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megelison.com

[catapultbooks]

“There is something in the soul of mediocrity that seeks to stomp down anyone or anything that stands out. There is something in us small-town kids that makes us lobsters, pulling each other back into a bucket so that no one gets out.”

— Catapult | El Hugé | Meg Elison

[gaileyfrey]

Ode to a Grocery Store Sandwich

by Meg Elison

"I grew up afraid of the grocery store, as I imagine most hungry children do. I was always worried the pitiless eyes of the upstairs offices could tell I was both hungry and poor, posing a threat to the merchandise and to the order that decrees even hungry children need to pay. Coins counted in a calloused palm and always last-minute sacrifices removed from the bag, I remember the grocery store as an ache on top of hunger, a scorching shame and a tragically visible vulnerability; when you fail at the checkout counter of your neighborhood market, everybody knows.

This fear and watchful certainty of degradation by the pound kept me away from the outer edges of a good supermarket: the butcher counter, the bakery, and the deli. It is only because of this that I did not discover the joy of a grocery store deli sandwich until I was nearly an adult."

Meg Elison writes powerfully about growing up hungry, grocery store sandwiches, and the care that can go into the simplest of meals. This essay is accompanied by a recipe for the perfect grocery-store-style roast beef sandwich. I can attest that following this recipe will produce a deluxe sandwich - Elison shares a secret step that brings it to a whole other level.

Go read the essay and get the recipe here!

[iguanamouth]

[megelison]

[megelison]

I guess this site is still here.

Fuck. Port in a storm, I guess.

[coluring]

[megelison]

has science gone too far?

[skreamingninja]

[autohaste]

If depression was a musical

[capacity]

This is a bop

[mysharona1987]

[thegleamoftheknife]

Had to label the old trash barrels so the collectors would know to take them

[sabrecmc]

This should be the last post on tumblr before it is shut down.

[mysharona1987]

[recovering-academic]

How did you get $148,000 worth of debt

I’m a first generation college student with literally no savings who spent a total of 8 years in school who had to use student loans to survive.

[bloodytales]

Rule says women must wear heels. No flats.

Kristen Stewart takes off her heels in front of all the cameras and walks barefoot.

The only way to kill sexist rules is to openly disobey them.

[marcvscicero]

… ok but when cicero writes to atticus: “don’t put it down to idleness that I do not write with my own hand—and yet, by heaven, do put it down to idleness; for I have no other excuse to give”

aka “pls don’t think i’m being lazy but – actually i am i have no excuse”

how relatable 

[sixth-light]

This is much funnier if you imagine him dictating this and the pause being the person he’s dictating it to giving him A Look 

[catboy-jim]

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[amateur]

[polyglotplatypus]

It’s like watching a car repeatedly drive straight into a wall. It’s unexplainable, it looks like it hurts a lot, but ultimately it ends up being darkly, ironically funny.

[vulture-jack]

From my personal experience being an American on tumblr is like being the person in the BACK of the car praying that the person driving will STOP ramming into the wall. A lot of us know this shit is stupid and we’re looking out the window like “LOOK THOSE OTHER CARS ARE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD LETS BE LIKE THEM” But the driver is like “FUCK YOU! BUILT FORD TOUGH! USA USA USA DONT LIKE IT, GET OUT!” but the doors are locked and the car is now smoking and threatening to catch fire.

[the-gneech]

Reblogging for the followup comment! ‘cos that’s exactly what it’s like.

[raise-me-up-take-me-up]

who the fuck is in the driver’s seat

[starryvioletnight]