Worlds Inside her Mind

greenaguacate said: natalia approves. I like that each type of post gets a background. I liked...

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

greenaguacate said: natalia approves. I like that each type of post gets a background.

I liked that about it too! I was worried that it made it a bit too busy, but I also think it’s kind of fun that way. I’ll probably keep it around for a bit!

abandonedography: 9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:47:34 -0400

abandonedography:

9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World

New theme? This is the first time I’ve changed it in over a year I think! I don’t know...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:38:09 -0400

New theme?

This is the first time I’ve changed it in over a year I think! I don’t know if I like it. Thoughts? Feelings?

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Thu, 23 May 2013 18:43:19 -0400

"I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them."

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:22:27 -0400

“I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.”

- Uma Thurman (via dulcetdecember)

"Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:27:35 -0400

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Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is yellow, or what a dream is, or how deep you can dig a hole, or when is the world’s birthday, or why we have toes. Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before a five-year-old, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that you don’t know? Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys many adults. A few more experiences like this, and another child has been lost to science.

There are many better responses. If we have an idea of the answer, we could try to explain. If we don’t, we could go to the encyclopedia or the library. Or we might say to the child: “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.”

”

- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as the Candle in The Dark (via imagineatoms)

shannananan: mercimonamie: i fell in love with him like ketchup falls out of a bottle: slowly, and...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:33:03 -0400

shannananan:

mercimonamie:

i fell in love with him like ketchup falls out of a bottle: slowly, and then all at once.

oh my god you managed to one up john green.

lokidindeed: i-deduce-youre-a-bitch: YOU NIQQAS WANNA LEARN...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:38:34 -0400

lokidindeed:

i-deduce-youre-a-bitch:

YOU NIQQAS WANNA LEARN ELVISH?! HERE YA GO!

this makes me think about the post about the two girls who didn’t want to get caught sendes notes in class so they learned elvish

onlywanderlust: dududueedu: Waitomo Glowworm Caves are a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:44:09 -0400

onlywanderlust:

dududueedu:

Waitomo Glowworm Caves are a famous tourist attraction because of the large population of fireflies that live in caves. Fireflies, or Arachnocampa luminosa - tiny bioluminescent creatures that produce blue and green light live exclusively in New Zealand.

Source

Bucket list!

This past weekend I made K go out and buy me a bag of pretzels because I didn’t have any and I...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:49:28 -0400

This past weekend I made K go out and buy me a bag of pretzels because I didn’t have any and I wanted some for my lunch. Today I was digging something out of my closet and I found a bag of pretzels in the back. I have no idea why they were there or when I put them there.

Apparently I hoard pretzels.

expositionfairy: gizmo-turing: hamishmash: The first two...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:49:28 -0400

expositionfairy:

gizmo-turing:

hamishmash:

The first two pages from my upcoming comic Horus Story, the very true story of Horus’ birth according to Egyptian legend.

AAAAAHHH LITTLE SET AHAHHAH

Laughing entirely too hard oh my god

“I really want that box”

bowieloreena: David Bowie (photo by Robin Bean)

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:54:56 -0400

bowieloreena:

David Bowie (photo by Robin Bean)

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys'

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:09:27 -0400

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys':

For months, every morning when my daughter was in preschool, I watched her construct an elaborate castle out of blocks, colorful plastic discs, bits of rope, ribbons and feathers, only to have the same little boy gleefully destroy it within seconds of its completion.

No matter how many times he did it, his parents never swooped in BEFORE the morning’s live 3-D reenactment of “Invasion of AstroMonster.” This is what they’d say repeatedly:

“You know! Boys will be boys!”

“He’s just going through a phase!”

“He’s such a boy! He LOVES destroying things!”

“Oh my god! Girls and boys are SO different!”

“He. Just. Can’t. Help himself!”

I tried to teach my daughter how to stop this from happening. She asked him politely not to do it. We talked about some things she might do. She moved where she built. She stood in his way. She built a stronger foundation to the castle, so that, if he did get to it, she wouldn’t have to rebuild the whole thing. In the meantime, I imagine his parents thinking, “What red-blooded boy wouldn’t knock it down?”

She built a beautiful, glittery castle in a public space.

It was so tempting.

He just couldn’t control himself and, being a boy, had violent inclinations.

She had to keep her building safe.

Her consent didn’t matter. Besides, it’s not like she made a big fuss when he knocked it down. It wasn’t a “legitimate” knocking over if she didn’t throw a tantrum.

His desire — for power, destruction, control, whatever- - was understandable.

Maybe she “shouldn’t have gone to preschool” at all. OR, better if she just kept her building activities to home.

I know it’s a lurid metaphor, but I taught my daughter the preschool block precursor of don’t “get raped” and this child, Boy #1, did not learn the preschool equivalent of “don’t rape.”

Not once did his parents talk to him about invading another person’s space and claiming for his own purposes something that was not his to claim. Respect for her and her work and words was not something he was learning. How much of the boy’s behavior in coming years would be excused in these ways, be calibrated to meet these expectations and enforce the “rules” his parents kept repeating?

There was another boy who, similarly, decided to knock down her castle one day. When he did it his mother took him in hand, explained to him that it was not his to destroy, asked him how he thought my daughter felt after working so hard on her building and walked over with him so he could apologize. That probably wasn’t much fun for him, but he did not do it again.

There was a third child. He was really smart. He asked if he could knock her building down. She, beneficent ruler of all pre-circle-time castle construction, said yes… but only after she was done building it and said it was OK. They worked out a plan together and eventually he started building things with her and they would both knock the thing down with unadulterated joy. You can’t make this stuff up.

Take each of these three boys and consider what he might do when he’s older, say, at college, drunk at a party, mad at an ex-girlfriend who rebuffs him and uses words that she expects will be meaningful and respecte, “No, I don’t want to. Stop. Leave.”

The “overarching attitudinal characteristic” of abusive men is entitlement.

hannibalthecanibal: and here we have harry potter literally standing on a pile of letters to try...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:21 -0400

hannibalthecanibal:

and here we have harry potter literally standing on a pile of letters to try and catch one that is still in the air. there are clearly reasons why he doesn’t get sorted into ravenclaw

theparisreview: André Kertész: On Reading

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:47:08 -0400

theparisreview:

André Kertész: On Reading

Archaeological News: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zahi Hawass

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:54:25 -0400

Archaeological News: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zahi Hawass:

archaeologicalnews:

The long-reigning king of Egyptian antiquities has been forced into exile—but he’s plotting a return

Zahi Hawass doesn’t like what he’s seeing. Clad in his familiar denim safari suit and wide-brimmed bush hat, the famed archaeologist is standing inside the burial vault of the Step Pyramid of…

"Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat."

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:12:48 -0400

“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat.”

-
When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.

It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

I mean, it’s just true.

(via tealeafprincess)

“Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

That’s it. That’s it right there.

(via oddpicturesoddpeople)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 12:38:44 -0400

If I’m waiting for the train with my headphones in, playing with my phone, I probably don’t want you...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:57:24 -0400

If I’m waiting for the train with my headphones in, playing with my phone, I probably don’t want you to talk to me. Just a tip.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 11:44:21 -0400