Austen Hands

I want you to imagine a ten year old version of yourself sitting right there on this couch. Now this is the little girl who first believed that she was fat, and ugly, and an embarrassment.

If the Gilbert, Arizona, school board does decide to go ahead with a stealth plan to start ripping the pages out of science textbooks… I think we’ve got it covered. High school kids of Arizona, if they do steal the stuff out of your books, ArizonaHonorsBiology.com is where you can get it again. Arizona may be conservative, but Arizona, you are still part of the United States, and you can’t pretend some parts of biology don’t exist because they make you feel oogy. You can try, but you cannot get away with it.

Rachel Maddow expertly trolls Tea Partiers who want to censor Arizona sex ed  (via micdotcom) jacobyverger

“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years. […] And there were houses,  that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.” ― Nora Roberts, Key of Knowledge

Houses in horror movies

The Conjuring (2013) dir James Wan

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) dir Wes Craven

Poltergeist (1982) dir Tobe Hooper

The Amityville Horror (1979) dir Stuart Rosenberg

The Addams Family (1991) dir Barry Sonnenfeld

Psycho (1960) dir Alfred Hitchcock

Beetlejuice (1988) dir Tim Burton

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) dir Jim Sharman

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) dir Francis Ford Coppola

Halloween (1978) dir John Carpenter

Crimson Peak (2015) dir Guillermo del Toro

-Circe Invidiosa-

Mort

MORIOR

[verb]

1. to die, wither away, decay. 

2. I die.

3. I wither; I decay.

Etymology: Latin, from Proto-Indo-European *mer- “to die”.

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People have offered many potential explanations for this discrepancy, but this ad highlights the importance of the social cues that push girls away from math and science in their earliest childhood years.

Watch the powerful Verizon advertisement to really understand what a little girl hears when you tell her she’s pretty.

Reading pride and prejudice for like the 10th time and what still makes me insane is when Elizabeth and Darcy are together in Kent, Darcy falls more in love with her every day while Lizzy despises him more every day. It's all like

Mr Darcy, internally: wow she truly doesn't give a fuck about my aunt, she will not let herself be intimidated, she stays true to her authentic self plus she plays piano and her eyes are pretty what a woman

meanwhile Lizzy is like: I'VE BEEN HAVING THE WORST TIME IN MY LIFE FOR THE LAST 3 WEEKS AND NOW I ALSO HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS ASSHOLE