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Happy birthday, Charlie!
"I think storytellers—first and foremost—must pledge their loyalty to the narrative as it comes to them. I don’t believe in creating characters out of a desire to please your audience or even to promote an ostensible social good. I think good writing is essentially a selfish act—story-tellers are charged with crafting the narrative they want to see."
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the controversy surrounding race in HBO’s Girls. (via theatlantic)
(via nolanfeeney)
Again by Barry Deutsch, on privilege.
Marry me, Barry, and we will be happy forever.
(via another-feminist-blog)
So you thought that Photoshopping models was a new practice? These 1950s pin-up photos show that there was just as much retouching going on 60 years ago. In the 1950′s Photoshop gave way to paintings and reference photos.
The photographer was Gil Elvgren and models Janet Rae and Myrna Hansen who was Miss USA in 1953.See the whole collection: http://www.referenced.co.uk/pin-up-girls-before-and-after-shots/
I think that this picture looks a lot like me! The original of course.
Ryan: The first time I saw First Blood, I was in the first grade. The next day I filled my Fisher Price Houdini Kit up with steak knives and I took it to school, and I threw them at the kids at recess, and got suspended. My mother said I couldn’t watch movies anymore because I was too heavily influenced by them. And then the first time I saw Rocky I went out and picked a fight, and I lost, because I thought I could fight. I thought I was Sylvester Stallone, and thought I could fight. Movies took me into their world and I had to get snapped out of it. I don’t think I’m alone in that way. You always come out of a movie, and you feel like you’re that character.
(via smilesvssmirks)
If Juliet from Romeo & Juliet had a sassy gay friend, she’d be a lot better off.
http://www.uesjournal.com/2008/12/22/in-other-news-creepy-mans-arm-pillow/
I’m pretty sure this is the female equivalent of buying a sex doll. Pure desperation to the point of giving up entirely on both dignity and actual human contact.
