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This is not an American campaign, or even an English one, so I’m guessing that the tag line was supposed to come off as “this is not a gendered toy” or something along those lines, but I still think that the basic idea is pretty cool!

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It’s still you. It’ll be you when you fracture your wrist at 4AM and call me when I have a presentation the next morning. It’ll be you when you ask to drive my new car and crash it into a telephone pole. It’ll be you if we hate each other for a day or a few. And if you break my favourite mug. And if you keep forgetting our anniversary and make it up to me by baking a salty cake. It’ll be you when your dad dies and you stop talking because you don’t know how. It’ll be you when you crawl softly into my open arms. It’ll be you when your mum calls me a “whore” and you jerk your chin and all you say is “no.” It’s you when you’re messy and ill and sweaty. You when you leave the house door unlocked. You when you burp drunkenly into my ear and curl into my side like a baby. It’ll be you when you burn breakfast in bed and then kiss me for five minutes straight. It’ll be you when your hair gets too long and you can’t be bothered to cut it. You when you fall asleep on the sofa with the cat on your chest. You when we fight and turn everything to rubble. You when you put your mouth to my ear and whisper “it’s you. It’s still you.”

Azra.T “It’s still you, it’s still you - MA”  (via laya)

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Love & Lesbians ♡

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I just stumbled on a brilliant little French blog - Blue Luenn.  She does such interesting work with Crochet and Wire as you can see above.  No patterns (as she sells her goodies) but a whole bunch of inspiration!  

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"Henry explained that heartbreak is like shattered glass: while it’s impossible that two pieces could splinter in precisely the same pattern, in the end, it doesn’t matter, because the effect is identical."

Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk In Circles (via sadnessandglory)

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Imma have some feels for a minute

When does the liking this new person I'm becoming start? 

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Halloween Icons Part 2 -

Disney Villains…as Princesses

"No one wears this dress like Gaston!"

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"Gender’s between your ears, not between your legs."

- Chaz Bono (via fukkenradical)

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Cowboy resumes suck more than regular ones. Especially when they don't have a word processor on their computer and it doesn't want to download them.

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This is cool. #freetopeegbc #genderqueer #trans #transmen #transwomen #transgender #genderneutral #gender #stereotype

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Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

 Iyanla Vanzant (via thestufflifeismadeof)

i need to tape this to my mirror and look at it any time i’m thinking about cis boys 

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It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

—Zelda Fitzgerald, in a review of her husband’s book in 1922 (via trishahaddad)

Reminder that F. Scott Fitzgerald stole his wife’s writing, many times, while suppressing her works. See “Save Me the Waltz”, which he forced her to revise so that he could use parts of it in his own book “Tender Is the Night”. And which author do we study in school?

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I didn’t know this.

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Catfish

"They used to tank cod from Alaska all the way to China. They'd keep them in vats in the ship. By the time the codfish reached China, the flesh was mush and tasteless. So this guy came up with the idea that if you put these cods in these big vats, put some catfish in with them and the catfish will keep the cod agile. And there are those people who are catfish in life. And they keep you on your toes. They keep you guessing, they keep you thinking, they keep you fresh. And I thank god for the catfish because we would be droll, boring and dull if we didn't have somebody nipping at our fin."

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Do not fall in love with people like me. people like me will love you so hard that you turn into stone into a statue where people come to marvel at how long it must have taken to carve that faraway look into your eyes Do not fall in love with people like me we will take you to museums and parks and monuments and kiss you in every beautiful place so that you can never go back to them without tasting us like blood in your mouth Do not come any closer. people like me are bombs when our time is up we will splatter loss all over your walls in angry colors that make you wish your doorway never learned our name do not fall in love with people like me. with the lonely ones we will forget our own names if it means learning yours we will make you think hurricanes are gentle that pain is a gift you will get lost in the desperation in the longing for something that is always reaching but never able to hold do not fall in love with people like me. we will destroy your apartment we will throw apologies at you that shatter on the floor and cut your feet we will never learn how to be soft we will leave. we always do.

Do Not Fall in Love With People Like Me   (via laya)

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This living in the moment stuff definitely has its pros and cons. Also, if you have me in a literature class and you take yourself and the material seriously, I'm judging you. But you can judge me back if you want, 'cause I probably had a drink before I came to class. I'll chalk it up to the difference between and English major and a creative writing major.