January 2012
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A novel is not an allegory…. It is the sensual experience of another world. If...
– Azar Nafisi (via doubledaybooks)
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pepperprints: No, I don’t think it’s coindence... →
Two things:
1) The lack of Sam/Steve is weird. SERIOUSLY.
2) When I finally watched X-Men First Class, a few months after the rest of the world and on an uncomfortable flight to London, I was disappointed. Where was the much vaunted bromance between Erik and Charles? Darwin and Havok, OTOH - their banter, that final look they shared before… sdfjksf. My heart cracked. And yet, I...
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every title would be a...: "are women people?" →
viviopsis:
feministdisney:
on The Hairpin today: a pretty cool collection of suffragist poems from 1915. Kind of funny- and sad- that so much of this social commentary could pass as modern discourse if presented without context?? That’s almost a century ago!
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My two favourite characters [from Classical myth], I think, are Odysseus from...
– Tom Hiddleston, my crush upon whom magnified 1000X when I found out he read Classics at Cambridge - and came out with 1st class honours to boot (!)
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Despite all this, I looked for ways to feel human. I have always loved animals....
– Notes From A Guantanamo Survivor. (via flavorpill)
This is gut-wrenching just to read, but to have lived through it - I can’t even Augh, humanity. Just. Augh.
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