January 2011
“no leaders, please
invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
don’t swim in...”
– Charles Bukowski (via luciferlovesleather)
“They tormented me, but I got a gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings. They...”
– Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (via thechocolatebrigade)
“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its...”
– 1984 by George Orwell (via thechocolatebrigade)
“We live our lives in anticipation of the next hit of experience as if the one...”
– Joseph Goldstein (via politefight)
“Q: What is your most unpleasant characteristic?
M: Unlimited self-sabotage,...”
– Morrissey (via mozandmarr)
Bloody window cleaners. Why do they just turn up unannounced? I’m sitting in my room, and all of a sudden two men are stood on ladders in my back garden cleaning my bedroom windows. My curtains are open. Just glad I’m dressed.
“Sex is no more an immutable binary than is gender. There are intersex people who...”
– Asher Bauer (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)
“Swearing is a really important part of one’s life. It would be impossible to...”
– (via fuckyeahstephenfry)
“Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican...”
– And, yes, this is going on.
Let’s outline, one more time, the reasons why requiring “force” as a part of legally defined rape is a bad idea, hey? Because there are many. And let’s skip right past the part where many rapes would no longer be defined as such (I’m… really not sure how you redefine...