I have high unicorn tolerance

"Now our whole task's to hack some angel-shape worth wearing from his crabbed midden where all's wrought so awry" - Sylvia Plath I'm Rebecca: 22, bi cis lady, Catholic, intersectional feminist. Obsessed with fairy tales and musicals, the mountain goats and mythology.

[grey-wardens-archive-deactivate]

JANELLE MONÁE © Justin French for them. 

[zevveli]

I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.

[elsajeni]

An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered

[princessnijireiki]

I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”

[siderealsandman]

Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft

[flawlessbeautyqueens]

Favorite Photoshoots | Lucy Liu photographed by Emre Guven for More Magazine (2012)

[ghostclvb]

I post for the bitches that used to get in trouble for reading under the desk during class in elementary school

[endocathexis]

[dirthymns]

the thing folks living in Christian dominant cultures gotta realize is that even if you’re not Christian, your basic understanding of religion and spirituality and morality is still being filtered through a Christian lens. your very concept of what religion is and does is filtered through that lens.

[evilwickedme]

This is what I call cultural Christianity, for those who are still confused

[hissorikos-menagerie]

“But everyone celebrates christmas.” No. No we don’t.

[queertillyarchive]

“Religion is based on complete blind submission and not asking any questions ever”

No. That’s Christianity.

“Religion is totally focused on the afterlife and getting into heaven and avoiding hell”

Nope. Christianity again.

“Religion is about pushing your beliefs on others and trying to get them to convert”

Still Christianity.

[bai-xue-lives]

Actually that’s even more specific - that’s Calvinism, which predominates in America. America isn’t just culturally Christian,it’s culturally Calvinist, which very specifically focuses on submission, the fear of damnation, and conversion. It’s also not just any old Calvinism, but a very rigidly puritanical variety thanks to our roots.

There are other culturally Christian countries, which are of other denominations and therefore have a slightly different bent. England is culturally Anglican, Germany is culturally Lutheran, Italy and Spain are culturally Catholic, Russia is culturally Orthodox, etc. However, even the cultural Catholicism of Italy is different from, say, the cultural Catholicism of Ireland.

So even here, we need to be careful not to filter other cultures’ Christianities through what is a very Americanized (via @queertilly) Christianity, and vice versa with other countries. Speaking as an American, even our concept of what Christianity is has been Americanised.

[andantegrazioso-deactivated2018]

Birth of a mermaid | axarmina.photography

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

Sometimes u just have to read a Mary Oliver poem & hope to god u will survive the week

[orphneacheron]

LES RETROUVAILLES.XVII.III.MMXVIII. {Gathered For Eternity} by Orphné Achéron.

pencil, ink, gold and silver.

[iamfinallybreakingfree]

My home will be a home with no loud anger, no explosive rage, no slamming doors or breaking glass, no name calling, shaming or blackmail. My home will be gentle, it will be warm. It will keep my loved ones safe. No fear, no hurt and no worries. I may come from a broken and twisted place but I will build something whole and safe. I’ll sing in the shower again, cook with a smile and dance in all the rooms. I will heal.

[daenerys-stormborn]

Daenerys Targaryen | Game of Thrones 8.03 “The Long Night”

[fromthelighthouse]

-Susan Sontag, Notes on “Camp”, Published in 1964.

[gnossienne]

Charpentier’s Actéon (Opera Atelier, 2018)

[neoyorzapoteca]

The Woman Dies | Aoko Matsuda | Granta Magazine

[lacetulle]

[gowns]

man the crazy thing about babies is that like, some people would think that reading a baby a book about farm animals is teaching them about farm animals, but really it’s teaching them about the concept of a book and how there’s new information on each page of a single object, but really, beyond that, it’s teaching them how language works, and beyond that it’s really actually teaching them about human interaction, and really really it’s them learning about existing in a three-dimensional space and how they can navigate that space, but actually, above all it is teaching them that mama loves them.

[allaboutmary]

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