January 2011
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The Heart of Darkness
“I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretence, because I...
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Am I arguing that girls and women shouldn’t be held responsible for their...
– Emily Maguire, Princesses & Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity.
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Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves...
– Jean Luc Picard
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Kurikindi
The forest was on fire.
All of the animals, insects and birds in the forest rushed to escape.
But there was one little hummingbird named Kurikindi, who stayed behind.
This little bird went back and forth between water and fire, dropping a single drop of water from its beak onto the fire below.
When animals saw this, they began to laugh at Kurikindi.
“Why are you doing that?” they...
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I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought,...
– Frida Kahlo (via fuckyeahfemmes, afghanipoppy)
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The Obakemono Project →
The Obakemono Project is a wonderful online encyclopedia of traditional Japanese ghosts and monsters. Most of them are accompanied by lovely illustrations like the one above, the long-necked woman, Rokurokubi.
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Go on.
Excuse me. I seem to be struck by… Something.
A brain thing. A glitch.
It only shows up when you do.
A tick. A mental stumble.
I’m sorry, what? I was trying to work this out.
You were saying?
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If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom,...
– Frank Zappa
(I swear to shit, there isn’t a thing this man said that is anything but GOLD.)
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Waveform Jewelry →
Jewelry made from laser-cut sound waves, by Sakurako Shimizu.
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It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral...
– C.S. Lewis
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If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don’t feel like being...
– Richard Pryor
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I woke up with a spot of blood over my eye, a scratch, halfway across my...
– The Scratch by Raymond Carver
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