196 / 2013

novangla:

abeardeddude:

I can see myself becoming an Anglo-Catholic type of Episcopalian one day.

yesssssssssssss

goooooooooood

come to the dark side

etc etc

196 / 2013

"Religious communities are likely to be practically relevant in the long run to the degree that they do NOT first ask what is relevant, but instead concentrate on their own forms of life."

 Lindbeck, Nature of Doctrine (in 1984!) via @james_ka_smith (via bethmaynard)

(via affcath)

196 / 2013

196 / 2013

hitlersbreastmilk:

do not make decisions at 2 am when you are sad

(via thebeautyinthedissonance)

186 / 2013

see, it’s not even that I’m doing particularly poorly these days, it’s just that I keep having the most ridiculous and frustrating swings. if I’m going to be non-functionally sad, I’d rather just stay that way consistently so I can lock myself in my apartment and not inflict that on others instead of being totally fine for a few hours and then a pathetic ball of cries for the next few hours. (legit apologies are owed to the nearly half-dozen people I’ve fallen apart in front of in the last 48 hours.)

paradoxically, I think I need more human contact than I’ve been getting.

anyway, if folks have spare prayers/happy thoughts/positive energy to send on my behalf, they’d be appreciated over the next few days - I just need a little stability, a little solid footing.

186 / 2013

186 / 2013

(Source: crackerhell, via bookishboi)

186 / 2013

186 / 2013

thedailyshow:

With a majority of Americans now supporting same-sex marriage, Samantha Bee reports on the millions of people who still feel the sting of bigotry and bullying. http://on.cc.com/11lyyhY

ngl, this amused me.

thedailyshow:

With a majority of Americans now supporting same-sex marriage, Samantha Bee reports on the millions of people who still feel the sting of bigotry and bullying. http://on.cc.com/11lyyhY

ngl, this amused me.

186 / 2013

"The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away."

Alysia Harris (via piecederesistancee)

I wonder about this one. Sometimes this feeling is not about the other person, it’s about me. And I’m not sure that it would do me many favors to deny myself the joy that I do get from my relationships, even if my current level of self-esteem means that I feel like I must prove my worth. It’s certainly something to pay attention to, and something that’s not the ideal state of relationship, but I can’t imagine it being an automatic sign to walk away.

(via internal-acceptance-movement)

186 / 2013

That lace, tho

That lace, tho

(via straightpopery)

186 / 2013

jehopkins:

Legolas and Gimli are obviously the best candidates to teach children how to read.
You can feed this starving artist by buying a print right… HERE!

jehopkins:

Legolas and Gimli are obviously the best candidates to teach children how to read.

You can feed this starving artist by buying a print right… HERE!

(via scribblingface)

186 / 2013

shakemedownandout:

hylandbenoist:

getsby:

koolkidseatgreens:

Well ok Kesha, maybe it’s because you’re an auto tuned peice of shit who shouldn’t be famous, you have no Buisness being in the music industry, it’s not even your music you fuck, someone else wrote it for you to record and them to auto tune yourself. And it’s not at all good . It’s not positive either. So complain some more.

I don’t know if you know this, tumblr user koolkidseatgreens, but Ke$ha is a certified genius. She has an IQ over 140 and an SAT score of 1500. When she was younger she would go to the library and do research for fun. Ke$ha is a both feminist and an advocate for equal marriage/rights for people of any sexuality, being a queer woman herself.

Ke$ha is a smart, professional woman, and just because she sings songs about wanting to let loose and have fun every once in a while doesn’t make her a piece of shit.

Ke$ha’s songs are meant to point out the sexism in our media. She treats men the same way many men in the music industry treat women, and she is hated on for it. Relentlessly. She sings on multiple occasions about taking charge in a sexual relationship, of how she only uses men for their body parts. She sexualizes men to make them uncomfortable. She sexualizes men for a reaction, so that people can both see why women are so uncomfortable with their sexualization and also to point out the inequality between the sexes both in the media and in the world at large.

She is judged so harshly for singing about things that make many men famous.

If you listen to Ke$ha’s deconstructed album you will see that she actually has some talent, which may be hard to hear because she does in fact use a fair amount of autotune. This is because of her genre and because of the kind of music she chooses to create as an artist. Ke$ha may not write her songs, but this doesn’t meant she isn’t a good artist or a good person. This doesn’t mean she deserves your harsh words. Some singers are good at writing, but that’s hardly a requirement. Last time I checked whether or not you can sing has nothing to do with whether or not you’re a poet.

You should not be calling anyone a piece of shit, my friend, especially someone you’ve never sat down and had a conversation (or even taken the time to wonder about her feelings!), but if anyone deserves that kind of language it’s not Ke$ha.

You may think that by shaming women for expressing their sexuality and having fun every once in a while, that you are somehow abolishing sexism. That in weeding out the less ‘deserving’ women you are gaining our sex more respect. This is not the case, and the fact that you and many others feel such a strong need to shame this woman who has done nothing wrong, especially not to you, shows that we still have a very far away to go.

Um I’m just going to add, Ke$ha actually does write her own songs. For example, here’s her first album’s tracklist:

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She has also ritten for other artists, probably most famously “‘Till The World Ends” by Britney Spears, which is part of why she’s on the remix of it. She wrote for years and was even the female voice on Flo Rida’s “Right Round” but refused to be credited because she didn’t want her first single to not be her own work. She spent years, starting at the age of 15, writing music before she came out with her album because she wanted to make sure it was all her own and all what she wanted to do.

You can even get all her unreleased music which, combined with her actual albums, is 10.3 hours according to my iTunes playlist. Some artists have been around for twice as long as her and haven’t written that many songs. 

Not only have critics proclaimed she could be a country star if she ever leaves the pop music business (which is showcased on her unreleased track “Goodbye”), but she’s actually the daughter of a very talented country songwriter. Her music is actually fairly well praised by the music critics community and if you listened to any of her songs that her record won’t let her release as singles—“Last Goodbye”, “The Harold Song”, “Only Wanna Dance With You”, any of her ballads—she can write multiple styles of songs. She’s just stuck in a box of what she can release and then shallow minded people call her dumb for having fun.

That’s a big fuck you for hating Ke$ha.

She’s transphobic as shit, tho, and has some really fucking misogynistic lyrics too.

(Source: falchuk, via octopusice)

176 / 2013

176 / 2013

vladislava:

skyliting:

incineraptor:

lexxerduglas:

clorinspats:

shade-rartblog:

thewingedshadow:

elliotexplicit:

cineraria:

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伊東家の食卓

i did this just now completely skeptical and when it worked i just fell over onto my bed and sobbed into my blanket

what in god’s name

OMG

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