"He likes to read books written for girls
Prides himself on being a man of the world
In the darkest of places he gets his thrills
He will disappoint you if you see through his perfect smile"
Books Written For Girls
Camera Obscura
A song everyone says is about me. Not entirely sure that's a compliment. ------------------------------------------
Callum. Twenty-Seven.
INFP, published writer, fortean, loner, Capricorn, cynic, sarcasm fluent, socialist, Catholic, girl-drink-drunk, Morrissey-obsessed, SJW, opinionated, well read, mentally ill, recovering, ne'er do well.
About Me
A girl once offered to sleep with me on the condition I never played her anything by Leonard Cohen ever again. My favourite band is They Might Be Giants. My favourite TV show is The X-Files. I hate my food touching and eat it all separately. I only eat white chocolate, I'm not keen on milk or dark. I only added this bit in because people complained my description didn't say enough about me.
Currently Reading:
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
(updated July 7th 2018)
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Apparently the people who were supposed to tell me chose not to, and you’ve been dead since October and I only just found out. Four days after I last spoke to you, you were dead and no one said anything to me because “I can be quite protective” of you. I just found out via a brief message on Facebook that said “laurel died in October sorry”.
You beautiful fool. I’m going to miss you. More than I do already likely as this year wears on. God damn it Laurel. I’ll see you again one day.
Years ago I gave a friend of mine the only spare invite I've ever had to PassThePopcorn after she complained about not being able to find movies she wanted to watch. I looked up her profile a week or so ago and found out that she'd never actually used it apart from when she logged in to create the account. She clearly didn’t know what it was, hadn’t understood when I explained and never even looked at it again, failing to understand what she had access to or how hard it was to get in. The worst thing is that she’s complaining on twitter that she can’t find any decent streams of Oscar movies she wants to watch. That was a waste of my only invite.
The supermarket by me has stopped selling both Dunhill and American Spirits cigarettes on the grounds that I was the only one who ever bought either according to them and this frees up space for more popular brands. Seriously though, at £10 a pack for American Spirits and 12.90 for Dunhill, does it matter if it was just me when you’re selling them at those prices?
Now I have to get them when I’m in town or do what I used to do and order cartons of 10 packs online every week or so.
(late owing to illness, but better late than never)
In 2019 I intend to...
Get my teeth sorted by finally getting that denture I need
Go a whole year without any kind of eating disorder-type behaviour
Quit everything I need to quit.
Make some money, achieve something tangible and stop relying on my savings from projects that are years old now, I’ve been coasting for too long
Stop replying to people when I’m on medication, because I always make a fool of myself.
Learn, at the least, basic Spanish
Read more, as last year reading kind of went to hell for the last six months because I felt dreadful
Use tumblr more, I have no excuse
Actually start that art project I’ve been meaning to start for 4 years.
Be nicer to people, and stop letting myself get ill enough to be horrible to people.
Actually write those politics articles I was contacted about writing last September
Let’s see how many I manage. I will keep adding to this periodically throughout the year, and editing in updates and things. I’ll link it via the sidebar.
It’s quite likely no coincidence that that most ‘mismanaged’ and least profitable social media site is also the one that turned out to be most amenable to the formation of actual communities
To clarify, Tumblr is indeed horribly mismanaged, but notably, it’s mismanaged both in ways that harm us (e.g. doing little about pornbots, nazis, etc.) and ways that have greatly benefited us – not asking for real names, hiding our follower counts, a chronologically-sorted dashboard, etc. are big draws, but in the eyes of other social media monarchs, they look like unforgivable mistakes. If I don’t have to give my real name, that’s that much less information to sell to advertisers. If posts are listed chronologically, Tumblr can’t shove the posts of ‘influencers’ in front of me willy-nilly. Tumblr was a ‘success’ because it was too poorly managed to sufficiently atomize us, and so we actually had conversations and communities instead of being the best products for advertisers.
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Death Cab for Cutie
I break this out every Christmas, it’s one of my all time favourite Christmas songs. This version and Joey Ramone’s version are two absolutely awesome Christmas songs, and manage to capture different vibes entirely. This one feels like whomever they’re asking to come home isn’t coming; Whereas Joey’s cut is an impassioned plea for them to return, a much more hopeful tone altogether, you feel like they would be there if they could - whereas Ben’s vocal and the bands arrangement makes you feel like they aren’t ever coming near. Both are fantastic, but this one for me edges it slightly with the melancholic tone and Gibbard’s mournful, dark take. To me this is the sound of an empty, lonely, early Christmas morning, roads silent from the lack of cars, that grey tone of winter making the world seem utterly empty and you feeling like the only person left in the whole world.
I love Christmas more than any other season, but I always argue that there’s a melancholy to the season that people try way too hard to avoid when it’s implicit in the whole package. It’s part of what makes it, and the best Christmas songs (and books, and films, etc) acknowledge it. Fairy Tale of New York is another that really captures the melancholia of the season.
Yeah, my jaw pain turned out to be a little more pressing than they thought. When it was reset, it snagged a nerve. So I’ve been useless for a few days in immense pain.
And yes, it also means my email that I intended to delete as soon as I could has been up on tumblr for three days. I’m sure my spam folder is thrilled.
...since forever. You can go back on my blog and find posts supporting left wing causes since this blog has existed. It also clearly says “socialist” in my bio, and that’s also been there since I joined...?
I mean if you want a real answer, I became left wing pretty early in my teens as a result of Michael Moore films and Catholicism. I felt like the values that Catholicism extolled just weren’t compatible with this globalist profiteering that seemed to be dominant everywhere. People were getting screwed over left and right by rich people who were rewarded for their actions by capitalism. Then I had a left wing History teacher, Miss Owen (at least, I assume she was left wing but she didn’t actually present these things with a bias so maybe she was such a good teacher I’m just projecting those values onto her based on where her teaching took me) who taught me all about civil rights, Vietnam, miners strikes, Reagan & Thatcher, and basically the history of capitalism and right wing thought in the 20th century and those things together gave me a baseline to do my own reading, and end up where I am today.
I’m one of those annoying people who defends Michael Moore because without his influence I don’t think I would have been so forthright on the subject. His work gave me an easy to understand grounding in subjects that I otherwise wouldn’t have come across at that age (gun control, health care, capitalism, etc). People are far too quick to criticise his approach that makes subjects easy to understand and entertaining for people who might not otherwise be engaged politically. I honestly really like him.
See, I answered you properly - but yeah if you’re genuinely shocked, then I don’t think you’ve been paying attention.
So, this was in the Sensitive Content section of tumblr’s FAQ:
Is adult content allowed on Tumblr?
Starting Dec 17, adult content will not allowed on Tumblr, regardless of how old you are. You can read more about what kinds of content are not allowed on Tumblr in our Community Guidelines.. If you spot a post that you don’t think belongs on Tumblr, period, you can report it: From the dashboard or in search results, tap or click the share menu (paper airplane) at the bottom of the post, and hit “Report.”
What is “adult content?”
Adult content primarily includes photos, videos, or GIFs that show real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples, and any content—including photos, videos, GIFs and illustrations—that depicts sex acts.
Yahoo, how are you this incompetent at running this website? You have an active, devoted community that loves your platform and you seem to be doing everything you can to drive them away. There’s a million things you could do to aid the community or help clean tumblr up. This is not one of them.
I am not going to be pleased if my blog is terminated again because of you poorly implementing new rule changes.
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