When you’re dead to so many people
who’ve taken away your name,
isn’t it your holy prerogative to burn
the ghost of them out, the lamp
shuttered like a house?
Future arsonists:
Will it always burn?
(via lifeinpoetry)
just in case you havent heard it today:
- you are feared
- your six wings, gleaming body, and multiple pairs of torch eyes are beautiful
- your thunder voice will get better and increasingly more vehement with time
- you are valid
(via aromaladyrose)
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie sits at the top of the row, hands clasped in front of her, sitting upright and attentive. She has a pile of books on the desk in front of her. Zack sits three seats behind her. His posture is irreverent: his hands crossed, and a smirk on his face. There are no books on his desk. The caption reads “ I was acutely aware of my class, and I was acutely aware of the limitations imposed on me by gender.”
Source: interview entitled “Challenging Capitalism & Patriarchy
Third World Viewpoint interviews bell hooks” done by ZMagazine
i am kind of extra sometimes but in my defense it is a really good song
REMINDER TO ALL YOU YOUNG PEOPLE:
Do Not Take A Picture of Your Ballot
It is illegal. Your vote will be thrown out and not counted.
DO NOT post it on Facebook, or Twitter, or Snapchat or Instagram or Tumblr or ANYTHING. Don’t share it with your friends. The likes and notes are not worth it. Just keep your phones in your damn pockets the entire time you’re voting.Take a cute selfie with the “I Voted” sticker afterwards instead.
Please don’t let me read headlines going something like “Millennials fucked up the election by posting pictures of their ballots” because it will be fucking insufferable. And also Trump will probably win and we’ll all be fucked.
Also, DO NOT WEAR ANY SHIRTS, HATS, PINS, BAGS, ETC. THAT SHOWCASE A CERTAIN CANDIDATE OR POLITICIAN WHEN YOU GO TO VOTE!
It’s called passive electioneering, and some states will bar you from entering a voting place if you are wearing anything pro-or-anti-a certain candidate. Show your support that day by voting instead of wearing your candidate proudly on clothes.
THIS IS IMPORTANT.
DO NOT TAKE/POST PICTURES OF YOUR BALLOT.
DON’T DO IT.
This is so important - we can’t compare trauma experiences, it is all valid. Even two people who go through the same trauma can react differently.
Now this is a metaphor I get.
(via universalharvester)
terrible wedding songs
- voice from the back: Please play No Children, its going to be our wedding song!
- john: That's a terrible wedding song
- john: Ma'am I wish your wedding all the happiness, and I hope you stay married for a hundred thousand years
- john: and the two of you, around the 90,000th year, are like "this is too long"
- john: "I'm begging for the sweet release of death, but it won't come"
- john: God damn that John Darnielle and the curse he laid upon this marriage, the hundred thousand year marriage
- john: No one else is left on this burnt planet but us
- john: This is called No Children, I want to discourage anybody from playing it at their wedding, even though people keep doing it and there's nothing I can do about it
- john: I'm waiting for someone to say "we played it at our wedding, and the divorce lawyer was already there"
- john: "he officiated the ceremony"
(via spheregirl)