pettankoprincess:

videohall:

The girlfriend experience

> Any man who has ever had a girlfriend can attest to this.

> This is just too good. Animation, adorableness, substance. I really hope there are more of these.

It’s too adorable not to reblog again.

(via chypii)

"Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?"

Eugene O’Neill (via farewell-kingdom)

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katzmatt:

diannadianna:

The Princess Mononoke stage adaptation has opened in London to sell-out performances and rave reviews. The play’s puppets and costumes are made out of recycled material, reflecting Miyazaki’s environmental message. 

OH MY GOD

BRILLIANT

I NEED IT 

(Source: hauntedclitoris, via corpuswarblade)

melleigh:

This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like. Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York. This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary. Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.

god damn

(Source: bencrowther, via hitrecordjoe)

alltheprofoundwhatever:

nnoo

(Source: theted2o)

"When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing."

Michel de Montaigne. (via a-phorist)

(Source: goodreads.com, via a-phorist)

"Fire and water do not mix. Neither can you mix judgement of others with the desire to repent."

Saint John Climacus (via theorthodoxbrit)

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actegratuit:

Olaf Brzeski

(via alltheprofoundwhatever)

"

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

"

Phillip Larkin, This Be The Verse

roboskellywhovian:

madeandusedandwasted:

apologetic notes for the socially inept

Sometimes I want to apologize for not being able to talk to people like a normal human being. So I made these.

I wish I could send one of these to everyone I know, to apologise for babbling incessantly about absolutely nothing, just because I’m lonely…

(via alltheprofoundwhatever)

Gone Chopin, Be Right Bach: lesbiaaans: if you’re feeling insecure regarding your ability to... →

lesbiaaans:

if you’re feeling insecure regarding your ability to create stories, remember this: the overwhelming majority of everything is mediocre at best.

this might not seem like the most inspiring message; shouldn’t you be looking up to great, accomplished artists rather than sneering…

"

GUIDERIUS. Feare no more the heate o’ th’ Sun,
Nor the furious Winters rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast don,
Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages.
Golden Lads and Girles all must
As Chimney-Sweepers, come to dust.

ARVIRAGUS. Feare no more the frowne o’ th’ Great,
Thou art past the Tirants stroke,
Care no more to cloath and eate,
To thee the Reede is as the Oake:
The Scepter, Learning, Physic, must,
All follow this and come to dust.

GUIDERIUS. Feare no more the Lightning flash.
ARVIRAGUS. Nor th’ all-dreaded Thunderstone.
GUIDERIUS. Feare not Slander, Censure rash.
ARVIRAGUS. Thou hast finish’d joy and moan.
BOTH. All Lovers young all Lovers must
Consigne to thee and come to dust.

GUIDERIUS. No Exorcisor harme thee,
ARVIRAGUS. Nor no witch-craft charme thee;
GUIDERIUS. Ghost unlaid forbeare thee;
ARVIRAGUS. Nothing ill come neere thee.
BOTH. Quiet consummation have,
And renowned be thy grave.

"

Cymbeline, William Shakespeare

"Alan Richardson examines what historians of philosophy could learn from Kuhn’s study of science. Richardson believes that we would have a far richer understanding of the views of earlier philosophers, even the canonical philosophers, those who we assume are so familiar to us, if we paid more attention to studying the context in which they wrote. Leibniz’s philosophy cannot be separated or understood separately from his science. If we studied philosophers in context, we would begin to see that their issues are not our issues, and that we distort our understanding of their views when we fail to recognize this."

K Brad Way (Again, personal reference)

"Chang is principally concerned to determine whether the competing theories, the phlogiston theory and the oxygen theory, were incommensurable. Chang draws the important and widely accepted distinction between semantic incommensurability and methodological incommensurability. Chang argues persuasively that the importance of semantic incommensurability has been greatly exaggerated. Key theoretical terms often do not retain the same meaning in successive theories in a field. Ptolemy’s planets are not Copernicus’, and Newton’s mass is not Einstein’s. But this is not a major impediment to theory change and theory evaluation. The real problems arise because of methodological incommensurability. Different theories address different problems, and consequently advocates of competing theories often do not agree about the epistemic merits of the competing theories. Rightly, Chang notices that Kuhn’s attention turned more and more to semantic incommensurability, and this was a mistake. Chang ends his paper urging us to return to Structure; specifically, we should focus our attention on methodological incommensurability. Clearly, this is one of the most important aspects of Structure that continues to deserve our attention."

K. Brad Way (Posted here for personal reference)