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— Franz Kafka (via amargedom)

‘’suicide? no, too vulgar. but you can refuse to move, refuse to talk, so that you don’t have to lie. you can shut yourself in.’‘

Forough Farrokhzad, from Another Birth: Selected Poems; “I Am Naked,”

Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl. Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)

― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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Chicago, Vivian Maier, 1978

chromogenic print Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY, USA

ph. by taishi hirokawa, mr hf dec 2000

Joan jetts leather jacket at the rock and roll hall of fame

Johnny’s Po-Boys

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إليكِ يا مبدأ الروح ومقتلها، إلى الأشياء التي لم يبق من جميلها وقبيحها سوى صور مشتتة، إلى شارعنا الأول، أضيق شوارعك الضيقة، إلى موضع الحب والبغضاء والأفكار الواضحة عن أنفسنا والعالم، إليكِ على الرغم من القهر والذل لكل ما كان بريئا وحالما، إلى الأشباح التي كانت يوما تملؤ العالم ضجيجا، إلى القاهرة… أجمل المدن وأقساها وأحقرها، بكل الحب والخوف والظلمة

Luis Bunuel

Half female, half male.  Bilateral gynandromorphism is a rare genetic disorder occurring in insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and birds, where a strange combination of genetic material splits a creature perfectly in half, with one side male and one side female.