why does my body keep producing acne why can’t you focus on more important things like growing wings or making me hot
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Never get out of the car, Vanscapes by Alison Turner
Source: alisonturnerphoto.com
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Source: designtaxi.com
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You realize you are not alone, right? No one in their twenties has life figured out. It’s okay to be a mess. You’re living.
Things my therapist told me today that almost made me burst out into tears. (via scottsdisicks)
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The ad was in a women’s magazine and if I remember correctly, was for a perfume. It featured a white woman lying in bed with a black man. The man’s shirtless back was to the viewer, making only his taut, muscular form and powerful-looking arms and shoulders visible. He was faceless, unidentified. The woman looked sultrily at us from over his mysterious form, satisfaction writ large over her features. She had partaken of whatever delights this man had to offer and was smugly, luxuriantly basking in the afterglow.
The ad copy was, “Take a walk on the wild side.”
My teacher used the ad as an example of how marketers can use certain words and images to convey large amounts of information subtly and effectively. A white woman having sex with a black man? How risqué. The implication: be a little like that woman. Spray on that perfume and feel like the kind of girl who has sex with faceless, muscular black men in ritzy hotel rooms because it’s an adventure, a thrill, a risk, something illicitly pleasurable.
These are the semiotics of race. This is why columnists will trip over themselves not to call Lupita Nyong’o or Angela Basset “beautiful”, choosing instead to use terms that call to mind a kind of savage, animalistic magnetism: fierce, striking, edgy, eye-catching. Words like “pretty” and “beautiful” and “cute” are for white women whose bodies and sexualities are not seen as wild, animal, or untamed. Black men are hulking, threatening, thuggish; white men are charming, sexy heartthrobs with hearts of gold. Brown women are exotic, with their “honey-coloured” skin and their “mystical”, “enchanting” beauty, unlike their white counterparts, who are held up as not only ideal, but knowable and safe. White people are beautiful; non-white people are dangerous.
by Aaminah Khan (via Black Girl Dangerous)
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artdeko
Poetry.
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judg1ngy0u-deactivated20190918
What’s your opinion on sleeping with a married man
Uhm…don’t?
Unless you're the one married to him??
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first things first i’m
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white woman: men are awful
white man: not all men!
white woman: yes but enough men so that i feel endangered, your comment is unnecessary and derails the dialogue of women's issues that i am attempting to engage in
person of color: white people are awful
white woman: not all white people!
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ecxphotography
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The end credits of game of thrones are on a black background specifically so you can see the look of horror on your face reflected in your computer screen
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Graduation speech
*Points to person*: Fuck you
*Points to person*: Fuck you
*Points to person*: Fuck you
*Points to person*: Fuck you
*Points to crush*: Fuck me
*Points to person*: Fuck you
*Points to person*: Fuck you
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Source: r0selia
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i want to sleep for 2 years and wake up with a degree, an apartment and money in the bank.
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This is you. This is where all your thoughts are kept. Every other part of your body is used to protect and sustain this.
I want to cry
inflewenza
it’s weirdly comforting to know that all of the meaningless bullshit society judges me on is just a meatsuit made to support the terrifying tentacle beast that is my true form (◡‿◡✿)
crewdlydrawn
THAT LAST COMMENT. BAM.
That was beautiful. Bravo.
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WAIT IS THIS REAL IS THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENING FOR REALSIES???? OH MY GOD FUCK YES YOU GO BABIES 😘😘😘
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Okay but like imagine the glee club having a girl’s only sleepover at Rachel’s house on their senior year and Kurt begging them to watch this new MTV show about teens pretending to be gay and actually being gay.
And then imagine Quinn and Rachel somehow ending up sitting next to...
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stay away from people who make you feel like you are hard to love
This is the most important thing I have ever read.
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charliexxx
welp.
man, I bet those guys got laid that night
unde-niya-ble
Wow I still get the biggest boners over the snare line.
edwad
this is tight af
That was fun
shannonissatan
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drummers are hot
ayesea-ehm
holy….ughhh
Dayummmm Austin you'll appreciate this.