wow hi ok can we all agree to continue to tag for depression even when we’re “just” discussing the latest hyperboleandahalf post

that would be great

if you’re ever bored just read the wikipedia summaries of Glee episodes, it puts a lot in perspective

whoria:

ayybojangles:

loftedpanda:

This made me want to cry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulOiB3xEkzM

omg

"You can’t spell “CRAZY” without “R-AZ"

"JUNOT DÍAZ: Well, I mean, God, listen, when I think about the new America, when I think about that diversity that we were talking about, young people, gay Americans. When we were talking about Latinos, Asian Americans. We’re talking about immigrants. We’re talking about youth. We’re talking about city folks. It’s kind of a broad coalition. But when I think about the way we present ourselves, when I think about the narratives, hell, if I just got the bestseller list from “The New York Times” for the last six months, if I just put the bestseller list just in a roll to you, I was— listen, for four months, there was only one person of color on that list. And I would argue if we looked at it for a year there’d probably only be two people of color and the rest of folks were white. Now that is not America. That’s not America. That’s a distortion. And I would also say that when you look at Hollywood films. And you look at Hollywood films and 99 percent of the protagonists, the main characters are white and usually white males, that’s a distortion, as well. That’s a distortion as well.

BILL MOYERS: What is the source of that continuing distortion?

JUNOT DÍAZ: I think it’s an addiction and a commitment to this old story. I mean, I think that folks are not wanting to shift gears. You know, we often think of Hollywood as real progressive, a bunch of lunatics out there. But Hollywood, as far as its racial politics is probably much more in line with this kind of Romney sort of conservative element, conservatives planks of the Republican Party than anything else. I think, listen, it’s hard. It’s much harder than we ever gave it credit for to really embrace a country like this one, a country that is so dynamic and so diverse at all different levels. And certainly, I think our cultural industries have lagged even behind banking. Look, you go to a bank, investment bank and say, “Listen, you need diversity?” Investment bank is going to say, “Yeah, we do.” Go to Hollywood and say, “We need diversity.” They’re like, “Listen, we can only sell white.” Sort of strange, man. But I think it’ll change eventually."

Through the years we’ve embraced a lot of excellent adaptations of Shakespeare’s work (Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V) while enduring some clunkers along the way (Helen Mirren and Russell Brand in The Tempest anyone) and it looks as if the constant stream of Bard-inspired movies isn’t going to end any time soon.

welp

tw rape culture, harassment, sexism, creepiness

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dubmeister:

Fifteen Issues this Election is NOT About

anticapitalist:

1. Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes.
2. Neither candidate is interested in eliminating or reducing the 5,113 US nuclear warheads.
3. Neither candidate is campaigning to close Guantanamo prison.
4. Neither candidate has called for arresting and prosecuting high ranking people on Wall Street for the subprime mortgage catastrophe.
5. Neither candidate is interested in holding anyone in the Bush administration accountable for the torture committed by US personnel against prisoners in Guantanamo or in Iraq or Afghanistan.
6. Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of drones to assassinate people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia.
7. Neither candidate is against warrantless surveillance, indefinite detention, or racial profiling in fighting “terrorism.”
8. Neither candidate is interested in fighting for a living wage. In fact neither are really committed beyond lip service to raising the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour – which, if it kept pace with inflation since the 1960s should be about $10 an hour.
9. Neither candidate was interested in arresting Osama bin Laden and having him tried in court.
10. Neither candidate will declare they refuse to bomb Iran.
11. Neither candidate is refusing to take huge campaign contributions from people and organizations.
12. Neither candidate proposes any significant specific steps to reverse global warming.
13. Neither candidate is talking about the over 2 million people in jails and prisons in the US.
14. Neither candidate proposes to create public jobs so everyone who wants to work can.
15. Neither candidate opposes the nuclear power industry. In fact both support expansion.

welp

tw rape culture, sexual harassment, dubious consent, alcohol

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"Why don’t we start by talking about the waiters who are walking in front of this camera, who are working their third job, who get their sons or daughters through community college — I wonder what they think about this message?"

"There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer’s block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling your talent run down your leg and into your sock."

tw depression

well

p sure I triggered the shit out of myself by reading The Bell Jar

I did not think that decision through

katiefuckingfitch-:

“Ōkunoshima (大久野島) (…) is often called Usagi Shima, or Rabbit Island, because of the numerous wild rabbits that roam the island; they are rather tame and will approach humans.”

(Source)

where I plan to retire.

emotipugs:

That feeling you get when your apartment gets too messy to clean and you feel kind of anxious about it but you’re not sure what to do.

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