January 2011
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via wordpainting)
Yes, indeed. (via dosomethingprettywhileyoucan)
“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of...”
– Anaïs Nin (via twice1day)
Trufax. (via therotund)
December 2010
In related news,
otherwiseiwouldforget:
I can’t shake the impression that the past was actually black and white. In my head, starting sometime around the 1910s everything was in sepia and that color life was not actually invented until the 1950s, give or take.
I keep trying to tell myself that if I were to actually go back in time, the sky would be blue and the grass would be green, but I really just don’t buy...
“All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis...”
– William Faulkner (via thechocolatebrigade)
HaikuLeaks →
loscheiner:
Some smarty-pants wrote a code that searches for haiku patterns in Wikileaks cables. Several of the accidental poems are quite lovely. Here are some that I enjoyed:
As is typical, the Pope stayed above the fray and did not comment.
Instead, he gulped three cans of Coca-Cola while inhaling his food.
Parts of the country are often cut off by snow and...
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via rebeccam)
need to remind myself of this.
(via theoceanandthesky)
This is really helpful. I give up so easily on things as I expect to be amazing at the first attempt. Simone de Beauvoir talked about it a little as well in Second Sex, and that also really helped!
(via...
“Someone doesn’t like you? Fuck it. Having a bad day? Fuck it.
Didn’t get that...”
– Gerard Way (via inchofsanity)
:’)
definatalie's bits: Not Controlling My Sugar... →
laurendarling:
donewiththisshit:
mybiggestregretever:
My biggest regret ever is not controlling my sugar intake. I like sweet food and drinks and I could not live a day without at least eating something sweet. Never thought I could get Diabetes this young.
[Female, 21]
Dear…
“‘It is fate that I am here,’ George persisted, ‘but you can call it Italy if it...”
– E.M. Forster, A Room With a View (via nomoreundead)
“It wasn’t the ability at all. Yeah, the willingness to accept failure and not...”
– Paolo Bacigalupi: This is What It Takes to Write a Novel - Techland - TIME.com (via jomc)
Off On a Tangent: The E-Publishing Success... →
offonatangent:
With days to a new year and a big Christmas for e-book sales and devices, naturally all sorts of mainstream outlets are piling on looking for what they view as the Holy Grail of the Future of Publishing. And here’s the Los Angeles Times (for whom, I must disclose, I write for regularly as their…
“Working class women are already often stereotyped as slobbish and homely in the...”
– Size Matters: The Fat Tax | Bitch Magazine
Tasha Fierce, reblogged mainly for her ethical nuance - as a self described fat, middle class, writer - that class presents both barriers and motivation to engage with body image issues, fashion and diy clothing.
(via materialworld)
I’m sure most of us...
“There’s this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love....”
– Boy George (via sexisnottheenemy) (via so-treu) (via bowfolk) (via goosebumpsfitsandmalaria) (via tinytomato)
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Sylvia Plath (via sarahgraham7)
Oh look! The theme to my whole semester!
