that's all life is,

"1. if you ever want to wear mommy’s make-up, just make sure you don’t eat it. when it’s time to go..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:41:41 -0400

“1. if you ever want to wear mommy’s make-up, just make sure you don’t eat it. when it’s time to go to bed, I will help you wash it off.

2. when school starts and you want to jump rope instead of play kickball, be careful not to trip and hurt your knees.

3. if you grow up and a boy makes your heart hurt, you do not have to be ashamed.

4. if you fall in love with a girl
who wears the same clothes
as you, it will be easy for me to buy you both presents.

5. if I teach you anything, I will teach you to be gentle.

6. you are not Atlas and the world
is not a burden for you to carry.

7. if you do not like your body, if you feel like you were put inside the wrong one, I will stand by and watch you become again.

8. because we are human beings and we do not always have to
take what we are given.

9. I will love you constantly, fervently, always.

10. I will teach you the value of
the word “no” so that, when you hear it, you do not question it.

11. when the war comes
and you want to fight, I will
sleep with clenched fists until you come home to me.

12. when the war comes and you don’t want to go, I will sleep soundly.

13. you are allowed to be soft. you are allowed to break and bend. you do not have to be strong. you do not have to be a soldier.”

- a letter to my future son | Caitlyn S. (via alonesomes)

"You are so good. So good, you’re always feeling so much. And sometimes it feels like you’re gonna..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:16:15 -0400

“You are so good. So good, you’re always feeling so much. And sometimes it feels like you’re gonna bust wide open from all the feeling, don’t it? People like you are the best in the world, but you sure do suffer for it.”

- Silas House, This is My Heart for You (via fromonesurvivortoanother)

"I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:49:11 -0400

“I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can’t even see it, something that’s drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”

- Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye (via weaverofstars)

"He looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that’s partly why they love me, and..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:22:53 -0400

“He looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that’s partly why they love me, and partly why they leave.”

- Jeanette Winterson (via allisonjeanp)

"All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:56:26 -0400

“All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.”

- Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via larmoyante)

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"If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:37:41 -0400

“If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.”

- Paulo Coelho (via jabwetumbled)

"Loving me will not be easy. Some days I will be a stuttering apology and you won’t know how to..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:11:39 -0400

“Loving me will not be easy. Some days I will be a stuttering apology and you won’t know how to handle all the things I’ve done wrong.”

- writingsforwinter (via rainydaysandblankets)

"Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:45:10 -0400

“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it—it’s just easier if you do.”

- Byron Katie, A Thousand Names for Joy (via mandyisdandy)

"Stop insisting on clearing your head — clear your fucking heart instead."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:19:08 -0400

““Stop insisting on clearing your head — clear your fucking heart instead.””

- Charles Bukowski (via phoenixrisingfromtheash)

Relevant.

(via roothakers)

"Love liberates. It doesn’t bind. Love says. ‘I love you. I love you if you’re in China. I love you..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:52:40 -0400

“Love liberates. It doesn’t bind. Love says. ‘I love you. I love you if you’re in China. I love you if you’re across town. I love you if you’re in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I’d like to have your arms around me. I’d like to hear your voice in my ear. But that’s not possible now. So I love you. Go.’”

- Maya Angelou (via offbeatjaz)

easternn: this is honestly one of the most beautiful and true...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:26:36 -0400

easternn:

this is honestly one of the most beautiful and true to life poems I have ever read. Thank you.

sourcedumal: postapocalypticfashion: When Aisha Tyler was...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:34:00 -0400

sourcedumal:

postapocalypticfashion:

When Aisha Tyler was selected to be the presenter for the 2012 Ubisoft E3 press conference, she received an unprecedented flood of hate from trolls who complained about the fact that she knew nothing about gaming. Too bad haters didn’t do their homework first, because as it turns out Aisha Tyler knows more about gaming that all of us put together. Her Facebook response was awesome and predictably went viral. In case you missed it, here’s her masterpiece. Haters, take note.

Dear Gamers

I play.

I’ve played since I was a little kid.

Since I begged my dad to buy me a Nintendo LCD Donkey Kong, Jr.

Since I blew through three weeks’ allowance playing Defender at the laundromat.

Since you were a twinge in the left side of your daddy’s underoos.

I’ve been a gamer since I made friends with a girl in the 5th grade just to get at her Atari.

Since I missed the bus playing Galaga after school.

Since I missed the start of Return of the Jedi playing Tempest in the theater lobby.

You think you know. You don’t know.

I’ve been a gamer since before you could read.

Since I aced midterms after staying up all night playing Evil Tetris.

Since I became dorm champ at Leisure Suit Larry.

Since I double-wielded on Time Crisis 3 at Fuddrucker’s.

I was a voice in not one, but two major video game titles.

I hosted the Reach Beta tutorial.

I was a Gears of War superfan panelist at ComicCon.

I hosted the Ubisoft presser at E3 2012.

I didn’t do any of it for the money.

For most I got paid next to nothing, and for some, less than that.

I did it because I love video games.

Because I’ve dreamt since I was a kid of being in one of the games I love.

How many games have you done voices for?

How many cons have you repped at?

Your buddy’s Unreal Tournament garage deathmatch doesn’t count.

I go to E3 each year because I love video games.

Because new titles still get me high.

Because I still love getting swag.

Love wearing my gamer pride on my sleeve.

People ask me what console I play.

Motherfucker, ALL of them.

I get invited to E3 because real gamers know I’m a gamer.

I don’t do it for the money.

I have plenty of money.

I don’t do it for the fame.

Fuck fame.

I do it because I love video games.

I don’t give out my gamertag because I don’t want a mess of noob jackholes lining up

to assassinate me on XBL.

I don’t give a shit what you think about my gamerscore.

I don’t play to prove a point.

I don’t play to be the best.

I play because I love it.

I play.

I’ve been playing my whole life.

I’m not ashamed of it.

I don’t apologize for it.

It’s who I am.

To the core.

I’m a gamer.

So to all the haters out there who claim I don’t play;

To the GAF dicks,

Gamespot trolls,

To every illiterate racist douchebag on Youtube:

Flame away. Go nuts.

Post every jackass comment your heart desires.

I’ll still be playing when your mom’s kicked you out of her basement

and you have to sell your old-ass console

and get a real job.

For now, I say to you respectfully,

and I mean this from the bottom of my heart,

GFYS.

And not a single fucking game dev came to her aid when this happened

NOT A SINGLE FUCKING ONE

But when Felicia Day’s lily white ass got insulted, PEOPLE GOT FIRED. People lost their minds and bent over backwards to kiss her ass.

Aisha only had Black women to back her up.

"I do not understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:07:51 -0400

“I do not understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.”

- Anne Lamott (via -witheverything)

the-absolute-best-gifs: notagirloraboy: I WOULD LITERALLY DIE...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:42:12 -0400

the-absolute-best-gifs:

notagirloraboy:

I WOULD LITERALLY DIE IF A BB SEAL CAME SCOOTING UP TO ME

"If you are insane you may be forgiven for your actions. If you are drunk, probably not. In this way,..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:15:05 -0400

“If you are insane you may be forgiven for your actions. If you are drunk, probably not. In this way, being insane is better than being drunk. Then again, if you work hard enough at the drinking, you can be both drunk and insane. Hemingway and Brautigan discovered that.”

- Sayings of Te Toh (via poetfire)

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