June 2010
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March 2010
11 posts
Teddy: I rented a house. It's amazing. It's right on the water, a little cottage, and there's deer, like, bambi deer, and singing birds, it's incredible. I found this secret little coffee place down the street from here and, oh, and I was thinking of getting a puppy. But you know, you have to be home with a puppy and I'm always here. So I went to the pound because I wanted to get it out of my system, you know, the puppy love. And I held all these incredibly sweet dogs and you would have been proud of me, Owen, I didn't take one home. I went and got a fish instead. And let me see, what else? Oh I got a bikini wax! Yeah I got a bikini, an actual wax, I hadn't gotten one of those since - remember when I tried to wax myself and -
Owen: What is your prob-
Teddy: You are my best friend!
My best friend who I could tell everything to, and now you won't even look at me.
Owen: 'Cause you said you loved me.
I should be so bloody grateful that this has never happened to me.
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“Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and...”
– “Men Who Explain Things” by Rebecca Solnit in the LA Times (via Notes from the Patriarchy) (via resilienttendencies) (via kerrielisabeth)
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Why You Should Never Marry A Poet by Heather Bell
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Think about it - the way that credit cards, bougainvillea, vacations, dictionaries, the road on the way to work will all never be enough. The poet wishes with her deepest bones and writes that she wishes she would have killed you in the supermarket. She wonders why she ever loved you in song. She publishes book after book. Each line detailing how your hair is ugly and...
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness,...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via desirenoir) (via tobia) (via desolates) (via cosmicforest) (via rhea137) (via anosognosia) (via garconniere)
I just almost cried when I heard myself thinking: ‘I would like that!’ God, everything once again; all those lovely people, wonderful experiences, and...
Willow: OK, say that I help, and you start a conversation, it goes great, you like Buffy, she likes you, you spend time together, feelings grow deeper, and one day, without even realizing it, you find you're in love. Time stops, and it feels like the whole world is made for you two, and you two alone, until the day one of you leaves and rips the still-beating heart from the other, who's now a broken, hollow mockery of the human condition.
Riley: Yep, that's the plan.
February 2010
22 posts
Coming & Telling & Crying
thebthing:
This is Tumblr, so obviously all of you have already heard about Meaghan and Melissa’s wonderful project Coming & Crying, and have already donated money or plan to do that in the following 30 hours (because 30 hours are all that are left to help this happen. DO IT DO IT).
It is late people, and to be quite honest I don’t feel like making too much of a slick story out of this, I...
Note to followers
The B Thing = instant reblog, because The B Thing is my personal blog.
When this gets annoying, just let me know and I’ll quit it, but for now I’m trying to promote it since I don’t feel I have any readers there. :(
Please follow! The B Thing! Awesome blog with poetry, feminism, pop culture, body issues, good reads and love. Or will be awesome, someday, if you all follow and...
How to make a pass - to the macho men in my lane
thebthing:
Here’s the thing; when you’re swimming with multiple people in one lane, there is a good chance somebody will be slower than you are. There is an easy way to fix this: you pass them, while swimming - not at the turns, because you don’t want to cause a blockage - in the middle of the lane. And if, for some reason (the reason being that you are in fact not that much quicker) you are...
“Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain, because something that’s...”
– David Foster Wallace, Long Thing
“What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words...”
– David Foster Wallace, Good Old Neon
“And when for some reason no further pains are possible, why then just close the...”
– Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“And for every feminist blog-reader-turned-activist, there are probably dozens of...”
– Feminist Revolutions (and Why Ladyblogs Matter) by philosophyerin - The Pursuit of Harpyness (via fatuosity) (via ilovefat)
Hey, this is my friend Erin! We are going to drink beers tonight. I am glad that someone reblogged this, she is smart as shit.
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Talk with others, rebel against yourself
thebthing:
On my birthday, a week ago, I was sitting with my friends in a hotel room, eating pie and talking about everything our minds wondered upon, when I announced to be anti-military. ‘Are you?’ they asked me. ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘or well, I am a pacifist. I don’t believe in fighting; little men running around with little guns. They can be killed off so easily, especially now, what with all the...
The B Thing: Looking at Ourselves →
I have started swimming again. It is wonderful being back in the water, mowing my limbs while letting my thoughts wonder wordlessly. But there is something special to this pool, the Sant Jordi Piscina, that makes my daily swim even more worthwhile: the public showers. Inside of the women’s…
The thing about love... is that at the end of the...
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“It was crazy to think that I had to fix everything in my relationship with April...”
– Luke Danes, Gilmore Girls
“Love is a guessing game. That’s the beauty of it. There aren’t any guarantees....”
– After Sex (2007) (via helenafoo) (via puhdding)
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you...”
– Pablo Neruda (via justbesplendid) (via puhdding)
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I wonder if the person who coined the phrase “absence makes the heart grow fonder” dated the “out of sight out of mind” person. Disaster.
January 2010
14 posts
On Being Whole →
I am quite content with this piece on love I have just written. If you have the time, please read it and let me know what you think!
“I used to feel bad. I used to think, “Oh, poor me. I don’t fit into the narrow...”
– R.W. Blair, Dallas TX « Boum Voyage!
pretty interesting (albeity pretty heterocentric) commentary about fatness and desireability. worth reading!
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The B Thing →
Dear followers, I have started a new blog. It’s going to be about.. women, clothing, beauty, gender, identity, film, music.. and anything else. Please follow and let me know if you have any ideas;
thebthing @ gmail . com.
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So if you’re like me, you’ve been waiting your entire life for Meaghan O’Connell to make a book. And now she is. That should really be all you need to know, right?
But it somehow gets better.
Meaghan and Melissa (or, “we”) met because of the internet and writing, and writing about sex (and blogging about writing about sex). Almost since then, we’ve been...
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through...”
– Ellen Goodman (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via six-klicks-east) (via flickflickflicker)
Greatest pickup line
You: Hey baby, can I buy you a drink?
Him: Sorry, I have a girlfriend.
You: Really? I have a goldfish.
Him: What?
You: Oh sorry, I thought we were talking about shit that doesn't matter.
“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche “Beyond Good and Evil” (via itisyouranthem)
December 2009
15 posts
