#whip smart

[alien-apple]

Visit Original Link

its you and me against the world 2nite liz phair!!!

[grits-gal-raised-in-the-south]

The upside down virtue signal of a woman who still desires "international social credit" for a 6 week study abroad program in Argentina that was paid for by the father she pretends is dead.

Everyone else:

[tattedblink]

🎧Liz Phair

🎧Supernova - 1994

I have looked all over the place

But you have got my favorite face

[litandlifequotes]

It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.

Whip Smart by Melissa Febos

[woundthatswallows]

1994 white pressing of liz phair’s album whip-smart, released on september 15th, 1994.

[whilereadingandwalking]

In Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, memoirist Melissa Febos writes about the craft of writing about your own experiences and traumas. It's a fantastic primer for personal essay and memoir by Febos, who is the author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me, and is an associate professor in the nonfiction writing program at the University of Iowa. 

The first thing Febos does is make sure we're all clear: the disdain for 'personal writing' and navel-gazing is only targeted at women and other marginalized people whose experiences and stories will be evidence, will forge change, will heal. Plus, writing about yourself is not simply publishing your diary—it is much harder than that. It is writing towards a confession, towards new knowledge about yourself and your experiences, it is doing hard work to get at a truth you might not know is under there. Febos gives her own personal tales and tips about writing about real people, how best to approach it legally and also emotionally, how to do it with respect and when she's regretted how she went about it. She also gifts us with a fantastic essay about writing sex scenes—how to write good ones, bad ones, revealing ones. 

The book as a whole is an excellent book about writing, with excellent tips, both practical and philosophical, about how to approach writing about your own self, experience, memory, trauma. A really great addition to my shelf of books about writing. 

I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. 

Content warnings for sexism, sexual violence.

[maniacs-in-drayven]

The ravishing and gorgeous "Liz Phair".

90's Grunge and Alternative Rock Diva. One of the Bests!

[misshowdoyoudo]

Some things I think people forget about Nami (One Piece)

• When asking for a weapon, she immediately went to Usopp for help, as she knew that the both of them used their brains rather than brawn.

• Her first major one on one fight was in Alabasta (against Ms. Doublefinger).

• Even before her Clima Tact, she has the uncanny ability to sense weather patterns, to the point where people believed she could control it (until she could).

• She unknowingly cried when she heard what happened to Luffy.

• She's incredibly smart for her age, and was able to draw insanely detailed and correct maps at the age of eight.

• During Aqua Laguna, she risked her life to get to Luffy in the storm to tell him what happened to Robin. She jumped from roof to roof, in heels, a feat that most normal people can't do.

• She was technically married to Absalom on Thriller Bark (the kiss is just a tradition at the end and not a part of the sealing), but as she wasn't conscious to say "I do" and the priest was highly questionable, it stands to reason that the marriage was void.

• She was thought to be the only survivor on Skypiea, and watched the remainder of her friends get zapped down while she was helpless to intervene.

• She may not be one of the strongest on the crew, but she's leagues ahead normal people. Her strength only increased when she gained an ally in Zeus.

• She has never doubted that Luffy won't be the next King of the Pirates. Even on threat of death, she won't deny it.

• Boa Hancock is envious of both her and Robin, thinking that they steal Luffy's attention.

• She exploits men's favoritisms, as clearly shown when Sanji pampers her.