January 2012
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“What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (via distantheartbeats)
Anonymous asked: your name has changed!!!!!!!! Reason?
I really don’t know what I think of myself right now.
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Enrolled in my subjects for this year
Semester one:
Identity (arts foundation)
Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice (major)
Power (arts foundation)
Intercultural Effectiveness (breadth)
Semester two:
Modern and Contemporary Literature (elective)
International Politics (major)
Introduction to Political Ideas (major)
Generating the Wealth of Nations (breadth)
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Naval officers 'would disobey' orders to turn back... →
tonyderbott:
A FORMER defence chief has declared naval officers would disobey orders from a future Abbott government to turn back asylum-seeker vessels, saying commanders would always put safety ahead of policy.
The Opposition Leader today maintained the controversial policy was the most effective strategy to secure Australia’s borders and prevent mass drowning of asylum seekers.
But...
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catpolitics:
Wish I could mail order a boyfriend just for when I’m bored/need one.
I have three words for you Morsal: Coin Operated Boy.
You know what's going to be beautiful?
University.
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“Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West (via brainpickings)
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I’ve started writing a fair bit again. Not crazy amounts like back when I’d be frustrated if I didn’t write two poems a week, but still a decent amount. It’s nice. I don’t really feel like myself when I can’t write.
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I’d stare at my calf From a tinted angle Squinting through my hair in the half light And I could stay there all night And half the day, If I wanted. And I’d listen to the words Of another so-called soul-mate Half considering something else But no. But stay. Stay with me. Loneliness is safer than we’d like it to be Safer than it was yesterday. I promise you The comfort of contact...
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Reports from Sim Child Services
jeremycarvers:
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Amanda Palmer - Blake Says.
And when Blake dates...
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It was easy.
I hope you realise that. It was ridiculously easy, and painless, to do something that once terrified me. Do you know how that feels? To experience a transformation more tangible than any before it? To almost see it, to feel each step forward, backwards, sideways, for what it is? But it’s summer, I guess. (What?) It’s summer. These things always happen in summer. Three whole free...
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Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will... →
isthereanybodyaliveoutthere:
This is by far the best article I have read in 2012. Check it out, please.
A president in the last year of his first term will always get attacked mercilessly by his partisan opponents, and also, often, by the feistier members of his base. And when unemployment is at remarkably high levels, and with the national debt setting records, the criticism will—and should...
Anonymous asked: I think what you're missing from male minded is that there are going to be some people that feel differently about certain things. He's not too far off from the truth. And it's interesting to think about the things he posts. No one is going to agree with him 100% so stop taking it so seriously.
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Anonymous asked: How is maleminded bullshit? Instead of talking shit why dont you prove it? Write those essays on how inaccurate he is instead of talking about it. You wouldn't do it. I doubt you'd have much to say.
Oh, the temptation to reblog every post on 'male...
It’s all such bull shit!
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“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via liquidnight)
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“And yet in modern American culture, sex is practically the only sin there is....”
– The Pervocracy: When did “sin” become synonymous with sex? (via a-blog-called-everything)
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Read more for spoilers.
Somewhere between the first time Buffy died and the second, the show stopped being just a fun, clever, silly fantasy and became really dark, scarily good, and the kinda show that makes you want to sob hysterically damn near every episode.
Seriously. Joyce! Anya and Xander! Tara! Willow with the flip out! Spike with the soul! OH GOD MY HEART!
likethesun:
“We’re so self-important. So self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven’t learned how to care for one another, we’re gonna save...
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“Before you sell your mother’s pills reflect on minor miracles”
– Break, Shatter, Make, Matter, Josh Pyke
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“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No...”
– Anthony De Mello, Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality (via universoul)
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So sick of liberalism vs. conservativism vs....
Ism, ism, ism. I think what has pissed me off the most about all this Ron Paul hubbub as of late is the fact that we’ve now got another ism to deal with. That’s right folks, just in case you weren’t sick enough of liberals and conservatives yelling at each other as loud as they possibly could, we’ve now got another label to slap onto our own foreheads and shout ourselves hoarse...
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The worm in my heart is the apple of your eye
I don’t adore what is impossible We have built this ship in a wine bottle But if you know how it worked, we’d have to grow old
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“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via very-quotable)
“Could we get away with it?
Do you think we’ll get away with it?...”
– Toothpaste, Something For Kate
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“Writing that song, you realise that it’s really silly how much time people...”
– Justin Vernon on Beth/Rest
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Zan Rowe interviews Bon Iver's Justin Vernon →
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