Q: I wouldn’t want to be friends with Nora, would you? Her outlook is almost unbearably grim.
A: For heaven’s sake, what kind of question is that? Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Would you want to be friends with Mickey Sabbath? Saleem Sinai? Hamlet? Krapp? Oedipus? Oscar Wao? Antigone? Raskolnikov? Any of the characters in The Corrections? Any of the characters in Infinite Jest? Any of the characters in anything Pynchon has ever written? Or Martin Amis? Or Orhan Pamuk? Or Alice Munro, for that matter? If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t “is this a potential friend for me?” but “is this character alive?”
(Claire Messud gave Publishers Weekly the answer it deserved last week. She’s on the show tomorrow. Tune in to see what answers she gives Terry!)
Could you share with me a good article/tumblr post/infographic on the problems of fat-shaming or anything related to body image, etc?
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Re: Compliments
With all the internet discussion around complimenting women on their looks, I have something to say about compliments regarding a person’s mental capacity:
It is insulting being called “smart/smarter” by someone because I have just expressed an opinion or belief that same someone agrees with.
I don’t need your fucking validation.
you’re smart because you share the same opinion as me
because my opinions are obviously the be all end all
Unemployed Black Woman Pretends to be White, Job Offers Suddenly Skyrocket
This is what I live with everyday, and I basically want to throw up all the time.
(edit) This art does NOT belong to me. I don’t know who the original artist is. Please don’t accuse me of art theft!
It’s me, I did this a long time ago. If you google the first sentence my blog shows up. It’s not difficult, but I get it.
Here’s some advice for all you artistic types. Always put your name/blog/watermark on things you make no matter how stupid you think they are in the moment. You’ll wish you did later.
if u think my constant vocal feminism is annoying imagine how annoying the patriarchy is to me
(via albinwonderland)
uhhhh yay sizeism & sexism? two more reasons not to shop at abercrombie and fitch. (x)
LOOK AT THIS GUY THO. HE IS SO UGLY.
Seriously though, their clothes are so ugly. (logos—HORROR)
Shelter. One of my pieces for Reading Paintings.
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A HUGE thank you to everyone who came out to our show! There were more people than we expected and we even made a sale. For a first attempt at planning a show, it was a great success. I’m incredibly grateful to be friends with such hardworking and talented people. The next show is in the works! ✿
lexcanroar: when I was like 8 - 16, but mostly when I was 13/14, I used to think...
when I was like 8 - 16, but mostly when I was 13/14, I used to think that basically everybody who hung out with me was doing me a favour and just enduring my company, because I was uncool and a loser
it wasn’t just something I invented in my head, because over that period of time I had a lot of…
In the spirit of openheartedness and what life is really all about, I’ll go so far as to say that the fear of others may mask some deep-seated desire to understand, and maybe even to love. Because really, what is there to be afraid of? Few people today don’t know—or have in their families—at least one loving couple who are raising children, same-sex or not. And it’s really just the loving part that matters. That same-sex marriage could go from its preliminary draft of “diagnosable” to the final edit of “so what?” must indicate some positive evolution on the part of the larger human consciousness. My wife, being a biology teacher, puts it even more succinctly: “Why are all these people so worried about who everybody else is sleeping with, anyway?” (Score two for Moms.)
—Chris Ware on his cover of the May 13, 2013 issue, “Mother’s Day.” Get the story behind the cover: http://nyr.kr/10d7TyC
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