see: not me
(via mandeelew)
this comic always comes up on my dash at the perfect time
(Source: crimesagainsthughsmanatees)
new life goal: mosquito assassin.
I got that fucker good.
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this —But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it. - Vita Sackville West to Virginia Woolf
Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads — They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.--Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville West
(Source: urukhai, via captain-snen)
LE! LE! Fangirl-y-ness forever. (Also, hey, new vlog.)
Oh, this makes being sick feel a lot less horrible. Yes.
yaaaaay Julia~~~ I just finished watching it and my body got so overstimulated that I now have a mild fever XD
Unrelated to anything Arashi specific whatsoever, I’d just like to remind people who think that Japan is somehow in its own private bubble with no foreign/diverse influences and no contact with the outside world of a few things:
- Japan’s period of isolation (for most of the Tokugawa period)…
important things! I would like to add that I believe the most dangerous role in this massive misconception is that of many Japanese people themselves. I have encountered many a person here who is fully convinced that he is living in a monocultural, monoethnic society.
It doesn’t help that some of the societal values/customs seem to favor the universal assumption of sameness. If you’re wondering what specifically I have in mind, something I’ve noticed more that anything is a certain aspect of typical everyday social interaction, essentially casual conversation, that seems to support this value. I believe that the inclination or urge to steer conversations in one of two directions: a harmonious conclusion or complaints points toward somewhat of a shared societal assumption that everyone is the same, or is experiencing the same problems. This is especially noticeable with complaining. When someone makes a casual aside, or indeed constructs an entire conversation, about an incompetent boss, for example, it comforts everyone else in the room who is concerned with the same issue or has been wronged by this person in the past as well. A lot of times Japanese peoples’ conversations seem to include overarching disconcertedness with the general state of affairs. I think this could possibly be a device for placing these issues, which could very well be specific to a certain type experience only shared by the most visible group of ‘ethnically Japanese’ people, into the perspective of a universally shared problem.
I will add, as an aside (or perhaps a disclaimer?), that I am no anthropologist, and all of these claims are merely based on what is possibly my own cultural bias and certainly my own limited experience. It could be that these characteristics only serve to highlight a cultural value concerned with humanism, not Japanese people in particular. However, (though I don’t have specific statistical data) many Japanese people do seem to be laboring under the misapprehension that they live in a monoethnic society.
Well, as my anthropologist friend likes to say, if you’re human and experiencing the human condition, then you’re qualified to weigh in on these things!
(Source: Wikipedia)
Getting made fun of for how you pronounce “bag”
A doodle from New York! This couple was walking along holding hands when their path was blocked by an old man with an ice cream cone. Instead of letting go of each others’ hands, they London-Bridged over him and he squatted down to let them pass.
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