MYNAA மைனா (2010)

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.” — David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via rashadsays)

“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.” — Margaret Atwood (via lastdaysofmagic)

docecomoacanela:

Part of why I love M.I.A.’s music so much is because you can hear shades of all the music she would’ve been exposed to as a Tamil refugee brought up on a council estate in West London. Like Tamil film music, dancehall, 80s hip-hop, baile funk, samba, post-punk, etc. It’s the sound of being caught between all these different cultures and languages and just making something new and brilliant out of that rootlessness and dislocation. Love it.

Men still have trouble recognizing that a woman can be complex, can have ambition, good looks, sexuality, erudition, and common sense. A woman can have all those facets, and yet men, in literature and in drama, seem to need to simplify women, to polarize us as either the whore or the angel.

ouat ladies

aren’t you… a damsel in distress?

Cut off a wolf’s head and it still has the power to bite.

odditiesoflife:

Long Term Exposure Photos of Fireworks

Photographer David Johnson captures the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada using an unusual photographic technique of long term exposure. His photos of fireworks look more like bacteria under a microscope. The results are amazing.

panoptic:

Kolam (via Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today is OK)

Kolam is a rangoli traditionally composed of geometric lines and shapes, drawn around a grid pattern of dots. It is drawn by south Indian women with rice or chalk powder in front of their homes. 

“Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.” — N’tima  (via kevinidentity)