May 2013
“When you’re sleeping, there’s no lonely times. Just dreams.”
– Dr Steve Brule (via toniiu)
speakmnemosyne:
This out of all will remain—
They have lived and have tossed:
So much of the game will be gain,
Though the gold of the dice has been lost.
—Hamlin Garland
“You guys know about vampires? You know, vampires have no reflections in a...”
– Junot Diaz, Speaking to students at Bergen Community College, (via aliceincrohnsland)
afrogeekgoddess:
#This is why. #This is why we need canon femslash and not just rule!63 characters.#This is why we need more stories—media fanfic whatever—about POC. #This is why fandom exists. #To build all of...
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For I am an engine and I’m rolling on
Through endless revisions to state what I mean
For sweetness alone who flew out through the window
And landed back home in a garden of green
You’re riding alone in the back of a steamer
And steaming yourself in the warm shower spray
And water rolls on off the round captain’s belly
Who’s talking to tigers from his cafeteria...
“There is Geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing...”
– Pythagoras (via divine-consciousness)
“It is said that someone once asked Tennyson for his opinion on Walt Whitman. He...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via speakmnemosyne)
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“We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have...”
– Mark Twain, “What is Man?”
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May Day: Immigrant rights are workers' rights |... →
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momgenes:
A woman pours so much hand sanitizer on her hands that it runs off and spills all over the floor. It is pooling at her feet. She continues pouring it. A security guard comes over. Ma’am, you’re causing a disturbance. I’m going to have to ask you to leave. The security guard slips, falls. The security guard is covered in hand sanitizer. The security guard is so clean. The woman is so...
April 2013
Soy fe@ y content@: TW: A sort of abusive behavior... →
angrybrownbaby:
karnythia:
angrybrownbaby:
Isolation. Being ignored.
Parents isolating you when you’re “in trouble”. Parents deliberately ignoring you when you try to communicate with them.
Same goes with significant others. Same goes with friends. Same goes with siblings. Being ignored so you can feel the pain of being neglected, is abuse. It’s not all in your head.
This is why the time...
Perpetual Motion Test Could Amend Theory of Time |... →
A radical theory predicting the existence of “time crystals,” perpetual motion objects that break the symmetry of time.
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speakmnemosyne:
Some laughs are so loud, so booming and resonant, that your first reaction to them is a strange, primordial terror, which makes you want to cry with something I will call fear.
There are times when it seems to me a laugh is less a laugh and more a fracture through which it can be seen: no joke is enough to sew shut the terror of your own birth. Or maybe I’m...
