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I think if we want to take care of the next generation of girls we should reassure them that power, strength and character are more important than beauty and always will be, and that even if they aren’t thin and pretty, they are still worthy of respect. That feeling is the birthright of men everywhere. It’s about time we claimed it for ourselves.”
I don’t want to be told I’m pretty as I am - I want to live in a world where that’s irrelevant (via brute-reason)
Laurie Penny. “I don’t want to be told I’m pretty as I am - I want to live in a world where that’s irrelevant”. New Statesman. 11 May 2013.
http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2013/05/i-don’t-want-be-told-i’m-pretty-i-am-i-want-live-world-where-that’s-irrelevant
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Harry Potter reading Harry Potter on the set of Harry Potter during shooting of Harry Potter.
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CNN actually researched how much it would cost to go to Hogwarts
dAAAAAMMMNNN costs more than my college. they better have some fucking scholarships
Where could they have possibly gotten this information? Do they know the exchange rate?
Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell
anybody anything” is a string of words
I would like to wrap up in canvas and sink
to the bottom of the Hudson, or extract
by laser from the ribcage of all of us
who ever believed it, who felt afraid
to miss someone, to be the last…
The oldest person alive was born on April 19, 1897, meaning that April 18th, 1897 was approximately the last time the Earth was inhabited by an entirely different set of people and if you don’t think that’s the realist shit ever then you can get right on outta town.
I found this to be very real shit.
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David Foster Wallace was like, Art must be sincere! We must use every tool in the linguistic toolbox to cut through sentiment and dishonest cliche and build fresh ways to reveal the power and reality of unironized emotion.
And Mister Rogers was like, Basically the same thing, but without any shame or pretense or fear of sincerity.
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heardthattheywalkamongthestars:
the rebranding of abercrombie and fitch. if you support this company, you’re a useless piece of shit. i’ll be hitting up some of the local goodwill stores this week.
Signal boosts this so hard. Props to what this guy is doing!
THIS IS SO GOOD. EVERYONE WATCH IT AND SPREAD IT.
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dontblinktheangelshavecamelot:
Look! There was a fan fiction article in today’s Washington Express (a free daily I newspaper put out by the Washington Post in Washington DC)
Article credit, Beth Marlowe (Express)
Art credit, Patrick Leger (For Express)
An actually…. respectful…. and balanced article?? About fanfiction???
In a real publication??!?!
I just cannot express how much I love this.
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