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Feminist Frequency - Tropes vs. Women: #1 The Manic Pixie Dream Girl
I have literally felt a person try to place me into this trope in their life.
I think what bothers me about this is I’d love a movie with the MPDG as the main character.
(via scarletsyd)
-Ursula K. Le Guin (via misswallflower)We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
(via prettybooks)
A university in Georgia is bleeding faculty after adding a new section to employee contracts last October. The “Personal Lifestyle Statement” requires employees to reject homosexuality, premarital sex, adultery, drug use and public drinking near campus. It also mandates that staff be active in a local church.
In an anonymous survey in April, only 12 percent of faculty and staff said that they planned to stay at Shorter University, a 139-year-old Baptist school, reports Inside Higher Ed. More than 50 resigned before the new contracts were even distributed, and certain departments, such as science and fine arts, have been “eviscerated,” according to Michael Wilson, a tenured librarian for the university who’s worked there for 14 years.
Damn, well…now you know what to do if you ever want almost everyone in your workforce to quit.
(Source: fuzzyhorns, via sexreeducated)
Your Digital Flapper Dictionary
- Terms and Useful Phrases
- That’s bullshit! - Thats all wet!
- I’ve got a shitty date - I’ve got a flat tire
- Don’t be stupid - Don’t be sill
- Move your ass! - Get a wiggle!
- A car you had sex in - Struggle Buggy
- Wasted - Spifflicated (from the words spiffy and intoxicated)
- That Hobo on the corner - That Palooka over there
- Now you’ve got it! - Now you’re on the trolly!
- A Gangsta’s bitch - A Moll
- A slut - A Hotsy Totsy
- I’m Engaged! - I’m Handcuffed
- Beer - Giggle Water
- Legs - Gams
- Boobs - Ninny Pies
- Rich Person - an egg
- The Common Jerk - A Drugstore Cowboy
- Don’t be a shit head! - Don’t take any wooden nickels!
- That’s fucking awesome! - That’s the Bee’s knees!
- Honey, I said NO - Bank’s Closed, hon
- Holy Shit! - Hot Socks!
- That’s Great! - That’s the Cat’s Pajamas!
- Classy - Swanky
- I need to get wasted - I need to see a man about a dog
- A woman’s Cigarette - A freedom Torch
- That girl is HOT SHIT - That dames got IT
My Homage to an era (the Roaring Twenties) that had no end of wonderful slang, you can add some of your favorites to the list, lets see just how big this Hay Burner (a large object) can get!
We need to bring some of these back. Who’s with me?
I’m in.
This is so fun
(via scarletsyd)
And then Fantasy Literature rides in on a unicorn and is like ‘COME ON SCI-FI. LET’S GO FIGHT DRAGONS ON THE MOON AND LEAVE THESE BORING BASTARDS WITH THEIR TEA.’
Art by Tom Gauld.
Bless this motherfucking post.
I should send this to every literature professor I have ever had, because fuck you, no one needs to read Moby Dick more than once. I love you Herman Melville, but your sentences hurt me.
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