General Anxiety
College Junior, 21 years old, in love,pro-choice, long-time reader & writer. I reblog random things, I write about things nobody cares to hear about,and I always welcome questions
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Well, I finished my glass of water. Still not tired.
Time for tea.
At one magical instant, in your early childhood, the pages of a book - that string of confused alien ciphers- shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.
—Alberto Manguel
I love this quote.
This…
I learned to read when I was 3. I read my first big chapter book by the time I was in the first grade. My life wasn’t terrible, but at the time it was rocky. Reading took me into places that were my own, that were far away from my over filled house with its problems.
I didn’t just observe characters, I became them, or some shadow close to them. I can’t remember the first time a book made me feel, because I have always felt.
I read a quote once that said a reader must be empathetic to really enjoy a book. I have read books that have affected my mood for days, because it is all I can think about.
Reading is, and has always been, a true EXPERIENCE for me. So I guess I’m a special snowflake too.
I want to see Rock of Ages.
On life’s constant little limitations
Calvin: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
On expectations
Calvin: Everybody seeks happiness! Not me, though! That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
On why we are scared of the dark
Calvin: I think night time is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
On the unspoken truth behind the education system
Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
On the cruel reality of commercial art
Hobbes: Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
On the tragedy of hipsters
Calvin: The world bores you when you’re cool.
On the tears of a clown
Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humour? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it’s funny. Don’t you think it’s odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?
Hobbes: I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
Calvin: (after a long pause) I can’t tell if that’s funny or really scary.
On the falling of sparrows (or providence’s lack of a timetable)
Calvin: Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
On why winter is the cruellest of seasons
Calvin: Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
On the gaping hole in contemporary art’s soul
Calvin: People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.
On playing Frankenstein with words
Calvin: Verbing weirds language.
On realising God is more Woody Allen than Michael Bay
Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.
Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
On why ET is real
Calvin: Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
On looking yourself in the mirror
Hobbes: So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
On the future
Calvin: Trick or treat!
Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be?
Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak. Am I scary, or what?
On the truth
Calvin: It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy…Let’s go exploring!
(via reem-ster)
Nothing kills my faith in humanity like how initially amusing jokes turn into disgusting cultural memes. See “ginger” and “friend zone.”
People are so obnoxious there is now an episode of Scrubs that is completely ruined because it introduced the term “friend zone.”
And there are still legions of guys who complain that women find men untrustworthy, and spurn their “good” and “nice” advances when…
…what challenges MY faith in men the most is when friendliness revealed to hide an ulterior motive.
I understand the pain of being attracted to someone and finding out they aren’t. It sucks. But you know what ELSE I understand?
I understand the raw hurt that comes from finding out someone only complimented your writing because he was working up a way to ask you out.
The shock of finding out that someone’s been saying you’re intelligent because you have nice breasts, but actually thinks you’re vapid.
The crushing blow of learning that the guy you’ve been confiding in, that you thought understood and loved you as a friend, only wanted sex.
The one guy I ever loved broke it off with “I’d rather be friends.” I cried all night. It didn’t hurt a tenth as much as that, though.
You think you know pain? That the “Friend Zone” hurts? Fuck you. Try living in the zone where you’re valued only for fuckability.
Believe me, the friend zone is far preferable to not being able to trust someone to be a real friend.
If your response to my last rant is “Respect manpain, that some guys lie doesn’t make wanting to be just friends acceptable behavior”…
Know that you’ve implied that someone who wants to be friends rather than lovers is behaving inappropriately, and that makes you an asshole.
That is outright saying that the only acceptable behavior for a woman is to say yes to sex. Which is not consent.
"Ragnell, on the Friend Zone.
Men don’t seem to believe it happens to women — that women become interested in anyone who doesn’t feel the same way about them. Believe me it happens. Rejection sucks, but not as badly as finding out that the friendship was a false front.
(via paradiscacorbasi)
(via rune-midgarts)
Sources or it didn’t happen.
I can’t think of a single example where we’ve been imperialist or genocidal.
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Ugh.
The Boy has been on my case about getting a job. He thinks its as easy as walking into any place and telling them I’m bored.
But then, he forgets. Family and other commitments have me going home at least once a month, and its hard to schedule an interview if I’m never in town.
And when I finally get a job, then he will complain that we never see each other.
Whatever. I applied to a few places today, including IHOP. Wouldnt that be cool, guys!
babyslothsandpuppysizedelephants:
Hey Quee!
Look,
look.I fixed her. I’m sure it was just an honest tonality mistake. They couldn’t have possibly been trying to wash her out.
Right?
fucking hell man!! the fucking difference! racists gonna whitewash
I’m so tired of this shit.
She’s so not-give-a-fuck, I’m waiting for her to say something about this shit. Call a motherfucker out, Rihanna!
yes. my first thought when i saw these was damn she’s hot but why so white?
i can’t.
according to media i’m not light enough
I really, really wish feminists included this phenomenon more in their discussions about how the media affects girls’ body image. :/
and this is why skin bleaching kits sell.
