#interestingthoughts

[privateeyes95]

Ooooooo yall was being messy on here yesterday chile.

[nanodragon]

"...even female writers will front-load their universes with males—I’ve been rereading Andre Norton right here at Tor.com, and she consistently defaults to male protagonists and male-dominated adventures. Her females are deliberately strong and subversive, but in speaking roles, they’re in the distinct minority. They’re also, almost without exception, not standard human women. Mostly they’re aliens. Maelen. Jaelithe. Half-Earthling, all-inept Kaththea. It’s a man’s universe, and women have to be downright alien to be seen or heard." Interestingly enough, I've absorbed enough of this invisible rule of writing that when I create casts that contain more than a couple of female characters who stand as equals with male characters, I start to feel this odd sense of guilt, like I'm being unrealistic and self-indulgent, as if it's the same as writing a serious historical fiction about colonial America and giving half my characters purple hair and teal eyes and long wizard robes purely because it felt right.

[lola-lewis]

True or Nah?

I had this friend.. and we smoked cigarettes together and one day we got into a conversation about how we don’t know what life would be like with out are cigarettes. Everything we remembered doing we usually had a cigarettes in hand. You see this got me thinking about how all of us have that addiction to something doesn’t have to be drugs could be love, internet, video games, attention whatever it may be everybody has an addiction they want to throw away but something holds them back.... 

[creativemindswander-blog]

"Sex opposite of Love" Debate

I'm reading one of my awesome bargain books from Barnes & Noble and this concept that Sex is the opposite of Love keeps surfacing:

"The opposite of sex, he used to say, is love. Sex and love are the crudest sort of magnets. One north, one south, violently repelling one another, which is why the natural state is to have one or the other but not both. We use the metaphor of fireworks. When forced together, the two of them, the result is a tempest--unsustainable, unendurable beyond short lenghts of time. We simply cannot manage the battle."

Is this true? Could this be why sex seems to fizzle or becomes increasingly infrequent in long marriages? I this why partners in long-term relationships seem to wean off the extremely eventful and constant sexual escapades of the beginning months together? Could it be that some people feel in order to love whole-heartedly sex must subside to eventual non-existence? Do some deem sex unecessary in the larger scheme of intimacy, family, and longevity?

For those couples with opposite outlooks on the importance of sex vs. love is it possible to overcome such a disconnect? Does the partner craving sex feel unsatisfied and long to venture outside of monogamy, while the love dominate partner feels as though the feelings are unbalanced?

I welcome all thoughts, criticisms, comments, etc. I think this is something mainly discussed within the confines of individual relationships, but it does no harm to discuss it openly. I hope you respond and look forward to the dialogue.

[bardass]

This is only a fleeting time of ridged emotions, you are a single drop in a pouring rainstorm, it doesn't matter. You are a single person in a single country on a single planet in a single solar system in a single Galaxy in a single universe, take a step back and look at the big picture. You matter, but don't let your feelings rule you. Use your head, but don't let it become scrambled because of the chemicals flowing through it. You are only as strong as you believe.

A poetic mind

[friskybaemovieclub]

the first movie review. battlefield earth

I'm nominating Battlefield Earth for my first pick for our movie blog. While I may sincerely regret this decision, we might as well start at the bottom. V is gonna follow up with a detailed and raw review of Travolta's finest moment in film history.

-B 

[alwayslaughingg-blog]

Not trying to sound depressed or anything

Just wanted to share in some kind of text on the internet that I find it absolutely fascinating how you can go from being someones best friend or significant other to plain old strangers. 

At one point in life the two of you guys always hung out, always relied on each other when you needed someone to talk to, always had someone to laugh with. And within a couple of months or years that could all disappear as if it never existed before.

I just find that fascinating. As lame as that probably sounds. GUESS THATS WHY I'M A PSYCH MAJOR :B