October 2011
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pete: hey patrick i have a new song, sing this
patrick: okay, akuwhgfshdfshdafhehfejwhgfhgfkjehgkldhf;oiydfreuiofhahfkjsdnbfuhkjnhduofhrwkjhgfgjhfaosuehgheofAHEWIOFHEIOFHEWIOFHIOWEHFAOWKIJHFEW
pete: sounds just right
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saraquael:
sceaterian replied to your post: People who use Instagram fucking constantly but who hate on Photoshop.
What is desaturation? Because the instagram photos are starting to drive me bonkers.
Desaturating an image is the wrong way to make it black and white.
Ooo why is it wrong? What’s the RIGHT way? I am intensely curious about all this technical image shit without actually...
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Personally, I love the new Delicious. Really.
spiritsflame:
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Delicious. I really appreciate the way that you have taken a user friendly, helpful and extremely useful tool and turned it into a convoluted mess that is nearly incomprehensible.
The part where there is no central location for all my tags is great. The fact that they are not listed in order of size, alphabetically or recent is even...
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brb saving this to tell my future children
Anonymous: Do you believe in saving sex for Marriage?
John Green: I can’t answer that question unless I answer the question of what constitutes marriage. And none of the definitions I have for marriage really hold up to scrutiny:
1. A marriage is a legal contract. But for the vast majority of human history, marriages were not legal contracts, so are we to say that all those people—from the Prophet Muhammad to Mary and Joseph—weren’t really married?
2. A marriage is a life-long monogamous romantic relationship. Well, this is patently untrue. 40% of marriages end in divorce; is it immoral for those people to have had sex during their marriages simply because their marriages later ended? If I’m single, meet a girl in Las Vegas, marry her, have sex with her, and divorce her the next day—is that somehow less ethically problematic than two unmarried people in a committed relationship having sex?
The question is further complicated by the fact that many people in the United States are legally prohibited from ever marrying. So if you argue that one must always wait for marriage, you end up arguing that gay people in New York can have sex after they get married, but that gay people in Alabama will never be able to have sex, at least until and unless gay marriage becomes legal in Alabama.
Which brings me to the biggest issue of all: To answer your question, I must not only define marriage (which turns out to be really hard to define); I must also define sex. What is sex? Is it actions that can result in procreation? Is it any kind of sexual intimacy? If so, is kissing sex? Is hugging sex if it happens to result in arousal?
We’ve created this aura around virginity as if one’s virginity is a real and tangible thing—but of course it isn’t. Sex and virginity are socially constructed concepts. Are you a virgin if you engage in oral sex? Are you a virgin if you’ve kissed a girl? Are you a virgin if it was just the tip? Are you a virgin if your hymen breaks from tampon-insertion?
In my opinion, our obsessive focus on virginity and sexual purity doesn’t serve anyone. Losing one’s virginity is not an event; it’s a process. Similarly, weddings are events, and signing your marriage license is an event, but marriages are not events. They are processes.
So no, I don’t think it’s inherently wrong to have sex before marriage, because I don’t know what sex means, and I don’t know what marriage means. I think people should feel empowered to make their own decisions about their own bodies in thoughtful and open conversations with their romantic partners.
And use condoms. The End.
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eleventy
For the longest time it felt like we were new friends - you know, that exciting getting-to-know-new-person phase - and looking back, I am utterly unable to pinpoint when that stopped and when it started feeling like we’d been friends for ages and ages. If there IS a boring middle period of friendship - and I don’t know, maybe there isn’t, I’m just throwing theories out...
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Post a number in my ask and I'll write something... →
what the hell this could be fun
I will probably make stuff up though, I am terrible at coming up with truthy friendship truths right on the spot :P
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“I am constantly being asked what this or that means in my films. It’s...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky (via nostalgiya)
yes yes yes so much this
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Watchmarkmelove:
“there is one night i did not sleep. IT IS SO HARD TO STOP.”
can this be an SNL skit please
can I be this woman when I grow up or
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RABID WRITER CAPSLOCK RANT GO
jumpingjacktrash:
let me just start by putting this on the table so we can all see it:
the way literature and creative writing are taught in schools is completely and totally wrong.
it is. it’s fucked up. it’s backwards. now, to be fair, i don’t have an alternate suggestion for schools. i’m not school guy. but i do have an alternate suggestion for writers, and it begins with looking back on...
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“There are so many aspects of [American] society that confound less worldly Brits...”
– David Ford (I Choose This: How To Nearly Make It In The Music Industry, p. 107)
Bitch Magazine: We're All Mad Here: The... →
The institution as a recurring theme in pop culture tells us a great deal about how people think about institutions and mental illness, and music videos in particular provide a fascinating glimpse into perceptions of institutionalization and the institution as metaphor. Assembling this post, I pored through numerous videos depicting institutions and institutional life, ranging from the heinous...
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Last night I loaded all 4 Cobra Starship albums...
weekofsundays:
And then when I got home I realized that Night Shades had copied into a separate folder and Viva la Cobra was all mp4s so I had been listening to nothing but the first and third albums on shuffle for 5 hours.
…but didn’t realize because I only know one song off Night Shades and none of the songs off While The City Sleeps and my mp3 player display is broken and I am VERY VERY...
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so you should know that i am currently spamming...
sundayschild:
she keeps making D-faces at me and begging me not to
i have no idea why
i mean
are you telling me that this would not be a good look for any/all of them?
i mean, good god, internet
what else are faces for if not sporting make mustaches
answer me this
oh god this is the best idea ever & I hope you do it, person I do not know. If you don’t do it I’m...