May 2013
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One of my students just said I remind her of Zooey Deschanel from New Girl. I take that as a great complement.
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Plot twist: The next companion is a normal girl/boy who only dies once in their lifetime and has no remarkable back story but he thinks they’re wonderful because they are human and the Doctor needs reminding that you don’t need to be a mystery to be remarkable.
#and the doctor never has to kiss them or sexualize them at all #in fact they are...
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So now I’m going to New York on June 5 hit me uppppp bitches!
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Junot Diaz on Men Who Write About Women
The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.
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“1. Run away to Brooklyn. Rent an apartment with a claw footed bathtub. Commute...”
– 5 Exit Strategies (via tilthe)
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“DiCaprio and Mulligan, meanwhile, don’t seem like star-crossed lovers so much as...”
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People Magazine’s review on ‘The Great Gatsby’
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The People magazine writer then looked at the graph above and wondered aloud why “the spaceship was veering away from the star.”
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“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be...”
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damngruchy:
hailthelordylordypicca:
i wish someone loved me the way Jay Gatsby loves Daisy
NO YOU DON’T
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“Please. You are not being silenced. There is no “thought police.” Your freedom...”
– An Open Letter to White Male Comedians (via lastyearsgirl)
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“There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the...”
– Uzodinma Iweala, “Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Africa”
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