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“Your memory is a monster; you forget–it doesn’t.”

— John Irving, from A Prayer for Owen Meany (William Morrow, 1989)

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amy winehouse, 2004

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emotional self-harm exists and is fucking horrible

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The Catholic Church c. 1100 AD

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Well I believe we have some power over who we love, it isn’t something that just happens to a person. I think the poets might disagree.

LITTLE WOMEN (2019) DIR. GRETA GERWIG

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little women + the mortifying ordeal of being known

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“What I feared was in me was in me, I wanted to lie still in the body like a knife.”

— Lighthead; [IKOYI BLINDNESS], Terrance Hayes

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Yikes

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What are your thoughts on Rupi Kaur?

She has never said anything

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Midwifery, not prostitution is the oldest profession.

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this new korean movie about a daughter and her mother visiting japan to find her mom’s first love (a japanese woman) looks really interesting and the posters are very pretty

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some of you literally have problems and issues

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not to be sappy on main BUT one thing that i really loved when studying linguistics was that the more important a word is, the earlier the concept of this thing was given a word. for example, the word water is similar in many similar languages (aqua, agua, água). so, the more important a word is, the more languages it’ll be similar across and the older this word will be, theoretically and generally speaking (many other things also affect this)

AND SO in my years studying linguistics, there was one word that was nearly identical across so many regionally different languages (though there are outliers of course), from europe to most of asia to subsaharan africa to indigenous languages. across nearly all languages this is the first word people learn how to say and maybe the first word humans in general officially named and defined:

mamãe - portuguese 

妈妈 (māmā) - chinese

ਮੰਮੀ (mamī) - punjabi

mamah - mayan (yucatec)

мама - bulgarian, russian, ukrainian

ماں (mäm) - urdu

মা (mā) - bengali

mẹ (may) - vietnamese

ママ (mama) - japanese

అమ్మ (am'ma) - telugu

mama - quechua

મમ્મી (mam'mī) - gujarati

അമ്മ (am'ma) - malayalam

amá - navajo

엄마 (omma) - korean

eme - native hawaiian

onam - uzbek

aana - yupik

mema - tagish

μαμά (mamá) - greek

mama - swahili

أمي (umi) - arabic

mayi - chichewa

माँ (ma) - hindi

mam - dutch

ម៉ាក់ (ma) - khmer

แม่ (mæ̀) - thai

அம்மா (am'mā) - tamil

අම්මා (ammā) - sinhala

amai - zulu

ama - basque

आमा (āmā) - nepali

အမေ (amay) - myanmar (burmese)

mamá - spanish

mom/mum- english

this isn’t actually the first word because we teach babies this word (most likely), but because the “mama” or “ama” sounds are the easiest things for babies to say, and it’s nearly always the only thing they can say at first, and adults across all languages defined their language around that.

babies all over the world for thousands and thousands of years all started out blabbering sounds like “mama” and mothers everywhere were all like Oh Shit That’s Me! I’m Mama!

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details @ christian dior spring 19

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