A House of My Own "Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody's garbage to pick up after. Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.”
― Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
*test driving a car with the salesperson in the car with me* hey do you mind if i test the sound system with my music?
yeah sure go ahead
*connect my mp3 player*
*song starts and the vocals are clearly my voice*
i love crashing my car, crashing the car i'm driving is my favourite, the only thing i love more than crashing cars is crashing cars with other people in the car with me
my wound salt that I keep beside my bed
it’s because you’re always living in that damn castle
must be said that Sontag was cooking with Notes on Camp
literally say that
holy quaternity
Eugenicists are idiots. We don't need smarter humans; we've already got plenty of intellectual resources that are sadly lying fallow or going to waste because of how unequally our society is structured. The idea that social problems are a result of individual deficiency is child logic.
It doesn't matter how good your bricks are if you suck at building walls.
1. should we throw a party should we invite bella hadid
2. you people can’t do anything
3. name one hobby you have outside of media consumption
4. I think you guys might be thinking about yourselves too much
do you ever sit there in your bed with your head in your hands and it's like you can just imagine 9 swords behind you
i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:
1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online
2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links
3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)
4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)
In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)
you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)
personally, i'm a huge fan of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH. they keep their links up to date and they also rank them, basically. they also have all kinds of little pages explaining how to safely pirate shit.
^^^^what they said. I'm surprised people are still reblogging this post now that google's flushed itself down the toilet. so here is your
just go to r/FreeMediaHeckYeah and r/Piracy. it's easier, more reliable, and will take care of all your piracy needs!
Kaveh Akbar, from "Wild Pear Tree"
incredible video and also PSA: art competition for anyone interested
^^^ direct link for artists!!!
let me slip into something more harder to get out of
Convenience isn't bad because of some inherent value in toil or it rots your soul. Convenience is bad because it often comes at the cost of an exploited underclass. I don't care if someone wants to taxi their meal to their house instead of making it themselves or even driving to the restaurant themselves. I care that meal delivery apps underpay their workers (they don't even consider them their workers), provide no workplace protections, and prey on their desperation.
The desire for convenience is a morally neutral thing (no matter how many capitalists want their workers to see unproductivity or aversion to the "grind" as a moral failing). Companies that sell you only convenience by making it worse for yourself and for others are not.
