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Anon has the best mom

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also WHY does every american lit or american history or w/ever course contain the entire history and writings of england & greater europe up until the colonies but NO documentation of the oral histories and stories from actual native american tribes and look at how that influenced and was influenced by european traditions to create the “american” story. like i KNOW why but christ

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You know what line gets me every time I watch MAD MAX FURY ROAD? 

“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.”

Think about that. “Addicted to water.” It makes it sound like water is an extra luxury that people don’t need but are greedy for, something they should be able to go without, and if they are desperate for it, it’s their own fault, and not the fault of the man who has all of it, and withholds it.

Think about how the people in power tell us not to be greedy for the things we need, like healthcare, like a living wage, like the right to be free of fear and violence in our own communities. The people in power tell us not to be greedy for these things, when they themselves already enjoy them freely, and withhold them from us.

Don’t trust the narrative that tells us we’re being greedy by asking for things that we need.

Don’t trust the asshole sitting on a grassy hilltop with his hand on the spigot telling us not to be greedy for water.

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Pippin: I’m not worried anything’ll happen to my father while I’m gone, because I already know how he’s going to die.

Boromir: you do?

Pippin: yes.

Pippin: stung to death by bees.

Boromir: …..excuse me?

Pippin: he gets chased by bees so often, it stands to reason that one day they’ll catch him

Boromir: how many times has he been chased by bees??

Pippin: three

Pippin: which I realise isn’t that many, but it’s a lot more times than most people have been chased by bees

Pippin: for example, I’ve been chased by bees once, which is a more normal amount of times to be chased by bees

Pippin: and Merry has been chased by bees no times, which is the correct amount of times to be chased by bees

Merry: I’m too smart to get on the wrong side of bees :)

Pippin: yes, and I’ve learned not to anger them through experience

Merry: unlike his father, who never seems to learn.

Pippin: that or the bees hate him

Boromir: fascinating

Legolas: I have been chased by bees 18 times.

Pippin: ……..wow

Merry: amazing

Pippin: outstanding

Merry: you could give Pippin’s dad a run for his money

Pippin: don’t you mean, a run for his honey :)

Merry: …this is why the bees don’t like you.

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Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

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it’s sometimes hard to believe rasputin was real. like there’s no non-fucked up part of rasputin’s existence

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she dicked cockily down stairs

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Working on writing shouldn’t be “Oh my god I haven’t written anything in so long, I HAVE to write XXX words today!” but instead, maybe “I really like this activity and story and I should have some fun and write as much as I want to”

this really hit me and I thought it was worth sharing

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Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants. These conservative cartoons from ~1913 depicting angry suffragettes as brutal anarchafeminists were somehow actually supposed to make the subjects look bad, instead of amazingly badass.

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MARGARET ATWOOD

‘November’, You Are Happy (1974);

original photos and edit

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I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.

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Oh no my Apple Pencil died what ever shall I do as an artiiiist

*opens google docs for I am also a writer*

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its my gender and i get to pick the appropriate times to misgender myself for comedic purposes

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Gouyen (c.1857-1903): Wise Woman of the Apache

Footnotes and citations available in the footnotes on the main site: click here.

Thanks to the Mescalero Apache Tribe for looking over the entry and okaying it for online publication. 

If you’re interested in the book, I put up a ton of details about it here, and you can preorder online here. 

Next entry, something less grim and gritty. More details behind the cut.

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My life has been so much better ever since I traded my impostor syndrome to brilliant conman -syndrome. Do I deserve anything in life? Fuck no! Will I grasp it anyway? Fuck yes!

 My art has never been worth shit, but watch me bullshit my way into art school! I am a horrid goblin, but watch me make these people like me! Am I qualified to do this task? Well I sure have the certificates that say that I am! And how did I get those? Who knows! Not me! I am so good at cheating, I don’t have to break a single rule to do it!

 I am brilliant, fast, and absolutely drunk with power!

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on soulmates

f. scott fitzgerald / friedrich nietzsche / florence and the machine / andrea dworkin / kiersten white / euripides / audre lorde / phillip pullmann / bob hicok