February 18, 2013
Midnight Suns - Plunge Magazine

ungemmed:

She kept resurrecting me so I kept dying. I know I seem naive in the story but stop for a minute, think. If Set is so transparent to you, could he possibly have been so opaque to me, his own brother Osiris?

I sold a story. It has lots of queer women in it. You should go read it.

Betsy wrote an awesome story and you should absolutely read it.

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February 14, 2013
Dowry

DOWRY

The world is wily and doesn’t want to be caught.                                                                                       Susan Mitchell

I tell you
I am searching for poetry
for you. That I have not found it.
That I am horribly, horribly afraid that I will have to write it.
I say it casually, teasingly—

oh, my goodness, what an awful fate, writing poetry for you.

February 7, 2013
Somehow, this feels like the most profound explanation of the concept that no one is noticing your awkwardness because they’re too busy worrying about their own that I have ever encountered.

Somehow, this feels like the most profound explanation of the concept that no one is noticing your awkwardness because they’re too busy worrying about their own that I have ever encountered.

(Source: wildseduction, via beautiful-portals)

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February 7, 2013
jcalanthe:

stickingupforsammy:

“If I were to create a ratings system, I wouldn’t even put murder right at the top of the chief offenses. I would put rape right at the top of the chief offenses, and the assault against women. Because it’s so insanely overused and insulting how much it’s overused in movies as a plot device: a woman in peril. That, to me, is offensive. Yet that shit skates.”
 —Kevin Smith, This Film is Not Yet Rated

I have complicated feelings about Kevin Smith, but I adore him because he’ll stand up & say stuff like this. 


Betsy, we gotta whitelist Keven Smith.

jcalanthe:

stickingupforsammy:

“If I were to create a ratings system, I wouldn’t even put murder right at the top of the chief offenses. I would put rape right at the top of the chief offenses, and the assault against women. Because it’s so insanely overused and insulting how much it’s overused in movies as a plot device: a woman in peril. That, to me, is offensive. Yet that shit skates.”

—Kevin Smith, This Film is Not Yet Rated

I have complicated feelings about Kevin Smith, but I adore him because he’ll stand up & say stuff like this. 

Betsy, we gotta whitelist Keven Smith.

(via sailaweigh)

February 7, 2013

Colin: [on Mamma Mia] I think it’s one of the best things I have ever done. People expect me to apologize for it and I am completely unapologetic. Right now I would say, if you asked me the three things for which I am most proud I would say it is A Single Man, The King’s Speech and Mamma Mia.Interviewer: How hard was it to get you to do the scene that’s used for the closing credits?Colin: You know what, that may be the reason I did the movie.Interviewer: You have no shame.Colin: Yes. I’m sorry, if one thing has come out of 60 Minutes is that we have discovered, we’ve unveiled the fact that Colin Firth has no shame. I am such a drag queen. It’s one of my primary driving forces in life. You cannot dangle a spandex suit and a little bit of mascara in front of me and not just have me go weak at the knees.


I can only aspire to be this badass.

Colin: [on Mamma Mia] I think it’s one of the best things I have ever done. People expect me to apologize for it and I am completely unapologetic. Right now I would say, if you asked me the three things for which I am most proud I would say it is A Single Man, The King’s Speech and Mamma Mia.
Interviewer: How hard was it to get you to do the scene that’s used for the closing credits?
Colin: You know what, that may be the reason I did the movie.
Interviewer: You have no shame.
Colin: Yes. I’m sorry, if one thing has come out of 60 Minutes is that we have discovered, we’ve unveiled the fact that Colin Firth has no shame. I am such a drag queen. It’s one of my primary driving forces in life. You cannot dangle a spandex suit and a little bit of mascara in front of me and not just have me go weak at the knees.

I can only aspire to be this badass.

(via fyrdrakken)

February 6, 2013
[Painters and poets] looked at people and saw angels; [Galileo] looked at the heavens, and didn’t.

— Adam Gopnik, Moon Man, The New Yorker

January 25, 2013
kawrage:


A Mosque Among The Stars was the first anthology that dealt with the subject of Muslim characters and/or Islamic themes and Science Fiction. It was edited by me (Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad) and the Canadian Muslim author Ahmad Khan. It came out in 2007. Now that it has been years since it was released in printed form, we have decided to release A Mosque Among The Stars to the public as a Creative Commons Licensed (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) book. This means that you can download it for free and share with others as long as you dont make any changes to it and also do it for free. So without much further ado here is where you can download the book.

Download the Book (PDF)

DOWNLOADING.

kawrage:

A Mosque Among The Stars was the first anthology that dealt with the subject of Muslim characters and/or Islamic themes and Science Fiction. It was edited by me (Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad) and the Canadian Muslim author Ahmad Khan. It came out in 2007. Now that it has been years since it was released in printed form, we have decided to release A Mosque Among The Stars to the public as a Creative Commons Licensed (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) book. This means that you can download it for free and share with others as long as you dont make any changes to it and also do it for free. So without much further ado here is where you can download the book.

Download the Book (PDF)

DOWNLOADING.

January 9, 2013

Willow: Remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel.
(Riley looks blank. Scared? Constipated? We’ll never know.)
Willow: A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend. Have fun! (She smiles brightly and pats Riley on the shoulder.)

(Source: jaclynnicolee, via trelkez)

January 9, 2013
Polly Guo: allofmystupids: “Thompson adds, “When I ask people what basis there is...

allofmystupids:

“Thompson adds, “When I ask people what basis there is for Gatsby being white, I get silence. I have asked students, colleagues. They don’t know. They cannot give me any evidence to back up the speculation. And why haven’t people made this argument so far?” Fitzgerald…

There’s also an interesting reading of Daisy as black, or of black ancestry (for example), which I’ve never seen get much attention.

January 8, 2013
Sony Issues Dylan CDs to Extend Copyright

Two spokesmen for Sony confirmed that the set was legitimate, its bootleglike appearance notwithstanding. They explained that the point of the release was to keep the recordings under copyright protection in Europe, where the laws are in flux. Currently, recordings can be copyrighted in Europe for 50 years, a much shorter term than in the United States, where recordings made since 1978 will remain copyrighted until 70 years after the death of the last surviving author.
Fuck everything.

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