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decaffeinate-o: #I’m not even in the Dr Who fandom and I agree...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:43:53 -0700

decaffeinate-o:

#I’m not even in the Dr Who fandom and I agree with the gif.

I never really cared until they started insisting I should, then I began to dread ever finding out.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 23:34:22 -0700

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Mon, 20 May 2013 23:26:26 -0700

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Mon, 20 May 2013 17:12:23 -0700

"I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:24:17 -0700

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”

- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via bookmania)

thingssheloves: untitled by ludwigwest on Flickr.

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:36:18 -0700

thingssheloves:

untitled by ludwigwest on Flickr.

"You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:48:10 -0700

“You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.”

- Unknown (via juicyisnotcouture)

Arashi - over Acapella I want THIS in ARAFES !

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:12:30 -0700

Arashi - over Acapella

I want THIS in ARAFES !

"You can kill the spell of identification just as easily as you can create it—if you lose the..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:24:28 -0700

“You can kill the spell of identification just as easily as you can create it—if you lose the reader’s sympathy for the character. You can lose reader sympathy by having your character commit acts of cruelty to another character with whom the readers identify more strongly or for whom they have strong sympathy. You can lose reader sympathy by having the character make dumb choices—acting at less than maximum capacity. The idiot in the horror story who responds to creepy noises by going into the attic armed only with a candle is an example. You can lose reader sympathy when a character seems too ordinary, is stereotyped, or doesn’t struggle hard enough. The reader wants to cheer a fighter, not witness a milquetoast wallowing in, say, self-pity.”

- James N. Frey, author of How to write a damn good novel (via amandaonwriting)

aseaofquotes: Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:36:31 -0700

aseaofquotes:

Jacqueline Woodson, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

"It isn’t for anything; a poem is country, and it needs you to keep walking it, and I walk out into..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:48:27 -0700

“It isn’t for anything; a poem is country,
and it needs you to keep walking it, and I walk out into it now, carrying my friend
and smelling the paddocky wind and feeling the rain cold on my face.”

- Mark Tredinnick, from “Eclogues” (via the-final-sentence)

Arashi ~ Endless Game PV

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:19 -0700

Arashi ~ Endless Game PV

teachingliteracy: laneymcmann

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:42:09 -0700

teachingliteracy:

laneymcmann

"I like it when one is not certain of what one sees."

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:05:17 -0700

“I like it when one is not certain of what one sees.”

- Saul Leiter + + (via mythologyofblue)

sunny-lu: fuckyeahaimiya: The 5:30AM baseball episode...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:01:55 -0700

sunny-lu:

fuckyeahaimiya:

The 5:30AM baseball episode :3

Please Aiba Kun take care of him.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 17:12:23 -0700

Junot Diaz on Men Who Write About Women

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:24:22 -0700

The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.

"When we started kissing, I was too hesitant, and [director] John [Krokidas] went, ‘No! Kiss him!..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:36:23 -0700

“When we started kissing, I was too hesitant, and [director] John [Krokidas] went, ‘No! Kiss him! Fucking sex kissing!’ The things directors have shouted to me in the past usually involve which way I have to look to see the dragon.”

- Daniel Radcliffe, on shooting Kill Your Darlings (via bbrando)

I love this quote to a truly indecent degree.

(via wintergrey)

emmyc: Felt like writing in photoshop like a diary/twitter/some...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:48:19 -0700

emmyc:

Felt like writing in photoshop like a diary/twitter/some combination. Relaxing!

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Sat, 18 May 2013 10:13:20 -0700