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I NEED THIS

“Cuckoo Block”, Guido Zimmermann

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The most soothing

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Been sucked back into the world of Monument Valley

A ruined tower slowly crumbling into the sea

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Samurai Battle - Moleskine sketchbook back from 2012. http://jaredillustrations.ch/index.php

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The Last of Us - Start Menu

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Ghibli + Scenery

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I have nothing against Kanye West. Help me with this—I’m not dissing him—this is about how people talk about him. With the last album he did, he got all the best beatmakers on the planet at the time to make beats for him. A lot of the time, he wasn’t even there. Yet no one would question his authorship for a second. If whatever I’m saying to you now helps women, I’m up for saying it. For example, I did 80% of the beats on Vespertine and it took me three years to work on that album, because it was all microbeats—it was like doing a huge embroidery piece. Matmos came in the last two weeks and added percussion on top of the songs, but they didn’t do any of the main parts, and they are credited everywhere as having done the whole album. [Matmos’] Drew [Daniel] is a close friend of mine, and in every single interview he did, he corrected it. And they don’t even listen to him. It really is strange.

— Bjork, interviewed by Jessica Hopper for Pitchfork.  Quote originally noted and shared on Twitter by Sasha Geffen. (via nedraggett)

This is really relevant to what Elelta brought up on Swoonstep. Both Bjork and Elelta get to the heart of a problem that I’ve seen put a few different ways in the last year. It’s not that there aren’t women producers and I think it’s more widespread than simply a problem within music criticism (though I think critics are much more responsible than fans to correctly identify the division of labor on an album) — we think of men as auteurs and women as muses, no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary. Sometimes it feels to me like poptimism’s biggest failure is that it primarily exists to exult more men by focusing so aggressively on production. I realize that the alternative is no better and that Bjork has never been paid the credit she’s due; I guess I just hope that whatever takes hold next involves treating women consummate professionals they almost always are. 

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listen up, everybody!

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I feel like now would be a good time to say that “Vulnicura” is already album of the year for me, and that Bjork is eternally unfuckwithable IMO

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One tweet destroys this newspaper’s sexist obituary for a beloved author 

Imagine if one of the greatest female authors died, and your country’s top newspaper honored her with an obituary commenting on her body size and appearance. Oh wait, that’s exactly what happened.

Why Colleen McCullough deserves so much better than this

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Since you are black and proud, I will test you with this question: How does a woman carry a child in her stomach for 9 months, go through all the pain, hold it in her arms, and end up calling it Laquisha?

Laquisha is a French variant of the Swahili name “Lakiesha" which means "favorite”. In addition, the name is also a French variant from the original Latin ”Leticia” which means gay, delighted, or joyful and is the name of an old Roman Goddess, Laetitia. I’m not only black and proud, I’m also a former linguistics student, avid reader of mythology, and Tumblr. Your tests mean nothing to me. So to answer your question, how does she end up naming her daughter after a Goddess? Pretty pridefully I’d hope, our women are Goddesses.  

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I have this drawing in the Sailor Moon show at Qpop tomorrow night. I’ll b there too.

Edit: SATURDAY night!!

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I got some candy at Target and devised this plan for orgo studying.

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Drop drop waist

Visitors play shuffleboard at a recreation center near Mirror Lake in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1929.Photograph by Clifton R. Adams, National Geographic Creative

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I'm usually the one who remembers but keep it to myself because others don't remember me 80% of the time...  joyandjubilations:

#381: WHEN PEOPLE YOU DON'T REMEMBER REMEMBER YOU

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Rapture billboard #bioshock