October 2011
1 post
June 2011
3 posts
megan rosalarian gedris: Dressed to Kill →
rosalarian.tumblr.com
Whenever I complain about how females are portrayed in mainstream superhero comics, inevitably half a dozen people pop up to tell me this:
“Men are idealized in comics, too.”
Yes. Yes they are. I am aware of this. While I think the idealism is harmful, that isn’t actually what I have a problem…
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail.”
—Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
Being pushed around in a laundry basket by my big brother and laughing. =)
next agenda item?
May 2011
10 posts
“There’s a story behind every person. There’s a reason why they’re the way they are. They aren’t just like that because they want to. Something in the past created them, and sometimes it’s impossible to fix them.”
—
Emily of everyoneisahero-.tumblr.com
(I love her Tumblr address!)
February 2011
1 post
September 2010
1 post
“Self-acceptance must come before self-improvement, or you won’t feel like you deserve more.”
—original source unknown
August 2010
1 post
October 2009
1 post
paper towns
“Here’s what’s not beautiful about it: from here, you can’t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It’s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It’s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them from the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I’ve lived here for eighteen yers and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.”
John Green - Paper Towns
Artwork by Darryl Cunningham
August 2009
1 post
“ “The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” ”
—Terence Hanbury White - The Book of Merlyn
