>at feminism conference
>first male speaker in event's 50 year history
>great and terrible honor
>nervous
>get on stage
>40,000 people staring at me in silence
>all girls
>nervous
>introduce myself
>silence
>shakily bring up first slide of PowerPoint
>"things that I think women like, based on listening to women for 30 years"
>silence
>could hear a pin drop
>somewhere in the crowd a gun is cocked
>deep breath
>next slide
>"Whip-Its"
>deafening silence
>oh god
>I'm done for
>it's so over
>suddenly
>a slow clap
>slow clap builds to a few dozen claps
>few dozen builds to hundreds
>thunderous applause from all 40,000 women
>"finally!" they say
>oh shit
>tenative confidence
>next slide
>"Video games"
>applause continues
>women are stomping their feet
>hooting
>hollering
>next slide
>"treats sometimes"
>cheering
>whistles
>crowd of women chanting
>next slide
>"end of presentation. thank you for listening"
>women applaud me off stage
>pass the upcoming presenter back stage
>is a woman who is going to do magic tricks with a lion
>"thanks for getting them warmed up rookie"
>oh fuck do women like magic tricks
>magician goes on stage
>the women fucking love the magic tricks with a lion
>every day I learn more about women
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, from “Carmilla”
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when hozier said "if im a pagan of the good times, my lover's the sunlight" and when hozier said "no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to her" and when hozier said "i slithered here from eden just to sit outside your door" and when hozier said "heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i" and when hozier said-
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i love the original frankenstein novel a normal amount
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Not to be a Frankenstein apologist but if it were a choice between actually writing my essays for my degree and creating life in an act of hubris against God frankly my procrastination skills are incredibly powerful
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“You who never touched anything without wanting to destroy it. You who never loved anything at all.”
— Yves Olade, from “Cut”
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Amor Vincit Omnia by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio,
detail, 1601–1602, oil on canvasÂ
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drink your coffee. read your books. it's chaos out there.
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Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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I love you, in ways you've never been loved, for reasons you've never been told, for longer than you think you deserved and with more than you will ever know existed inside me.
— Tyler Knott Gregson, Chasers of the Light:
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Gone Girl (2012)-Gillian Flynn
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According to my mother i started saying “i love you” when i was barely 3 years old. Mostly when it was bedtime i think I confused it with “goodbye” or maybe with “I really wanna see you when I wake up again”.
I still do, love confuses me or maybe i confuse it ?
Love…
Endearing in its ideation, Infuriating however it falls on the human race.
I’m not good with love, nor in love and I doubt i can be around it.
I admire it, i do. I think about it, I write about it
But I’m never in the same page with myself when it comes to it. So we came to an agreement: one rule : never reach out to touch.
I’m lovable, that much I know…
But my love is only a reaction that’s is equal in force to the curse of my existence…
And so is my creativity, the restriction of my melancholy.
My spilled poems… my aborted children don’t resent me dear ones, i had no choice, but to give birth.
I have no rights.
Do you still want to talk about love ?
Once, i asked my mother. "Mama, do you remember what was the first thing you said to me when I was born?"
She said “you're going to be so loved”.
I think she cursed me with love…
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•Quotes: Fyodor Dostoevsky/Friedrich Nietzsche/Jean Rhys/ Maya Angelo /Franz kafka/ Louis Tomlinson/Albert Camus/ Michael Ondaatje/Louis Tomlinson/ Anne Sexton.
•Original context: Sinligh
•Art reference:
1. Scott Noel, Telemachus and the Sirens. 2. philip geiger - hidell brooks gallery. 3. Albert Maignan Death of William the Conqueror, 1885. 4. Charles Pfahl Sunday Times. 5. Art by Brooke Shaden. 6. Art by Edwin Georgi
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