do people still use this site? i still have it as one of the few bookmarks on my laptop and will impulsively click on it out of habit, but always leave after a few seconds. today was the first time i looked through my archive in years and felt that strange mix of nostalgia and embarrassment that usually comes when thinking about your teenage years (lots and lots of embarrassment. why did that morrissey phase have to last so long??)
i started this blog about eight years ago as a platform to talk about all the music i was listening to, and then later to share all of my little drawings. it was fun! it helped me gain a stronger sense of self at a time where i didn’t feel like i had a lot of common ground with the people around me. i found a lot of comfort in the ability to talk about whatever band/show i was interested in at the time and also overshare about mental health problems and (for better or worse) know that i am being seen and heard by thousands of people.
there’s not really a point to this post! it’s just a really strange feeling being able to take a step back and see this distilled timeline starting in grade ten, slowly developing more self confidence over the next three years, moving to montreal for school and semi-crashing-and-burning, then picking myself back up and moving to halifax for NSCAD. i’m finally entering my last year of undergrad in the fall and i’m very proud of all the progress i’ve made! i probably won’t make anything as popular as the in-retrospect-kinda-cringey feminist cat calling drawing i did when i was 16 but i’m really happy with the style i’ve developed through photography and the work i’ve made so far.
this will probably be my last post on here, i’m much more active on instagram nowadays. thanks to the 20,000 (??) people that have followed me on here over the past eight years!! sorry this whole post sounds super self-congratulatory!! i’m just feeling nostalgic.
i’ve been at school for over 20 hours this weekend!! not even kate bush can save me now!!
(Source: v-m-r-i, via queernigga)
maybe once every 3 weeks i think about how Chelsea manning snuck incriminating files past military security by putting them on a blank cd with ‘lady gaga’ written on it
what
“On January 5, 2010, Manning downloaded the 400,000 documents that became known as the Iraq War logs. On January 8, she downloaded 91,000 documents from the Afghanistan database, known later as part of the Afghan War logs. She saved the material on CD-RW and smuggled it through security by labeling the CD-RW media “Lady Gaga”. She then copied it onto her personal computer.“ from her wiki lmaoo she’s an icon
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self portraits, jan-feb
In canceling Milo’s book contract, Simon & Schuster made a business decision the same way they made a business decision when they decided to publish that man in the first place. When his comments about pedophilia/pederasty came to light, Simon & Schuster realized it would cost them more money to do business with Milo than he could earn for them. They did not finally “do the right thing” and now we know where their threshold, pun intended, lies. They were fine with his racist and xenophobic and sexist ideologies. They were fine with his transphobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. They were fine with how he encourages his followers to harass women and people of color and transgender people online. Let me assure you, as someone who endured a bit of that harassment, it is breathtaking in its scope, intensity, and cruelty but hey, we must protect the freedom of speech. Certainly, Simon & Schuster was not alone in what they were willing to tolerate. A great many people were perfectly comfortable with the targets of Milo’s hateful attention until that attention hit too close to home.Because I’ve been asked, I will not be publishing my book with Simon & Schuster now that they have dropped Milo. After I pulled my book, they changed the release date of Dangerous from March to June 13, the day my next book, Hunger, comes out. I said nothing because I was neither threatened nor concerned but it did reinforce for me that this was not a company I wanted to do business with. My protest stands. Simon & Schuster should have never enabled Milo in the first place. I see what they are willing to tolerate and I stand against all of it. Also, I’ve received far better offers for How to Be Heard from other publishers.
There are some who will spin the cancellation of this book contract as a failure of the freedom of speech but such is not the case. This is yet another example of how we are afforded the freedom of speech but there is no freedom from the consequences of what we say.
Good Morning, I Am Not Going to Commit Suicide Today, by Kimmy Walters
I would buy the shit out of this if it was short poems composed into a book.
good news! it is
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