May 2013
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sansasnark:
She wished the Rush would rise and wash the whole city away, Flea Bottom and the Red Keep and the Great Sept and everything, and everyone too, especially Prince Joffrey and his mother. But she knew it wouldn’t, and anyhow Sansa was still in the city and would wash away too. When she remembered that, Arya decided to wish for Winterfell instead.
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kistybelle:
We are the generation of nostalgia. We grew up in the age of transition. From hand-written letters to electronic mails. From film to digital. We were fascinated by new things, neglecting the way we spend our afternoons. Cupcakes and tea. Play-Doh and Polly Pockets. Young and naive. Technology completely changed the way we waited and we grew up too fast. The simple things in life...
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nobodysuspectsthebutterfly:
bai-xue88:
so i got an email with this advert in it today:
so i used the discount to buy this shot glass:
bitches i know who i’m cheering for.
Brilliant. We should make it a movement.
Oh HBO, are you going to have a sale for Edmure’s wedding too? Huh, huh?
I recommend all House Stark items, 25% off.
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“What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re...”
– David Foster Wallace (via paradoxicalsentiments)
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To My Future Husband:
tomyfuturespouse:
Can we act like complete kids at Disneyland together?
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“A white actor can masquerade as an ethnic character without fear of becoming one...”
– Yiman Wang, “The Art of Screen Passing: Anna May Wong’s Yellow Yellowface Performance in the Art Deco Era”
This is a great article for anyone interested in a critical analysis of the historical roots of yellowface, as well as how Anna May Wong (though not by her own agency) contributed to how Asian...
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Denial of World War II sexual servitude goes...
koreastandardtime:
Back in 1993, Japan’s then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono shared the results of a Japanese government study of the country’s use of brothels (i.e., “comfort stations”) where women (most of them Korean) were forced to have sex with soldiers in the Japanese Imperial Army. “The Government of Japan would like to take this opportunity once again to extend its sincere apologies...
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“In the circumstances in which bullets are flying like rain and wind, the...”
– Toru Hashimoto, Mayor of Osaka, Japan • Claiming the necessity of Japan’s World War II-era so-called “comfort women,” a collection of 200,000 or so females (many Chinese, South Korean and Indonesian), forced into sex slavery for soldiers. Hashimoto’s statement of apparent sympathy with forced...
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“I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain...”
– Esperanza Spalding (via albinwonderland)
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“I just thought it was so romantic—the idea that you don’t need to be loved in...”
– Ryan Gosling (via imfantasyparade)
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“I have little left in myself—I must have you…my very soul demands you…”
– Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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