March 2012
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February 2012
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Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much
as your own unguarded thoughts.
– Buddha (via kaleidoscopesftw)
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Petition: Stop Spike TV from looting our... →
ameliaelizabeth:
I’m serious guys, this is really fucking important.
Archaeological sites can only be dug up once. They want to go in with metal detectors, locate ‘treasure’, bulldoze it, and sell it. If there’s an artefact there, it’s a fucking site. It needs to be dug up properly. Everything needs to be documented. Even the colour of the fucking dirt needs to be recorded. Otherwise we lose...
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My desire to live in a Buddhist monastery has increased over the course of this semester.
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If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to...
– Margaret Atwood (via thepajamawarrior)
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At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I...
– Iranian film director ASGHAR FARHADI, on accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, A Separation (via humanformat)
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Sweden close to ending forced sterilization of... →
gaywrites:
Forced sterilization of transgender people in Sweden may soon come to an end, thanks to political changes facilitating a change in policy.
Seventeen countries in the European Union currently require sterilization in order for people to change genders on legal documents. Sweden is currently one of them, mainly because a coalition of conservative groups called the Christian Democrat...
Every time I read an article about conservatives being “pro- life” I am reminded...
– The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com
YES.
(via golden-notebook)
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Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad...
– Stephen King (via alexhasatumblr)
Compliments from women are more gratifying to me than ones from men.
Just sayin’.
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Introversion — along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness — is...
– Susan Cain in Quiet, one of 7 great books by TED 2012 speakers. (via quotesforintellectuals)
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THIS IS HOW I JUSTIFY DEAN'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS SAM...
mishasminions:
In other words, “This is how I argue that Destiel, despite Dean’s shittiness to Cas, is canon. Oh and it’s about Dean and Sam too.”
In other OTHER words, “This is how I make everything beautiful again”
WARNING: IT GETS WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER
For the first time, I come to Dean’s defense. Also I would like to note this early on, that this isn’t a “let’s bash Sam” post. It...
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JUST ANNOUNCED: JKR TO WRITE A NEW NOVEL! →
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I needed to do something to mark the day.
Charles Edward Woodcock October 29, 1928 - February 22, 2010 It’s been two years since Grandpa passed away. Even now it’s still hard to believe he’s gone. I can’t imagine my childhood and teenage years without him and my grandma. To not have him now is difficult and it’s been hard to accept at times. One thing I am very ...
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Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then...
– Karen Marie Moning (via ancient-amateur)
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Growing up, I never saw healthy portraits of my sexuality, never caught glimpses...
– A Better Portrait Of Homosexuality (via sociolab)
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In the US, abortion is framed as a deeply moral and highly emotional issue. In...
– via Feministing, “A new script for talking about abortion”. (via futureabortiondoctor)
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers...
– W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
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As you sit there, pondering life, a thought comes to mind. “What is bisexual...
– Queeriosities: “Bisexual erasure” (via elpuckerone)
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