February 2012
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I was just googling why people pick scabs and it says that lots of people eat their scabs after picking them and now I feel sick.
Things which make me sad:
The guy who played Duckie in Pretty in Pink now plays Alan in Two and a Half Men.
Kitchen jokes.
That it is impossible to balance (or choose between) having a good school career or a good social life.
People slagging off my parents - only I’m allowed to do it.
The amount of calories in alcohol.
Chipped nail varnish.
That tattoos/piercings/unnatural hair...
“I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my...”
Anonymous asked: How'd the interview go, chick?
Anonymous asked: According to a news article on the bbc website, they're beginning to grow what can only be called test tube burgers, meat but without any of the moral problems many vegetarians and vegans usually take a stand against. Would you try one?
I’m thinking of buying some glitter hairspray to wear casually but I don’t think I could get away with looking that odd where I live. Maybe in Manchester? I always wish there was a permanent glitter hair dye you could buy.
“Feminism is the name for the newly discovered and highly surprising fact that it...”
– Max Eastman
“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to...”
– George Orwell, 1984
Loose Lips - Kimya Dawson
So if you want to...
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“I know there’s no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks. But I...”
– Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
I have my Manchester MET interview tomorrow, wish me luck!
I wonder how much money gets throws away each year. I wonder how many lives could be saved by the pennies hidden under supermarket shelves. I wonder if I could’ve bought a house by now if I hadn’t given my coppers to charities and the homeless. I wonder why paying in change is considered embarrassing. I wonder why change even exists if nobody likes it. I wonder if I save mine for the...
Anonymous asked: What about going into publishing? Or editing?
I’ve been thinking about future job prospects. I’m not an idiot, I know that even if I do become an author I’m going to need a job before and maybe during that in order to have a flat, food, pay bills, etc. I guess I always figured I’d see what I could do once I finish university, when I’m older and have more experience and have to make that decision.
The most...
“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
“I admit it. I’d made some mistakes. Okay, some big mistakes. Loads of...”
– Brian Jackson, Starter for 10
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Anonymous asked: Is comfort more important to you than appearance / fashion?
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I feel sorry for paedophiles. Not so much the ones that act upon their urges in either a big way (child molestation) or a small way (watching child porn therefore increasing the demand for it and more children being exploited) but I can honestly say that when I think of paedophiles as human beings I feel so sorry for them - no so much sympathy but sorrow.
We’ve all wanted to do things we...
I feel like I’m in the wrong body
I feel like I shouldn’t have a body at all
Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric
“Beause we need to reclaim the word ‘feminism’. We need the word ‘feminism’ back...”
– Caitlin Moran, How To Be A Woman
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I have this silly dream of laying in bed on a silly Sunday morning one day with a silly significant other and we’re play fighting and I ask them something like, “If you know me so well, what colour are my eyes?”
And then I’ll cover my face with my hands and they’ll reply, “Well there’s a dark teal around the outside and then a wonky line of creamy silver...
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“Roses are red,
Violets are purple,
Which is a very hard word to rhyme
And...”
– Neil Gaiman
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thebracket asked: Re: Chris Brown and "grammy-gate" (for lack of a better term). While I completely agree that he's a horrible human being and we shouldn't forget acts of violence against anyone, I've been wrestling with the bigger idea of a person changing. I don't know whether CB has, and as I said, I'm not brushing off what he did but isn't there an idea in our society...
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I feel like Roald Dahl was one of my uncles.
People like Chris Brown who have victimised and violated a person in such a horrible manner should be ostracised by society, not celebrated by it.
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kapowmonkey asked: Hey, you're pretty clever so I want your outlook on this. Violence against women as a tool to dominate is one of the worst things a man can do. But as a man, should I look protect women from people like Chris Brown and the thousands of men like him, or should I expect women to be able to protect themselves from men like that? I only ask because I tend towards thinking valuing a group like...
“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how...”
– Melissa McEwan