January 2011
“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the...”
– The first sentence of DFW’s “The Depressed Person”.
By mixing heightened feeling and unrelenting repetition (“pain”, “pain”, “pain”) with a Latinate, clinically declarative voice (“component”, “contributing factor”), Wallace delivers his readers right where he wants them: inside the hellish...
STFU, Conservatives: "They closed entire wings of... →
Dear Rabble, I can’t even remember when I decided I was pro-choice (I was raised in a country when it’s very much Not An Issue, or not legally at least), but I have two stories to share. The first one is that in high school, I was assigned the anti-choice side in an abortion debate. I was…
so imma try and go to this yo
http://lightninginabottle.org/
expensive but I’ll be getting a $175 early bird ticket on feb 28th (24 hr period). Will try to carpool or bus. I’ll go by myself if I have to. Check the line-up out, it’s awesome! GOING TO BE SO FUCKING AWESOME.
AGHHHHHHH!!!!
i soooo wanted tonks to be gay when we first met...
proseandcons:
rereadingharry:
proseandcons:
come to think of it, maybe she was gay, and theirloveissocanon after all.
that would please me.
#hp needz moar queerz <- Not a day goes by when I don’t think this.
And I totally thought Tonks was gay at first, too. I love OotP!lezzie!Tonks.
But I currently believe in gender-queer!Tonks. And the fluidity of sexual preference. And...
We Have Ways!
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“Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that...”
– Barack Obama (via neverbehopeless)anti-abortion protest made me late to work
fuckers
Internal
The urge to be a better artist
lurks in my peripheral subconcious
the patience to see a difference
the slow incline of ability
frustratingly unrewarding
a constant struggle with no foreseeable goal
the internal artist struggle
your own worst enemy
Long Island Principal Blocks Gay-Straight... →
stfuconservatives:
A principal at a Long Island high school has blocked a group of LGBT and straight students from forming a gay-straight alliance at Valley Stream South High School. The principal, Maureen Henry, denied the request after three students — with the support of several hundred of their classmates — submitted a proposal to form an official school club. The students had been...
