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mpdrolet: From Astra 3B Simon Norfolk

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:47:01 -0700

mpdrolet:

From Astra 3B

Simon Norfolk

leslieseuffert: Hanson Mao

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:48:03 -0700

leslieseuffert:

Hanson Mao

gaksdesigns: Tall Painting – The art of dripping paint. Artist...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:27:20 -0700

gaksdesigns:

Tall Painting – The art of dripping paint. Artist Holton Rower

"I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely."

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:19:12 -0700

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”

- Curtis Sittenfeld (via leslieseuffert)

christinefriar: “I think a lot about what makes a strong...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:13:50 -0700

christinefriar:

“I think a lot about what makes a strong female character. You know, movies and TV shows, these things have influence, my own website. So I think the question of “What makes a strong female character?”, often goes misinterpreted. And instead we get these two-dimensional superwomen, who maybe have one quality that’s played up a lot. Like, you know, a Catwoman type, or she plays her sexuality up a lot and it’s seen as power. But they’re not strong characters who happen to be female, they’re completely flat and they’re basically cardboard characters.
The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple. When in actuality, women are complicated. Women are multifaceted. Not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy. And women happen to be people!”

-Tavi Gevinson for TEDTalks [x]

This Tavi Gevinson TED Talk is the only one I’ve ever sat all the way through/enjoyed/felt smarter for having listened to.

This girl is 15, and she can fuckin’ get it.

fishingboatproceeds: TRIGGER WARNING: Rape, misogyny, general...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:01:52 -0700

fishingboatproceeds:

TRIGGER WARNING: Rape, misogyny, general horribleness

I am asked all the time why I think Professional Internet Types tend to be male more often than female. Is it because women aren’t as aggressive about building an audience and so struggle amid the media saturation? Is it because women aren’t as funny, or aren’t as talented, or blah blah blah?

Maybe we need to consider that one of the central reasons women artists/vloggers/musicians/etc. are less likely to rise to prominence online is that whenever women build an audience online, men threaten those women with rape and murder. And unlike traditional celebrities, most of these women do not have the resources to hire the kind of lawyers and bodyguards that one needs to stay safe.

Like all misogyny, and I want to emphasize this, this is bad not just for women but also for all human beings. We are better off as a species if everyone has a chance to be heard, and we are worse off if talented people like Kitty Pryde don’t have the basic safety and security that one needs in order to effectively make and share stuff.

But it’s not just these kinds of horrifying threats (which as pointed out above is “the most normal thing”).

I also want to say something to all those guys who are like I was as a teenager: You’re not a sick person trying to get someone’s attention by harming or threatening them, but you do have a weird relationship with the women who make work you like. You think that if this person knew you, you could be friends…maybe more than friends. And so you want to get her attention, so you can get to know each other, because then you’ll definitely become friends or maybe—

Stop.

When you start falling down that rabbit hole, stop. I know it’s hard. But stop.

What we love—even if these people make highly personal and confessional vlogs or whatever—is the stuff they make, not the people themselves. And what we really want is for more of that stuff to exist in the world. So the only proper way to be a fan is to let them be, so that they can bring more good and useful stuff into the world for us to enjoy.

Another reason to love John Green. I am legit afraid of putting my face on the internet through YouTube like I used to because shit happens to women all the time. Stalkers, “mysterious anonymous followers.” It’s nauseating and makes me feel uneasy, especially since I dealt with a lot of anxiety and paranoia when I was younger.

If I make videos for the public, I’m not scared of people criticizing me - people do that all the time. I’m scared of that one guy - the one guy who will find out where you live, message you his weird admiration every day, and pine for you creepily though you’ve never met the fuckin’ dude.

Some guys don’t understand - creepy, obsessed guys aren’t “annoying.” They’re terrifying. Same thing goes for obsessed girls (they be crazy).

cabbagerose: mono design via: dezeen Lineslineslines.

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:45:23 -0700

cabbagerose:

mono design

via: dezeen

Lineslineslines.

Goddamn foxes. They think they’re so clever. because they...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:38:05 -0700

Goddamn foxes. They think they’re so clever.

~~because they are I love them so much~~

BLUE PILL OR ORANGE PILL. The fictional choices are the ones...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:36:50 -0700

BLUE PILL OR ORANGE PILL. The fictional choices are the ones that matter, people.

photojojo: In his gigantic body of work, Arno Rafael Minkkinen...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:09:22 -0700

photojojo:

In his gigantic body of work, Arno Rafael Minkkinen uses the human body in a truly ingenious way. Instead of the person being the center of focus, Arno cleverly aligns parts of the human body seamlessly with the rest of the picture.

The Human Form Aligned with Nature

via Anything Photography

nsfwhumor: The Lonely Island - Semicolon HAHA, YES. I KNEW...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:56:12 -0700

nsfwhumor:

The Lonely Island - Semicolon

HAHA, YES. I KNEW THE WHOLE TIME THAT THEY WERE USING THE SEMICOLON WRONG. I WAS LIKE, “UM, NO THAT’S NOT GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT; I SUPPOSE YOU CAN PUT DASHES OR COLONS THERE, BUT THAT’S NOT HOW YOU USE SEMICOLONS.”

The rhymes they use crack me up, though.

your url is marvelous

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:19:22 -0700

I thought it was corny, which is why it’s perfect for me.

Are you an atheist too?

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:37 -0700

Former strong Christian, current agnostic.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 19:14:29 -0700

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Wed, 22 May 2013 19:09:17 -0700

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Tue, 21 May 2013 22:54:01 -0700

Godfuckingdamnyou Young Marlon Brando.

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:54:54 -0700

Godfuckingdamnyou Young Marlon Brando.

"Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:31:47 -0700

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”

- Joseph Campbell (via leslieseuffert)

mooglemisbehaving: tyndall-blue: riskycuriosity: artemisiumabs...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:15:49 -0700

mooglemisbehaving:

tyndall-blue:

riskycuriosity:

artemisiumabsinthia:

Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.

Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937.

Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs.

When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’.

Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.

Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.

I’d like a movie about her life too, please.

"Yes, false rape accusations happen. Run the protocol anyway. I’ve heard that perhaps the military..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:51:40 -0700

“Yes, false rape accusations happen. Run the protocol anyway. I’ve heard that perhaps the military has the highest number of ‘em. True or not, RUN THE PROTOCOL ANYWAY. Because in 15 years of investigating rape accusations, I can count those that panned out as false on one hand. Meanwhile, the one time I almost skipped the protocol, the one time I almost didn’t believe a petty officer, because I was naive as an investigator and a young woman, because her commanding officer described her as “a party girl, always late, always out drinking, don’t bother with this one”, she turned out to be the victim of one of the most brutal assaults I’ve ever investigated. She shouldn’t have still been -alive-, let alone up and making the accusation. So let me repeat: five false accounts in fifteen years. And one time I almost failed a woman ‘cause of the bullshit way it’s normal to talk about us. Take your shipmates’ word, and then run the protocol. Every. Single. Time.”

- - JAG lawyer, speaking to my husband’s plant during Sexual Assault Prevention Month. (via circusbones)