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Truth vs. Twilight

In collaboration with the Quileute Tribe, this site seeks to inform Twilight fans, parents, teachers, and others about the real Quileute culture, which indeed has a wolf origin story, a historic relationship with the wolf as demonstrated in songs, stories, and various art forms, as well as a modern, multi-dimensional community with a sophisticated governance system. We also hope to offer a counter narrative to The Twilight Saga’s stereotypical representations of race, class, and gender, and offer resources for a more meaningful understanding of Native American life and cultures.

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You have been booped by this empty wrapping paper tube.

Reblog to boop all of your followers with it.

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YO YOU GUYS SEATTLE

https://twitter.com/BRRN_Fed/status/1270345660617891842

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i stumbled across this in a remote part of the lake and i really loved the surreality of it

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Hello tumblr.

I would like all of the fic about Steve dealing with being a Symbol Of Truth, Justice, And The American Way. Fame, persona, the crafting and maintenance of the image, being famous for allegedly intrinsically personifying goodness, the first time he jokingly asks someone if they are really comfortable lying to Captain America…

I believe this is called “identity porn”? 

GIVE IT TO ME.

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*sees slugs on the sidewalk after it rained*

me:

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A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft’s electronic navigation and communications equipment.

Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter’s position. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held up a handwritten sign that said “WHERE AM I?” in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said “YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER.”

The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the copilot asked the pilot how he had done it.

“I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer.”

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Sitka artist designs slinky dress from 20,000 salmon bones

The idea for a glam salmon-bone dress swam around in Cynthia Gibson’s head for a while before she got cracking on her vision.

“Three years ago I collected buckets and buckets of small vertebrae. Bones in general, I find beautiful. They have a beautiful line and form,” said the Sitka artist. “I always wondered why no one was doing much with salmon vertebrae because they’re everywhere and they’re easy to bead. They already have a hole in the center of them from the spinal cord.”

A dress draped with 20,000 salmon bones by Sitka artist Cynthia Gibson. (Stephanie Lambdin Productions)

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on trust and manipulation

Back in early high school, I knew a girl - we were kinda friends by virtue of having multiple friends in common, but in hindsight, she never much liked me - who had this purebred dog. I’d met him at her place, and he wasn’t desexed, which was pretty unusual in my experience, so it stuck in the memory. And one day, as we were walking across the playground, this girl - I’ll call her Felice - said to me, “Hey, so we’re going to start using my dog as a stud.” And I’m like, Oh? And she’s like, “Yeah, we’ve been talking to breeders, we’re going to get to see his puppies and everything,” and I made interested noises because that actually sounded pretty interesting, and she went on a little bit more about how it would all work -

And then, out of nowhere, she swapped this sly look with another girl, burst out laughing and exclaimed, “God, you’re so gullible. I literally just made that up. You’ll believe anything!”

And I was just. Dumbfounded. Because I was standing there, staring at them, and they were laughing like I was an idiot, like they’d pulled this massive trick on me, and all I could think, apart from why the fuck they felt moved to do this in the first place, was that neither of them knew what gullible means. Like, literally nothing in that story was implausible! I knew she had an undesexed, male, purebred dog! It made total sense that he be used for a stud! And it wasn’t like I was getting this information from a second party - the person who actually owned the dog was telling me herself! And I felt so immensely frustrated, because they both walked off before I could figure out how to articulate that gullible means taking something unlikely or impossible at face value, whereas Felice had told me a very plausible lie, and while the end result in both cases is that the believer is tricked, the difference was that I wasn’t actually being stupid. Rather, Felice had manipulated the fact that she occupied a position of relative social trust - meaning, I didn’t have any reason to expect her to lie to me - to try and make me feel stupid.

Which, thinking back, was kind of par for the course with Felice. On another occasion, as our group was walking from Point A to Point B, I felt a tugging jostle on my school bag. I didn’t turn around, because I knew my friends were behind me, and my bag was often half-zipped - I figured someone was just shoving something back in that had fallen out, or had grabbed it in passing as they horsed around. Instead, Felice steps up beside me, grinning, and hands me my wallet, which she’d just pulled out, and tells me how oblivious I was for not noticing that she’d been rifling my bag, and how I ought to pay more attention. This was not done playfully: the clear intent, again, was to make me feel stupid for trusting that my friends - which, in that context, included her - weren’t going to fuck with me. As before, I couldn’t explain this to her, and she walked on, pleased with herself, before I could try.

The worst time, though, was when I came back from the canteen at lunch one day, and Felice, again backed up by another girl, told me that my dad had showed up on campus looking for me. By this time, you’d think I’d have cottoned on to her particular way of fucking with me, but I hadn’t, and my dad worked close enough to the school that he really could’ve stopped in. So I believed her, a strange little lurch in my stomach that I couldn’t quite place, and asked where he was. She said he’d gone looking for me elsewhere, at another building where we sometimes sat, and so I hurried off to look for him, feeling more and more anxious as I wondered why he might be there.

I was halfway across campus before I let myself remember that my mother was in hospital.

I felt physically sick. My pulse went through the roof; I couldn’t think of a reason why my dad would be at school looking for me that didn’t mean something terrible had happened to my mother, that her surgery had gone wrong, that she was sick or hurt or dying. And when my dad wasn’t where she’d said he would be, I hurried back to Felice - who was now sitting with half our mutual group of friends - only to be met with laughter. She called me gullible again, and that time, I snapped. I chased her down and punched her, and the friends who’d only just arrived, who didn’t know what had happened or why I was reacting like that, instantly took her side. Noises were made about telling the rest of our friends what I’d done, and I didn’t want them to hear Felice’s version first, so I ran off to the library, where I knew they were, to tell them first.

I walked into the library. I found our other friends. I was shaky and red-faced, and they asked me what had happened. I told them what Felice had done, that I’d hit her for it, that my mother was in hospital for an operation - something I’d mentioned in passing over the previous week; multiple people nodded in recognition - and how I’d thought Felice’s lie meant that something bad had happened. And then I burst into tears, something I almost never did, because it wasn’t until I said it out loud that I realised how genuinely frightened I’d been. I sat down at the table and cried, and a girl - I’ll call her Laurel - who I’d never really been close to - who was, in fact, much better friends with Felice than with me - put her arm around my shoulders and hugged me, volubly furious on my behalf.

And then the other girls showed up, and Laurel said, with that particular vicious sincerity that only twelve-year-olds can really muster, “Prepare to die, Felice,” and I almost wanted to laugh, but didn’t. A girl who was a close friend, who’d come in with Felice, took her side, outraged that I’d punched someone, until Laurel spoke up about my mother being in hospital, and everyone went really quiet. Which was when I remembered, also belatedly, that Laurel’s own mother was dead; had died of cancer several years previously, which explained why she of all people was so angry. I have a vivid memory of the look on Felice’s face, how she tried to play it off - she said she hadn’t known about my mother, I pointed out that I’d mentioned it multiple times at lunch that week, and she lost all high ground with everyone.    

Felice never played a trick on me again.

Eighteen years later, I still think about these incidents, not because I’m bearing some outdated grudge, but because they’re a good example of three important principles: one, that even with seemingly benign pranks, there’s a difference between acting with friendly or malicious intent; two, that ignorance of context can have a profound effect on the outcome regardless of what you meant; and three, that getting hurt by people who abuse your trust doesn’t make you gullible - it means you’re being betrayed. 

And I feel like this is information worth sharing.  

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Front: SEATTLE GENERIC POST CARD

Back: DEAR ________

I am sending you this card because: ☐ I’m cheap, but I still love you ☐ I miss your body ☐ I can’t afford a phone call ☐ I’m too lazy to write a real message ☐ I’m having a great time and wish you were here ☐ The picture I wanted to send was so good I kept it myself

In Seattle I:

☐ Got crabs at the Pike Place Market ☐ Got high on the Space Needle ☐ Waited for the rain to stop ☐ Floated on a bridge across Lake Washington ☐ Ferried across Puget Sound to the San Juan Islands ☐ Saw the sun (unofficial sighting) ☐ Watched professionals win and lose at the Kingdome ☐ Got lost in the Underground at Pioneer Square ☐ Got my jollies on the Waterfront Trolley ☐ Lost my keys at the Ballard Locks

SIGNED ________

I.A.A.C. Inc., Seattle, WA 98109 the Continental Card

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ok, but like, Seattle is getting right now, as of november 26th, 8 and a half hours of daylight, between 7:30 am and about 4:30 so like, we’re not even talking about alaska here.

plus the daylight we do get is filtered through a thick blanket of clouds and rain.

that said, I’d say winter-izing a house around here is more about protecting against water incursion and thus also mold.

Experiencing brutal cold for a period of time every year keeps you humble

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Interior Design & Architecture Books

(Interior) Design

The Kinfolk Home: Interiors for Slow Living (1 - 2 - 3)

Monochrome Home (1)

My Cool Shed: An Inspirational Guide to Stylish Hideaways and Workspaces (1)

Greenterior: Plant Loving Creatives and Their Homes (1)

Freunde von Freunden: Friends (German and English Edition) (1 - 2)

Hans Blomquist in Detail: Inspiring Ideas for Creative Interiors

The Natural Home (1 - 2)

A Frame for Life: The Designs of StudioIlse

Remodelista (1)

Bohemian Modern

The New Bohemians: Cool and Collected Homes (1)

Brooklyn Interiors (1)

The Inspired Home: Nests of Creatives

Beautifully Small: Style Solutions for Small Spaces

Modern Pastoral: Bring the tranquility of nature into your home (1 - 2)

Apartment Therapy’s Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces

Apartment Therapy Complete and Happy Home

Cabin Porn: Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere

Retreat: The Modern House in Nature

Scandinavian Modern

Styled: Secrets for Arranging Rooms, from Tabletops to Bookshelves French Accents: At Home with Parisian Objects and Details

Nancy Braithwaite: Simplicity

Elements of Style: Designing a Home & a Life

Black and White (and a Bit in Between): Timeless Interiors, Dramatic Accents, and Stylish Collections

Eames: Beautiful Details

Eames

Furnitecture: Furniture That Transforms Space

Rethink: The Way You Live

Perfect Imperfect: The beauty of accident, age & patina

Scandinavian Design

Northern Delights: Scandinavian Homes, Interiors and Design

Simply Scandinavian: 20 Stylish and Inspirational Scandi Homes

New Nordic Design

Nordic Designers

Move and Work

Bright.Bazaar’s Dream Decor: Styling a Cool, Creative and Comfortable Home, Wherever You Live (1, 2)

Hollywood Interiors: Style and Design in Los Angeles

Design Bloggers At Home

Undecorate: The No-Rules Approach to Interior Design

Design*Sponge at Home

Domino: The Book of Decorating: A Room-by-Room Guide to Creating a Home That Makes You Happy

Modern Rustic

Decorate: 1,000 Design Ideas for Every Room in Your Home

Kaleidoscope: Living in Color and Patterns

The Design Hotels Book: Edition 2016

The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes

Living Under the Sun: Tropical Interiors and Architecture

Kitchen Kulture: Interiors for Cooking and Private Food Experiences

Botanical Style: Inspirational decorating with nature, plants and florals

It’s the Little Things: Creating Big Moments in Your Home Through The Stylish Small Stuff

The Shopkeeper’s Home: The World’s Best Independent Retailers and their Stylish Homes

Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating

Sage Living: Decorate for the Life You Want

Tricia Foley Life/Style: Elegant Simplicity at Home

Farrow & Ball: How to Decorate

Farrow & Ball: Decorating with Colour

Elle Decor: The Height of Style: Inspiring Ideas from the World’s Chicest Rooms

Farrow & Ball: Living With Colour

Living with Pattern: Color, Texture, and Print at Home

Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People

Simple Matters: Living with Less and Ending Up with More

Decorate for a Party: Stylish and Simple Ideas for Meaningful Gatherings

The Perfectly Imperfect Home: How to Decorate and Live Well

Shades of Grey

The Design Book

Domino: Your Guide to a Stylish Home

Cupcakes and Cashmere at Home

Mountain Houses

Decorating with Carpets

French Chic Living

Small Space Style

Living and Styling with Plants: Urban Jungle

Life Unstyled

The World of Charles and Ray Eames

Fine Little Day

Home by Petra Bindel & Emma Persson Lagerberg

The Finer Things

Reinventing IKEA: 70 DIY Projects to Transform IKEA Essentials

Warehouse Home

Surf Shack

Home Style by City: Ideas and Inspiration from Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, and Copenhagen

How They Decorated: Inspiration From Great Women Of The 20th-Century

A Touch of Farmhouse Charm

Feelings of Imperfection: The stylish life of lost places

The Hinterland: Cabins, Love-Shacks And Other Hide Outs

It’s The Little Things

Wonder Plants

It’s Beautiful Here

Beautiful: All-American Decorating and Timeless Style

The Seaside House

Beachside Bohemian

Modern Retro Home

Make Yourself At Home

The New Bohemian’s Handbook

In The Mood For Colour

Vogue Living: Country, City, Coast

Haute Bohemians

My Scandinavian Home

Urban Pioneer

Home with Plants

Living With Plants

Get it Together!: An Interior Designer’s Guide to Creating Your Best Life

Modern Macrame: 33 Stylish Projects For Your Handmade Home

Interior Design Master Class

The House That Pinterest Built

Mad About The House

Art Deco

Out East: Houses & Gardens of The Hamptons

Living in Style: Amsterdam

Living in Style: London

Living in Style: Paris

Postmodern Design Complete: Design, Furniture, Graphics, Architecture, Interiors

Dream Spaces

Houses That We Dreamt Of: The Interiors Of Delphine & Reed Krakoff

Fox-Nahem: The Design Vision Of Joe Nahem

A Place to Call Home: Tradition, Style, and Memory in the New American House

Nora Murphy’s Country House Style: Making Your Home a Country House

French House Chic

Tin Can Homestead: The Art of Airstream Living

At Home with Dogs & their Designers

Old Home Love

The Alchemy of Things: Interiors shaped by curious minds

Architecture

The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings (TED Books)

Bauhaus

Hide and Seek: The Architecture of Cabins and Hideouts

Design Museum: Fifty Modern Buildings That Changed the World

Midcentury Houses Today

The Buildings That Revolutionized Architecture

50 Architects You Should Know

50 Buildings You Should Know

Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures

Jutaku: Japanese Houses

The Tale of Tomorrow: Utopian Architecture in the Modernist Realm

Infinite Space: Contemporary Residential Architecture and Interiors 

Building Better: Sustainable Architecture for Family Homes

Our House in the City: New Urban Homes and Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright

Central Park, An American Masterpiece

New York Deco

Never Built New York

Seeking New York

Modern Forms: A Subjective Atlas of 20th-Century Architecture

Prefabulous Small Houses

This is Frank Lloyd Wright

African Modernism

Keiichi Tahara: Architecture Fin-de-Siècle

Making L.A. Modern: Craig Ellwood - Myth, Man, Designer

Palm Springs: A Modernist Paradise

I often get requests for a list of interior design & architecture books, so I’ve made one. This list will get updated whenever I find more inspiring books and I will reblog the list everytime I make an update. (the numbers behind to books link to spaces from the book that were posted on my blog) ♥

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when i travel i like to take hilariously bad pictures of common tourist things, because anyone can take a nice picture of them, so i’d rather take a shitty one i can laugh at later 

here’s this

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If you use ceramic it doesn't show up with a metal detector, still fucks up a sawmill.

Fun fact, hammering metal spikes into tree trunks is a federal crime in the US because environmental activists used to do it in the 80s to fuck up chainsaws and logging equipment.

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Normal Horoscope:

Aries: You are not the true lord of the dance. Perhaps a duke or an earl of the dance. Not quite a lord though.

Taurus: Capsaicin is a plants way of telling you to fuck off but you keep eating anyway you rascal you.

Gemini: The stars say it is time to spin around in circles a lot.

Cancer: Daily vitamin supplements reduce the risk of colon cancer but vastly increase the risk of vitamin poisoning.

Leo: Tackle your problems head-on, become famous for headbutting things in your way with incredible force.

Virgo: Ward off evil spirits by duct taping several baseball bats to a ceiling fan.

Libra: As you walk through the garden you will be struck with inspiration and a small bird.

Scorpio: Put your money where your mouth is. Your teeth will keep better care of it than any bank would.

Ophiuchus: The captain always goes down with the ship. Every sunken vessel has a captain waiting to return to duty.

Sagittarius: Be yourself unabashedly. If someone calls you a dick, take a moment to see if you are in fact being a dick, otherwise just carry on.

Capricorn: Learn to garden, it calms the nerves, and can produce the ingredients for neurotoxins.

Aquarius: Moderation is for monks. Ever met a monk, theyre pretty chill.

Pisces: The night is a serpent, but a cute one with a puppy mouth like a ball python.