Tangled Up In Lace
No lie, I teared up here at work when I read that you're chasing your dreams. Makes me a little more confident about going off to do my Big Stupid Project next year :D
So sweet
October 2011
Stevie: “Let’s move to Canada”
Ally: “OK”
Stevie: “We need some money, Miriam went to Canada, how much did she go over with?”
Ally: “Ten grand?”
Stevie: “How do people do that?”
Ally: “People save, people don’t buy prosciutto”
Stevie looks on guiltily at her bag of gourmet weekend treats
10 GRAND. Yikes I hope I’m ready to live on love and my good looks!!!! YESSSSSSS MAMA’S GOT TO GET A BUSINESS STARTED SOMEONE SEND ME MONEY I LEAVE IN 19 DAYS
but also Ally and Stevie move to Canada because I love you a bunch and you’re wicked hot
September 2011
My iPhone deleted my answer to the last question and won’t let me “fetch” it but your project isn’t stupid and I have all the faith in the world in you. Get free doll, it feels phenomenal
Victoria is beautiful. And you will fit perfectly there.
THANK YOU!!! I’m so ready
your announcement really made me happy- first sign of being unhealthily emotionally invested in a stranger's life?
<3 I’m happy you’re happy and I’m happy I’m happy!!
It feels good to see exciting things happen and I hope it encourages you to go do something brave and a little reckless yourself you know?
You deserve it <3 xoxoxo
I bet the reason parents don't let their babies drink is they don't want to have to change diapers full of hangover shits.
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You don’t have to be young. You don’t have to be thin. You don’t have to be “hot” in a way that some dumbfuckedly narrow mindset has construed that word. You don’t have to have taut flesh or a tight ass or an eternally upright set of tits.
You have to find a way to inhabit your body while enacting your deepest desires. You have to be brave enough to build the intimacy you deserve. You have to take off all of your clothes and say, I’m right here.
There are so many tiny revolutions in a life, a million ways we have to circle around ourselves to grow and change and be okay. And perhaps the body is our final frontier. It’s the one place we can’t leave. We’re there till it goes. Most women and some men spend their lives trying to alter it, hide it, prettify it, make it what it isn’t, or conceal it for what it is. But what if we didn’t do that?
” —Dear Sugar from Dear Sugar # 86
(it’s amazing and you should read it all)
http://therumpus.net/2011/09/dear-sugar-the-rumpus-advice-column-86-tiny-revolutions/
(via delicatetbone)
ok so speaking of tattoos, which one of yours hurt the least? And can you describe the pain? I've had it described to me as a stinging burn. I'm asking because I'm considering getting my first one :)
Definitely my stomach and my ass cheek hurt the least. I would say stinging/burning best describes it and for me it’s a really nice pain that becomes a little addicting. My wrist however felt like they were taking a cheese grater to me and I cried a little. Temporary pain for permanent art is totally worth it
I love love love love you're tattoo on you upper abdomen! I was wondering how badly it hurt...
Not at all!!! It was the easiest tattoo by far!! Took her like 45 minutes and I was chatting and laughing the whole time :) also I have a question about my arm and that one took like 4 HOURS but that was the artist for sure
Take the Best Part: The problem with the 99% movement,
[snip]
Ok, so I have thought about this all morning, and I have no counter argument. I do, however, have some important historical context, which is a reminder of the extent to which labor movement alliances based solely on class (that is to say, those which did not factor in race deliberately) were pretty deliberately undone by the extension of “whiteness” as a general concept. So, basically, white European immigrants, even from formerly maligned groups (like the Irish) were “given” whiteness as a way to make sure they saw their interests in line with the white ruling class and not with their working class peers who happened to be black, American Indian, Asian-American, latina/o or of other ethnic/racial groups. The splintering of the working class into subclasses based on race and ethnicity had a huge negative impact on moves toward unionization and fights for social welfare more generally.
So, the lack of diversity in the 99% movement is deeply, deeply problematic. But, more importantly, it is a direct result of historical factors, that have served to keep working class Americans from effectively achieving their goals. This means it is important to fix this shit not only because it is morally right to do so — and I would say, morally imperative — but because failing to do so only extends the racial and ethnic violence of the past and dooms any efforts at class solidarity.
The Wages of Whiteness, David R. Roediger
This is a really great addition to the conversation from this morning.
I should be working at my “real” job right now. I need my last few paychecks and I need to keep up appearances and yet, I keep coming back here to Tumblr and these feelings of futility it gives me. I can do good here and want to do good here and I’ve tried so fucking hard to do good here, but the overwhelming stench of complacency keeps me at arm’s length.
What can I do to make a bigger impact? What do you all need in order to fly from your nests you’ve made here? Where are my talents best suited and how to actualize that into something I can make a life from? Can you actually teach someone to start thinking past their own noses and understand that the point of learning to love yourself is so that you may love others better also?This isn’t a big dick contest of who can think their shit stinks the least and how to use the power of self acceptance to hold others down.
Let’s figure out a way to turn the mutual masturbation of Tumblr into something of substance
Tumblr has been an excellent breeding ground for amazing things but it’s high time I take some of my own advice and build a life I want to live so that I may show you it’s possible but more importantly to show myself.
Its time to reap the benefits. Its time to take the tools and build something. Its time to honor ourselves and it’s time to love courageously.
By this time next month, it’ll all be coming up roses
I'm 21 years old and fat and proud and wearing fierce bikinis to the beach. My father is a survivor of anorexia and tends to be very fatphobic as a kind of coping method. Today I posted your reply to "Is there anything wrong with wanting to be skinny" on FB. He liked it and I'm so happy you helped us bon a bit over body acceptance, you know?
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
THIS MADE ME REALLY HAPPY
<3 <3 <3
xoxoxo
Every time I meet a homophobe, I automatically assume they want to fuck me.
new post! on fat, trans, and the pitfalls of comparing identities. →
yrwelcome.wordpress.com
as usual, this new post from you’re welcome is worth a read
Remember that time I woke up bright and early to talk to someone about their homophobia via Facebook status comments?
Accidentally got stoned and thought about the texture of Pringles for a hot minute
Sometimes, I can't help but trot on over to your Tumblr and tell you how much friggin' respect I have for you. And also how pretty you are. Thanks for continuing to be lovely <3
I’m going to kiss your whole face someday
man, i'm totallly in a mopey "listen to gillian welch" mood tonight too. if only we could smoke a joint together and de-stress.
someday soon i hope <3 <3 <3
love you julia beautiful smart babe xoxoxo
I really like the way you answered the anon asking about wanting to be skinny. I respect it because I feel like sometimes SOME fat activists [not all of them!!] are very quick to tell people that all diets fail, exercise is a waste of time, etc. I dig the "all bodies are great bodies" attitude. Thanks for being such an awesome babe! :)
Well I think we have to talk about what people mean by “fail”
Diets do fail in my eyes. There is a very specific kind of lifestyle you have to adhere to and the level of dedication is takes to keep the majority of the weight off is not a life I want to lead and honestly it’s not one I want others to live either. But it’s not my fucking place to tell them what to do, only provide another way if they want it!
I think movement (or exercise whatever you want to call it) is important at any level you’re most comfortable with (and matches your current abilities: don’t push yourself!!) but I think when its approached as an obligation you’re participating in a really abusive lifestyle that was created to control you
The bottom line: do what makes you feel good and always think critically about why it makes you feel good and who you’re feeling good for
xoxoxo
In my english class we're talking about body image and media and things of the sort and I have the biggest feeling that everyone's gunna look at me crazy when I say that all bodies are great bodies. But I don't mind because that's my opinion and you helped me to realize it
they’ll look at you like that because you’re FREE and they aren’t
xoxoxo
dear merbabe, despite frequently lurkin' on your page like nobody's business, i've never written to you before and would have probably continued to admire from a creepy distance BUT i had a dream about you last night in which we bathed together in a huge ornate bathtub of shimmery blue water, and then i watched you open presents sent to you by your admirers. i feel like this was probably the most realistic dream i've ever had, maybe i astrally projected myself into your life. it was awesome.
i want to go to there
so a little while ago you gave me some really solid advice on my relationship with my partner and i just really really want to thank you. it helped more than your could imagine <3
YESSSS!!!! I don’t remember what I said, but know that I meant it :)
xoxoxox
I want to get high with you :)
I want to get high with me too. Prolly tonight