reject the melancholy cabbage

demagogol:

For the first few weeks Annie still clings to delusions of hygiene, and sometimes is so conscious of her skin—the rind of sweat, the sticking density of her hair—that she thinks wistfully of a fire. Hot water, that’s all she wants; hot water and a place to stand that isn’t crawling with semianimate dust. But there are no fires in the forest except the ones that spring up after lightning, and her host family, technologically adept in many ways, pull faces when she brings it up: they assure her that she smells lovely, like rotting oak, and won’t she have another gilled mushroom? Hahaha! Once her stomach gets used to raw fungi and little berries like jewels, the food is only terrible, but she remains wary about things directly offered. The Anwyn’s sense of fun favors laxatives over jokes.

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SHRIEKS AND DIES

confusedtree:

Basically my point is that hip hop has a deep rooted history and culture, and, not even touching on the insidious racism of expecting the genre to prove itself to you by stepping above that, the environment it creates for the artists and people who just want to enjoy what they’re making is fucking toxic

A lot of artists are aware of the line they’re walking and as a result, don’t try to shape any sort of false dichotomy because as soon as you start talking about “us and them” while simultaneously capitalizing on the them part, you kind of forfeit the right to be such a prick about it

That’s my issue with artists like Childish Gambino and Lupe Fiasco painting themselves as shunned underdogs who are the only ones who really “get it” - because no matter how good the art they’re making is or is not, it immediately makes quite a few of the people listening to them pat themselves on the back for liking it and then join in with the finger pointing

They call me the political rapper
Even after I tell ‘em I don’t fuck with politics
I don’t even follow it
I’m on some KRS, Ice Cube, Chris Wallace shit
Main Source, De La Soul, bumpin’ “2Pacalypse Now”

Yo, I speak at schools a lot cause they say I’m intelligent
No, it’s cause I’m dope, if I was wack I’d be irrelevant

alias-sqbr:

A humanised Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony riding Fat Pony from the Kate Beaton comics across the sky.

Purrdence gave me the prompt “ponies” and I wasn’t sure which sort she meant so decided to combine a few types :)

I’m not actually in My Little Pony fandom. Has anyone ever explored the fact that her hair is the same red-orange-yellow spectrum as Homestuck troll horns?

Or “very sad if a bit heavyhanded and unlikely!” I loved 80% of it, it’s just the remaining 20% reminded me distinctly of a Hallmark movie. /$.02

Yes! I’ve hesitated to call it a polarizing book because it’s not so much that people either love or hate it, it’s that the assessment of the utility and harmonious combination of the varying ingredients is so widely varied among the various people I’ve read reviews of as to make it impossible for me to know whether or not someone’s going to like it.