what I see

[perceptivedormouse]

[perceptivedormouse]

Soundtrack to my life at the moment. 

[zella-rose]

Be gentle with me. Tomorrow will be better, but today I need you to be careful with my heart.

(via zella-rose)

[perceptivedormouse]

Now we got problems, and I don’t think we can solve them...

[papertownsmovie]

The “Ten” I see is how perfect a ‘Get Lost Get Found’ tour stop would be. Favorite and reblog to vote for Tennessee now, guys! One note = one vote!

[perceptivedormouse]

Not going to freak out until it’s official... 

[perceptivedormouse]

And now the backlash.  The people saying it isn’t brave, it isn’t courage, that’s not what a hero is.  I can understand why they think that.  Every day of their lives, they just wake up and live the way they want because it happens to be what everyone else wants, what everyone says is ok and right.  It doesn’t take guts to say I’m going to love my husband if you’re a straight married woman in modern-day America.  It doesn’t take any strength to get dressed in the morning if you’re an American girl who wants to wear a skirt.  No need to draw on any mental reserves to be what everyone sees and expects and accepts.  But what I guess they can’t know is how it feels when that’s not true for you.  When being yourself will cost you everything you hold dear— family, friends, job, church— it really does take courage to still be who you are.  That’s why I think Caitlyn Jenner is brave.  Not that I think she stood to lose everything… I think she’s very lucky to have a place in the world where due to money and celebrity, she could be assured of some things that other people going through the same situation would not.  She had the money to look the way she wanted for one thing.  The best surgeons, doctors, counselors, resources everyone needs but not everyone can afford.  And while living your life in the spotlight under constant public scrutiny is unimaginably hard, on the flip side, you have the support of people you don’t even know as well as the majority of the entertainment industry due to their more liberal beliefs.  What if she’d been from some small town in the South.  Yikes.  But no matter how you want to rank the amount of courage, there was undoubtedly some bravery in speaking up and making the change.  And it is heroic because it shows other people who are afraid or trapped that it is possible.  It shows them that they aren’t the only ones.  They aren’t freaks.  Or maybe they are, but that’s ok because there are more freaks out there than you think.  I will live my entire life never showing who I am, not even to the people closest to me.  Right now, it’s only me, God, and one girl in TX (or maybe IA… I don’t know, we lost touch) who know me.  I have people who would accept me and then there are loads of people who would reject me.  Not coming forward is maybe partially fear of losing those people, many of whom are quite dear to me, but it’s also that I’ve become accustomed to this life.  I’ve figured it out, how to survive it as it is, even if it’s not entirely true because I’m not entirely me.  I can get through it, and I prefer that at this point to changing everything up and starting over.  Yeah, it’s probably more fear than I want to admit.  I’m not that brave— yet.  But thanks to other people who are, there’s always hope.

[perceptivedormouse]

I have to disagree with a lot of people out there, and it’s going to be a bit controversial, but as far as Caitlyn Jenner goes, I really think she looks a lot more like Gina Gershon than Jessica Lange.  

Ok, if you haven’t slammed your laptop shut in anger…

I think it’s pretty cool that she’s finally free.  I have a friend who recently transitioned from female to male, and it’s amazing when you can see this person who was always this person finally be this person in a way that everyone else can see.  Does that make sense?  I’ve known my friend since he was 10, and despite the body he had then, he was always the same person.  I clicked with that person.  So for him to become a guy in an official sort of way was just this moment of “ok, this makes sense”.  It was like an exhale after holding your breath for ages.  A relief.  The pretending was over.  

For the people who are spewing all sorts of hate about Caitlyn, I just think… why?  Why does it offend you for someone else you don’t even know to be happy, to be comfortable in their own skin, to be honest about who they are and accept themselves?  Why are you threatened by it?  Why do you think you can speak for God?  If you’ve read the Bible, you must know what happens to people who try to do that, and it isn’t pretty.  Why would you think that God is unhappy with this person who He created in the first place?  He intentionally made them how they are.  Seems like seeing that creation be fully what it is would be a joyful thing.  The thing is, even if Caitlyn had stayed in Bruce’s body, she would still be in there.  She’d still be Caitlyn, just unhappy and unknown and untrue to herself.  Is that really better?  And if so, for who?  If your world is only better when someone else’s is miserable, then what a tragic life you are living.

I think it took so much courage to do, especially as a public figure.  It’s hard enough for me to open up to people about stupid little things like how much recycling is sitting in my kitchen or how my hair really looks in the morning when I first wake up, so I don’t know how you allowed such a private part of your life to be so public.  But I’m glad you did.  Thanks for making it just a little easier for people to be themselves, for giving someone out there the encouragement they needed to hang on or to stop caring so much what everyone else thinks, for giving someone permission to let go of the act and just start living a life they can love.  Way to go, Ms. Jenner.   You are beautiful.  Probably always have been, but now everyone can just see it on the outside a little more clearly.  

[ofabeautifulnight]

THE GOLDEN TRIO + muggle magazines

[danharmon]

I have always tried to be as transparent with you guys as possible, letting you in on the process of making (and not making) Community. So maybe my silence on the issue of a hypothetical sixth season seems frustrating. I was thinking I could stay quiet because there’s too much to say and anything...

[syntaxbitch]

"Maybe your army comes and maybe it’s too much for us but it’s all on you. Because if we can’t protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we’ll avenge it." - Tony Stark, The Avengers

And a *Bonus* (in keeping with Marvel tradition) -

Hope everyone enjoys these as much as I do - they took long enough to make. But they’re finally finished - hey, let’s celebrate with some sleep! Good evening, all. :)

[perceptivedormouse]

Makes me appreciate the casting even more...

[vintageanchorbooks]

“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”

Donna Tartt, author of The Secret History (via vintageanchorbooks)

[perceptivedormouse]

Very Isaac, post-Monica, pre-blindness at the moment... Just found out about the TFIOS tour (HIGH), thought "they will never ever ever come to my town" (LOW), listened to John Green himself say that they are indeed coming to my town (HIGH!!!), but alas, other people knew about this days or even weeks ago, and no tickets remain (LOWEST LOW).  The funny(?) part was how my utter misery over not being able to go see John, Ansel, Shailene, and Nat in person completely eclipsed the whole going blind thing.  I knew I liked Isaac for a reason.  Guess I will stay home and research talking videogames that day. Not a total tragedy, I suppose, but it's interesting the things that can be devastating when you don't want to see the real disasters.

[archived-account-01392498671]

People don’t like her because it’s the making of her, right now. When she, sometime soon in the future, becomes this person that she’s been kind of building up to, for the past three seasons, now four, then people will really begin to root for her. I think even the audience doesn’t realize she’s such a dark horse. If she acted badass and tried to kill everyone there, she would be dead by now! She’s so intelligent, and I can’t stress that enough. Courtesy is a lady’s armor. She’s using her courtesy to deceive people, and she’s using her former self as a facade, and it works so much to her advantage, because people still think she’s this naive, vulnerable, little girl, and she’s really not. She knows exactly what she’s doing. She knows what game she’s playing! And no one else does. And she’s learned from the best — Cersei, Margaery, Tyrion, Littlefinger, even Joffrey. She’s learned so much from these people, and they don’t even realize it. They’re unwittingly feeding her to become this great kind of manipulator. King’s Landing can either make or break a person, and in Sansa’s case, it’s making her.

Sophie Turner, in response to Sansa hate (x)

[only-by-the-stars]

Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.

Diana Wynne Jones, “Why Don’t You Write Real Books?” (via ballerinaduck)

[slaughterhouse90210]

“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”  ― Anaïs Nin

[perceptivedormouse]

Love him more every day... what can he not do?