The Dandelion Chronicles

Freedom! Just passed my MA thesis with a very handsome B-grade....

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:43:58 +0200

Freedom! Just passed my MA thesis with a very handsome B-grade. Officially done with University and now I have a degree in English and Art History.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 14:01:32 +0200

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Tue, 21 May 2013 13:48:25 +0200

casalduero: http://taijavigilia.deviantart.com/

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:31:04 +0200

casalduero:

http://taijavigilia.deviantart.com/

elizasindigoskyes: Image from: a history of big hair, Frankie...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:28:04 +0200

elizasindigoskyes:

Image from: a history of big hair, Frankie magazine

fripperiesandfobs: Costume designed by Rene Hubert for Vivien...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:26:47 +0200

fripperiesandfobs:

Costume designed by Rene Hubert for Vivien Leigh in That Hamilton Woman (1941).

From JB Taylor

Problems with being a male

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:14:44 +0200

Having emotions is seen as weakness
Admitting weakness is seen as an even greater weakness
Being called a sexual deviant or a pervert because you were expressing your sexuality
A girl beating you in any physical competition makes you inferior
Being superficial makes you a pig but a woman being superficial is fine
Makeup isn't even an option
Not living up to the insanely unrealistic ideal of manhood automatically makes you gay
Being gay is seen as weak
You can't control the size of your "manhood"
You can't report sexual assaults because being a male victim is worse than being the rapist
No male specific support groups or movements
Unequal parental rights
Extreme feminists treating you less than human
Women can blame all men or say they are all the same but if a man blames women they're sexist pigs
People dismissing your problems automatically because the universe is obviously rigged in your favour in every scenario imaginable
No one will read this past the title

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:09:11 +0200

randomstuff134:

sodamnrelatable:

take a moment to realize you have never seen your face in person, just reflections and pictures

some scientists agree that if you saw a clone of yourself, you wouldn’t recognise it as you, because our idea of what we look like is so different from what we actually look like

This makes me hope that I will never be famous enough to be in Madame Toussaud’s… Would freak me out!

abortionista: if u think my constant vocal feminism is annoying imagine how annoying the patriarchy...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:00 +0200

abortionista:

if u think my constant vocal feminism is annoying imagine how annoying the patriarchy is to me

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Tue, 21 May 2013 11:51:56 +0200

Skincare is by Danish organic brand Tromborg

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:53:38 +0200

Skincare is by Danish organic brand Tromborg

Bibliolexicon, A Passion for Books (x)

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:48:03 +0200

Bibliolexicon, A Passion for Books (x)

gilmoregirlstrivia07: The upstairs and downstairs layout of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:44:36 +0200

gilmoregirlstrivia07:

The upstairs and downstairs layout of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore’s house.

b2rianls: Syrup: Four types of women. i need Amber Heard on...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:45:50 +0200

b2rianls:

Syrup: Four types of women.

i need Amber Heard on my TV again.

"This is what I don’t get - Women are impure because males have touched them. Who’s the dirty one..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:23:59 +0200

“This is what I don’t get - Women are impure because males have touched them. Who’s the dirty one here?”

- Comment on Jezebel article “Female ‘Purity’ Is Bullshit” (via jececilia)

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Mon, 20 May 2013 18:11:43 +0200

"It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:03:55 +0200

““It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.””

- L.R. Knost (via dream-sequences)

"Even if your particular depression does include sadness, it’ll only be one of many other symptoms...."

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:36 +0200

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Even if your particular depression does include sadness, it’ll only be one of many other symptoms. The others might be much more painful and salient for you than the sadness is. Some people can’t sleep, others gain weight, some think constantly about death, others can’t concentrate or remember anything. Many lose interest in sex, or food, or both. Almost everyone, it seems, experiences a crushing fatigue in which your limbs feel like stone and no amount of sleep ever helps. Then there are headaches, stomachaches, and so on.

So, depression doesn’t necessarily mean sadness to us. (And a gentle reminder to non-depressed folks: being sad doesn’t mean you’re “depressed,” either.)

Depression is not sadness; it’s an illness that often, though not always, involves sadness. No amount of happy things will make a depressed person spontaneously recover, and, usually, no amount of sad things will make a well-adjusted person with good mental health suddenly develop depression. (Grief, of course, is another matter.) And sadness, on its own, does not cause suicide.

[…]People don’t kill themselves because they’re sad. They kill themselves because they have an illness that, among other things, makes them feel sad. It also makes them feel like their life is worthless, like they’re a burden to others, like death would be easier, and all the other beliefs that lead people down the path to suicide.

There is a tendency, I think, to assume that people are depressed because they are sad. A better way to look at it is that people are sad because they are depressed. That’s why, even if we could “turn that frown upside down!” and “just look on the sunny side!” for your benefit, it would do absolutely no good. The depression would still be there, but in a different form.

”

- Miriam Mogilevsky, Depression Is Not Sadness: Junior Seau and Public Discourse on Mental Illness (via femincest)

enasnivolz: ealperin: reading-thoughts: edwardspoonhands: Not...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:50:18 +0200

enasnivolz:

ealperin:

reading-thoughts:

edwardspoonhands:

Not Iambic….Do Not Accept…

These tags I’ll pop, and boast in rhyming verse
that what I wear puts swagger in my gait;
though twenty shillings have I in my purse,
my self-esteem and manhood both inflate
when lofty furs I purchase for a cent.
Thy grandpa’s clothes are worthy salvage, though
they smell a trifle musty. Still, I spent
much less to dress myself from head to toe.

To save or not to save? The question’s moot.
I’ll never give my coin to high-street crooks.
These dusty shelves will yield their hidden loot
to those, like me, more frugal in their looks.
Like ancient coins washed up on distant shores,
I’ll find my treasures in these thrifty stores.
- Macklemore, “Thrift Shoppe”

*Crying with laughter*

ITS IN IAMBIC PENTAMETER. SWEET JESUS THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE THING.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 17:44:05 +0200