June 2013
“I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as written by total fanboys and fangirls as a kind of worshipful act, but a lot of times you’ll read these stories and it’ll be like ‘What if Star Trek had an openly gay character on the bridge?’ And of course the point is that they don’t, and they wouldn’t, because they don’t have the balls, or they are beholden to their advertisers, or whatever. There’s a powerful critique, almost punk-like anger, being expressed there—which I find fascinating and interesting and cool.”
—Lev Grossman (via albinwonderland)
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Sure you won a Grammy for your first CD and an Oscar for your first film, but are you thin? You’re the governor of a state and people want you to run for President, but are you thin? You’re thin now so we expect you to maintain that obsessively so that you are never not thin. You eat nourishing foods and move your body regularly, but are you thin? You’re a great mother but are you thin? You’re a successful business person but are you thin? You’re 4 years old but are you thin? You’re 94 years old but are you thin? You cured cancer but are you thin?
Enough already.
” —Ragen Chastain (via killerzebras)My mom on pop culture icons
My mom saw an ad for living with the Kardashians on tv and said, “The Kardashians? Weren’t those an alien species in Star Trek?” I didn’t correct her.
“If I’d learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don’t talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.”
—Alex Garland, “The Beach” (via bsexplorations)
Why do I get the feeling that John Green and Misha Collins would be best friends?
what ever
gave you
that
idea
time for a “make john green find the thing”
Reblogging just so John Green can find the thing.
in my list of ten people i could invite to a dinner party, these two majestic beings are the first two slots
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
—George R.R. Martin (via kayteelouise)
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A catcall is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The purity myth is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The fetishization of female purity in a world where catcalls are an acceptable form of communication telegraphs one thing very clearly:
“Women, stop sexualizing yourselves—that’s our job, and you’re taking all the fun out of it.”
The sexualization of women is only appealing if it’s nonconsensual. Otherwise it’s “sluttiness,” and sluttiness is agency and agency is threatening.
” —Lindy West, “Female ‘Purity’ is Bullshit” (via albinwonderland)