, University of Bochum, Germany, 1971

(Klaus Huneke and Otfried Maul)

[prokopetz]

I am 100% convinced that “exit, pursued by a bear” is a reference to some popular 1590s meme that we’ll never be able to understand because that one play is the only surviving example of it.

[prokopetz]

Seriously, we’ll never figure it out. I’ll wager trying to understand “exit, pursued by a bear” with the text of The Winter’s Tale as our primary source is like trying to understand loss.jpg when all you have access to is a single overcompressed JPEG of a third-generation memetic mutation that mashes it up with YMCA and “gun” - there’s this whole twitching Frankensteinian mass of cultural context we just don’t have any way of getting at.

[sandovers]

no, but this is why people do the boring archival work! because we think we do know why “exit, pursued by a bear” exists, now, and we figured it out by looking at ships manifests of the era -

it’s also why there was a revival of the unattributed and at the time probably rather out of fashion mucedorus at the globe in 1610 (the same year as the winter’s tale), and why ben jonson wrote a chariot pulled by bears into his court masque oberon, performed on new year’s day of 1611.

we think the answer is polar bears.

no, seriously!  in late 1609 the explorer jonas poole captured two polar bear cubs in greenland and brought them home to england, where they were purchased by the beargarden, the go-to place in elizabethan london for bear-baiting and other ‘animal sports.’  it was at the time run by edward alleyn (yes, the actor) and his father-in-law philip henslowe (him of the admiral’s men and that diary we are all so very grateful for), and would have been very close, if not next to, the globe theatre.

of course, polar bear cubs are too little and adorable for baiting, even to the bloodthirsty tudor audience, aren’t they?  so, what to do with the little bundles of fur until they’re too big to be harmless?  well, if there’s anything we know about the playwrights and theatre professionals of the time, it’s that they knew how to make money and draw in audiences.  and the spectacle of a too-small-to-be-dangerous-yet-but-still-real-live-and-totally-WHITE-bear?  what good entertainment businessman is going to turn down that opportunity? 

and, voila, we have a death-by-bear for the unfortunate antigonus, thereby freeing up paulina to be coupled off with camillo in the final scene, just as the comedic conventions of the time would expect.

[scientia-rex]

you’re telling me it was an ACTUAL BEAR

every time I think to myself “history can’t possibly get any more bananas” I realize or am made to realize that I am badly mistaken

[friendlyfrankenstein]

It was an actual, TINY bear. Just. like a babbeh polar bear. 

God i love history. 

[theinturnetexplorer]

“The concept is simple. Take a blank sheet with nothing but the basic outline of a pinup girl and illustrate a unique scene around her.”

Art by David Jablow

[alwaysbewoke]

love that this didn’t get nasty or overly sexual. awesome.