I think part of the reason we have trouble drawing the line “it’s not okay to force someone into sexual activity” is that in many ways, forcing people to do things is part of our culture in general. Cut that shit out of your life. If someone doesn’t want to go to a party, try a new food, get up and dance, make small talk at the lunchtable—that’s their right. Stop the “aww c’mon” and “just this once” and the games where you playfully force someone to play along. Accept that no means no—all the time.
The Pervocracy: Consent culture.I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Carl Jung(Source: misswallflower)
It’s the oldest story in the world. One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you’re ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
Nathan Scott(Source: magicmanula)
Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood.
Donnie Darko(Source: and-holly-goes-lightly)
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Roland Barthes(Source: larmoyante)
You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they’re as dull as a brick? Then there’s other people, when you meet them you think, “Not bad. They’re okay.” And then you get to know them and… and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality’s written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful.
Amelia Pond(Source: nuaira)
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Pablo Neruda(Source: silver-nails)
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.
Edward Ferrars, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen(Source: sleipnir-lokison)
There is only one game that matters, anyway, and the rules of that are simple. Winning is stepping over thousands of bodies— maybe some I could have been in love with, were there not so much more that I wanted —and in and out of a thousand different lives, until I find one man that’s more than what the stories promised.
Margaery TyrellGo after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call. Go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone. Don’t wait for them to give you a sign, because it might never come. Don’t let people happen to you. Don’t let me happen to you, or her. She’s not a fucking television show or a tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me, or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this. And I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest. Making someone fall in love with you is easy and so is flying 3,000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing but breathe into telephones. It’s not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is. It is raw and unguarded. And that is all that is worth anything, really.
Milk(Source: misschloe)
Years of love have been forgotten in the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan Poe(Source: decrepito)
The same Hebrew word that is used in Genesis 2:24 to describe how Adam felt about Eve (and how spouses are supposed to feel toward each other) is used in Ruth 1:14 to describe how Ruth felt about Naomi. Her feelings are celebrated, not condemned.
And throughout Christian history, Ruth’s vow to Naomi has been used to illustrate the nature of the marriage covenant. These words are often read at Christian wedding ceremonies and used in sermons to illustrate the ideal love that spouses should have for one another. The fact that these words were originally spoken by one woman to another tells us a lot about how God feels about same-gender relationships.
#in your bible #emphasizing your queers
(via michaelfassbendersteeth)
(Source: apiphile)
Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.
Karen Marie Moning(Source: vastpastiche)
