the west
(via julianahuxtable)
Following:
occasionally pensive
I really wish I had the courage to stomp on peoples throats, and the body strength.
Dialogue:
Man- SUCK MY DICK!
Woman- SHUT THE FUCK UP!! I WEAR STEEL TOE BOOTS MOTHER FUCKER!!!
(via fuckyeahhardfemme)
Celebrating 25 years of the GIF with Colin Raff
If you’ve ever woken in a cold sweat thanks to a Tumblr-induced nightmare, chances are you’ve seen some of Colin Raff’s GIFs. These things are scary awesome. His animations, which often feature violent images like a man shoving a round object through his head, are surreal and unnerving.
“It’s a frugal showcase for immoderate jigglings.”
(via Acclaimed artists commemorate the 25-year anniversary of the GIF)
(via dailydot)
This is the Citarum River, in Indonesia, possibly the most polluted river in the world, due to mankind’s greed and insensibility regarding environment. Once one of the most beautiful waters in Asia, now the Citarumis a graveyard of debris, where locals, who can no longer fish, risk their lives scavenging for bottles and anything else they might sell for a small profit.
(via tranqualizer)
Renata Selacl on the hysteric’s narcissitic need to be someone through love:
The hysteric’s question in regard to love is not “Do I love him?” but “Does he love me?” The narcissism of the hysteric subject touches the core of the subject’s being. The hysteric’s narcissism is linked to her attempt for certainty: what she seeks is the Other that would grant her the identity. The appeals to the Other to give her answers as of who she is, what value she has, what object she is, are all attempts to over- come the constitutive split that marks the subject as the speaking being. The hysteric searches for the signifier that would give her unity, wholeness: “In the meantime, she becomes devoted to the cult of Woman … in the hope that this signifier will someday appear.”
(via jrantisexleague)
Misa:
I’m not 21. I’m almost 25. But I WAS 21 once. And I did, indeed, get my tubes tied at that age. Here’s how you, too, can convince the doctor to help you stay childfree by having a tubal ligation.
- Contact your local Planned Parenthood. Explain that you want…
(Source: misasplace.blogspot.com)
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