February 2012
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sinopia asked: re: The Chosen: From time to time my roommate used to look around our university and remark, "Gosh! What a lot of attractive people." Then she would remember that we all submitted photographs of ourselves together with our SAT scores and personal statements about dependency theory.
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Dear racist,
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Ooh! This book is sitting on my desk at work right now! The Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, aka the Kerner Commission, was published in 1968. The Commission had been founded after a series of terrible “race riots” in 1967.
The Johnson-mandated Commission was made up of:
the governor of Illinois
the mayor of New York
a black Republican...
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topmetesla:
the tuesday noon siren is the only reason I know what day of the week it is
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“The admissions committee viewed evidence of “manliness” with particular...”
– The Chosen, by Jerome Karabel (quoted in Getting In, by Malcolm Gladwell)
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Applicants were asked to supply a greater pool of personal information than ever before: letters of personal reference, photographs, and personal essays listing extracurricular activities as well as answers to questions about “race and color,” “religious preference,” “maiden name of mother,” “birthplace of father” and any name changes that...
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Biometric Identifiers
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Summary: You were created for Jake English. Using the data dedicated to him in your memory, you could distinguish him from his exact clone. Which is handy, because that’s what you’re trying to do. Warnings: Major character death.
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I fucking love Homestuck fandom.
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Kassie: ...still can't get over morgoth as a name
Kassie: and his brother, lessgoth, who was cheerier
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emberkeelty:
It occurs to me that “Homestuck” isn’t just a kind of inapt title, as many have noted, but actually it’s downright ironic given the liberal application of The Call Knows Where You Live.
Homestuck is a story full of people who are far, far from home and can never go back.
Sentences I really like!
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saucy winks for ladies: nextian replied to your... →
roxanneritchi:
nextian replied to your post: i know tumblr thinks kanye west’s love for himself…
topical true story: i lost my phone last night, and today, in the well of my total self-loathing, i found Kanye doing a (terrible) cover of “I’ll Fly Away” and it honestly made me feel better. Fuck this…
Agh, jeez, thank you so much. You actually probably DO know how great it was to hear...
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urbananchorite asked: "Cruellest Bar" total fanon and from my feverish brain, I'm afraid, I first used it in "If Food Be" and it escaped from there. I sort of wish I'd thought up something else; it's a bit pedestrian!
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odditycollector replied to your post: You know how it is really funny to assume trolls have an instinct for hanging out in piles What if they have an instinct for the treasure chest thing also Like Karkat will think he is holding himself together very well by not carrying all the DVDs to the corner and sitting on them or the less gross clothes on Johns floor and Johns pillows and humourous...
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odditycollector asked: OTOH when Rose learns of this Alternian proclivity she leaves excessively intricate and personalized gifts hidden in treasure chests made of like actual treasure If anyone other than Kanaya gets to them or if Kanaya does not keep them Rose gets especially smug by which I of course mean offended One time Karkat found a scarf knit with the pattern of a villanelle on the subject of how good Kanaya is...
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odditycollector asked: You know how it is really funny to assume trolls have an instinct for hanging out in piles What if they have an instinct for the treasure chest thing also Like Karkat will think he is holding himself together very well by not carrying all the DVDs to the corner and sitting on them or the less gross clothes on Johns floor and Johns pillows and humourous bedding and then finding where John is...
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This is Hafiz translated by Elizabeth T. Gray, whose translations I haven’t found faulted for anything but a lack of lyricism! There are apparently a ton of Hafiz translations that I obvs can’t judge, I’m just using this one because it was one people kept referring to as pedestrian and literal (which I think is a p good antidote to Ladinsky.)
GHAZAL [Hijab-i chehr-i jan...
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A Great Need
crashinglybeautiful:
Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.
—Hafiz (c. 1320 to 1389), translated by Daniel Ladinsky
This ain’t Hafiz. My Persian is nonexistent, but this is not a controversial claim: see here (apparently quoting this review) or here, or the Amazon review page....
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“When a residential burglar fired a gun at Jay Leone last month, he was initially...”
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‘Now it’s my turn’: Greenbrae man, 90, testifies about shootout with suspect
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magpieandwhale replied to your post: magpieandwhale replied to your post: Does anyone…
I just want the epic story of WHY HE’S NOT MOTHERFUCKING TALKING LIKE HIMSELF. And why none of his cans have coffee in them. Bwahaha times many, will keep you posted!
See, I think there’s a correlation between those two facts you just pointed out. Mute and decaf and doesn’t even have the...