Go, Violet! Go!

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"we have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:29:57 -0400

“we have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.”

- audre lorde (via fatallyfemme)

"My girlishness has sharp teeth."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:29:35 -0400

“My girlishness has sharp teeth.”

- Kristen Orser (via sugarsickness)

mochacafe: (via ohsopictures) Oh, hi there.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:22:16 -0400

mochacafe:

(via ohsopictures)

Oh, hi there.

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lipstickbeforecoffee: DIY studded nails from Runway DIY. I’ve...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:10:39 -0400

lipstickbeforecoffee:

DIY studded nails from Runway DIY. I’ve just found this amazing blog with so many stylish and unique DIY projects and I might just have to try this tutorial soon- I can’t decide which I want to try first! You can find a slideshow tutorial here. Make sure to check out the rest of her site and follow her Tumblr as well!

fuckyeahabandonedplaces: DID YOU GET MY LETTER by .:Axle:. on...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:10:15 -0400

fuckyeahabandonedplaces:

DID YOU GET MY LETTER by .:Axle:. on Flickr.

"They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour...."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:31:24 -0400

““They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, is enough.””

- Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

"Stella turned towards me and crumpled my heart in her hand. ‘Do you fall in love often?’"

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:22:00 -0400

“

Stella turned towards me and crumpled my heart in her hand.

‘Do you fall in love often?’

”

- Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries (via fuckyeahjeanettewinterson)

nudiemuse: lustnspace: Shaun Ross

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:58:36 -0400

nudiemuse:

lustnspace:

Shaun Ross

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"Let’s stop claiming that certain genders and sexualities “reinforce the gender binary.” In the past,..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:47:05 -0400

“Let’s stop claiming that certain genders and sexualities “reinforce the gender binary.” In the past, that tactic has been used to dismiss butches and femmes, bisexuals, trans folks and our partners, and feminine people of every persuasion. Gender isn’t some faucet that we can turn on and off in order to appease other people, whether they be heterosexist bigots or queerer-than-thou hipsters. How about this: Let’s stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.”

- Julia Serano, “Performance Piece,” from Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation Ed. Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman
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"Beneath my hands your small breasts are the upturned bellies of breathing fallen sparrows."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:27:20 -0400

“Beneath my hands
your small breasts
are the upturned bellies
of breathing fallen sparrows.”

- Leonard Cohen (via queerliness)

allthingswiseandwonderful: autostraddle: Feeling Dandy About...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:39:04 -0400

allthingswiseandwonderful:

autostraddle:

Feeling Dandy About Being Dapper

These essays were inspired by Kate/Kade’s Butch Please article, Butch Gets Dressed.

by Anita Dolce…

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Mmmmmm yum!

pixiepuppy: somuchscience: Happy Father’s Day to You,...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:34:14 -0400

pixiepuppy:

somuchscience:

Happy Father’s Day to You, Seahorses!

by Tami Weiss, FusedJaw.com

Seahorses are often referred to as the best dads in the animal kingdom – and for good reason – they’re the only animal where the male gets pregnant! That’s right, it’s the men that take on the joys of childbirth in these equine fishes.

How does he do it? He has a special patch of skin called a “brood pouch” that the female lays the eggs into. He then keeps the eggs safe until they hatch using a strong muscle to keep the pouch closed. When they hatch, he releases the fry (baby seahorses) to fend for themselves. The fry are exact replicas of the parents, except only a few millimeters long.

Some fun seahorse facts:

As few as 8 or as many as 2000 seahorses can be born at one time, depending on the species.

The male seadragon and the male pipefish, seahorse relatives, also incubates the eggs. However, another relative, the Ghost Pipefish, the female that incubates the eggs.

Seahorses lack a tail fin for swimming. Instead, their tail has evolved to grasp objects to keep them anchored in place. To swim, they use their small dorsal fin on their backs, and steer with their pectoral fins which are located on their head behind their gills. For that reason, they are not very good swimmers.

Adult seahorses do not have very many predators. They have bony plates covering their whole body which makes them unpalatable to most fish. The few animals that don’t seem to mind this are crabs, skates and rays, angler fish, tuna, penguins and other sea birds.

The first recognized pygmy seahorse Hippocampus bargibanti, a species smaller than your thumbnail, was discovered on accident when a biologist studying the sea fans in the lab noticed this tiny fish that had hitched a ride on the sea fan he was studying.

The smallest seahorse known is only 13mm long. Satomi’s pygmy seahorse was only discovered in the past year, and is less than the size of a penny. Its babies (or fry) are about the size of an apostrophy in a newspaper when born.

Read on…

ee sea critters
eeee sea critters defying gender norms
i love critters!

barricadeponine: my parents definitely did not raise me to be a queer feminist filled with the...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:52:03 -0400

barricadeponine:

my parents definitely did not raise me to be a queer feminist filled with the wrath of a thousand enraged dragons and yet here i am

spookynigga: hay im cute

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:44:53 -0400

spookynigga:

hay im cute