279:365 (via all-that-you-cant-leave-behind:kyracee)
AND THEN YOU EXPLODE.
Remember? You unraveled in childhood till you were everything. By everything I mean everything . The unicorn puts its head on your lap; from there it sees the blurry edge. How am I so unreal & yet my thread is real it asks sleepily~~
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Antony & The Johnsons/ What Can I Do? (via thingsgohazy,nostalgicdreams)
A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you’ve been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high, full of the single greatest commodity known to man: promise. Promise of a better day. Promise of a greater hope. Promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile, in her soul, in the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it’s going to be okay.
GPOYW: I needed a new icon, and also check out my green nailpolish that Anna bought me for my birthday edition.
So, hey, guess what? I got a job offer this week from Teach for America, to my great surprise. If I take this, I get to teach high school English in Baltimore, while taking classes toward my Masters in Education at Johns Hopkins. Right, WHAT? And this with a salary and benefits and everything. It also means I’ll spend a month this summer at a teaching institute in Philadelphia, totally paid for (room and board too).
Since when am I old enough to be a high school teacher? How did I land this job? Also, I’ve lived in California my whole life. This is crazy. I’m going to be so cold.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs/ Hysteric (via fakingfashion)
the cinders they splinter and light the path
and these strange steps trace us back..
flow sweetly, hang heavy, you suddenly complete me
you suddenly complete me
By Johanna Wallin.
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.
—Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass.
I’ve lived my whole life dealing with the various and sundry ways that female sexuality gets demeaned, by being ignored or trivialized or assumed to not exist. Thinking about this topic is making me realize the various and sundry ways that male sexuality gets demeaned … by the mirror image of that process. It’s making me realize that the amplification of male sexuality — the funhouse mirror that takes the image of a man and distorts it into a drooling tongue and a hard dick — has the effect of demeaning it as well. And that sucks for all of us.
