Dreaming Synesthesia

On really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.

[stubbornsammy-deactivated201910]

Me every time I see a cat. 

[horrorqueens]

possiblyhobbits

[gnollregard]

I have made a hORrible miSTAKE

[billciph3r-blog]

thats the opposite of a mistake

[ifpaintingscouldtext]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | In Bed The Kiss | 1892

[noodle-fingers]

Me: *calls u a nerd*

Me: *is actually very deeply in love with u*

[huffpost]

This Man With Severe Cerebral Palsy Created Mind-Blowing Art Using Just A Typewriter

Last year, 22-time Emmy award-winning reporter John Stofflet posted this news video he created for KING-TV in 2004, featuring Paul Smith and his artistic talents.

See the full video to see more of Smith’s artworks and to learn more about his inspiring story go here. 

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[favabean05]

A very accurate depiction of a cat owner.

[nevver]

Being John Malkovich, Sandro Miller

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Trying so hard to stay awake

[noodle-fingers]

My life.

[dmt]

[vlxcat]

*whispers* you can be a girly girl and a tomboy and everything in between all at once if you like, you don’t have to choose.

[thalassarche]

Quinoa may deliver a complete protein—all of the amino acids you require—in a compact package, but rice and beans together actually do better. And like goji berries, blueberries and strawberries are packed with phytochemicals. The only problem is that lacking an exotic back story, food marketers can’t wring as exorbitant a markup from these staples: The domestic blueberry, for example, is periodically (and justifiably) marketed as a superfood, and in 2012, products featuring blueberries as a primary ingredient saw their sales nearly quadruple. But they only raked in $3.5 million—less than 2 percent of açaí-based product sales.

Tom Philpott, "Are Quinoa, Chia Seeds, and other ‘Superfoods’ a Scam?" (from Mother Jones)

Also worth highlighting is this section:

“Worse than superfoods’ origin myths, though, are their effects on the people in their native regions. In 2009, at the height of the açaí berry hype, Bloomberg News reported that the fruit’s wholesale price had jumped 60-fold since the early 2000s, pricing the Amazonian villagers who rely on it out of the market. In the Andes, where quinoa has been cultivated since the time of the Incas, price spikes have turned a one-time staple into a luxury, and quinoa monocrops are crowding out the more sustainable traditional methods.” (emphasis mine)

So not only are the markets for “superfoods” putting the foods out of reach of the people who relied on them as a dietary staple, but there are foods easily accessible to us that deliver all the nutrition at a fraction of the cost, both to our grocery bill and to the social/environmental toll.

(via elenilote)

I watched a really great tv show on this as well. I cannot remember what it was called but it basically said most of the research surrounding “superfoods” was dodgy.

(via kelskicksass)

[teesadutta]

[cercilia]

[vlxcat]

"You’re not like other girls"

Yes actually I am. Girls are awesome, shut the fuck up.

[vlxcat]

I thought I woke up to a lot of notifications.

*fistbump for matriarchal solidarity* 

[etsyifyourenasty]

[i-eviscerate]

Home is Where Them Fuckers AIN’T

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Wayne White - Word Paintings

[squirrelbro]

It’s coming soon

that special time of year when we all contemplate the big question, the universe’s greatest mystery

[bilbobagginsirl]

the true meaning of christmas?

[squirrelbro]

what? no

"Is The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween movie or a Christmas movie?"

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[ourladyoflace]

The Jack Skellington face character at the Disneyland parks was asked the same thing about which was his favorite holiday, and he said “WHAT A HORRIBLE QUESTION. Both.”