“Half the world is full of women, but it’s rare to hear a narrative that doesn’t speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man’s daughter. A man’s wife.” 

“We Have Always Fought”: Challenging the “Women, Cattle and Slaves” Narrative 
by Kameron Hurley 

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 ”Isn’t the assertion that straight white men are narratively neutral itself a political statement, one which seeks to marginalise as exceptional or abnormal the experiences of every other possible type of person on the planet despite the fact that straight white men are themselves a global minority?” 

PSA: Your Default Narrative Settings Are Not Apolitical 
by Foz Meadows 

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“History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth. 

History is actually a long series of centuries of men writing down what they thought was important and interesting, and FORGETTING TO WRITE ABOUT WOMEN.” 

Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let’s Unpack That. 
by Tansy Rayner Roberts

"I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them."

Andy Bernard, The Office finale

The 23 Most Perfect Foods In The Universe →

steelplatedhearts:

I made a series of Calming Bunnies (based off of the Calming Manatee meme) for my friend Gab, who isn’t a huge fan of manatees!

We can always use more bunnies, I think.

I have feelings for someone I don’t even have feelings for.

Like my feelings have feelings, and I have feelings about those feelings. And I don’t know how to feel about that.

"…forget the money, because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living— that is, to go on doing things you don’t like doing— which is stupid! Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way."

Alan Watts

I don’t know if it’s the caffeine or too much sugar or the thought of someone I love but my heart is electric and I feel like flying.

I wish I had found this song when I was going through that time. I wish someone had said these things to me. 

Now having been there, and thankfully gotten through, I will sing this to anyone who needs to hear it.

http://www.iwrotethisforyou.me/2012/06/truth-as-it-currently-stands.html →

“Only the things you do have real, lasting value, not the things you get for the things you do. You will, at some point, realise that no trophy loves you as much as you love it, that it cannot pay your bills (even if it increases your salary slightly) and that it won’t hold your hand tightly as you say your last words on your deathbed.”

“If you make art to feel better, make sure it eventually makes you feel better. If it doesn’t, stop making it.”

“You will love someone differently, as time passes. If you always expect to feel the same kind of love you felt when you first met someone, you will always be looking for new people to love. Love doesn’t fade. It just changes as it grows.” 

”No philosophy, mantra or piece of advice will hold true for every conceivable situation. ‘The early bird catches the worm’ does not apply to minefields.”

“Perfection only exists in poetry and movies, everyone fights occasionally and no sane person is ever completely sure of anything.” 

“There is no other moment that exists that is more important than this one. Do not sacrifice this moment in the hopes of a better one.”

“It is easy to remember all these things when they are being said, it is much harder to remember them when you are stuck in traffic or lying in bed worrying about the next day.“ 

The author was right to know I’d be quoting this.

Intentional Dissonance

“…words are forever. Even if you kill the person who writes them, words are forever. Even if you disagree with them and spend the rest of your days arguing against what was said, what was said, was still said.” 

“Something else is in control of you and when that happens, you can either fight it or ignore it or try to justify it, or you can do what you’re doing, which is try to make it make sense. That’s what you’re doing.” 

”Too many people mistook envy for happiness. They believed other people wanting to do the things they were doing was more important than doing the things they wanted to do. So they’d edit their photographs and edit their lives and edit and lie until from a distance, it looked like they had the perfect life.” 

“…if you can show me a life without a question, I’ll show you someone without purpose.” 

“The feeling of being happy. It doesn’t happen often but when it does, you must grab it with both hands and hold it close. Let it overwhelm you. Don’t over-analyse any emotion. But remember it. Always remember it.” 

“Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives.” 

“…never apologise for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologise for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.” 

-Iain S. Thomas