Girl Detective: The pressure for girls to split off their anger is enormous and the...
The pressure for girls to split off their anger is enormous and the rewards are clear. The girls who do so, however, risk losing the capacity to locate the source of their pain and thus do something about it; they risk losing the potential for a once ordinary, healthy resistance to turn political….
Anger is the most useful tool I have at my disposal. It took my entire adolescence to cultivate good, healthy anger, and even longer to learn its use and its value.
Guided by Voices - Billy Wire
This was our road trip instant repeater.
“While other caterpillars are naturally camouflaged to match the types of plants their parents laid their eggs on or change their colors based on diet or location, the looper makes its own disguise.
It will actually pluck petals from the flower of the plant it’s munching on, then affix those petals to its back with silk. As the petals start to wilt and discolor, the critter will replace them with new petals.”
(via The Caterpillar That Makes Its Own Camouflage - Mental Floss)
This is similar to the relationship I have with my cats, wherein I affix their fur to my black clothing in the hopes of camouflaging myself to avoid undue human contact.
(via kickerofelves)
"How the fuck are you getting a degree when you can’t even figure out where and when commencement is happening or how to put on the stupid hat thing?"
My Mama
Amazing facts about My Bloody Valentine:
Amazing facts about My Bloody Valentine:
- Since its release in 1991, Loveless has been played on a continuous loop through underwater speakers, inspiring certain erotic feelings in cetaceans, and is single-handedly responsible for the resurgence of the Humpback Whale population.
- Before being mastered, the original tracks were beamed into space, bounced off the rings of Saturn, and then filtered through a device that mimics the sound of dragonflies on absinthe.
- Loveless sounds the same in every known alternate universe.
- Early copies of the album came with packets of Dramamine to counteract wooziness.
- Not that I would know, but under certain influences you can actually listen to the album just by looking at the cover.
- The band was named after an unsuccessful Bing Crosby Christmas special.
- At least one track was created by dropping magnetic recording tape through the Aurora Borealis.
- Vinyl copies of Loveless actually contain minute trace amounts of love, Pixie Stix, and Kevin Shields’ pocket lint.
(Source: victoriansquidmusic.blogspot.com, via kickerofelves)
This woman is texting a friend about her date. IS THIS FEMINIST?
Frankly, it’s appalling that you think we might endorse antiquated, stereotypically feminine behavior like “texting your friends about your dates,” or “telling your friends about your dates,” or “having friends.” However, this particular woman is texting her friend to say that her date was Zorgon, the All-Powerful, and that after their date he teleported her to a glowing void dimension in which there was no space nor time, only unlimited free wireless. So, we’re fine with it. This woman is REPRESENTING FEMINISM. For now.
(via lookuplookup)
welp.
I’ve been watching a lot of “mid-90s-white-people-crises-in-the-immediate-post-grad-months” movies recently. And by “a lot” I mean this, and Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming. I picked up my cap’n’gown today from a very nice woman with Alumni Affairs who innocently asked, “so, what’s next?” I locked eyes with her for a moment before my left eye did its recently acquired wince/twitch combo, and I backed away muttering, “nothing, and I don’t really want to talk about it.”
Because I don’t.
(Source: prettyeyed-piratesmile)
"fuck equality get boozed."
