Philologist in Training

Linguist ; Graduate Student ; Seamstress & Designer ; Animal Fanatic ; Geek

[theginkitty]

Click here to support Kali Faye's Knee Surgery by Virginia Williams

Kali Faye is a 13.5 year old Border Collie (and certified Advanced Trick Dog!), in Seattle, WA. She tore her left Cranial Cruciate Ligament (the canine equivalent of her ACL) during a walk on February 22nd after tripping on a stair, which means that the bones in her left leg now slide foward at...

We’ve raised approximately 20% of our goal! Thank you so incredibly much to everyone who has donated or shared this link thus far! 

There is still a lot to raise, so please keep sharing, and any donation, however small, genuinely helps! I will be contacting our vet to go over more pre-op work in the next week or two, and I will keep everyone updated as we go. For right now, Kali seems to be on the right blend of pain meds, as she is clearly feeling a bit better last night and today, even a bit playful and feisty! It breaks my heart a little to deny letting her play with her favorite toys, and forcing her to stay on kennel rest all day, but it is important to prevent any further injury or degeneration of the knee joint.

[il-sangue]

Would you like to see a few of the pieces that we’ve made this summer?

[theginkitty]

Sometimes, I make things.

[sizvideos]

[yoncehaunted]

*SHOUTING TO THE HEAVENS*

[sizvideos]

TL;DR : Watch this incredible story in video

[magicpottybaby]

holy fuck! so how did the penguins taste?????

[monetizeyourcat-blog]

this is the cutest video in the entire world. this seal is just so afraid for this dumb weird baby she thinks she’s found out in the ocean. have a bird. have another bird. no, see, eat the bird! the bird is food! why won’t this stupid baby eat. open your mouth you idiot baby i will feed you bird if it’s the last thing i do

[summerfinns]

[draco-do-you-mind-if-i-slytherin]

#me

[majorsarcasm19]

You all realize this is us in about 20 years.

[portalsandart]

That Dobby in the corner is terrifying

[kumandaninkayiptusu-deactivated]

[thepathtowonderland-deactivated]

This is some beauty and the beast stuff. ;___; if only.

[spokenwordacademy]

1. Offer the wolves your arm only from the elbow down. Leave tourniquet space. Do not offer them your calves. Do not offer them your side. Do not let them near your femoral artery, your jugular. Give them only your arm. 2. Wear chapstick when kissing the bomb. 3. Pretend you don’t know English. 4. Pretend you never met her. 5. Offer the bomb to the wolves. Offer the wolves to the zombies. 6. Only insert a clean knife into your chest. Rusty ones will cause tetanus. Or infection. 7. Don’t inhale.  8. Realize that this love was not your trainwreck, was not the truck that flattened you, was not your Waterloo, did not cause massive hemorrhaging from a rusty knife. That love is still to come. 9. Use a rusty knife to cut through most of the noose in a strategic place so that it breaks when your weight is on it. 10. Practice desperate pleas for attention, louder calls for help. Learn them in English, French, Spanish: May Day, Aidez-Moi, Ayúdame. 11. Don’t kiss trainwrecks. Don’t kiss knives. Don’t kiss.  12. Pretend you made up the zombies, and only superheroes exist.  13. Pretend there is no kryptonite. 14. Pretend there was no love so sweet that you would have died for it, pretend that it does not belong to someone else now, pretend like your heart depends on it because it does. Pretend there is no wreck — you watched the train go by and felt the air brush your face and that was it. Another train passing. You do not need trains. You can fly. You are a superhero. And there is no kryptonite. 15. Forget her name.

[truthofnostalgia]

TW: violence

oh honey honey I’m telling you — a woman’s work is never done. why that guy who gave me the once-over twice pumping his hands under his overcoat — well, his eyes don’t open so well since I sprayed him in the face with my Miss Lady Aerosol Pump Superhold Formula Hairspray and then that guy who felt me up on the subway, well — blame it on my Lady Eve Press-on Manicure Nails in Sin Red and something about that kind of fruit, why that adam’s apple just fell right out ripe and red into my hand and that guy on the corner calling me everyday with his hey baby baby doncha wanna baby baby doncha wanna piece of me and I said yeah baby baby yeah I wanna piece of you and took off a one-inch slab of his tongue with my Non-slip Grip Lady Schick and oh those guys who tried to jump me on the way home oh don’t you know these things always end in tears I was so sorry to lose my favorite pair of Foxy Lady Five-inch Patent Leather Spike Heels — it’s going to be a while before I get over that one but a girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do and don’t even start me on what happened the night that guy broke into my sanitary pad it took me hours to clean off my Curling Iron, my Nail File, my Tweezers, my Just-For-Me Sandal Toe Queen Size Control Tops are still hanging out to dry and what with all the screaming I’m lucky I didn’t get caught red- handed with my Pink Comfort-Tip Scented Double-Barrel Super-Plus Sawed- Off Tampax but Thank God for feminine protection. A girl never knows when she’s gonna need to soak up some blood.

[thinksideways]

We are both girls, true, but it’s like saying that a nectarine and a watermelon are both fruit. She’s a little tart rolling over the tongue, creamy; I crumble in the mouth, wet and rough.

Daphne Gottlieb, Everything She Asks of Me (via thinksideways)

[flinch-nerds]

[tyleroakley]

9 words to make you really think.

[stylefordays]

This. Is. Profound.

[artbymoga-deactivated20200516]

This is something everyone should see

[il-sangue]

It’s been a while since we’ve made any updates here! We have been hard at work behind the scenes, including some workshops with Seattle Fashion Incubator and Lee & Hayes PLLC. But we did have a collaboration for a styled photoshoot this Spring. Check out a few of our favorite highlights! Oryx was also one the models in our RAW showcase last year, and she looks gorgeous as ever. 

Blouse & JSK: il Sangue Model: Oryx Leucoryx Model Makeup: Glam by Maryam Photography: Stephen Dewhurst (http://www.stephendewhurst.com/photography)

[attndotcom]

[fuckyeahfeminist]

Fight for your sisters, not just your cis-sters.

[chickgonebad-deactivated2018121]

THIS. SO MUCH THIS.

[theginkitty]

This was once a love poem, before its haunches thickened, its breath grew short, before it found itself sitting, perplexed and a little embarrassed, on the fender of a parked car, while many people passed by without turning their heads. It remembers itself dressing as if for a great engagement. It remembers choosing these shoes, this scarf or tie. Once, it drank beer for breakfast, drifted its feet in a river side by side with the feet of another. Once it pretended shyness, then grew truly shy, dropping its head so the hair would fall forward, so the eyes would not be seen. IT spoke with passion of history, of art. It was lovely then, this poem. Under its chin, no fold of skin softened. Behind the knees, no pad of yellow fat. What it knew in the morning it still believed at nightfall. An unconjured confidence lifted its eyebrows, its cheeks. The longing has not diminished. Still it understands. It is time to consider a cat, the cultivation of African violets or flowering cactus. Yes, it decides: Many miniature cacti, in blue and red painted pots. When it finds itself disquieted by the pure and unfamiliar silence of its new life, it will touch them—one, then another— with a single finger outstretched like a tiny flame.

Jane Hirshfield

[theginkitty]

Things I Want Decided Which shouldn’t exist in this world, the one who forgets or the one who is forgotten? Which is better, to love one who has died or not to see each other when you are alive? Which is better, the distant lover you long for or the one you see daily without desire? Which is the least unreliable among fickle things— the swift rapids, a flowing river, or this human world?

— Izumi Shikibu, trans. Jane Hirshfield, in The Ink Dark Moon

[poetryfoundation]

—Jane Hirshfield, Poetry, January 2014

[theginkitty]

This is very accurate. As always, Jane Hirschfield knows how to speak directly to my heart.

[whatshouldwecallgradschool]

THOUGHTS ON GRAD SCHOOL

STARTED OUT STRONG:

NOW I KEEP ON TELLING MYSELF:

IN HINDSIGHT I KNOW THE TRUTH: credit: Tyler

[theginkitty]

yep.