Polka Dots and Indie Pop

love letters to fleeting obsessions

[the-goldengirls]

[someauthorgirl]

Whatever or whomever they saw and judged, I agree. I never need to know the specifics.

[adam807]

Life goals.

[t-fey]

It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.

Amy Poehler, in Yes Please  (via femme-and-furious)

[omfgregg-blog]

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I will do anything to make you watch The Wire and as proof this challenge was laid down by my friend Caitlin. She will watch every episode of “The Wire”; a show she already decided she didn’t like which is unfathomable. While I watch every episode of “Six Feet Under”; a show I already...

[missannarae]

Hearing (reading) Gregg describe TV you've already watched is one of the great pleasures in life.

[nprfreshair]

Lena Dunham, the creator and star of the HBO series Girls, has a new collection of personal essays called Not That Kind of Girl. She joined Fresh Air to talk about oversharing, feminism, OCD, and why she thinks most depictions of sex in movies are destructive.  

[annfriedman]

i received this gif in an email from my friend jessica guilfoyle. subject line: “everything”

[missannarae]

All day, everyday. 

[lucyanner]

[ratsoff]

Happy 4th of July to you and yours.

[lana-knope]

[genofattolia]

And it’s not like you and I always see eye to eye.

[missannarae]

Clear eyes, Full hearts, Love Ann and Leslie.

[biscuitsarenice]

We Can’t Get Out Of The Bedroom Now.

Shirley Maclaine on Parkinson in 1975

[stevelecouilliard]

Mind. Blown.

[smartgirlsattheparty]

This woman is amazing. 

[missannarae]

With Emily's excellent wrap-up post, we've finished blogging our way through Eleanor & Park.  Fangirl begins tomorrow with my post on the first three chapters.  If you participated in the tumblr book club about the novel, please head over to the blog and let us know what you thought and what you talked about!  

[fishingboatproceeds]

I've seen your comments on twitter and Facebook and feel like I am more anonymous on those sites than here. Sir, Twilight is made fun of because it glorifies very bad things. It takes horrible things like stalking, self harm and suicide, abusive tendencies, wanting to murder someone, and a loss of self identity in place of your significant other's identity and makes them seem beautiful and romantic. I beg you to read the books, because there is a lot of very bad stuff in them.

I hope I can be clear about this, but my thoughts all day have been a bit muddled, so I apologize if I express myself poorly or come off as defensive or anything.

1. There are deeply problematic relationship dynamics glorified in Twilight.

2. Criticizing misogyny in art is good and important. 

3. My concern is that popular work by women receives far more vitriolic criticism from the public (like, in terms of number of demeaning jokes made by Jay Leno) than popular work created by men.

4. So I think we’re talking about two different kinds of criticism: The totally legitimate criticism we see in literary journals and feminist web sites about misogyny, and the demeaning and dismissive this-sucks-because-teen-girls-like-it-and-everyone-knows-that-teen-girls-are-not-fully-human criticism we see in popular culture.

5. Also, I would like to see equal attention given to the sexism in popular work by men, from Nicholas Sparks to for instance J. D. Salinger. Catcher in the Rye—although I like it very much—is profoundly and disturbingly misogynistic and yet seems to get a critical pass both online and off. This happens a lot, I think, with books by men, and I don’t want male writers (including me!) to get that pass.

[missannarae]

Have you checked in with our blog lately?  If not, do so today -- on your (most likely) snow day.  Christine and Emily have been killing it, and my latest post asks for recommendations that I just know all the smart and beautiful people of tumblr can give me.  

[radicalbodypositive]

[witlovesyou]

[mydwynter]

Moses supposes his toeses are roses But moses supposes erroneously Moses he knowses his toeses aren’t roses as Moses supposes his toeses to be

[theartofyoungadult]

My first YA valentine is for @rainbowrowell’s Eleanor & Park, one of my favorite love stories of 2013. One of the scenes that stood out to me was the one in which Eleanor and Park are all flirty and adorable on the phone, because it felt, to me, like the first time they realized this thing between them was serious-like. Also because the “I don’t like you” quote is just about the cutest thing there is.

So, yeah. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and obviously the best way to celebrate is to snuggle up with my two truest loves: books and book boyfriends.

[missannarae]

I just asked for this on Twitter yesterday and now the internet gave it to me.  

[cyborgpsychic]

"i’d like it more if there were ladies in it"

- ancient proverb  (via dainessarrasri)