summer canibals.

the-girl-who-laughed: This is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:28:23 -0300

the-girl-who-laughed:

This is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.

abrza: LINEART BY MAIKAEFERCHEN This started so simple and...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:01:28 -0300

abrza:

LINEART BY MAIKAEFERCHEN

This started so simple and then it turned all Mucha.

isawatree: Sunset by ~pizzamarguerita

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:35:03 -0300

isawatree:

Sunset by ~pizzamarguerita

noonturnsmidnight: Oh boy, don’t even get me started on the...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:08:59 -0300

noonturnsmidnight:

Oh boy, don’t even get me started on the portrayal of romance in mainstream media.
It’s probably my No. 1 pet peeve. I loathe it with the burning passion of a billion supernovae. Mostly because it’s fucking EVERYWHERE.

Seriously, turn on the tv. Go to a bookshop. Listen to the radio.
Everything is about love, love, love, and not any kind of love, romantic love. Romance is the ultimate everything, the ultimate goal - according to society, life without romance is empty and unfulfilling.

That’s a problem in and off itself, but it’s not even the focus on romantic love that makes me foam from the mouth, it’s the extremely narrow definition of what this “love” actually is: It’s when two usually white, conventionally attractive, able-bodied, young people want to bang each other at first sight and somehow end up in a codependent, emotionally unhealthy, unsubstantial, monogamous cishet relationship.

Not that there is anything wrong with monogamous cishet relationships, it’s just that not every person in the world is in one, wants to have one or could ever be happy in one, but those are the only positively portrayed relationships that infiltrate literally everything while stories about people of colour, disabled people, LGBT+ people and/or polyamorous people in love are either labelled “special interest” or used as a punchline/throwaway background event/cheap gimmick.

Even if you ignore all of that, romantic love is ridiculously romantised in our society.
Love in fiction can do ANYTHING. It can end wars, break curses, overcome borders, end oppression, cure illnesses both mental and physical and save people from themselves.

Love in real life is nothing like that.
So you fall in love. Sometimes you enter a relationship. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes that relationship is happy, for many, many years or even forever. Sometimes it’s unhappy, unhealthy or even abusive. Sometimes you fall in love with the wrong person, someone who is bad for you or someone you are bad for and no amount of love can change that.
Love doesn’t automatically bring out the best in you. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it brings out the worst in you instead.

Love is diverse. Love is very human, very flawed, very trivial. Some people don’t fall in love, but most people do it all the time. There is no magic involved. You don’t need to be in a romantic relationship to be happy, to be fulfilled, to be whole.

Yet that’s what stories tell you all the time. And it leads to people everywhere being disappointed with life because they have never had a fairytale romance. Teenagers wonder whether they will die alone simply because they haven’t been in a relationship yet at age 16 or even younger.

And so you fall in love and you enter a relationship and it’s a happy one. And because all of your life you have been told that you haven’t been whole until now. That this person that makes you happy better be the one. That you can’t live without them.
But things don’t go the way they should t go and suddenly you’re unhappy. You split. And you blame your partner, demonise them like angry love songs told you to, blame yourself, try to change, think you’re going to die like sad love songs told you to.

And maybe a little bit of that is actually you, but most of it is just how you’ve learnt to love and react to love.

Still, there’s love stories everywhere. Every action flick, every crime procedural, every fantasy novel has a romance subplot that is completely superfluous to the rest of the story, but has to be there, because that’s just how things are.

They tell you the same story over and over again: Two people making googly eyes at each other upon their first meeting, exchanging meaningful glances, kissing tearfully in the pale moonlight, declaring that they can’t live without each other despite the fact that they barely know each other at all. Because that’s what romance is, at the end of the day: Empty phrases and superficial gestures mimicking a meaningful connection.

We all swallow it because we don’t know any better. But I’m sick of it. Sick of being excluded, otherised and erased, sick of being constricted and fed lies. Sick of being told that I’d be just half a person on my own.

[Rebloggable by request.]

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:00:41 -0300

isawatree: A face e o mar (by Eduardo Braga)

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:56:49 -0300

isawatree:

A face e o mar (by Eduardo Braga)

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:34:17 -0300

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:29:21 -0300

me at the beginning of the semester: i'm gonna live, i'm gonna fly

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:14:21 -0300

me at the beginning of the semester: i'm gonna live, i'm gonna fly
me now: i'm gonna fail, i'm gonna die

songofages: schazam: Elizabeth Báthory is one of the most...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:06:01 -0300

songofages:

schazam:

Elizabeth Báthory is one of the most prolific serial killers in all of history.

She was born into nobility and was highly educated but also very vain.

One day, infuriated, Elizabeth struck one of her servant girls so hard that some blood dripped from her face onto Elizabeth’s hand and she immediately thought that her skin took on a glowing freshness of her young maid.

Elizabeth believed she had found the secret of eternal youth. After this, women were abducted and hung upside down, while they were still alive and their throats were slit to prepare Elizabeth’s bath.

The Countess of Transylvania and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls, with one witness attributing to them over 650 victims, though the number for which they were convicted was 80. Elizabeth herself was neither tried nor convicted.

Can I just time in here and say a few things, since half of what is written here is straight from the wikipedia page, which don’t get me wrong —it’s accurate— but extremely underwhelming.

“Elizabeth” Erzebet Bathory was so much more than some vain bitch who killed over 650 women, she was a vain bitch who could speak and write more than two languages, in a time where a woman writing one was unheard of. She was raised mostly by her very infamous openly bisexual aunt, and was a torturer and a murderer before she was 14 (rumored).

This woman was the person who made the villagers quake in both fear and revelation, that the courts refused to take action against when young girls started dissapearing, when bodies started being found. She OWNED the country, her family was richer then even the Lords presiding over it, she had all the say.

Her and her ‘accomplices” (which by the way, they were extremely trusted, and unlike her, they were executed without mercy when the truth came out), would gather village children who their parents practically threw their way in hopes of a better future, although the children would never live again. She didn’t only hang them, she caged them, used iron maidens, spears, so many different objects. And the whole ‘bathing in blood’ thing, although is technically can be true, that and the whole striking her maid is all exagerrated to add to the story. Her and her husband got off to killing, literally, they liked the screams. If she bathed in blood, it wasn’t to be younger, it was to enjoy their life ending. Not to say she wasn’t vain, but for good reason. She was considered the most beautiful woman in Hungary for all of her days.

And she technically was tried, although as I said before she practically owned the country, they couldn’t actually kill her. But she had killed another young girl of noble blood, and that couldn’t just be set aside. So instead of execution, they sentenced her to house arrest for the rest of her days, unable to punish her for all the women she had killed.

Also, she had three children, and regardless of her murderous ways it was said that she had been a wonderful, loving mother. Strange how the ‘vain blood mistress’ can be more than just, isn’t it?

I could go on and on about this woman, I’ve read and watched basically everything pertaining to her due to reports and essays that I wrote when I was younger, and even though she was a horrifying murderer, she deserves a bit more than ‘blood bitch’.

It’s also interesting to note that one of her descendents feels so bad about what his ancestor did that he donates blood as often as humanly possible.

lydiabutz: hamishmash: This is the first page from PANTHEON,...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:59:44 -0300

lydiabutz:

hamishmash:

This is the first page from PANTHEON, my planned graphic novel about the Egyptian deities.

See a promo image here [x]

And a preview of two of the pages here [x]

OMGGGGG

roseriku: firewordsparkler: inufan078: LOL OH MY GOD THE...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:57:26 -0300

roseriku:

firewordsparkler:

inufan078:

LOL OH MY GOD THE LAST ONE.

HOW HE JUST SHAKES HIS HEAD TERRIFIED LIKE NO NO NO NEVER.

This is seriously my new favorite youtuber I can’t stop watching his videos.

Watch till the very last part. It’s worth it.

wasn’t going to reblog it untiL THE ENDING

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:57:05 -0300

jdb63: volcanize: This Explains Everything I’m really proud of...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:53:06 -0300

jdb63:

volcanize:

This Explains Everything

I’m really proud of this one guys

artforadults: Lykke Steenbach Josephsen

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:46:59 -0300

artforadults:

Lykke Steenbach Josephsen

"White people in America are a trip… they exterminate the Native American and then try to dress just..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:44:58 -0300

“White people in America are a trip… they exterminate the Native American and then try to dress just like them. What kind of necrophilia is that?”

- A Huey P. Newton Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j19WrVx-kS8

(via forlovers)

isawatree: Look at me. I’m shining! by Kumiko Mini

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:42:30 -0300

isawatree:

Look at me. I’m shining! by Kumiko Mini

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:39:40 -0300

stonyslov: Mice Collections by ben6835 on Flickr.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:28:41 -0300

stonyslov:

Mice Collections by ben6835 on Flickr.

eggsammich: what’s a spine

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:27:01 -0300

eggsammich:

what’s a spine