Tangled Axon

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Maurice Sendak (via relatedworlds)

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I love working with niobium and hope people like this piece. The rainbow-colored rings add such a pretty detail to the Helm weave.

For me, polyamory means freedom—love unhindered. Honoring and celebrating authentic expressions of love.

I’m free to pursue possibilities as they arise. I’m free to let relationships be what they want to be. Friendship. Lifelong partnership. Something in-between. I’m free to do so with one person, or two, or three. Or none at all.

I am unconditionally free to determine the shape of my romantic life in cooperation with each person who chooses to love me too. Love dictates those boundaries, not culture.

Even more awesome than celebrating my own freedom is watching my partners enjoy theirs. Freedom to be who they are, to love who they will, as they will. And when they do, when their other relationships thrive, I feel joy. I see them putting that love out into the world and I think, “My god, they’re beautiful.” I can’t help falling in love again when I witness them love someone else.

I mean, you can’t keep that up. Look, five years I spent on some books. I suppose you could love somebody for five years. Maybe. I don’t mean lust. You can do that for ever. But I mean really love them, the way you say you love children.

Toni Morrison, from this amazing interview in the Guardian. (via queerfatfemme)

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ilovereadingandwriting:

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The denial of life. →

My proposal is that we live in the way that best reflects how we most want to use our precious time, right here, right now. My proposal is that we live well despite our inescapable fear of death. Our time is valuable in more than one way, both in quantity and quality, and neither one should be sacrificed for the sake of the other.

foodonmydog:

Sushi Sashimi.

doubledaybooks:

Fantastic and fantastical book photos by Joel Robinson

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Neil Gaiman: As requested by too many people: making the last post rebloggable →

neil-gaiman:

birdartpoetry asked: Mister Gaiman, you’re kickass. I was just wondering, what do you think is the best way to seduce a writer? I figured your answer would be pretty spectacular.

In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot less good at the stuff going on outside, which means that quite often if you flirt with us we will completely fail to notice, leaving everybody involved slightly uncomfortable and more than slightly unlaid.

So I would suggest that any attempted seduction of a writer would probably go a great deal easier for all parties if you sent them a cheerful note saying “YOU ARE INVITED TO A SEDUCTION: Please come to dinner on Friday Night. Wear the kind of clothes you would like to be seduced in.”

And alcohol may help, too. Or kissing. Many writers figure out that they’re being seduced or flirted with if someone is actually kissing them.

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thelittlenaturalist:

NASA recently released imagery showing the deforestation of America …in just 34 years.

this is sad. we are abusing her :c

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Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
Woman: Well, why can't I have birth control?
Government: Because. Sex isn't for recreation.
Woman: It can help regulate my period and benefit me in other ways.
Government: Too bad.
Man: For no reason other than for recreational sex, may I have birth control?
Government: Do you have a penis?
Man: YES, YES I DO!!
Government: WELL HOWDY, VALID CITIZEN. You can buy condoms by the dozens. Here, here's a pack of special condom for "His Pleasure." Oooh, these come in different colours and flavours. Here, try these. They have ribs on them. And this one glows in the dark!! LOL OMG DICK LIGHTSABER!!
Government: But seriously, you're a man. You can do what ever you want.
Woman: But-
Government: Shut up, you sinning, freeloading hussy.

jamescfemmer:

A Knight and her Lady. I love this. cc: @elorabishop

A Knight’s Farewell by *theband

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