gravitas

28. filmmaker. womanist. nerd/geek/dork. totally lost in dreamland.

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HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE | ハウルの動く城 (2004) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

[dairyofateenagegirl]

black women as vampires

[spontaneous-she]

I often wonder……am I truly ready to open myself up to the world, to let people behind the walls I have around me? In my mind I have a little island thousands of miles away in the middle of the ocean where I’m surrounded by the things I love, things that kept me company growing up an only child (books, movies, music, art materials) It’s scary to let myself be that vulnerable. Sometimes I feel like I don’t want to let anyone on that island; why should I? It’s often said that we humans are by nature social creatures that crave interaction with one another. It’s a terrible trait I have, to want to ball up my “me-ness” inside and never let anyone get a chance to know me. Increasingly though I’ve felt the need to share my thoughts and feelings with others. I want to share a bond over silly mundane stuff with someone. Not to say I don’t have friends; I do, I still feel so damn lonely at times. It’s fear that keeps me at a distance from other people. Don’t let anyone into the folds and you’ll never get hurt, right? Since I was in junior high, I’d envision myself as versions of people that I admired and/or envied, adopting their personalities to my own. I think I still do that to this day. It’s almost pathetic, at 23 I’m still terrified of just letting go and being myself. I was just thinking about all of this tonight, about who I am and where I want to be in life. Maybe if I just….let go and let my insecurities drift and let myself LIVE, then I can begin the journey off my little island and into the world. I’m an introvert at heart so I’m sure that need to be and experience things alone will always be there with me. But I shouldn’t let myself become a hermit for the sake of fear. It won’t be easy, but it’s worth a damn try.

[spontaneous-she]

Oh wow, 23-year-old me.

[egotisticalgold]

Make sure your soul is as beautiful as you want your outer self to be.

(via egotisticalgold)

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70 Most Useful Sites on the Internet

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Re-blogged after seeing the first one!!

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A Different World | College Kid (6x24)

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I’ve always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.

Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian (via wordsnquotes)

[spontaneous-she]

this is just lovely.

[boredpanda]

[flashlights-n-traintimes]

National Geographic photographers are metal as fuck

[spontaneous-she]

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30000fps

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How to Care for an Introvert

How to Care for an Introvert 1. Respect their need for privacy and to spend time alone. 2. Be careful never to embarrass them in public. 3. When they are in a new situation, allow them to stand back, and watch what’s going on. 4. Allow them time to process what you’re asking or saying. Don’t demand an answer right away. 5. Be patient if they hesitate to find the right words – and never interrupt while they are speaking. 6. If you are going to change or cancel plans, give them plenty of prior notice. 7. Allow them to practice and perfect skills alone. 8. Correct or challenge them privately – never in front of an audience. 9. Don’t force them to hang out with a crowd of people, or expect them to amass a lot of friends. A few good friends is more comfortable for them. 10. Don’t try to turn them into an extrovert. Respect them for being exactly who they are.

[asrielsarchive]

I don’t know if Tumblr’s on this yet, but a 15 year old girl in the Maldives has been sentenced to be publicly whipped one hundred times for extra-marital sex. The girl in question has been raped for years by her stepfather, who also murdered the baby she bore as a result of his regular assault. 

This petition needs another 400000 signatures before it can be sent to the president of the Maldives. It aims to force him to change the law and save this young woman. He is already feeling global pressure on the matter, but this petition will go for the jugular - the Maldives’ high-earning tourist industry. Once the petition has 1 million signatures, it will be presented to President Waheed with the promise that if he does not step in to save her, the island’s reputation will be severely threatened by ads in travel magazines and online. 

This, unfortunately, is not a rare occurence in the Maldives. A horrifying one in three women between the ages of 15 and 49 have suffered physical or sexual abuse - and yet they’ve convicted precisely zero rapists in the past three years.

So please, sign. Let’s make a difference.

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GUYS PLEASE

[jeffreysimmons]

Resonator IV 2012. Watercolor on paper, 15 x 10 inches. Greg Kucera Gallery, Inc., Seattle, Washington. An image of this painting in progress, with preparatory drawing, can be seen here.