01 5 / 2013
"Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say."
30 4 / 2013
"Loving me will not be easy. Some days I will be a stuttering apology and you won’t know how to handle all the things I’ve done wrong."
(Source: emceelizziegibson, via ifdestroyed-st)
27 4 / 2013
"she is beautiful now / but gaze into
her eyes where she suspects rejection
from anyone who dares to love her"
(via wretchedoftheearth)
23 4 / 2013
Giveaway!
Just an I love my followers giveaway! This is a mixture of my favorite products and summer products :)
Products included
- Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray - Great for keeping your makeup on all day, prevents your makeup from looking cakey/powdery, can be sprayed before and after makeup.
- Too Faced Natural Eye Palette - Great every day palette with a mixture of matte and shimmery shades.
- 2 NYX lipglosses in Beautiful (medium pink) and Nude Peach (peachy coral)
- 2 NYX blushes in Mauve (dusty rose) and Summer Peach (peachy pink)
- Real Technique’s Blush Brush - Great for powder, blush & bronzer.
- Deluxe Mini Benefit Porefessional Primer
Rules
- Giveaway ends Friday May 3rd, 2013
- Must be following Makeup Lovers Unite
- Likes do not count as entries
- Reblogs count as one entry, can reblog up to 10 times total
- International, all countries can enter!
Good luck :)
23 4 / 2013
it like gets in your way and makes it impossible to concentrate and get out of bed in the morning and it eats all your motivation to do work but then makes you stress about how you’re not doing work and it makes you forget stuff and makes you super tired and makes you have breakdowns instead of studying and just fuck that’s not fair.
21 4 / 2013
Things that don’t help me “get over” my depression and anxiety and will not entice me to leave the house:
- Yelling at me
- Holding me really tightly so I can’t get away
- Begging
- Telling me bible verses
- Not respecting me when I say “no”
- Telling me how much everyone wants me there
- … any sort of guilt tripping, for that matter
- Telling me about how you got through the saddest part of your life in an effort to convince me that I just need to “deal with it.”
- Recommending treatment that I did not ask about
- Unsolicited advice
- Telling me that if I just try harder it will be easier for me
- Attempting to use your authority (Age, expertise, education, status, etc.) over me to get your way.
21 4 / 2013
the beggar and the king: Medusa wasn't always a monster.
She was once the a beautiful virgin shadow maiden of Athean. After Poseidon rapes Medusa in Athena’s temple, Athena punishes Medusa….making her the embodiement of death and damning her to a life of solitude.
What does this say about society then, and now?
Well, the myth that tells Medusa’s metamorphosis into a monster as a punishment by Athena is the patriarchal Roman version. The ancient Greek myth, which has closer ties to its progenitor, the Egyptian tale of Wadjet, tells us that Athena gifted Medusa with ugliness and the power to turn men to stone as a way of protecting her from further violations of her person. Even so, her ugliness was emphasized in the Roman retelling as a way to further demonize and disenfranchise Medusa (i.e. she only lashed out on men because she was too ugly to be loved by them, her ugliness forced her into seclusion from men, ugly women are bad, etc. ((I am ironically using abbreviations for Latin words here yes)).). As the original myth tells it, she lived in solitude because she did not wish to be around men after what Poseidon had done. And Athena gave her the power to never be at the mercy of a male again. So originally, Athena was pissed at Poseidon, not Medusa. And then, of course, the Romans took it one step further and had Perseus behead her (yay the vindictive old hag is dead) and give it to Athena for her shield.
But yeah, renderings of Medusa’s head appeared in the doorways of many women’s shelters in ancient Greece because she was a symbol of female empowerment, not a monster feared by men and women alike.
This brings me to my awkward segue into a cool essay on the subject: The Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous actually touches on the system of misogynistic fear behind the Romanized version, but most importantly why women need to write their stories because this is the shit that happens when dudebros get ahold of them. It’s also an awesome overture to queer theories of writing. If you can read French, I highly suggest getting your hands on the essay as it was originally written, because Cixous’ voice is just incredibly inspiring when you read it as she intended it to be read. Also, the essay itself is worthy of criticism as it is not as intersectional as it absolutely needs to be. I feel I should add that before someone thinks I advocate the problematic things she says.
But now that I’ve totally digressed from my original point: It’s important that we’re always mindful to question the credibility of those telling us not only history, but also legend.
(I became absolutely exhausted halfway through this so forgive me if the connection I’m making between the original post and this essay is more arbitrary than I think it is at the moment)
This post made me sob.
My tattoo means so much more to me than it did before I read this (and I didn’t think it was possible.) Thank you for educating me on the history, I thought I knew the story but I didn’t.
Thank you thank you thank you.
(via notyrqueer)
18 4 / 2013
Sometimes all you accomplish in a day is changing your bed sheets.
but sometimes that’s enough
