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'Am I in love? -- Yes, since I am waiting.' The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely: I am the one who waits.

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, 1977

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Love this! I am not against wearing makeup (and wear it myself more often than not these days), but let’s not kid ourselves that wearing makeup in general -- and using makeup to shoehorn ourselves into conventional beauty standards -- is a vast revolutionary and countercultural statement. It's not. It’s fairly normative.

(The “natural beauty” game where women are expected to magically naturally look like they’re wearing makeup without actually using it is another can of worms, of course...)

i think women definitely ought to get pats on the back for not wearing makeup, so long as it does not come at anyone else’s expense. if women can cultivate an avenue for themselves where makeup is celebrated, then i do not see a reason why a celebration of the decision not to is derided. while misogyny affects all women regardless of their appearance or attractiveness, and women will be scrutinized regardless of how they look, the decision or desire not to conform in some way to social notions of femininity is the more scrutinized option among women (and butch/stud lesbians can tell you all about it). research shows that women who do not wear makeup in a way that highlights cues of femininity are more likely to be seen as less mentally competent, they are less likely to obtain employment, they may be less likely to receive callbacks for job interviews, and they are less likely to receive the same wages as women who are deemed conventionally attractive, among other things. even the mainstream feminist movement in the united states largely saw gender nonconformity among women as untrustworthy, repulsive, and threatening. the sentiment still exists today, and it ought to be interrogated. women who do not embody or exude femininity deserve to feel as human as anyone else, and yes, i do think they need a back pat or two so they feel their embodiment is not the pathology that it is so often portrayed as by our society at large. :)

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I’m far too lazy to cite a particular story for this, but it is canonically one of Sherlock’s investigative strengths that he makes the people who come to him feel comfortable opening up to him and giving him the full story as far as they know it.

I’ve seen Elementary fans claiming their Sherlock is better than Sherlock’s because ours is an asshole and theirs is ‘sympathetic’ and ‘kind’.

I have nothing against Elementary, but may I just remind you - Sherlock is an asshole, because Sherlock is canonically an asshole. He was described as being cold, dispassionate and arrogant - not kind.

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2rsquared:

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I don’t care if Hillary Clinton is corrupt. I don’t care if she lies, if she cheats, if she eats bowls of newborn chipmunks for breakfast.

She is literally the only thing standing in the way of a fascist dictator becoming President of the United States with a Republican majority congress that guarantees he can do anything he wants and nothing will be able to stop him.

I was and still am a Bernie supporter, and I hate a lot of things about Clinton, but none of that matters anymore. If Trump is elected, people are going to die. Women are going to die when Roe v Wade is overturned and Planned Parenthood is defunded. LGBTQ people are going to die when conversion therapy is further legalized and more bathroom bills are passed. POC are going to die as Trump rounds up Mexican immigrants, gives more power to the police, and fuels the fires of Islamaphobia. Poor people are going to die as Obamacare gets overturned and further cuts are made to welfare programs. And that’s just in this country. That’s not even taking account the all-too-likely outcomes of Trump starting new wars in the Middle East and having control of nuclear bombs that he’s said he ‘would not rule out’ using.

This is no longer even about ‘the lesser of two evils’. This is not ‘scare tactics’. This is literally life and death. Don’t fuck around and tell me you’re voting third-party or not voting at all, because you don’t have that luxury. 

I am delighted that this post has gotten as many notes as it has, but as Election Day grows closer I would like to flush it out with some additional information and facts, particularly for those people who are still considering voting third party and those who still consider Clinton “just as bad” as Trump.

Why you shouldn’t vote for Jill Stein

Why you shouldn’t vote for Gary Johnson

Why you shouldn’t vote third party AT ALL: x, x, x, x (hint, it’s because the electoral college presently makes it impossible for third party to win)

Worried about Clinton’s scandals? John Oliver breaks it down.

Concerned that Hillary Clinton defended a child rapist? She tried to get out of it, but she had no choice.

Comparison of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders’ views. They voted the same 93% of the time. 

A comprehensive review of Donald Trump’s corruption

Donald Trump is being sued for raping a 13 year old girl in 1994, and there is merit to the case.

Oxford Economics predicts that Trump’s policies would remove $1 trillion from the US economy, while the Peterson Institute projects that a Trump presidency could cost nearly 5 million US jobs.

Donald Trump repeatedly asked why the US couldn’t use nuclear weapons

Donald Trump’s cruel streak

37 of the most offensive things Trump ever said

Donald Trump unveils plan to make abortion illegal again

Feds investigating Trump advisor’s meeting with Russian officials seeking to influence U.S. election (Trump called Putin a better leader than Obama.)

Trump’s campaign paid his businesses $8.2 million

Trump flies in a plane with gold-plated bathroom fixtures and pays for it with tax dollars

Trump’s financial plan would increase the debt by $5.3 trillion above current levels, Clinton’s by $200 billion 

Trump wants to eliminate food safety regulations

Trump was sued by the Justice Department for housing discrimination against black people

Trump has reaped at least $885 million in tax breaks, grants and other subsidies for luxury apartments, hotels and office buildings in New York

Trump’s slimy, shameless approach to philanthropy

Trump paid an IRS penalty for making a $25k donation to the campaign of the woman in charge of investigating his Trump University fraud case, an investigation she dropped after the donation

The official Republican platform includes banning abortion, overturning marriage equality, no background checks for purchasing guns, declaring coal “clean energy”, religion used as a guide for legislation, a border wall, and pornography declared a “public menace”.

Politifact says that Hillary has made ‘false’ statements 11% of the time and ‘pants on fire’ statements 2%, compared to Trump’s 37% and 17%.

Bernie supporter? Bernie says that now is not the time for a protest vote. Bernie tells you why you should vote for Hillary Clinton. Bernie says that Trump must not become president.

Please do not waste your vote. You can complain about Hillary Clinton as much as you want, but complain about her while you vote for her.

There’s a huge difference between voting for someone who was forced to defend a child rapist and someone who is a child rapist

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…[I]n the first year of my MFA… I realized that there were theoretical questions enmeshed with my material explorations that I wanted to work with in ways that the program’s faculty were neither prepared nor trained to accommodate. The kinds of art theory that circulated during my arts training drew heavily on Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, and their interlocutors; however, at the studio level, engagements with the terms “deconstruction,” “performativity,” “the Other,” et [cetera], were limited to the kind of art theory lingo that had little to do with the intellectual commitments of the scholars who stood, emblematic and impervious, behind these terms. Instead of the transmission of ideas in their process, their porousness, their contextual care—that is, instead of an understanding of theory as a “making practice”—the legitimating function of “art speak” was put to use, and in which primacy was put on material skill within or between clearly defined artistic media. …Even if housed together… participants in [art practice and art theory] programs are generally trained not only not to comprehend the language and value of each other’s approaches, but also have competing hierarchies of value based on these differences. During my training, I regularly encountered this dynamic as some form of practice/theory divide in which theorists were given the “explanatory gloves of gold” and practitioners the “idiot-savant access to genius,” to the detriment of both.

Natalie S. Loveless, Practice in the Flesh of Theory

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#Repost @latinarebels with @repostapp ・・・ Via @thebodyisnotanapology

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I Years had been from Home And now before the Door I dared not enter, lest a Face  I never saw before

Stare stolid into mine And ask my Business there - “My Business but a Life I left Was such remaining there?”

I leaned upon the Awe -  I lingered with Before - The Second like an Ocean rolled And broke against my ear

I laughed a crumbling Laugh That I could fear a Door Who Consternation compassed And never winced before.

I fitted to the Latch My Hand, with trembling care Lest back the awful Door should spring And leave me in the Floor -

Then moved my Fingers off As cautiously as Glass And held my ears, and like a Thief Fled gasping from the House -

-poem 609, Emily Dickinson, c. 1862

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I took my Power in my Hand - And went against the World - ‘Twas not so much as David - had - But I - was twice as bold -

from poem 540, Emily Dickinson, c. 1862

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I got so I could walk across That Angle in the floor, Where he turned so, and I turned - how - And all our Sinew tore -

-from poem 293, Emily Dickinson, c. 1861

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Of Bronze -- and Blaze -- The North -- Tonight -- So adequate -- it forms -- So preconcerted with itself -- So distant -- to alarms -- An Unconcern so sovereign To Universe, or me -- Infects my simple spirit With Taints of Majesty -- Till I take vaster attitudes -- And strut upon my stem -- Disdaining Men, and Oxygen, For Arrogance of them -- My Splendors, are Menagerie -- But their Competeless Show Will entertain the Centuries When I, am long ago, An Island in dishonored Grass -- Whom none but Beetles -- know.

--Poem 290, Emily Dickinson, c. 1861

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From The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time, edited by David H, Lowenherz

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Me:*does badly on something im supposed to be good at*

Me: Well i guess this is the end, im not good at anything anymore, i need to rethink my whole life and also die

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Untitled, 2016, Kate Rose.

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When it comes, the Landscape listens -- Shadows -- hold their breath -- When it goes, ‘tis like the Distance On the look of Death --

--from Poem 258, Emily Dickinson, c. 1861

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Poem 290 by Emily Dickinson caught me so much I had to read it.

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“Hope” is a thing with feathers -- That perches in the soul -- And sings the tune without the words -- And never stops -- at all --

-- from Poem 254, Emily Dickinson, c. 1861