Elle's Bells

Feelin’ blue.

I think the cumulative misery of the exam season has finally caught up to me now that I’m finished. I can kind of feel myself slipping back into that self-perpetuating depressive lethargy; it’s sort of frightening. Hopefully I’ll be able to nip it in the bud this time round though. I’m gonna try and get out and see people this weekend.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

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—	Chuck Klosterman (via babadecorcel)

carefreewhitegirl:

Miss Representation made it. This is who they are and what they do:

“The film Miss Representation exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. It’s time to break that cycle of mistruths.

In response we created MissRepresentation.org, a call-to-action campaign that seeks to empower women and girls to challenge limiting labels in order to realize their potential.

We are uniting individuals around a common, meaningful goal to spark millions of small actions that ultimately lead to a cross-generational movement to eradicate gender stereotypes and create lasting cultural and sociological change.”

follow them on twitter: @representpledge

stfuconservatives:

thefremen:

leonineantiheroine:

nova-bright:

yellowcars:

Men Can Stop Rape’s new College Bystander Intervention campaign.

Actual good anti rape campaign posters! They don’t shame victims, they ask people to examine their own actions and inactions and protect their friends. And not in a gross excuse for chivalry either, just as people keeping people safe.

I like this.

Yep I agree. I also like how it’s not tying a man taking action around rape to some imaginary alpha male/hypermasculine sort of thing. Like a real man would do such and such.

Also none of these guys are crying about being friendzoned or thinking anyone owes them shit.

I know I’ve reblogged these before, and I will continue to do so because they are awesome.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

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—	Carl Sagan (via dopatonin)

It’s 2AM.

The 30-second filler music on the menu screen of my Mighty Boosh DVD has been playing on a loop for around 3 hours.

The walls are swimming slightly.

Got my initial sketch done.

Acrylics are at the ready.

~~I think I just heard a voice telling me to undress.~~

HEY HO, LET’S GO!

Real women have curves” was a marketing slogan thought up to sell people overpriced, ill-fitting pants. It does NOT promote body positivity – it only perpetuates body policing by turning the tables on people who don’t fit into yet another arbitrary ideal.
The job is to BUST THE FUCKING PARADIGM APART, not shift it a little bit toward the fat side. The job is to remind people, bodies are not public property and your opinion about an individual’s body is only an opinion, not a valid judgment of their worth as a human being. The JOB is to destroy systemic oppression of nonconforming, rebellious bodies no matter what those bodies look like.

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—	(via blck-grrl)

I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As a veteran let me just be very straightforward and honest with you. We didn’t “serve our country”; we don’t actually serve our brothers/sisters or our neighbors. We serve the interests of Capital. We never risked our lives or spent months on deployment away from our family and friends so they can have this abstract concept called “freedom”. We served big oil; big coal; Coca-Cola; Kellogg, Brown, and Root and all the other big Capital interests who don’t know a fucking thing about sacrifice. These people will never have to deal with the loss of a loved one or the physical and/or psychological scars that those who “serve”, and their families, have to deal with for the rest of their lives. The most patriotic thing someone can do is to tell truth to power and dedicate yourself to building power to overthrow these sociopathic assholes. I served with some of the most real and genuine people I’ve ever met. You’ll never see solidarity like the kind of solidarity you experience when your life depends on the person next to you. But most of us didn’t join for that; we joined because we were fucking poor and didn’t have many other options.

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—	An anti-capitalist veteran (via elitc) Well heres a take on it not often uttered or shared (via threezerooo)

Cement Bleak by Isaac Cordal

: Zombie apocalypse coming soon »

ihopericksantorum:

5/16: McArthur High School HazMat Situation
Students, Teachers Decontaminated After Breaking Out In Rash
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/mcarthur-high-school-contamination_n_1521764.html

5/19: No confirmation on chemical at Fort Lauderdale International Airport
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It’s cool guys, I got this.