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[theprincessleia-deactivated2021]

“We are at a lap dance. It’s a celebrity lap dance, which is where celebrities of all shapes and ages sign autographs for cash prices. It’s sort of like going to a strip club, except they don’t stuff cash in your underwear. But that’s… kind of it. […] They love [Leia] and I’m her custodian, and I’m as close as you’re gonna get. She’s me and I’m her.” – Carrie Fisher

“So this is one of those things we go to… at least once a month. Kind of a mini Comic-Con. Carrie resisted these lap dances for years. But… it’s amazing. You see these thousands of people behind me? They line up in 9 in the morning, they’ll stay here until 9 o’clock at night just to have two seconds with Carrie.” – Carrie’s assistant

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

every morning i wake up & get my coffee & i recite in my head this excerpt from ‘invitation,’ by mary oliver:  “it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.” & i just say it over & over again until it sticks to my mind for the rest of the day. it is a serious thing. i am alive. i am so lucky. this fresh morning i get the chance to live again & again & again

[vanderlinde-moved-deactivated20]

“as long as the stars shine, shara bey will be remembered.”

[alessiajontrunfio]

“Shortly before Remus’s eleventh birthday, no less a person than Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, arrived uninvited on the Lupins’ doorstep. Flustered and frightened, Lyall and Hope tried to block his entrance, but somehow, five minutes later, Dumbledore was sitting at the fireside, eating crumpets and playing Gobstones with Remus.(…) Dumbledore told the Lupins that he saw no reason why Remus should not come to school, and described the arrangements that he had made to give the boy a safe and secure place for his transformations.” 

(Pottermore)

[antifainternational]

Life lessons.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“My whole life I’ve been telling myself, ‘don’t be afraid’. And it is only now that I’m realizing how stupid that is. Don’t be afraid. Like saying, ‘don’t move out of the way when someone tries to punch you’ or ‘don’t flinch at the heat of fire’ or ‘don’t blink’. Don’t be human. I’m afraid and you’re afraid and we’re all always going to be afraid, because that’s the point. What I should be telling myself is ‘be afraid, but do it anyway’. Live anyway.”

— Unknown

[halles-comet]

Last week I joked that my very cerebral, retired-police-chief-grandpa is basically Holt from Brooklyn 99 and then today someone said, “damn, we’re out of decaf” and he just deadpans “well there’s no need to get hysterical.”

[halles-comet]

Yesterday he said “if you need to insult the same person twice you’ve already failed in your goal to devastate them”

[halles-comet]

My Yaya was trying to remember the name of a guy who stole money from her in high school today and my grandpa instantly pipes up “his name was Bernie Ryan and he was a scoundrel”

[prudencepaccard]

What Is Glitter?

A strange journey to the glitter factory.

When I asked Ms. Dyer if she could tell me which industry served as Glitterex’s biggest market, her answer was instant: “No, I absolutely know that I can’t.”

I was taken aback. “But you know what it is?”

“Oh, God, yes,” she said, and laughed. “And you would never guess it. Let’s just leave it at that.” I asked if she could tell me why she couldn’t tell me. “Because they don’t want anyone to know that it’s glitter.”

“If I looked at it, I wouldn’t know it was glitter?”

“No, not really.”

“Would I be able to see the glitter?”

“Oh, you’d be able to see something. But it’s — yeah, I can’t.”

I asked if she would tell me off the record. She would not. I asked if she would tell me off the record after this piece was published. She would not. I told her I couldn’t die without knowing. She guided me to the automotive grade pigments.

[injygo]

He also did not want me to visit his glitter factory. The jovial Mr. Shetty told me over the phone that people have no idea of the scientific knowledge required to produce glitter, that Glitterex’s glitter-making technology is some of the most advanced in the world, that people don’t believe how complicated it is, that he would not allow me to see glitter being made, that he would not allow me to hear glitter being made, that I could not even be in the same wing of the building as the room in which glitter was being made under any circumstance, that even Glitterex’s clients are not permitted to see their glitter being made, that he would not reveal the identities of Glitterex’s clients (which include some of the largest multinational corporations in the world; eventually, one did consent to be named: thank you, Revlon, Inc.), and that, fine, I was welcome to come down to Glitterex headquarters to learn more about what I could not learn about in person.

[oysters-aint-for-me]

now THIS is journalism

[oysters-aint-for-me]

“Most of the glitter that adorns America’s name brand products is made in one of two places: The first is in New Jersey, but the second, however, is also in New Jersey.” that is without a doubt the funniest sentence i have ever read

[metapianycist]

i’m proud to be from the glitter state

[ailurinae]

@thebibliosphere

[thebibliosphere]

Clearly I am living in the wrong state.

[hashtagloveloses]

[hashtagloveloses]

[hashtagloveloses]

put this in the MOMA

[1dietcokeinacan]

The fact that much of the population must be labeled “mentally ill” to explain why so many individuals are not mentally or emotionally equipped to handle the gruelling mindset & method of action capitalism necessitates just goes to show how horrifically unnatural a system it is. It’s not us. It’s never been us

[bob-belcher]

[left-reminders]

[profeminist]

[vvitchella]

Gonna write a witchcraft book titled “Another Book on Witchcraft: Everybody’s Doing It and I Want to Feel Included”

[vvitchella]

The dedication reads: “To all those people who felt like basic stuff needs to be repeated in different ways a thousand million times. I hope I make half as much cash off this as you have. Where would we all be without seventeen separate “Wicca for Beginners” books on our shelves? Living? Fuck that.“

[vvitchella]

Chapters:

Chapter 1: This Chapter has No Real Value Unless You Want to Know My Life Story, which, Let’s Be Real, You Don’t

Chapter 2: For Some Reason I Feel the Need to Justify this To Someone Who’s Already Literally Bought In

Chapter 3: Oh, Did You Want Actual Material? Here it is… Psyche! ANOTHER Introduction with a Far Too Personal Anecdote

Chapter 4: Vague Gesticulations as to Why I Think Magic Is Real feat. Shitty Metaphysics that Would Make Even Descartes Roll in His Grave

Chapter 5: Candle Magic, Because It’s Basic As Shit and the Only Magic I’m Actually Good At

Chapter 6: Did Someone Say, “Sixth Grade Understanding of Classical Mythological Figures?”

Chapter 7: The Turning of the Wheel: Time’s a Bitch and Took My Youth, Here’s Another Personal Anecdote About It

Chapter 8: We’re the Victims Here: My Pisspoor Understanding of the History of Witchcraft that I Take As Fact

Chapter 9: It’s Not Cultural Appropriation!!!!! Okay??!!??!

Chapter 10: Incomplete Charts. We Got… Colors… We Got… Moons… Here’s Some… Gendered Days of the Week…

Chapter 11: How to Craft Spells with No Skills In Poetry at a Mere $500 a Pop! You’re Welcome! Buy My T-shirt!

Chapter 12: Advanced Magikck: Fuck Some Ghosts or Some Shit

Chapter 13: Fuck I Forgot the Tarot and How to Swing a Pendulum

Chapter 14: Rituals and Circle-Casting: In Which I Deny Satan’s Existence but Put the Fear of Him in You Anyway

Chapter 15: A Personal Anecdote to Illustrate That I Am a Far More Skilled Witch Than You

[cumaeansibyl]

What I’m getting here is that witchcraft books are the print version of recipe blogs

[thenewgothicromance]

It is honestly a cultural tragedy that we will never know what Freddie Mercury’s twitter feed would have been like

[thebreakfastgenie]

I don’t believe Freddie would have twitter, being private and all.

He would, however, regularly update twitter accounts belonging to each of his cats. 

[thenewgothicromance]

You know what you are absolutely right. This is perhaps even a greater cultural tragedy than I originally considered.

[adynamia]

her name is bug 🐛✨

[jjflow]

Guys, idk what to tell you…these kittens are on FIRE.

@mostlycatsmostly

[goopy-amethyst-deactivated20250]

“Corporations outting characters as LGBT only to pander to minorities and profit out of them is stupid and harmful” and “We need more diversity in media in order to help people identify themselves, fight stigmas and harmful stereotypes” are both ideas that can coexist guys