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MARILYN MONROE | MOVIE POSTERS

“My one desire is to do my best, the best that I can from the moment the camera starts until it stops.”

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Reaper76 fan art for my fic “After Hours” by the INCREDIBLE Ufficiosulretro!!!

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Gorgeous #R76 art by Elennumen for my fic “Stairway to the Stars” <3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19472986/chapters/46352362

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Stunning art by the amazing Toydreamer for my fic “waltzing out in blue and red”

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Gorgeous R76 art by Tookunami for my fic “Stairway to the Stars”!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19472986/chapters/46352362

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Behold! Whaleshark genitalia! You're welcome. #aquarium (at Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1vodefBO3R/?igshid=3pld5f38wajw

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Winter Round-Up: eSports, Fake Food & Birds of Paradise

Winter Round-Up: eSports, Fake Food & Birds of Paradise

Behold the second installation of my round-up of the weekly posts I’ve written for StraitsBlog, the official blog of travel company StraitsJourneys, some of which have been featured in the Ready to Travel section of the Singapore Airport Terminal Services (SATS) website and app.

Since these pieces are all fairly short (hooray for the #TLDR era), I thought I’d put them together in a periodic…

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You’re a sunflower ♫ I think your love would be too much ♫

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I have a blog and I publish directly on it, sometimes several pieces a month. I have always wanted my heart to be directly in touch with the reader’s. I have wanted to say, on a day when things look dark, here is a reason this moment is not without beauty, nor is it final. As someone who has suffered from depression, I know how important this kind of signal from another human can be.

Alice Walker (New York Times, 2018)

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Beauty in poison. #smoke (at Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrXO_GAHl8e/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qizm9efsu2rr

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I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words. I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself.

Jeanette Winterson, Why be happy when you could be normal? (via itseasyjusttolookaway)

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Sometimes I only remember a single sentence of a book – but that sentence is a lucky charm or a talisman. I hope I am making a difference with my work. If I can encourage someone, make them think, or see things differently, or take a risk, then that is what books have done for me. Pass it on, I say.

Jeanette Winterson (The Guardian, 2018)

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For more cartoons from The New Yorker, follow us on Instagram: @newyorkercartoons.

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Real talk, though, because it needs to be said: as much as we all joke that porn was the only good thing this place had left, the reality is that it being the only place where one could regularly engage with and promote sexual content being gone is really not understanding at all what makes this place special. I mean we all joke about “horny on main” and all that, but the reality is that for a lot of the LGTBQ+ community, particularly younger members still discovering themselves and members in extremely homophobic environments where most media sites were banned (but Tumblr wasn’t even considered important enough to be), this was a bastion of information and self-expression. For a lot of artists too, this was a great place to come and post NSFW work and get traction that became Patreon pages that became honest jobs. The problem with “family friendly” social media is that more often than not, the ones hit  the most by the whole family friendly nonsense are marginalized groups that have no vehicles to express themselves. Stuff like YouTube consistently bans or flags simple content featuring something as innocuous as two men kissing as “adult” content and makes it hard for LGBTQ+ content creators to compete with their non-queer peers for a lot of those reasons. The ultimate problem isn’t even that banning of NSFW content, it’s the general mess surrounding it and unintended consequences to these groups. For MONTHS Tumblr has had a huge problem with porn spam bots and outright child pornography, and for MONTHS the majority of the userbase has been in general consensus that both of these things needed to stop. Tumblr did NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. When Apple finally removed their app from the store, SPECIFICALLY because of the child pornography, Tumblr decided to do what any rich corporation owning a social media site with zero understanding of what makes it popular would do, and decided that the best course of action was to eat itself like an Ouroboros. Rather than admit that they have done an absolutely shit job at keeping pedophiles off this website and rather than hiring the necessary staff to carefully moderate content, they decided to loose a poorly programmed bot that literally deleted perfectly SFW blogs with thousands of followers, and rather than properly handling moderation, they decided that it was best to simply go the lazy route and block anything even remotely NSFW. They run this site in the worst way possible, and I don’t understand how @support or @staff or their completely oblivious “CEO” plans to keep this sinking ship alive.

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If a book isn’t doing it for you, close it and give yourself the permission to try something else. Looking at my DNF pile actually gives me a sense of pride now. Letting go of obligatory reading and finding books that excite me and enrich my life has been a game changer.

How I Learned To Embrace My DNF Pile (via bookriot)