okcupidjuggalos: Red flags. I bet some lucky girl is going to be all over this. Tip: don’t mention that you get clingy on a relationship website. 

okcupidjuggalos:

Red flags.

I bet some lucky girl is going to be all over this. Tip: don’t mention that you get clingy on a relationship website. 

Longreads: Your Latest Fiction Picks: Lorrie Moore, Tor.com and Taddle Creek

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In case you’ve missed them, here’s a quick list of some of the most recent #longreads #fiction picks from the community:

1. “The Side Sleeper” (Emily Schultz, Taddle Creek)

Summer Reading List

For those interested, summer reading list, mostly to keep track of it all (some of these aren’t out yet). I’m sure I’m forgetting something: 

Literary Fiction/Horror/Spec/Crime & Poetry: 

No Object by Natalie Shapero

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

The Girlfriend Game Nick Antosca

You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake by 

The Era of Not Quite by Douglas Watson

Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer

You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake by Anna Moschovakis

The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones

The Tenth of December by George Saunders 

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (I need my trash reading)

The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell (not known well enough—great British horror writer)

The World as Archipelago by Rene Char (French/English version)

The Great Enigma: New and Collected Poems by Tomas Transtromer

(short on poetry! Must add more)

Literary Nonfiction: 

The Guardians by Sarah Manguso

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp

Madness, Rack and Honey by Mary Reufle

Radical Reinvention by Kaya Oakes

Teaching in the Terrordome by Heather Kirn Lanier

Psychology/religion/etc: 

Altered States of Consciousness, ed. by Charles Tart

In an Unspoken Voice by Peter Levine

Food of the Gods by Terrence McKenna

The Holotropic Mind by Stanislav Grof

Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction

Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction

The Feminine and the Sacred by Clement & Kristeva

The Gnostic Bible

Tibetan Book of the Dead

A Brief Introduction to Spirituality by Rupert Sheldrake

Stuff to re-read in the sunshine: 

Wuthering Heights

The Age of Innocence

War and Peace

Maybe Ulysses, but there is only so much summer. 

Eva Green. That black hair/pale skin combo is my favorite and completely outside of the realm of the possible for me. But I can admire Eva all day. 

Eva Green.

That black hair/pale skin combo is my favorite and completely outside of the realm of the possible for me. But I can admire Eva all day. 

- Letitia Trent - H_NGM_N #15 - H_NGM_N: an online journal & small press

The device we depend upon for our understanding of the situation The machine has wires,…

Five poems in the latest issue of H_NGM_N. 

Mulholland Dr Llorando Crying (by berserkak)

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Spent a long time writing about this scene today. 

And now I’m going to get in bed and read a heavy novel about witches. I mean physically heavy. 

I drew some good tarot cards today, which made me think i would be bursting with energy & happiness, but I’m actually bursting with anxiety, a less pleasant thing to be bursting with. I guess I need to remember that tarot cards are good at only one kind of projection. 

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Longreads: Celebrating Four Years of Longreads

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Longreads just celebrated its fourth birthday, and it’s been a thrill to watch this community grow since we introduced this service and Twitter hashtag in 2009. Thank you to everyone who participates, whether it’s as a reader, a publisher, a writer—or all three. And thanks to the …

G R I M E S: I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living

actuallygrimes:

i dont want my words to be taken out of context

i dont want to be infantilized because i refuse to be sexualized

i dont want to be molested at shows or on the street by people who perceive me as an object that exists for their personal satisfaction

i dont want to live in a world where…

ecantwell: R.I.P., E. L. Konigsburg. This book changed my life. 

ecantwell:

R.I.P., E. L. Konigsburg.

This book changed my life. 

clivebarkersalphabet: D is for Dimitri who was eaten by owls. 

clivebarkersalphabet:

D is for Dimitri who was eaten by owls. 

skullvomit:

vintagegal:

Burlesque dancer Zorita walks her pet snake, 1937

Always reblog Zorita. Queer femme icon and general badass. 

How have I never heard of Zorita before? And now I’m going to learn everything about her. 

“Traditional FA [Fat Acceptance] arguments have relied on the idea that the way to diffuse these hateful statements is to prove that fat isn’t necessarily unhealthy. But by doing so we’ve ceded the premise that health status is, in fact, grounds for hating or despising someone. And as long as the tiniest statistical correlation between fatness and whatever-disease exists, we’ve lost the argument, because we diffused the wrong bomb: we should have rejected the idea that it’s okay to hate people for being ‘unhealthy,’ period.”
ArteToLife  (via riotsnotdiets)

(Source: queertruth)

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Jurgen Heckel. Wetland.

Behance

“Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven’t been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.”

Harlan Ellison (via larmoyante)

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As much as I love me some Harlan Ellison, I disagree so hard with this. 

Writing is a great luxury. People lucky enough to make a living from writing should thank the gods of their choice every day. People who have to do the work that the rest of us don’t are not less noble. Writing is wonderful & amazing, but let’s not pat ourselves on the backs for talents we didn’t earn and choices that other people do not get to make. 

Why Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” Video Makes Me Uncomfortable… and Kind of Makes Me Angry

jazzylittledrops:

So this video started going around my facebook today, with about a dozen of my female friends sharing the link with comments like, and “Everyone needs to see this”, and “All girls should watch this,” and “This made me cry.” And I’m not trying to shame those girls! I definitely understand why they would do so. And I don’t want to be a killjoy. But as I clicked the link and started watching the video, I started to feel a slight sense of discomfort. I couldn’t put my finger on why that was, exactly, but it continued throughout the whole thing. After watching the video several more times, I have some thoughts… 

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