okay everyone reblog and tell me your favorite perfume. but if your favorite is glossier you… don’t bother

im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

palestinians deserve the right to be able to travel freely in our homeland. to even visit our homeland. for us to have citizenship and rights to our own country. to grow our plants. practice our religions. live without fear that our children can be kidnapped by israeli forces on their violent whims. to not have our life savings poured into building a home for our families that are torn down without real warning by israeli bulldozers. to no longer be refugees. like this is real life. this is real.

we don’t want to be reduced to a never ending slogan. we want to put down our need for resistance. to rest & to live.

— “59. it’s beautiful, but I don’t like it” from 100 essays I don’t have time to write: on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater, sarah ruhl 

tuesday by Alex Dimitrov

"Out of the Shadows" Vanity Fair, 1989 | "Homosexuality in 'Dog Day Afternoon' : Televisual Surfaces and a 'Natural' Man" 2012

i'm not gonna sit here and argue that we didn't start the fire is some kind of lyrical masterpiece, but everybody thinks they can write a we didn't start the fire parody and that's just not true. you can't just throw some vaguely related stuff together and call it good. the only reason it is not a total slog to listen to what is basically a recitation of nearly 5 minutes of somewhat chronological historical events and figures is because there is inner logic! there are patterns! there is escalation! there are rhymes for god's sake, don't waste my time if you're not even going to attempt the rhyme scheme, what are we even doing here, jesus

me reading the chapter "in the year 1817" of les misérables, which is essentially a one-paragraph, seven-page, extremely boring list of a bunch of things that supposedly happened in 1817: wow sounds like somebody hasn't heard 20th-century singer/songwriter billy joel's lyrical semi-masterpiece "we didn't start the fire"

#so true. nothing makes you appreciate we didn't start the fire like failures to start the fire

#straight-up the older i get the more i'm like. maybe this IS a masterpiece actually #like i always thought it was impressive but the longer i spend on this earth being exposed to bad WDSTF parodies #the more i'm like. apparently this is the most complex rhyme scheme & metrical structure of all time i guess? #since no one can actually get it right? #literally fob are the closest anyone's ever come to a real proper parody that understands how meter works and follows the rhyme scheme #and they didn't even try to go chronologically!! #literally people will try to write we didn't start back to the fire parodies and it's like. stop. you are not billy joel. #go learn how meter works and study the internal logic & rhyme scheme of the song and maybe we can talk (via @iridescentoracle)

#LITERALLY SAME omg every time i've thought about we didn't start the fire since writing this post #i've been more impressed than the previous time. if this continues i AM going to get to the point of sitting down to argue that #we didn't start the fire is a lyrical masterpiece actually #plus like. it's one of those things that doesn't seem like a masterpiece unless you really pay attention to it #which in a sense is more impressive to me than something you hear once and are like wow genius #cuz it's subtle? and it's so well done it doesn't draw attention to how well done it is?

#in general i think billy joel is a fantastic lyricist and i think he gets written off sometimes because his stuff is so popular #but idk guys i think maybe it's popular for a reason #it's just that even thinking that he's a great lyricist i still have trouble thinking WDSTF is great lyrically #but the more i think about it (and the more failed parodies i encounter) the more i'm like. ACTUALLY #and yes hard agree that the FOB parody is the best one yet even though they didn't even try for the chronology #i feel so seen (via coquelicoq)

LESBIAN WEDDING BANQUET REMAKE STARRING LILY GLADSTONE AND KELLY MARIE TRAN HELLO?????

Female characters who are the sole voice of reason <<<<<<< Female characters who think of themselves as the sole voice of reason but who are actually just as insane as those around them

They’re judging you

i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

my child had gifted me art. he calls it "meowlk'

April

by Mary Oliver

I wanted to speak at length about the happiness of my body and the delight of my mind for it was April, a night, a full moon and --

but something in myself or maybe from somewhere other said: not too many words, please, in the muddy shallows the

Frogs are singing.

I don’t know who this guy is but I’m obsessed with him and have been scrolling through his reviews for the past half hour

It's incredible how people have been protesting pants and skirts not having pockets but not a single peep is heard over the fact that skirts no longer have underskirts by default. Underskirts (or lining) was a thing when I was a child, no skirt would be made without lining, you didn't have to think and check if your whole ass is visible in a skirt because lining was a thing!!!! Now most skirts don't and it's simply because it's cheaper, fuck the fact that a customer doesn't want their panties shown in broad daylight, it saves a couple of cents on material.

okay so this has definitely breached containment and I want to point something out: