Low Rising (The Swell Season)
Low Rising - The Swell Season
(Just snagged this album, and love it.)
June 2011
Real Women →
hanneblank.com
I’m going to say it again because it’s important: There is no wrong way to have a body.
And if your moral compass points in any way, shape, or form to equality, you need to get this through your thick skull and stop with the “real women are like such-and-so” crap.
You are not the authority on what “real” human beings are, and who qualifies as “real” and on what basis. All human beings are real.
Yes, I know you’re tired of feeling disenfranchised. It is a tiresome and loathsome thing to be and to feel. But the tit-for-tat disenfranchisement of others is not going to solve that problem. Solidarity has to start somewhere and it might as well be with you and me.
This is excellent.
You know some algorithms have gone horribly wrong when I get ads for free baby stuff coming up. o.O
June Hymn
The Decemberists
The Decemberists - “June Hymn”
“Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.”
—Lord Rodrik, A Feast for Crows
Snagged the first chapter of Heart of Darkness for free on Audible.
It’s narrated by Kenneth Branagh, and his voice is beautiful. I may end up getting the full one just to listen to him speak.
Snagged the first chapter of Heart of Darkness for free on Audible.
It’s narrated by Kenneth Branagh, and his voice is beautiful. I may end up getting the full one just to listen to him speak.
Snagged the first chapter of Heart of Darkness for free on Audible.
It’s narrated by Kenneth Branagh, and his voice is beautiful. I may end up getting the full one just to listen to him speak.
Snagged the first chapter of Heart of Darkness for free on Audible.
It’s narrated by Kenneth Branagh, and his voice is beautiful. I may end up getting the full one just to listen to him speak.
I love having roses by the bedside table.
The smell of them while I’m drifting off to sleep makes me happy.
(Lilies are actually my favourite, but they’re not cat-safe. The things I do for love!)
YES!!!: NC gov vetoes bill on abortion restrictions →
newstimes.com
North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue has vetoed a bill requiring women considering an abortion in the state to get an ultrasound and wait 24 hours after mandated counseling before they could undergo the procedure.
The Democratic governor is an abortion-rights supporter and announced her decision on Monday.
The GOP-led General Assembly could try to override the measure next month.
Planned Parenthood and other groups had urged Perdue to block the measure. It said it needlessly intruded into the relationship between a doctor and a woman already making an informed decision.
Anti-abortion activists say the measure would ensure women make a fully informed decision before a weighty act.
YES! I love you Beverly Perdue! <3
“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — in order that the reader may see what they are made of.”
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Kurt Vonnegut
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George R.R. Martin really took this to heart…
Fuck, guys. This is rough.
My boss and a couple of my co-worker friends just sent me really sweet and supportive messages regarding everything. I know what I’m doing is best for me, and I don’t regret the decisions I’ve made, but I didn’t expect it to be this hard when it came down to leaving here.
This job has been extremely difficult lately — not as far as my duties go, but as far as all the social and political shifts going on. The decision to start taking classes full-time again, rather than slipping a couple in when I could fit them with work, was largely made because the professional climate here has become miserable. So I know that in the long-term this is right, and I won’t regret it.
But for the moment, this is hard. There are people I’m going to miss, and telling them goodbye isn’t easy.
Just submitted my letter of resignation/two-weeks notice.
Hitting me now that everything is really happening. Shit.
“When women use the word ‘slut’ to describe another woman, the word serves several functions. Firstly, it demonstrates a disapproval, or a disgust, for another person’s sexual life, or for her choice of clothes, or for her tendency to flirt, or for a host of other things I don’t have the column inches to list here. But secondly, and more disturbingly, making the distinction between ‘sluts’ and ourselves creates a false sense of safety. ‘Sluts,’ we tell ourselves, are women who invite violence, and often, that invitation is answered. When ‘sluts’ are raped, police officers suspect they must have done something to deserve it. So as long as we aren’t sluts, we are safe. We won’t be raped, and if we are, the justice system will take care of us. We won’t be raped, and if we are, our friends and family will be sympathetic. We won’t be raped, and if we are, no one will say we deserved it… When women hurl that word at other women, we aren’t just buying into the lie that some of us deserve violence more than others. We’re also lying to ourselves about our own safety. We’re pretending that rape could never happen to us – that it’s something that happens to other women, women who bring it on themselves. And by endorsing that myth, we make it easier for men like that Toronto police officer to pick and choose who sees justice and who doesn’t.”
—Chloe Angyal, in an article published in the Christian Science Monitor.
“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
—William Saroyan
This has been an accurate portrayal of my morning.
It’s time to talk about something I have not been grasping all morning…
Submitting your email is just for the purpose of getting notification when it opens in October. It doesn’t really do anything right now. Why is everyone trying so hard to get it submitted? There’s plenty of time. Breathe. Wait a few days. It will all work out.
ETA: Also guys, trying to push in there all at the same time is just making it worse. (#IT Rant #I love you guys, I promise)
All good points, and you’re right - people shouldn’t be flipping out about it. However, can you imagine the absolute shitstorm it’s going to be on launch day in October? If they aren’t able to serve an email form, I can’t begin to think of how they plan on serving actual content. (And from what I’ve seen, it looks like it’ll be in Flash.)
On the plus side, this will give them a good benchmark to know what they’ll need for launch.
Agreed, they should use this as a way to work out what to expect during the launch. I think it’s hard to be prepared for something like this, though, even knowing how many fans there are. It’s kind of expected for them to need some time to work out the kinks (and after the first hype, fewer people will be accessing it at once, and that will help).
I mean, I’m not upset with people for flooding it and everything, I just don’t understand it, personally.
…..
My life. Except nine times out of ten I get an error page after the first or second step. Not the fancy schmancy sorry page. Just an ugly white error page. Even the error page doesn’t love me. Fuck this I hate you all!!!! [Slytherin in me.] Now back to trying.
This has been an accurate portrayal of my morning.
It’s time to talk about something I have not been grasping all morning…
Submitting your email is just for the purpose of getting notification when it opens in October. It doesn’t really do anything right now. Why is everyone trying so hard to get it submitted? There’s plenty of time. Breathe. Wait a few days. It will all work out.
ETA: Also guys, trying to push in there all at the same time is just making it worse. (#IT Rant #I love you guys, I promise)
“I only know that every hour with you
Is torture to me, and that I would be
From your two piognant lovelinesses free!
Rainbows, green fire, white diamonds, the fierce blue
Of shimmering ice-bergs, or to be shot through
With lightning or a sword incessantly—
Such things have beauty, doubtless; but to me
Mist, shadow, silence—these are lovely, too.
There is no shelter in you anywhere;
Rhythmic intolerable, your burning rays
Trample upon me, withering my breath;
I will be gone, and rid of you, I swear:
To stand upon the peaks of Love always
Proves but that part of Love whose name is Death.” —Edna St. Vincent Millay, “I Only Know That Every Hour With You”
Is torture to me, and that I would be
From your two piognant lovelinesses free!
Rainbows, green fire, white diamonds, the fierce blue
Of shimmering ice-bergs, or to be shot through
With lightning or a sword incessantly—
Such things have beauty, doubtless; but to me
Mist, shadow, silence—these are lovely, too.
There is no shelter in you anywhere;
Rhythmic intolerable, your burning rays
Trample upon me, withering my breath;
I will be gone, and rid of you, I swear:
To stand upon the peaks of Love always
Proves but that part of Love whose name is Death.” —Edna St. Vincent Millay, “I Only Know That Every Hour With You”
Abortions Return to Back Alleys Amid Restrictive New State Laws - The Daily Beast →
thedailybeast.com
Abortion in America — increasingly illegal in all but name for everyone except the rich.
In states across the country, women are being arrested for the crime of ending their own pregnancies—though they have a constitutional right to do so in a doctor’s office.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years. And women have started going to jail for the crime of ending their own pregnancies, or trying to.
This week Jennie L. McCormack, a 32-year-old mother of three from eastern Idaho, was arrested for self-inducing an abortion. According to the Associated Press, McCormack couldn’t afford a legal procedure, and so took pills that her sister had ordered online.Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
Underground abortions have returned to the United States, just as pro-choice activists have warned for years.
I’ve said before, and I will say again…pro-choice is pro-life. Safe, legal abortion is necessary, and outlawing it does nothing to stop abortions — it just moves them to back alleys and leaves a larger trail of bodies in their wake, sacrificing the lives of fully grown women, not just the cells of a potential life.
Nothing irritates me so much as being told I'm "making a big deal of" something.
Especially since it only occurs regarding feminism or when I’m just idly discussing something that bothers me in a personal space (i.e. my own goddamn blog).
Like, if I post something and someone thinks, “KENDRA YOU NEED TO CHECK YOURSELF YOU’RE BEING A PRIVILEGED ASSFACE” that’s one thing. But if I’m discussing my thoughts on a book or film, and you just think I’m over-analyzing, STFU. I’ll over-analyze all I please. I fucking enjoy over-analyzing, people. This is why I’m majoring in English.
Okay, Sansa. We need to have a little heart-to-heart.
After all this time, I do mostly like you. Sometimes you’re so dense I want to smack you over the head, but for the most part we’re cool. There is, however, one aspect of your personality that is outright unacceptable, and must be stopped now.
Please, for the love of all that is holy and unholy, stop using the word “tummy” all the goddamn time. It’s grating. You’re a grown-ass woman (as far as the ASOIAF world goes). I have heard you say “tummy” more in this lone book than I normally hear in a year. Just, no. Cut that shit out.
