wheretheducksgo:

what was high school like for lizzie mcguire though

like

she goes home after impersonating an italian pop star and half of her class and like the rest of the world saw that she can sing and perform 

like

did she just go to high school and date gordo and go to college with him or

what happened to lizzie mcguire 

Another day, another interview 

Tomorrow shall be interesting. This is the first interview I’ll have had where I didn’t actually apply for the job, they saw my resume online and sought me out. Don’t worry, they’re a legit company, but I’m so used to having the job description and usually a pay range to expect going in.

I’m getting really tired of interviewing for jobs and I would like to just get hired. Soon.

I’m hoping that either this works out or the Wells Fargo thing I got my fingerprints done for yesterday does. I just want to be working again. Even if it does mess with my running “schedule.”

"Beauty and purity go hand in hand, and are tied up in a false sense of modesty. This type of attractiveness comes from being white, virginal, conventionally attractive and actively or deliberately ignorant of meeting that standard of attractiveness. It comes from needing to be seen as beautiful even “without any makeup on” but in “skin-tight jeans” if you’re Katy Perry, from Bruno Mars ‘knowing’ that “when I compliment her, she won’t believe me,” and in reminding a boy that he should be dating a girl who isn’t a shallow hussy, if you’re Taylor Swift.
All of this encourages girls to constantly strive to meet an arbitrary standard of attractiveness that fuels multiple industries (dieting and cosmetics, primarily) while reminding them that their job is to be appealing to men but never to admit that they’re trying to be good-looking for men, and never admit that they look good – especially if they’re not skinny or white. It creates a maelstrom of unhealthy attitudes about girls’ bodies and sexuality. Girls must be all things: attractive and unknowing, winking about sex and flaunting their sexuality but never expressing desire or – worse – actually having sex, and presenting their bodies as sexually available while deriding those girls whose sex lives are more active than their own. They must do all this while being straight, slender and white and preferably blonde or they’re not really even in the game to begin with."  -

Teen Pop and the Culture of Purity (via sparkamovement)

Oh, and look! My last post can be translated to apply to sex and beauty, too. See: “their job is to be appealing to men but never to admit that they’re trying to be good-looking for men, and never admit that they look good – especially if they’re not skinny or white.”

(via rachelhills)

solairebee:

steal compass, sail north, disappear. by *Megatruh

"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."  - (via teresachennnn)

"When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We’re afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman -whatever it is that we would really like to do but don’t because of personal obstacles. Don’t avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you’ll have a place to sit down."  - Pierce Vincent Eckhart (via thesumofmypartss)

"If you don’t allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good."  - Steven Galloway (via writingquotes)

solairebee:

Tadahiro Uesugi

wordplaying:

annamaetezuka:

i-cant-f0rget:

Why the hell can I hear a thump when I look at the picture? And no thump when i look away? OHMY.

WHAT IS THIS SORCERY!!!

holy crap

I CAN SEE SOUNDS.

DEVIOUS FUCKERY

I CAN FEEL THE THUMPS IN MY EARS WHAT

GFGKLEMFNGK

JESUS CHRIST YOU GUYS ARE RIGHT.

WHAT

OH MY GOD

I’m re-blogging this every time I see it.

what the fuck..

Power of suggestion, thou art strong O_O

This reminds me of one of my favorite things about the brain, the McGurk Effect. We are so amazing, seriously.

The speed at which cherry blossoms fall.
It's five centimetres per second.

A wise woman once told me: You don’t lose your virginity when you have sex. You don’t “lose” anything. You gain an experience and you have your sexual debut. 

thedesperatescousewife:

I feel like this can apply to anyone. Whether you’re saving your first time for marriage or you’re simply waiting til it’s right for you and your partner, I don’t think sex means loss. I think the concept of “losing” a piece of you is harmful to peoples’ minds. Like you’re less of a person because of having sex? Anyways, sexual debut is kind of an awesome term. 

I believe that this is a great way to think about virginity and sex, as a sexual debut, rather than focusing on any negative aspect of it. I understand how the idea of it first came to be, back when a woman’s purity was a marker of her worth. I don’t mean that in terms of self-worth, but in actual terms of how much she was worth to a potential husband, so therefore by losing one’s virginity, it was as though a woman were literally losing her worth. It’s very messed up and incredibly outdated, though I am sure there are groups and people who would argue that it is still very relevant.

At any rate, I like the idea of a sexual debut, because that’s really what it is, an introduction to the pleasures of sexual activity (and more specifically with another person) and that you aren’t really losing anything, you’re gaining something and you’re sharing something.