December 2011
68 posts
Watchlangst:
omfg
“There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.”
– Marya Hornbacher (via tantum)
Billy Connolly, A story about a dwarf... →
“Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts...”
– Unknown (via tantum)
The Hobbit Trailer. →
Some days the universe works so hard against my pessimism that, it wins.
“When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When,...”
– Tom Robbins (via tantum)
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them...”
– Hermann Hesse (via arreter)
Critical Consideration
amoralfictionalism:
Maybe if there was more room for me, then there could still be a we. I fucking hate: When I turn up the radio to hear my favorite song, and you talk about it; the song. Maybe you should listen, to it. For real… because you can critique the composition, the rhythm, the tone… But you can’t fucking hear the message, because you’re too god damn busy — talking.
Intimacy
amoralfictionalism:
I often get The Joy of Sex confused with The Anarchist’s Cookbook. I have some intimacy issues.
The most important things are the hardest things...
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your...
“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can’t lull you with surging music or...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin (via atomos)
Muppets: Christmas is coming... →
The Poet Dreamer: Scars →
amoralfictionalism:
People think that love is a fluffy bunny, or some kind of domesticated animal, like a lap dog. I know love to be, a wild animal — with its foot caught in a steel trap. Its salivating, snarling, and clawing at the humiliation; raw fur and fury, fighting with the snare;…
365 days left until The Hobbit!
Reblog if you've never sent anon hate, and never...
“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. (via langer)
“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else,...”
– Shauna Niequist (via arreter)
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.” John Lennon
Sometimes devastation is just the beginning of things. Beauty is a counterpoint to volcanic grief. Simpler put, explosions are necessary.
