April 2012
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Interviewer: Give us your best tip for overcoming depression.
Stephen Fry: To regard it as being like the weather. It's not your responsibility that it's raining, but it is real when it rains, and the fact that it's raining does not mean that the rain is never going to stop. The only thing to do is to believe that, one day, it won't be raining and accept it so you can find a mental umbrella to shield yourself from the worst. The sun will eventually come up.
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FACT: Sesame Street has a monster of undisclosed...
thambos:
I think you all mean this guy, haha.
…. AM … I … TREKKIE MONSTER? Never had a reason to watch Avenue Q before (okay okay, stop throwing things,) but I am intrigued now. Anyone who insists that gender is a sometimes thing has my complete attention. Also the nerdery is appropriate, and this comparison is looking more and more valid.
Edit: Alas, my bubble has been...
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“My body is a dead language
and you pronounce
each word perfectly.”
– Excerpt from Unrequited Love Poem, by Sierra DeMulder (via helplesslyamazed)
…. Wow. I, um. Really didn’t expect that to resonate with my dysphoria so completely.
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Everyone has six names.
1. your real name: Cecilia F.
2. your detective name (favorite colour and favorite animal): Purple bear.
3. your soap opera name (middle name and street you live on): Gabriela Casares.
4. your star wars name (first three letters of last name, first two of middle name, first two of first, last three of last): Ferga Cedez.
5. superhero name (color of your shirt, first item to your...
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March 2012
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1885) I yearn for the day that I can hike to a...
thambos:
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This is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen on this blog.
I want to do this too. I know exactly where too and I hope that I can still get up there.
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Now I'm considering "samizdat" as a metaphor for...
VIDEO BELOW:
You may have noticed that this blog’s header now reads “Слова, как ястребы ночные, срываются с горячих губ.” It comes from a poem sung by Bulat Okudzhava, one of the most important singers involved in the Samizdat movement in Soviet Russia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat) Vladimir Bukovsky defined the movement as follows: “I myself create it, edit...
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“When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good...”
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John Waters describes his favourite scene in The Wizard of Oz (via bohemea)
<3 John Waters
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Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
transawareness:
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your...
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jamesmichaelhenderson:
RuPaul’s Drag Race is the cocaine to my dollar bill
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“What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, “Symbols and Signs” (via awritersruminations)
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