I am entirely innocent of all these accusations; so I cannot ask pardon of God for them…I know these, my last words will signify nothing, but to justify my honour and my chastity.
You may think you know my story. Many have told it. It has long passed into history, into myth.
OPHELIA (2018), dir. Claire McCarthy
creasing that I haven't been on this god forsaken site in 6 years and I've returned to all my teenage addictions, even my name makes me want to vomit
Snow White’s Wedding Dress Mirror Mirror (2012) dir. Tarsem Singh
Where’s breakfast?
accidentally typing sebastian stab instead of sebastian stan:
forever that girl that gets really excited when the sky is in pretty colours
sorry i can’t go to school my earphones aren’t working
i cant believe its daylight savings time and i havent seen the “hello its me your cousin oskaar from iceland” video on my dash yet you are all slackers
i guess i have to do all the work around here dont i
how is it that I have never seen this
please i beg you do yourselves a favor and watch cousin oskaar from iceland
This is so much better than I was expecting. Holy shit.
“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,“ said Aslan. “And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”
In a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them. -Source
One person who found the courage to push the wheel is Ruth Coker Burks. Now a grandmother living a quiet life in Rogers, in the mid-1980s Burks took it as a calling to care for people with AIDS at the dawn of the epidemic, when survival from diagnosis to death was sometimes measured in weeks. For about a decade, between 1984 and the mid-1990s and before better HIV drugs and more enlightened medical care for AIDS patients effectively rendered her obsolete, Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She had no medical training, but she took them to their appointments, picked up their medications, helped them fill out forms for assistance, and talked them through their despair. Sometimes she paid for their cremations. She buried over three dozen of them with her own two hands, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.
How have I never heard of this?
People like her should be remembered. And even more importantly, we must remember that there was a time in our history when we needed someone like her.
“When Burks was a girl, she said, her mother got in a final, epic row with Burks’ uncle. To make sure he and his branch of the family tree would never lie in the same dirt as the rest of them, Burks said, her mother quietly bought every available grave space in the cemetery: 262 plots. They visited the cemetery most Sundays after church when she was young, Burks said, and her mother would often sarcastically remark on her holdings, looking out over the cemetery and telling her daughter: ‘Someday, all of this is going to be yours.’
‘I always wondered what I was going to do with a cemetery,’ she said. ‘Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?’"
Wonderful woman. Wonderful story.
This is an ally. This is a hell of an ally.
Epic Grudge-holding Mom has Epically Empathetic Daughter.
She did good work.
Just to add to this, there is currently a GoFundMe page dedicated to raising money for a memorial to be placed in Files Cemetery dedicated to those whom she cared for, and those who lost their lives to the epidemic.
“Someday,” she said, “I’d love to get a monument that says: This is what happened. In 1984, it started. They just kept coming and coming. And they knew they would be remembered, loved and taken care of, and that someone would say a kind word over them when they died.“
If anyone is interested in reading her story or donating towards the memorial, here is the link
Y'all like half of the internet’s best memes come from vine what are we gonna do now
This is like the fall of Rome, we’re gonna be thrown into the Dark Ages of memes where we will revert back to rage comics and the top/bottom text format until someone finds something better
Germaine Greer, The Whole Woman (via 4a0000)
The truth behind the so-called decline in family values is that the illusion of stable family life was built on the silence of suffering women
(via the-cimmerians)
