Franklin & Lombard, San Francisco. Rachel Brooks.

My My My.  Collage for Octavia Butler by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, @blackfeministbreathing

“Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you’ll ever be published or paid or even that you’ll be able to finish the particular work you’ve begun. It isn’t easy to persist amid all that. […] Sometimes when I’m interviewed, the interviewer either compliments me on my ‘talent’, my ‘gift’ or asks me how I discovered it. […] I used to struggle to answer this politely, to explain that I didn’t believe much in writing talent. People who want to write either do it or they don’t. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It’s amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.”  Octavia E. Butler (via @merigreenleaf )

“I vulgarize my feelings by speaking of them too readily to others.”

— Susan Sontag, 1966, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh Journals & Notebooks, 1964 - 1980  (via whyallcaps)

Rebecca Lindenberg | Interview in The Believer | March 27 2012 

If you don’t yet love your body as your own, sometimes it helps to think of it as a Thing you are capable of caring for.

Redwood Forest, Humboldt County, California

Stevie and Fleet got 365 days to respond. Take ya time on this one cuz damn this is good.

In Poland’s ‘LGBT-free zones,’ existing is an act of defiance - CNN.com

cnn.com

In Poland’s ‘LGBT-free zones,’ existing is an act of defiance

Hundreds of regions across Poland have declared themselves “LGBT-free” — and those inside the zones fear for their safety.

I understand Karolina's feeling of not being able to come home. I live in a society where often I can take my safety more for granted. But this mirrors the culture I was raised in... and that of my family then and now.

i’ve only been playing dnd for a relatively short while but here’s what i’ve learnt so far:

splitting the party will always always result in something ridiculous happening, even if it’s for something as simple as a shopping trip

when in doubt just let the bard loose

if the DM raises their eyebrows it’s either the best idea or the worst idea

sometimes a box is just a box 

sometimes the box that you think is just a box is not, in fact, a box

you will inevitably save magical items/potions for “when you really need them” and end up with 53729 forgotten, powerful objects in the bag of holding, begging to be used