May 2013
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I hate my artwork, but I think that's ok
kisskicker:
I am a Pretty Good Artist. I have worked professionally since 2006. I have worked on properties like G.I. Joe, My Little Pony, Transformers, and a host of others. You can see my work everywhere, from toy packages to comic books to DVD covers. I currently work for MinoMonsters, where I have designed everything from the monsters themselves to the environments they live in. I have done...
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Anonymous asked: What you're mistaking as jargon is secondary discourse. Being literate in an area requires learning terms specific to that area of study. I think you misinterpret the use of certain words as trying to intentionally obscure the point, but ideally those words are there because they have narrow definitions and at an academic level, it is more accurate. Somehow I doubt you'd protest the use...
Anonymous asked: I don't really think it's jargon if they're using terms specific to the area of study to describe something relating to it. Jargon is meant to confuse the reader, for sure, but being confused by a written piece about something you're not necessarily on expert on doesn't mean you're reading jargon!
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Ghost(?) Stories
I have a reputation as a critical person, in the good and in the bad ways. As you might expect, for me being critical extends to the paranormal. This becomes a problem, when you have heard things. Felt things. Seen things. The conundrum goes like this: you believe you have seen a ghost. Everybody you know tells you that ghosts aren’t real, and that what you experienced didn’t happen....
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from athenainargyle
I had a weird string of stuff happen this past year that I’ve jokingly referred to as maybe ghosts or paranormal activity, but I can’t be 100% sure what it was, so I’m happy leaving it up to speculation. ANYWAY.
I moved into a small apartment by myself and adopted a cat, everything was really nice and quiet here, no problems, hooray! I tend to stay really late at school working...
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“That is not to say that all neurohumanities scholars are insensitive to nuance...”
– Pen, paper, and a brain scan: the newest trend in literary criticism might be “neurohumanities.” (via millionsmillions)
My brain threw up everywhere after reading that paragraph. Thanks for that.
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jennifer-wang asked: I work at the Bullocks Wilshire building in Los Angeles. Supposedly during the 1930s a child either fell or was pushed into an elevator shaft and her restless spirit has been wandering the corridors and hasslin' staff and construction workers ever since. Two of my co-workers have claimed hearing a disembodied voice crying "mama" over and over a couple years ago during winter break....
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moonshoesmegan asked: When I was 11, my dad died in a car accident. He died on the 21st of December and was pronounced dead at roughly 11am. A year later on the anniversary of his death at 11am, all of the fuses in our house blew and we were left without power for the whole day. Our house also suddenly became infused with the scent of his deodorant. That evening the smell went, the lights started working & nothing...
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from thatclarke
When I was little my brother and I were terrified of the closet in our bedroom. There was a presence in there, not a ghost but just like this hovering blackness. I never went within three feet of the door of it, and never even looked at that corner of the room. I’d think it was just normal childhood imagination but my mom could feel it and was creeped out by it too.
So one day she...
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kinda Gost sotry (from naiveasthedryleaves)
Well when i graduated high school my friends and I were living in somewhat rural part of Texas and were massively bored. So we decided we were ghost hunters. We would go to any places that were supposedly haunted and graveyards but mostly graveyards. We would take cameras tape recorders flashlights, pretty much anything to capture ghosts. A lot of the time it was just orbs or dust particles that...
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from hkrieg
THIS IS A LOT OF WORDS:
Most of these take place in my dorm building. It’s an old place, and there’s been at least one confirmed death where a poor girl fell asleep while smoking in bed and burned to death in her room. Though that death was fairly recent (1997), it is a common belief in the dorm that she’s still around.
The room that she died in is an RA’s suite on the...
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from danteo
Until I was just shy of eleven, I used to live with my mom, brother, and dad in a pretty good-sized one-story ranch home with a big backyard, that was a fair jog to get to any of our neighbors. My brother was born a little under three years after me, and it was around this time that my mom became very ill, and remained bedridden until a number of years after we moved. As a result, my dad worked...
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From pep.
You-you should listen to this.
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from missingsun
A few years ago, my great aunt in Thailand died, and my grandma was the only one who could make it there for the funeral. Her death had been coming for a while, and I guess my mom and grandma had promised her various things for her funeral & cremation. Like my mom promised she’d pay for the coffin.
After her death, leading up to the funeral, this smell of plain temple incense was...
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I sure would like your ghost stories. →
iamtoothandclaw:
heysawbones:
Even if you aren’t sure there were ghosts, or whatever. Spooky stories please, if you’ve got ‘em!
I love these!
I’ve dealt with night terrors of various sorts most of my life, but they were especially bad in my late teens. Sleep paralysis, “hagging” experiences, unbelievably horrible nightmares, waking hallucinations, and plain old “so scared I can’t move for...
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from ota
This is a sort-of ghost story.
Back in high school, a friend of mine who was super into Asian stuff burnt me two VHS tapes. One was Gackt’s vampire movie Moon, and the other was the original Japanese adaptation of The Ring. One lazy evening I hunkered down to watch them back-to-back. The former was gloriously ridiculous, the other pretty darn creepy. Not much in the way of jump-scares,...
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from stray
not a ghost story but
when I was a kid I thought the images the lights left on my eyes when i turned them off were some kind of ghost that followed me around at night. which didn’t bother me until one night the light bulb blew and left the image of an eye staring back at me from the darkness
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GHOSTS - from loweryi →
a long while ago i recorded me talking about a ghost story of mine! I’m better with creepy things now, in fact I tend to go seeking them out, but yeah! Ghosts.
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from froontherun
Growing up, I always always hated going into the basement. I never really knew or understood why. All I knew was that every time I went down there by myself, it never felt like I was alone. Anyhoo, a few years ago, my mom started putting out pictures of family members that I’d never met. There was one of an older man in a suit, standing in a living room that wasn’t in our house. I...
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I sure would like your ghost stories. →
Even if you aren’t sure there were ghosts, or whatever. Spooky stories please, if you’ve got ‘em!
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Serious Text Post: Revenge of Serious Text Post
Anonymous asked you:
What caused this? What’s a better way to talk about rape? What would that discussion be like?
I think this is a really good question. I don’t know that I’m qualified to give some kind of absolute answer. I don’t know that there even is an answer that would work for everybody, but I’m glad to share my thoughts (I’ve been bottling them up...
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A Text Post About the Previous Serious Text Post
I got some questions. Here are some answers.
A person not on tumblr asked:
Why did an anonymous question warrant that response? If they used a name I would understand, but someone who is too much of a coward to even use their name doesn’t deserve that kind of an answer. It seems wrong.
It’s less about them, than it is about me. My opinion on what suffering a trauma means (more...
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tenguparty asked: In my Russian Civ class we were talking about the church/palace/pool/church. My prof lived in Moscow in the 80s and when he left it was still a pool. He came back years later and when he stepped out of the metro the first thing he saw was the giant fucking church and it freaked him out so much that he just stood there gaping at it and people got angry at him for being in the way. The End
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Anonymous asked: This isn't the first time you've gotten mad about rape, but in a weird way? What's that about?
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don't mind me
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The next time I see someone wielding the supposedly insurmountable emotional taboo of rape as a weapon to cow out of a lost argument - because they lack both the skill to win, and the strength of personality to admit a loss - I am going to shit down their fucking throat. Just shit right the fuck down it.
in my mind.
That shit is so god damn embarrassing. It’s also...
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“Sometimes you get the sense that these magazines’ cultural writers have very...”
– Elspeth Reeve, “Every Every Every Generation Has Been The Me Me Me Generation,” The Atlantic (via andrewtsks)
As a millennial, I’m busy appreciating the fallout from Joel Stein’s article (whose unfairness I’d explain, but why bother when Elspeth Reeve just did). I’d also direct your attention to...
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lazysmirk:
spinaltaps:
lazysmirk replied to your post: I managed to work up the strength to tackle my…
omg is that Sef. Sef get off Anon.
Sef, stop, you’re on drugs. You’re better than this.
Remember any time you get a shitty ask from Anon, it’s just your asshole OC. Or this dog:
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The Great Gatsby
also MANSPLAIN: THE MOVIE
THIRD WHEEL: THE MOVIE
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The Great Gatsby
man dis movie boring dogg
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allie brosh, thank you for writing about your experience with crying on the kitchen floor for no reason and then finding that you cannot stop laughing at an isolated kernel of corn
it’s one of those experiences where in retrospect you are pretty sure you slipped into batshit country
but at least we are not batshit alone
