April 2012
myshoesuntied:
Standing outside with pockets full up to the wrist, I’m looking up at the night sky as I’ve done many times before, many nights before. There is a calm stretched far across this whole thing. It hangs like dirge birthed upside down, absurd and perfect.
My girlfriend is an hour and a half away from me. The moon she looks at is not the same moon I am looking at now. Mine is a...
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TAKEEEEEEEE
ONNNNNNNN
MEEEEEEEE
TAKE ON ME
TAKEEEEEEEE
MEEEEEEEE
ONNNNNNNN
TAKE ON ME
I’LLLLLLLLL
BEEEEEEEE
GONEEEEEEEE
IN A DAY OR
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
pumpkinoh:
My friend Derrick says love is the only war worth dying for. But every time I say, “please come back”, I feel like I”m trying to find a dirty needle in a haystack, and God knows I can’t go out like that. I suppose we wear our traumas the way the guillotine wears gravity. Our lovers’ necks are so soft. I lost my head so many times. I got sober just hoping my eyes would dry. Still, I...
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“You come here to learn about our culture, so can I go to your house?”
– Inquirer: Finding ‘forgotten’ music (via hellogoodbai)
lifewasted:
bloodlossinabathroomstall:
I think if I heard that Gotye song one more time I’m going to set myself on fire and roll down the Grand Canyon into a pit of snakes and scorpions.
then you’d be somebody that we used to know
cubic1es:
if mondays were shoes they’d be crocs
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“I’m sorry that I’m both, your umbrella and the rain.”
– Tablo (via pujori)
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“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of...”
– Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
From Wikipedia:
She correctly suggested that silicon, carbon, and other common metals seen in the Sun were found in about the same relative amounts as on...
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“Don’t drop it, Don’t drop it, Don’t drop it—,
And when you do, you will keep...”
– Tony Hoagland, from “How it Adds Up” (via proustitute)
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Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
Things we broke today, in unrelated accidents: one hard drive, one heart.
Muslim Women In History: List of Responses to Mona... →
muslimwomeninhistory:
In case you are not sure why Mona Eltahawy has been regularly subject to criticism, here is a good introductory article. Most of the articles I found via sharquaouia’s tumblr.
Al Jazeera’s Roundup of praise and criticism
Samia Errazzouki, “Dear Mona Eltahawy, You Do Not Represent “Us”
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are...”
– Anneli Rufus (via jazzdaleks)
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“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at...”
– Albert Schweitzer (via hijabi101)
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“Don’t Depend Too Much On Anyone In This World Because Even Your Own Shadow...”
– Ibn Taymiyyah (via hijabi101)
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do you guys whisper italics in your head
because i do
“We’re just in love with the idea of being loved. And if we can teach a guy like...”
– Annie, Community (via motels)
