"Kerouac's beckoning with open arms"

lexuswillow: This is an old family picture. My family does not...

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:59:10 -0400

This is an old family picture.

My family does not support my being in the LGBTQIA community. They actually are opposed to it. They tell me every day that its disgusting and that it’s sinful and I’ll go to hell for liking women.
I moved out when I was seventeen, and in January I moved back in with them because I couldn’t handle everything that was going on. Every day one of my five siblings tells me to go back to Minnesota. My little brother Charlie (the black baby in the picture) is now 8 and he constantly physically attacks me and tells me that I’m not his sister and to leave. My other siblings make it very obvious and clear that they don’t want me here and my parents tell me constantly that they’re gonna kick me out soon.
I’ve been saving every penny for a bus ticket to Oregon to stay with my best friend and today I found this picture in my sisters’ room ON DISPLAY. Not hidden. On display. They cut my face out of the picture.

And that… That was just the last straw.
I just want people to know that this is not what a family looks like. This is not something people should have to go through.

This is no life.

catasters: “It still feels too soon to introduce you to my...

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:40:46 -0400

catasters:

“It still feels too soon to introduce you to my cat…”

cockman-dickman: swordreign: Oh my, what a kickass...

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:39:34 -0400

cockman-dickman:

swordreign:

Oh my, what a kickass photoset.

Whose work?

laughingstation: humortrain: If Humans Crossed the Street Like...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:15:11 -0400

laughingstation:

humortrain:

If Humans Crossed the Street Like Animals

More FUNNY POST here!

"Essa é a questão. Homens na nossa cultura foram socializados para acreditarem que suas opiniões..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:13:50 -0400

“Essa é a questão. Homens na nossa cultura foram socializados para acreditarem que suas opiniões sobre a aparência de mulheres importam muito. Nem todos os homens acreditam nisso, é claro, mas muitos sim. Alguns parecem incapazes de considerarem a noção de que nem tudo o que mulheres fazem com sua aparência é pra que homens olhem pra elas. É por isso que as respostas de homens para mulheres discutindo padrões de beleza frequentemente são algo como “mas eu gosto de peitos pequenos!” e “Mas eu gosto de meninas cheinhas, se é que você me entende…”. Eles não percebem que a opinião individual deles sobre a aparência feminina não importa nesse contexto, e apesar de ser recomfortante para algumas mulheres saberem que existem homens que as acham desejáveis, isso não é o foco da discussão.

Mulheres também foram socializadas para acreditarem que o juiz supremo da sua aparência são homens, e que qualquer coisa que elas fazem com sua aparência, é ou deveria ser, para homens. É por isso que revistas femininas se atropelam para oferecer dicas sobre “O que ELE quer te ver usando” e “O que HOMENS pensam sobre essas tendências da moda” e “Impressione ELE com esses penteados”. Mesmo que mulheres julguem a aparência umas das outras de maneira severa, muitas de nós crescemos ouvindo de nossas mães, irmãs e mesmo estranhas, que nunca seremos capazes de “arrumar um homem” ou “manter um homem” a menos que façamos X ou Y, a menos que a gente faça hidratação, depilação, use aquele sutiã, apare isso, perca peso naquilo, esfolie, alteremos cirurgicamente isso ou aquilo.

E também é por isso que quando uma mulher usa roupas reveladoras, é considerado ok, na nossa sociedade, presumir que ela está “procurando atenção” ou que ela é uma vadia e quer transar com um bando de caras. Por qual outro motivo uma mulher usaria roupas reveladoras se não fosse pelo benefício de homens, ou para comunicar disponibilidade sexual pra eles, certo? Não deve ter nada a ver com o fato de que está calor lá fora, ou que ela se sente mais confortável assim, ou que ela gosta da sua aparência na roupa, ou que todo o resto do guarda roupa dela está no varal, ou que ela quer se bronzear, ou talvez ela goste de mulheres e queira a atenção delas, e não dos homens, né?

O resultado disso é que muitos homens, mesmo homens gentis e bem-intencionados, acreditam, inconscientemente, que os corpos de mulheres são pra eles. Eles são para eles olharesm, julgarem, e ‘abençoarem’ com um elogio se forem benevolentes o suficiente para tal. Eles não são para as mulheres donas dos corpos usufruirem, terem orgulho, aceitarem, explorarem, mostrarem ou esconderem como querem. São para homens e o prazer deles.”

- Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot » Brute Reason (via albinwonderland)

slutshamingdetected: Sabe qual foi o mais legal dessa situação?...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:55:57 -0400

slutshamingdetected:

Sabe qual foi o mais legal dessa situação? Que as pessoas a defenderem a garota foram, em sua maioria, os “funkeiros” que todo mundo demoniza e as pessoas a xingar e a julgar foram os “roqueirinhos~usam~caveira~porque~não~tem~preconceito~com~ninguém”. Um detalhe só pra gente ver o quanto a “sociedade” é incoerente e injusta.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 05:22:08 -0400

tranimation: the-11-doctor: hatteress: lierdumoa: I know you...

Thu, 16 May 2013 05:19:17 -0400

tranimation:

the-11-doctor:

hatteress:

lierdumoa:

I know you wanted this on your dash.

This is the best thing I’ve ever seen.

if you listen you can hear it when it lands

Didn’t hear a thing, but…

“I’m Gatsby”

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:44:17 -0400

“I’m Gatsby”

jillthompson: im-a-kittycat: “So my amazing daughter, Emma,...

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:36:56 -0400

jillthompson:

im-a-kittycat:

“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”

- Jaime Moore, Not Just a Girl

This is awesome!

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Mon, 13 May 2013 19:54:03 -0400

feyminism: #me when i’m a parent

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:46:37 -0400

feyminism:

#me when i’m a parent

So we gon’ dance until we drop !

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:08:08 -0400

So we gon’ dance until we drop !

midnightswaltz: So this just happened

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:53:03 -0400

midnightswaltz:

So this just happened

deadpon-and-weible: impsexual: Because telling fat people that...

Sun, 12 May 2013 08:31:56 -0400

deadpon-and-weible:

impsexual:

Because telling fat people that they are in fact humans that deserve dignity and respect automatically means you’re ~*GLORIFYING OBESITY*~

By the way, don’t dribble on to me saying you worry about a fat person’s ‘health’. That’s just a bullshit excuse to voice your unwanted opinion on a fat person’s body considering you wouldn’t give a single flying fuckadoodle about someone’s health if they were skinny. Besides another person’s health is none of your damned business anyway. Run along now and preach to a choir that actually cares.

I’m going to be honest, so long as you’re not hurting anyone, you can eat soy sauce and milk duds all day long for all I care.

thank you so much for this comic imp.

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Sun, 12 May 2013 07:58:20 -0400

the-library-and-step-on-it: FROM THE VAULTS: Monster...

Sun, 12 May 2013 07:51:59 -0400

the-library-and-step-on-it:

FROM THE VAULTS:

Monster Literature

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Dracula, Bram Stoker

Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine.

I Am Legend, Richard Matheson

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jules Verne

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.

The Complete Works, H.P. Lovecraft

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Beowulf, translated by J. Lesslie Hall

He minded to sunder from each of the thanemen
The life from his body, horrible demon,
Ere morning came, since fate had allowed him
Fate has decreed that he shall devour no more heroes.
The prospect of plenty. Providence willed not
To permit him any more of men under heaven
To eat in the night-time.

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Sat, 11 May 2013 07:20:59 -0400

ebookfriendly: On this day, in 1882, James Augustine Aloysius...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:00:55 -0400

ebookfriendly:

On this day, in 1882, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland (more http://bit.ly/MLP8Nd)

thatwetshirt: House ain’t gonna take any of yo shit for much...

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:45:48 -0400

thatwetshirt:

House ain’t gonna take any of yo shit for much longer Umbridge.