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griruxx:

The 39 Steps (1935)

4 hours ago // the 39 steps - film - alfred hitchcock - robert donat - + 61

noodlesncompany:

toast stories

4 hours ago // two heads are better than none - television - this movie - + 194
44 plays

trippydaytrippin:

I can’t care ‘bout anything but you…

Reason will not lead to solution

I will end up lost in confusion
I don’t care if you really care
As long as you don’t go

4 hours ago // the cardigans - music - + 17
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marcaution:

Holy Motors (2012)

4 hours ago // holy motors - film - denis lavant - on a personal level i kind of hated this scene - + 52

sophialorens:

Lauren Bacall, c. 1940’s

5 hours ago + 347
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silabus:

do you ever just realize how bad your voice sounds

5 hours ago silabus + 309696

im-flyer-than-peter-pan:

8yearoldslut:

me arriving at the gates of hell

OMG. CAN NOT BREATHE

5 hours ago dyinglolita + 263747
We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never do. A work that’s finished is at least finished. It may be poor, but it exists, like the miserable plant in the lone flowerpot of my neighbour who’s crippled. That plant is her happiness, and sometimes it’s even mine. What I write, bad as it is, may provide some hurt or sad soul a few moments of distraction from something worse. That’s enough for me, or it isn’t enough, but it serves some purpose, and so it is with all of life.
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet. (via ontheborderland)
4 days ago // fernando pessoa - quote - ontheborderland + 488
4 days ago // a bit of fry and laurie - television - comedy - hugh laurie - this sketch - + 97

kinkyturtle:

avri-wallflower:

sourcedumal:

Fuck special snowflakes who think like this.

Gurl bye

Your ass ain’t fucking special because you don’t wear makeup.

You’re not fucking better than the woman with large breasts who wears tank tops.

You’re a piece of shit because you are putting sexist stereotypes onto other women in some anti-feminine bullshit.

If you don’t like it, why’d you comment on it? I think it’s awesome and you’re probably one of the girls up there that wears makeup and shortshorts and tiny tanktops. And most kids today wear makeup because they think they aren’t pretty and need it. So deal with it. And get over yourself.

girl bye.

lemme tell you something: I wear tons of fucking make up. I wear short dresses. I walk around with a face that looks about as fake as it can get outside of a fucking barbie doll. and I like it that way. and, despite what you seem to think, no, it’s not because i think i’m ugly. i just fucking like makeup (and trust, i’ve spent years examining my own motivations and how they’re tied to internalized self-hated, fatphobia and misogyny so don’t EVEN cause you don’t know what you’re talking about).

I also read ravenously; engage in discourse regarding philosphy, art, economics, politics, race, gender, sexuality; make subversive art; and love comics and film and music. I’M A FUCKING PERSON IS WHAT I’M SAYING. 

like how fucking deep is this goddamn image when the spine of the book JUST SAYS THE WORD ‘BOOK’.

this kind of bullshit narrative, other than furthering a misogynistic dichotomy that pits women against each other, is also a complete fucking fallacy. A huge majority of average women DON’T DO THIS. you aren’t the lone plain jane in an army of cake-faced, bottle blonde barbies—if you look around, you’ll see that most women just throw on jeans and tops and very little makeup. 

I get that this kind of shit is an attempt to fight back against media-made images of what womanhood is supposed to be. I get it. (thought isn’t it interesting that the “weirdo” in the picture is still thin and conventionally attractive??)

but attacking other women who you perceive as being stupid or carbon copies because of their fucking appearance doesn’t fight back against shit. it actually does EXACTLY what the patriarchy wants us to do—engenders more hatred and competition between women. 

but you know, whatever, continue to think you’re so goddamn special. i’ll be over here reading AND wearing hot pink lipstick and having a hell of a time doing it. 

4 days ago // important - i like this commentary - i like it a lot - sourcedumal + 50121

bvsed-socialist:

Let me tell you how the world works: nobody that reports anything ever ever does or says anything accurate.

Look at the cartoon above. It’s message is “Look at how unjust this is! Look at how the system has done this to us! Look at how there is a negative thing going on!”

Fuck that forever.

Let me tell you the truth: the reason student loan interest rates are fucked up, the reason college is unaffordable, the reason students are drowning in debt is because of the Republican Party. That is reason a, b, c, d  and e that this bullshit is going on, but nobody in the press ever says that, and they certainly don’t ALWAYS say it, even though it is always true. 

Democrats want to control the cost of college and give students a fair deal because it’s a good idea morally and economically.

The Republican party doesn’t believe in controlling the cost of things because they believe in free market anarchy, they want the rich to get richer, and they don’t give a shit about students. 

I never again in my life want to hear ANYONE bring up the student debt crisis without properly identifying who is to blame and who is not.

It’s not “Congress”. It’s not “Washington”. It’s not “Politicians”. It’s not “The System”. IT IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY and the Republican party only.

Now, whoever made this useless cartoon, go back to the drawing board and come up with something that illustrates the problem, identifies it’s source and suggests the very real fact that there is an easy solution (hint: it has to do with electing Progressives). 

4 days ago // important - bvsed-socialist + 247
4 days ago // the testament of dr. mabuse - film - + 59
…conservatives often perceive liberal attachment to diversity as a kind of “everyone’s a winner” cuddle party, where we sit around exchanging rice-cakes and hating on the military. But the great strength of diversity is it forces you into a room with people who have experiences very different from your own. It’s all fine and good to laugh at Sherrod Brown dancing to Jay-Z. But dude is outside his lane and he’s learning something. M.C. Rove should be so lucky. If you are not around people who will look at you like you are crazy when you make stupid claims about other people’s experiences, then you tend to keep saying stupid things about other people’s experiences. It is not enough to pay a political price, or even to be shamed into silence. You have to come to believe — in your heart — that sincerity itself is not the same as accurate information. It is not enough for you to not be “the party of stupid” or to “stop saying stupid things” you must show some active commitment toward being less stupid.
4 days ago // ta nehisi coates - quote - The Atlantic + 241